This and That!

Here are some random things from this past week.

Someone in MaryAnn's ward came one Sunday afternoon to do "porch pictures."

Here they are posing with things they have been doing during the Quarantine.

Sunday for HomeChurch.

Sarah finished her counted cross stitch.

Josh is enjoying his new bike.

Kathryn and Amanda played a special arrangement of
"My Heavenly Father Loves me" and made a video for me.

This is a photo from the video.

Amelia celebrated her 13th birthday!

She decorated her own cake

She made this video for me of her playing "Come, Ye Children of the Lord" on the recorder in various locations.  It was very clever!

This is a photo of one of the locations.

Darryl woke his family up around 6 a.m. on Saturday (Amelia's birthday) and told them to get up as they were going fishing in a stream in Lassen National forest with another family.

They all had a great time and they all caught some trout!

Amelia got this rope swing for her birthday and a hammock as well.

Sarah McClellan posted these and I thought they were amazing!

What a fun idea!  Love me some Renoir!!

And the temple matron sent this to me:

I replied: At least she still has her smile!

Quarantine Learning!

While the kids are doing distance learning during this "Quarantine," I am learning a few things as well.  For instance, I learned that having comfort foods to eat helps a lot--especially at the beginning.

I love scrambled eggs.  It's one of my comfort foods.  Early on I heard that there might be a shortage of eggs and that there were no eggs on the shelves of stores.  

So after saying a prayer that there would still be eggs, I turned to the second higher power and learned on Google that you can freeze eggs!

Here are the results.  

You can't freeze them in the shell and you have to beat the egg and yolk together before freezing.

A muffin tin works great and into the freezer it goes.

After a few hours,  you can transfer the eggs to a ziploc bag and store in your freezer.

When you know you will need an egg or two, simply remove what you need from the bag and let them thaw overnight in small bowl in the refrigerator.  

And then in the morning, scramble as usual.  They can also be used in baking.

 This is one egg.  I scrambled it to eat with my homemade wheat bread and it was delicious!

 Yay!  Now I will always keep few eggs in my freezer for emergencies.

I also leaned that what you see on a Zoom (or other) meeting may not always be as it appears.

This is how Grandpa dresses for Temple presidency meetings!

A Puzzling Mother's Day!

What's puzzling about this?  

 6 GREAT Moms with 6 GREAT families!

And here's the ones I did!

Fun Fridays!

We are getting a little traditon of visiting the Perrys every Friday morning.   It is a highlight of our week!

First chalk on the sidewalk and now chalk on the front of the house!

We brought a game to play...from a distance

I think they thought it was fun!

Love the clever things on the sidewalk to entertain passersby!

When you clean out a vacuum, you become a vacuum cleaner!

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

If the No. 2 pencil the most popular, why is it still No. 2?

Why are there no B batteries?

Why do people say "heads up" when you should duck?
And I loved this one!

Hope they loved the strawberries we brought!

Fun Surviving Covid-19!

And on we go:

Water is fun!

Relaxing is fun!

Making wheat bread is fun!

Doing Nonograms is fun!

Doing jigsaw puzzles is fun!

Chalk is still fun!

Vegetable gardens are fun!

Hikes are fun!

Even school work can be fun if you do it outside!

Making more masks is fun!

Smelling the roses is fun!

I wonder what fun we will have in May?!