April was spent almost entirely at home due to the Coronavirus pandemic. We tried to make the best of it.
Of course we started April off with April Fool’s day. We had a tiger in the house!
We celebrated communion at home and watched church online.
And we continued our work and school from home
The kids wanted to do some baking so they made muffins and the boys started cooking eggs all by themselves in the mornings.
We had lots of outdoor reading time.
And outdoor lunch time (in a tree).
We were careful to practice social distancing with our friends.
We did a fun Disneyland puzzle.
We did lots of Peloton workouts.
The work dress code was pretty relaxed.
One evening we went to watch the sunset and supermoon. The sunset was great.
Some low clouds obscured the view of the moon. Henry had been learning about weather and said it was “partly moony.”
We put the tent up in the backyard but ended up not sleeping in it 🙂
We had a great Easter weekend at home. The forecast was for rain but it was actually really great weather for most of the weekend. We enjoyed some time in the front yard.
Look at the pretty flowers! (and the pretty kids)
And the pretty dog.
It was a little rainy Sunday morning but that didn’t stop us from hunting for eggs.
Henry tried to run up the wet slide and all his eggs spilled. Nothing like a little Easter drama.
Back inside with a pretty good candy haul.
Afterwards we did resurrection rolls then got dressed up for church (online) and took some family pictures.
The kids colored while we watched church.
In the afternoon we did some hammocking. All of the kids are inside these hammocks in this picture.
I dug out some compost for the garden.
And one Sunday afternoon we took a trip to Sonic for our first family outing during the pandemic.
And we did some more hammocking and enjoyed the spring weather.
The kids did some great dance performances and photo shoots.
We really tried to focus on eating healthy while we were at home. The boys stopped eating gluten and this is what our fridge looked like after an HEB grocery pickup order.
All that food turned in to some pretty yummy meals.
We also enjoyed some treats by this nice lady in her ice-cream truck. She comes every Friday to our neighborhood and the kids take of running when they hear the music.
And we had our first ever predator in the chicken coop. Of course it had to get Rebel, our white leghorn, who laid 1-2 eggs per day. We started shutting the coop at night again.
We thought about going up to Angel Fire but Jennifer’s back was hurting really bad, so I took the kids to Canyon for the weekend to celebrate Anne’s birthday.
Nana turned the barn into a skating rink.
Nathan learned to play chess (and also checkers with a chess set).
Mama Jo enjoyed seeing her great grandbabies.
The kids cleaned out the barn and decorated for a celebration for Aunt Anne.
And we surprised Hannah with a birthday party for her! She decorated for her own party.
Hannah said her most prized gift was the toilet paper.
They played limbo.
Had a cousin sleepover in the basement.
We went out to the the cemetery.
It was a quick trip but it was nice to get out of the house and let the kids play with someone else. Mama Jo rode home with us and I took her back to her house. She was glad to be home.
While we were gone, Mommy made us some masks just in case.
The kids liked this train game that we got in Canyon.
That’s pretty much a wrap for April. No baseball, no school, no normal. As I write this, some restaurants are beginning to open at 25% and we are starting to ease out of quarantine.
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