More April stay at home pics

We loved seeing the baby animals at the Cross E Ranch! 

Lots of spring blossoms, and sunny days this month. We have been biking a lot , hiking, and spending many hours outside. It's nice to get school done in the morning and then go outside all afternoon, evening. 

Happy Easter! We snapped a quick pic. 

Lucky to swim at the Randall's house one afternoon. The kids had a blast!!

We rode bikes at the bike park, on 9th south. Emily had a bad wipeout and had to get stitches on her elbow. Instead of going to the Dr. Danny cleaned her up and got her all healing. He was puling gravel out of her chin with tweezers. Poor girl ! 

We spent another day in the west desert and all came home dirty and happy! 

So many funny memes and hilarious things on the internet about Covid 19! Donald Trump is an idiot and was telling Dr's that you could put disinfectant inside your body! 

We had a "Social distanced" Birthday dinner for Kerstin Bean's 40th Birthday! It was really great to see friends and catch up! 

We hiked Ensign Peak one day and saw the gorgeous view of the city! 

We have really enjoyed having church at home! The kids all help doing music, lessons, prayers etc.. It's different but nice to stay home. 

We Met Monica and her girls at the Cross E Ranch to see all the baby animals. You drive through to see all the different baby animals. It was a fun outing and everyone loved it! 

The kids got dressed up for home church on Easter and we had fun playing new games on Easter. We had a nice relaxing day at home. 

We went to the Utah State Capitol a couple times to see the beautiful Cherry tree blossoms! It's such  a gorgeous time! 

Cute Lizzie on Easter Sunday! 

A few more pics from the day in the desert. What fun memories!
Taylor had his hammock rip right down the middle, it was hilarious. 

We have continued our weekly gelato runs. And we now take Salty with us everywhere! 

More Quarantine lifeQWe

We spent all of April at home under "stay safe, stay home" orders. That means no school, no sports, no gym, no work for Danny (he now works from home), no dance class, no YM or YW, no church, no going to the temple, no family dinners etc... It's been stressful, hard, overwhelming, and exhausting. But we have tried to have some fun too.
 A couple of Saturdays we drive to the West Desert to make a fire, cook lunch, hang out and shoot guns. It's a fun way to spend the day and everyone is happy, especially Salty. We rode thot he dessert on Conference Saturday. We listened to a session on the drive there and then enjoyed sunshine all day long.
Turns out the kids are really good at shooting targets, especially Emily. She won the $20!

During the week when we finish the kids home school, we bake, play games, do chores, and yardwork, and go for drives. Sometimes we drive-up the canyon, visit cousins and just chat in the car, or go to "Thirst" for a soda and a treat. 

This day we hike to the "Living Room", we ended up getting pretty lost, but then found the right trail. We went to Hires for drinks and fries after. 

We dyed Easter Eggs, and had a good Easter together.  Lizzie sits at the table while she does her school work. The kids are all doing really well at their school. Except Taylor, he rarely does school, hopefully he'll do ok at school this semester. 

This day we went up Millcreek Canyon with Salty. He had fun in the river and we packed a picnic for lunch.  

We have been doing bike rides to Sweetaly for gelato at night for a fun outing. It is really nice to have everyone home every night for dinner and an activity or hanging out. Without dance, VB, soccer, tennis lessons, music lesson, mountain bike rides, and mutual we have more time together. 

Lots of family time together this month! 

Corona Virus Quarantine and an Earthquake!

This has been the craziest week ever!
We have heard all about the Chinese virus, COvid 19 since the end of 2019. Last week things really amped up here in the US and everything changed. School, general conference, all outside activities, and work was cancelled, businesses closed, and everyone is suppose to stay home and social isolation. There is no church, no friends, no sports, no activities etc... It is so crazy!
Before all fo this happened Taylor was gathering clothes and blankets etc.. for his youthlinc trip. Here is his pile it was almost 500 lbs. 

I took Isaac lunch on his 12th bday! He wanted Chik Fil A and it was fun to see him at school. Love that Isaac! 

We have been making lots of pizzas on our pizza oven this was a smore's pizza and it was tasty!
We have been having fires and cooking dinners outside with all of our extra time together. 

Before the social distancing started Lizzie had her  big 3rd grade play "The Jungle Book" It was a great play and she was Shanty in the play. She was so sad they had to cancel their other performances! 

Isaac went swimming at his friends grandma's apartment , check out that awesome view! 

Right when all this craziness began Taylor left for CA for a MTB race. He raced really well in his category and had a great trip! Luckily he was able to get home when the race was over. 

Exercise classes at Ali Peterson's house because all of the Gyms are closed! This is such an awesome thing because I miss the gym SO much!

We have been going on lots of walks, playing outside, hikes with Salty, playing games, the kids bought an Xbox, and cooking etc...
We were on a walk the other day and Isaac fell while riding his Boogie board and hurt his wrist! We haven't taken him in to see the Dr. but I was so sad for him! He really gets hurt so often!  This has been such a stressful week!  

Just as we were getting situated to the idea of Homeschool and Danny working from home and everything being closed
Wednesday 3/18/20 we had an Earthquake in SLC!
It happened at 7:10 AM and it was 5.7 on the scale. We were SO freaked out and really startled! We started panicking getting things really ready like our 72 hr kits, water, food in the car ready to go etc.. It was crazy and scary too! Things were damaged in some areas of the valley and the temple was damaged too. What a crazy day!  That night Lizzie was really scared and did not want to sleep in her bed, poor girl, I was scared too.
This whole new reality feels like a really bad dream, and I wish it would go back to normal.
We have been stocking up on LOTS of food, firewood, propane, gas, dog food etc..  This is such a crazy time!

Saturday one week after this all started we took the boat out, it was the perfect way to Social distance from anyone else. Its a cold day on the boat, but lots of fun fishing and it felt SO good to be outside! 

(More pics pre COvid19) the pics are out of order.

Sunday after our Home Church we went on a nice long hike as a family and with Salty. We had a great time and it almost felt like life was normal again. We had to cancel our Spring Break trip to Hawaii because of this Virus, and it's just been a really long, challenging, stressful week!  

Selfies of the Fam from the top of our hike! It's been a very long week! there's so much economic turmoil and uncertainty right now. Hoping for a better week this week!