Tuesday, June 23, 2020

May





May 8, 2020
So today was fun.
A Friday...usually I go mad & clean everything. 
No energy today so insteeeaaaddd I lit all of my pine scented candles, put them around the house, closed all blinds, cranked up the AC 
(Michael did not hesitate to do this part for me actually), 
made popcorn, put on Noelle (the movie), 
let the girls get their Christmas stuffed animals out & got my Christmas throws & pillows out and pretended today was Christmas ๐ŸŽ„ ha! Kinda. 
The girls loved it, threw on their Christmas dresses:) 98 degrees out today ๐Ÿค— it all started with Noelle making Christmas binoculars๐Ÿ˜‚ 
Oh and then she lost her tooth when we were eating popcorn and she is overjoyed! 
As are we all! That tooth has taken toooo long๐Ÿคช 


Celebrating Grandma Debbie's birthday at the car door and front door this year;) 
My mama got me cookies and mama in law got me a rose for mother's day this year
(which Halloween quickly destroyed!??)
My babies always create cool things for me too:) 

Continuing our social distancing craziness we kept ourselves as busy as possible. . .
striking poses...

coming up with fun places to hide...


admiring our neighbors cute kitty that likes to come visit....
playing (lots of!) Harry Potter UNO with my babies...

long walkies...

karaoke...


sometimes we were further quarantined to my bedroom when daddy had a court call to make...school work & apples with nutella accompanied us in these hours....



Dressing up....

waiting for the jets that never showed up ... ha! 

discovering THIS when I went to put blankets away! 


Smore good times from the oven....๐Ÿ˜

finally hanging this awesome gift from my Mama! 

finally getting toy room in order!
Lots of different hair-do requests from these girlies...also painting nails quite often:) 



cool rocks painted by neighbors...we did a few too...
changing our hearts on the daily....

art for teachers...
getting creative with how we wear PJ pants!! haha! ... 


One of Noelle's first Kindergarten journal entries๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›



End of the year NO CONTACT exchange of school work/teacher gifts ... so odd & sad
creating signs for Elementary parade...


Noelle's sweet teachers....
last google meeting of the year for Gwinna...
probably my favorite meme that has come out of this whacko time (thanks Lils!)... ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ


WELCOME SUMMER TIME!!!!!!!

Friday, May 8, 2020

April journals

April 9, 2020 
Time is actually moving faster for me. Bizarre. But maybe not really. I love being home. This is my safe, recharging space where I have energy to exist. Throw me out in the world and I get stressed. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผ‍♀️ Anyway, when it was decided last week on Thursday that the girls would not be returning to school this school year we got a little bit more serious about homeschooling. A site that we’ve looked at before for homeschool is offering everything free for the next few months! ๐ŸŽ‰ our schedule looks different everyday because we adjust and make it work. But in general... I teach the girls about art, literature, and music everyday focusing on just one from the above mentioned site each day. Michael does the same teaching zoology, science and history from that site. Michael does math and grammar daily with both girls and Portuguese everyday with Gwinna:) I participate too in helping with worksheets after they do online work. Khan academy is awesome. We also write everyday in our journals and I am in charge of the writing prompts:) the girls read to me after (my favorite part of the day!) They have been doing cosmic kids yoga when I am doing my workout or a different youtube workout (second favorite part of the day!) and then we all go on a family walk (my third favorite part of the day!) to end “school” for the day. 
Whew. Most days are really great. Some are hard. The girls really have such a desire to learn and our enthusiasm definitely affects them. 
April 21, 2020
A note about quarantine: It’s funny to have celebrities reading books to your kids... favorite so far is Kate Winslet ♥️
April 22, 2020
Feeling good today. Did Core De Force, an MMA workout that makes me feel super uncoordinated and slow but I LOVE it because it also makes me feel powerful & challenged & I don’t truly notice how much it pushes my body until the next day! 
Me & Sia also had fun watching the Disney sing along, all done in peoples homes :) I’m laying with her right now and she just half whispered and sang “be our guest, be our guest.”
Sweet baby. 
April 29, 2020
We went on a drive today. First day girls and I have been in the car in over a month:) we just drove to Gustine and back home... it was nice. Michael was our tour guide and in his mind he saw hotels and such along the way. He also led us through the enchanted forest wherein lived demon fairies and he told the girls to be sure not to make eye contact with their red eyes ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿคช further down the road “elvins” and elvin dust. We listened to Hamilton songs and talked about our parenting skills...lack of & how we can get better ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ 
The girls were SO excited to simply get in the car and go for a drive. Simple pleasures ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผ‍♀️

A letter for my teenagers at church....
My happy list:
Gratitude daily
LIsTeNInG to truth - prophets and apostles words
Work it out!
Blog

Positives -
Starting good habits: walking daily, brushing my teeth in the morning 
(I know...gross I didn’t already have this habit)
Michael makes bed every morning 
More sleep for everyone 
More UNO games as a family
Michael is doing ALL grocery shopping ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿค—♥️

April












APRIL FOOLS day is never exciting here. I don’t love pranks but Noelle let me know that the googly eyes weren’t good enough so she asked me if I could pull another prank later....hence the idea from Pinterest brown E’s:) 

Both great and awful things come from this whole Covid shutdown...AWFUL: Rediscovering I have a sees candy gift card and then NOT being able to use it for Easter! 

General Conference weekend.  It just could not have come at a better time.  Also a very memorable one...huh....just as sweet President Nelson said it would be;) 
Our President Nelson asked that we participate in a worldwide fast on Good Friday and another on April  10th. 


I take comfort in this.  That is all. 



The Easter bunny did a fun little scavenger hunt for the girls this year AND they had an Easter egg hunt set up in the garage by the bunny! Also cute foot prints.

Sugar cookies from the Grandma:) 




Mama also set up 5 different hunts haha! One was a glow in the dark ? ... they did NOT love it.  

Tie dying scrunchies 
Noelle creating pictures for her teachers :) 
Yep....trying to keep it fun over here...

New Disney Arena discovered by Daddy.  Sia LOVES it now too. 

We dress up for our home church meetings every Sunday.  

Homemade applesauce is the best kind.  

Crafting...my favorite (not really though) hehe


Daddy Joe’s new hairstylist 





I LOVE when these girls escape outside. 
 It is beautiful...the level of noise in the house goes 
waaaaaay down.


Making Baroque era creations for our music lesson. 
Lots of reading daily over here


Sweet Great Grammy brought me flowers and the girls amazing baskets for Easter:) 


lots of fort building too

selfies with the Halloween 
More crafting....๐Ÿคญ๐Ÿคญ

Superhero workout for PE. YouTube is awesome.  


I’ve been productive in the toy/office room.  Shelves and art up that I’ve been wanting to finish ๐Ÿ˜Š



Quarantine also caused me & my mom to miss the most fun opportunity to surprise Soph for her graduation
from BYU-IDAHO! :( 







Change of scenery for school this day! 
hunting...TP roll bunnies and chicks 

A writing prompt ๐Ÿ˜„

Google hangouts with her classes....strange times 

Primary:) 


this girl is happy to have her sisters home but still loves her kitty
Can you see him? ;)

strawberry shortcake
YESSSSSSSS!

Lemonade making with the Sia