Friday, March 20, 2020

Quarantine: Week 1

So we had a few days of knowing that school was cancelled but still not having any real school assignments for the kids. So it kind of felt like vacation and we enjoyed all the family time together having Brandon working from home but no other responsibilities really. We were trying to be really good and stay home and not see anyone. Here are some cute pictures of the randomness.


Mckinley was making menus and serving the kids their meals.

On roller skates even!


We have been playing with lots of legos.

The kids wanted to have food at the kids table so we brought it in and it has been really nice to have that since our regular kitchen table is usually covered in school stuff or legos.

Family selfie. We were really enjoying all the family time! (I am updating this blog over a month later so it's a little tricky to remember back to what we were thinking at the time.) I mean we are still totally enjoying the family time but this whole Coronavirus pandemic is much more long lasting and serious than we first thought.

We took the kids that Saturday evening to play at the church and boy are we glad we did because we tried to go back on Monday and we were locked out. They disabled church keys unless you are in a bishopric or stake presidency. Lame. So no more fun inside the church gym for a while.




Pictures of the empty shelves at the store. Totally eerie and so weird to live through something like this.




Brandon went to Costco and the line was out wrapped around the building. They were only letting a certain number of people in the store at a time and everyone was lining up 6 feet apart from each other.

The first bunch of Sundays at home were awesome. Mckinley and Kallie planned sacrament meetings for us which pretty much consisted of songs, and the sacrament. And that's it. But it was really nice. We gave up on church after Easter and haven't really done it since (today is April 26).


Shannon got me a diamond art kit which I finished in like 2 days. I get so addicted to these things!

We started playing games together as a family. We played a bunch of Sushi Go and kind of got sick of it. We played scrabble too.


We have been able to spend lots of time playing on the playgrounds across the street. Our sweet empty nester neighbors have given us full access to their yards and with the Coronavirus, their grandkids aren't visiting them so the playgrounds are only used by us. Which has been really nice because by now all the public playgrounds are taped off and closed.

I was feeling like I should get out and take the kids somewhere so we decided to go feed the ducks at Nelson's Grove and the entire pond was emptied! It was so weird. The whole world got shut down because of Coronavirus, Then we had this earthquake in Utah. It was a 5.7 earthquake and it shook our house even though it happened in Magna. Then I went and saw the empty pond and I was like man, it's the end of the earth! Ha ha. But really, times felt so strange.



We went to the school and picked up supplies for the kids and started online school from home. The twins get quite a lot of work from Mrs. Heaps and Mckinley doesn't get enough from Mrs. Wilbur but that's okay, I just add to hers and skip a little of theirs.

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