Various photos

 

So, we have been in planning mode and accidentally celebrated St. Patrick's Day 3 days early.  It was fun anyways.   

This one was a picture of when Vivien and Thea joined in (today) on our neighborhood easter egg hunt.  It was fun to see all our neighbors and actually do our fun tradition after missing it last year.  

So far, my parents, me and two of my siblings are vaccinated.

Emma and Stephen bought a house 10 minutes away from us!  I'm so excited.  I love spending time with them and we've missed everyone this last while.  While they are doing some remodeling they have asked a couple people to keep an eye on Peter.  It was my turn a couple days this last week.  He's a Covid baby, so we haven't seen him really more than twice.  He had a little adjustment time, but liked hanging out while he was being entertained.  He looks so much like all the little Brashers with his bright blue eyes, blond curls and cheeks. And like a true Brasher, he loves blocks.

My kids twinning.

My vaccine selfie.  I'm terrible at selfies.  One eye is always bigger than the other and I'm always looking in the wrong spot.... but there it is.

My parents added a deck off their back porch that required pouring cement.  All the kids put their hands in it.  Seth put his in three times, but who's counting?

My sister was in the hospital with sepsis after a surgery.  She's all healed now, but she needed help with the girls for the weekend.  Here Thea is helping Ada practice the piano.

I got the Last Airbender earrings.  I rather like them.

hmmm

Conversation between six-year-old Seth and 13 year old Ada.

Ada: hey Seth come here I want to show you a magic trick.

Seth: what kind of a magic trick?

Ada: a very magic magic trick

Seth: will it kill me?

Ada: no

Seth: okay

Tender heart

Sam is a tender hearted guy.  I was talking to Jer over breakfast about how Cristina's mom, Ramona (who is my mamita from my mission), has stage 4 stomach cancer and that Cristina's anxiety is going on the fritz.  She was taken to the hospital weeks ago to get tests done, but she tested positive for Covid and was hospitalized for a few weeks before they could even get the tests done for her.  Now she's too weak to do treatments.  They have said that the only hope is for her to try to get a lot of nourishment and get stronger so that they can even try to treat her.  Sam knows that Cristina's family doesn't have money at all.  They have 6 people in a two bedroom apartment living off of temp jobs.  Sam disappeared and came down with the cash from his room and quietly asked me to give it to them.  I love that he loves people.  Ramona wanted to get out of the house for a breather.  We took her on a drive to see the new Orem Temple building site and then past the Provo temples.  We came by our house after so that I could help Cristina fill out school registration forms for her 4 year old.  Sam was so worried about Ramona and kept asking if she was okay.  I love my boy.

 

Evelyn

 

The most crucial time for Evelyn to get her skewed feet stronger is from now until she is about 12.  Covid hit and we did zoom ballet for her physical therapy, but she just doesn't pay as much attention. We still have the option of doing it over zoom, but I prefer in person.  She's not going to stop growing pandemic or not.  She just had a parent demonstration day for both her ballet and acrobatics classes.  You can tell that she likes acrobatics the most, but she's getting some good exercise in.

Braces round 2

 

We have two of our kids that are probably going to get braces by the end of the year.  Sam has adult teeth coming in behind the baby teeth like I did when I was his age.  Evelyn has adult teeth that are growing sideways into the 4 adult teeth's roots in the front of her mouth.  Ada's teeth did that too and they just don't want to damage Evelyn's permanent teeth.  First step is to go get Evelyn's baby teeth pulled.  It will take a few months because I'm not pushing being in offices a lot lately, but I really don't want her permanent teeth to have permanent problems.

Evelyn

Sam

Memory boxes

 

We went through Jer's and my memories together as a family.  It was so fun and the kids loved trying on and touching all the doodads that were part of our growing up.  

Indian outfit from my mission to Ecuador.  I used to fit this.... 

Seth is wearing a night shirt made by Judy.

Pioneer clothes from the time the Robertson's did a week on the pioneer trek reenactment for the bicentennial. Judy and her girls stayed up for days sewing authentic clothes for everyone to wear on the trek.

Did you know?

 

Did you know that movie theaters are desperate for business right now?  We rented a whole movie theater for the Wilcox family to watch Hook.  It was $100.  That's really quite a steal and works out to about $5/person. It was so fun and we all had comfy reclining seats that heat up!  Before the movie there was some good sledding action happening too.

Handy man

Jer's favorite desk chair was absolutely disintegrating, so he recovered it.  It looks spectacular.  It was his first time reupholstering anything and he did a great job.  He needs to not use his pocket knife to cut off his fingers next time though!

 

Valentine's Day

 

Valentine's Day dinner.

Wedding portfolio

My cousin, Stephen and his wife Lindsay just celebrated their anniversary.  I took their wedding photos, but I just gave them to them.  I didn't have a chance to make any copies for me because it was in Idaho and I had to drive home.  They posted this and I thought I'd add it to my blog portfolio.

 

Recent shenanigans

Seth's head it healing really well.  There is a thin line and the hair is still growing normally there.  The last time he split his head, we glued it at home but his hair doesn't grow there anymore.

I was sick of the kids asking to watch movies, so I told them we were going to play games for FHE.  They thought I meant board games.  I didn't.  They had so much fun and giggled forever.

This is one of Ada's art assignments.  While I have an absolute love of art, it is hard for me to draw.  3D is much easier for my brain.  Ada is opposite.  3D is hard for her, but she has a talent for pen and pencil drawings.

Evelyn lost her tooth.  It was very wiggly and she wanted to try pulling it out by tying onto the doorknob.  We tried with a nerf gun once and that just didn't work.  This time it worked without any effort.  Sam shut the door kind of softly and her tooth came flying out right away.