La felicidad que se encuentra: Kyle, Jenny, Alexa, Tyler, Tad, Liam, Nathan, and Audrey

With school out, this month was full of swimming lessons, acting classes, and lots of bike riding.  Alexa LOVED her Hale Center Theater acting class and they ended the class with a performance of The Jungle Book.  She was cast as Kaa the snake.  I know I'm a little biased, but she did soo well.  She knew the stage cues, songs, choreography, and even helped other people with their forgotten lines.  She's a natural and I'm glad we did it.  Kyle took a video of the performance.  Marmie, Grandpa Swingle, and Aunt Sara and the Lunas even came to watch. Kyle is now officially the Parent Organization President at Alexa's School.  On top of being in the Bishopric and acting HOA President in our neighborhood.  He is one crazy, dedicated dad.  We loved celebrating him for Father's Day. We had fun at our annual Thrive Games office olympics of sorts, complete with a dunk tank and face painting at the family BBQ to end the week.  We had s...

We started off the month with an anniversary weekend in Park City.  Kyle's birthday came next with a trip to Vegas to see Penn & Teller.  The kids were soo cute about Kyle's birthday and wanting to give him gifts.  Tyler wrapped up one of his books in Christmas wrapping paper (kind of, the book was 1/4 of the way covered in wrapping paper) to give to him.  Alexa bought him a comic book sign and Cheetos, which Tyler opened and ate before she could wrap them.  Ha.  Alexa hid her present from Kyle for a full week without him knowing and she did such a good job keeping it a secret.  She, of course, used wedding wrapping paper. Alexa's 6th birthday came next with lots of new books, a donut run for breakfast, and a swim birthday party. We are excited to announce a new addition coming in mid-October.  Alexa REALLY wants a girl and she'll just have to wait and find out with the rest of us in October. Alexa had kinder...

We’re loving the warmer weather and had a great spring break. Alexa earned a free pizza at Brick Oven from school, we went to the Nickelcade, played at new playgrounds, saw Beauty and the Beast, went to the Curiosity Museum with cousins, and celebrated Granny’s 101st birthday at Texas Roadhouse. Tad has finally decided to try out this walking thing in order to get to balls and cell phones that he couldn't reach while crawling. We had a wonderful Easter Sunday at Peggy’s house. The kids sang in church and Kyle sang in the ward choir. Tad and I benefited from listening to both. Alexa competed in a 1-mile race through her school that they held at the BYU track.  She ran with her friend, Kate, and they were so cute to help each other and wait for each other if one slowed down.  I was proud that they ran the whole way without stopping.  Also, she's an adorable morning workout buddy. Fun stories: Tad was beating Alexa and Tyler up with a toy sword so T...