Soccer

 

I missed these pictures earlier too.... On Ada's birthday she requested that we play soccer.  I'm not up for soccer, but I'd kick the ball back anytime it came my way.  It started out as Jer against the kids, then the dog joined it and it was Jer and the dog against the kids.... the kids lost.

YW's camp 2020

 

Pictures from my phone

 

Ada had a very late girl's camp a couple of weeks ago.  They did service and games on Friday night in groups of 10, then the got together on Saturday to do a devotional, pumpkin carving, etc.... Ada loved it.

Ada took this picture of these buddies sharing a comic book together.

Seth colored in all the bats and wanted a picture by it.

Evelyn kept saying that even though she knows that Santa isn't real, she wanted Seth to think he was.... so she decided that we had to practice making sugar cookies to give to Santa.  They were so excited.

Jeremy put the toddler bed together to give to our neighbor.  Seth saw it up and decided that he needed to use it once.  He always shared a bunk bed so he never was in a toddler bed.  We only used it for Ada and  Sam.

Halloween 2020

 It's been a little bit since I caught up on the blog.  Last week was Red Ribbon Week at the charter school, so we spent Sunday night making posters to hang all over the school for the week.  We showed the kids' Hocus Pocus for the first time.  That was fun.  I went to physical therapy a couple of times.  Visited my Mom a few times (she's doing really well after her back surgery by the way).  Had my second neck injection.... just two left.  The neighborhood had a Halloween Parade for those that wanted to dress up but weren't going to be trick or treating.  We quarantined for a couple weeks because one of the mom's at my daycare came back positive.  Her kids tested negative twice over two weeks and the mom never came in my house, but we stayed away from people for a while anyways just in case.  It's nice to step back every now and then anyways.  After being away from people, we first went to show grandparents our costumes, then we were able to trick or treat at a few houses in our neighborhood that had set up shoots or goodie bags on the lawn.  I stayed home to pass out treats and Ada helped Jer look after the younger 3.  They came home and we played our own family Hallow-lan party.  It's tradition to play Battlefield on Halloween. Sad to say that my 6 year old knows how to play better than I do.  And the 9 year old gets a kick out of killing her own teammates.

The Covid-19 numbers have gotten a lot higher in Utah over the last two weeks.  I'm torn between being glad and being annoyed.  It would be nice to have 70% of the population with the antibodies, but we have guidelines in place to keep people from spreading the virus and people are not following the guidelines.  All we can do at this point is be as safe as we can and move forward.

We had two Links from Legend of Zelda.  My Dad said, "Seth and Sam look like they could be brothers!"  and Jer added on, "The Links need to link arms..."  Thanks Dads...

Evelyn wanted to be a dragon.  She gave me two days notice, so I couldn't plan it as well as Ada's and Ada's costume is too big for Evelyn so I bought her a $5 tail from Joann's with wings to match.  At first she wasn't too excited about it, but then she agreed when Ada said that Evelyn could be her baby dragon.  Then she was thrilled.  We told Ada that we wouldn't spend money or plan a costume for her.  She earned up money and put together her own costume.  She was trying to decide if she was a Rogue, a character from Mistborn, or if she was an assassin.  

My sister's family costume was so cute again this year.  Though I loved their Cinderella.

This was at the ward parade.  I love that Seth forgot that he wore Evelyn's my little pony jacket... he was Link/Rainbow Dash all night.  We walked a 1/2 mile loop around half the ward and then went home.

Grandpa's making really good headway on the shed.  Jer wasn't able to help the last couple of weeks because we were quarantining, it was fun to see it progressed this far.

overheard

I overheard Evelyn saying this to Sam while they were on the piano together...."One of us is practicing it wrong. And I don't think it's me."

Pirate party

My niece shares a birthday with Ada.  We're celebrating Ada next Saturday, so we went up to Vivien's Pirate party.  The kids had a blast and Seth LOVES everything that Vivien loves, so it was just as fun for him as for her.

Uncle Seth gave Ada an organizer for her Magic cards.  Aunt Nella gave Ada a leather bound art book.  Grandma and Grandpa got her some pieces for her Halloween costume and a neat book that I might have to borrow from her.  Aunt Sharon got her an Amazon gift card.   She was so excited about all of them.