Easter, Mother's Day, and more Quarantine

They finally cancelled school for the rest of the year here, so we are plugging away with our distance learning packets. There is no end in sight for quarantine here so we are trying to enjoy it as much as we can.

The ducks they made for the PreK project

Cleaned up our yard and made a nice wood pile in the back

Easter morning

The Easter bunny left a big basket of candy on the table and all the eggs in the basement

Our yummy Easter lunch

And dessert

Easter family picture

More fun crafts

I am trying to embrace the no makeup look

We made giant cookies from Our Best Bites for a full week.

This is the Peanut Butter one

Double chocolate

Snickerdoodle

Grami sent new shoes!

Got a new grill for Mother's Day!

I love it so much, and used it on the first day

The kids waiting in eager anticipation

Tanner's teacher brought all the kids treats and left a sign in our yard

Made eclairs

Reading books together

Using the burn barrel to get rid of stray branches in our yard, Steven Avery style

Trevor found a baby snake in our garage

Caught it with this container

Then we took it out and released it back into the wild

Made signs for Teacher Appreciation Week for the kids school

Started picking up school lunches but had to stop because the food is taking over the fridge!

There is so much of it.

They also gave us pantry items and sidewalk chalk

Maddie saw someone doing this on the news and wanted to try it herself! 

It's pretty fun because you can make yourself part of the picture

Tanner wanted to try it too

Camping and making s'mores

Fighting off a dementor with a Patronus charm

Playing Quidditch

Fighting (and beating) Voldemort

Made yummy homemade donuts

and donut holes

and chocolate frosted and cream filled chocolate frosted (my fave), with leftover pastry cream from the eclairs 

Finding buried treasure

Watering our plants

In the ocean

Doing tricks on the dirt bike

Surfing

Kinley loves her stuffed animals

We had a cinco de mayo fiesta with grilled chicken tacos and salsa

Maddie learning how to make salsa #lifeskills #theydontteachyouthatatschool

Sums up my life.

The kids slid this note under the door while Trevor and I were in our room and Trevor was on a conference call. They know they are not supposed to come in while the door is closed. And yes, I do go in there while he's on a call just to hide and get a break.

My friend brought over a bunch of Harry Potter treats for the kids

Rode bikes at the church parking lot

Happy Mother's Day to me!

These are flowers that Trevor picked from our rose bush in our front yard. They are so pretty and smell amazing.

Trevor made the weekend so fun for me and it was the best one so far. I went to a girls night, had a scavenger hunt with treats, and used my grill for a BBQ. Also as part of our sacrament meeting, everyone said what they loved about me. Being a mom is so hard but so rewarding on days like these when everyone appreciates you and celebrates what you do.