June 2020

With schools closing down in March, the kids didn't get to participate in guest and goodies where they eat donuts and read to a special guest.  It used to be called Dads and Donuts.  So Shane decided to hold his own Dad's and Donuts and made his own homemade yummy donuts.  It was a fun surprise morning for the kids.

I got to get my hair done for the first time in 8 months!  I've never gone that long.  Alicia, who does my hair was having health problems and took some time off and I just kept putting off finding someone else, then Covid hit and everything shut down.  So finally in June Alicia started doing hair again and I don't think I've ever been so excited to get my hair done, it felt like Christmas.  It had grown a ton and happy to get my gray hair covered up.

The Pace's came visit and spent the night at our house.  We had a great time, as always.  We swam, played in the yard, got snow cones and went to a park.  We always have a good time and the kids pick up right where they left off every time.

Being Primary President has certainly gotten a lot easier.  It's been a nice break not always stressing about finding subs, getting names submitted for new callings and everything else that goes on top of that.  I've been coordinating baptisms and as of now, only immediate family and maybe grandparents are allowed, with no songs or talks, the whole focus is on the ordinances.  It's caused quite a bit of angst among families.  However, as a presidency we decided to do a Primary donut drive-by one day.  We picked the day and thought the weather would be fine...only to realize it was the coldest day.  We had wind, rain, sleet and a little snow and it was freezing but it was fun to see all the kids and their parents drive up and and wave to us and get a donut and drink.  I do miss seeing all the kids on Sundays.

We took 2 trips down to Salem to go to the pond there with the Pace's.  Her parents have this fun canoe and it was fun going out in it.  Even more entertaining to watch the 3 girls go out by themselves and try to maneuver the canoe.  They also loved going to Brigitte's parents house and trying to catch one of his goldfish in his stream with a bucket. And Siena actually caught one...they were so excited!!

My ministering sister, Dana Leavitt, who got us into the the Farm also let us get into the butterfly biosphere at Thanksgiving Point.  The girls have wanted to go to that since it opened but I just couldn't justify the money to go look at some butterfly's.  Well it turned out, it was so super fun and the kids were in heaven.  They got to hold butterfly's, they landed on their clothes and there were so many butterfly's everywhere.  A super fun day there.

We celebrated Shane's birthday.  Shane took the kids swimming that morning and then we took the kids to the Edwards and Shane and I got take out from Chili's and ate it in a church parking lot nearby.  It was fun to get some food from a restaurant and it tasted so good.  Then we celebrated with the kids with brownies afterwards.

The girls and their friend Sorena and sister Ashley decided to do a lemonade stand.  They made all the treats at Sorena's, set it up and did the whole thing themselves.  It was great for me and they loved it.  The neighborhood was more then generous and several came by and gave them 10 or 20 dollars and told them to keep the change.  They each ended up making $20 and I took them all to Target that night to buy a toy they wanted.

The girls made grass heads in school before it shut down and have been watering them and keeping them alive for months.  The kept measuring them and finally decided to plant their grass heads at the edge of our grass.  We took pictures so they could find it and see if they continue to grow outside.