Happy Easter!

 

Lots of changes and differences this Easter with quarantine but our hope in Jesus resurrection and the assurance of Him as our Savior will never change!

 

 

Our church for months...we never imagined we would celebrate Easter in our family room but we were together and worshiping that Christ Has Risen!

 

 

Happy Easter!

 

We transformed our cross from Good Friday into a Living Cross with branches and flowers from the yard to symbolize Jesus is Alive!

 

We had to celebrate our Easter dinner alone this year so we made the most of it by making it as special as possible. 

 

Christ Is Risen!

Happy Easter!

Quarintine Week 5

 

Our hospital system put out a sign for Stephen in the yard which was a sweet gesture.  He of course, promptly put it in the shed... the kids and I put it back in the yard.  He put it back in the shed.  Then the VA came and put another hero sign in our yard because he works at both hospital systems.  So now he is a double hero, but he still would not let me take a picture of him with the signs. 

We are proud of him :)  

 

All geared up at work.

 

The kids decorated our street.

 

Our friendly neighborhood alligator.  We check on him multiple times a day on our walks, golf cart rides and bike rides.  He is getting bigger as the quarantine goes on...so am I but let's not dwell on that.  

 

We also have had the fun of watching three different momma birds lay eggs and hatch baby birds  during quarantine.  We even witnessed one set on the day they learned to fly. So sweet.

 

The kids taught me a new card game which is fun and takes up a lot of time so that is a winner these days!

 

We made sugar cookies and decorated them like Easter Eggs this year instead of bunny cupcakes or hard boiled eggs.  They only one who eats eggs is Luke so cookies seemed like a better choice :)

 

Addison is keeping busy with art projects.  She made this by tracing her hand for the giraffe and free drew everything else.

 

For Holy Week our church posted some family activities to focus our hearts.

This was an activity to write what gives us hope on Maundy Thursday.

 

On Good Friday we were instructed on how to make a cross from twigs in our yard which we later turned into a living cross on Easter Sunday.

Quarantine Week 4

 

As the quarantine from Covid 19 continues, the minutes, hours, days and weeks are blending together so I will try my best to correlate this blog to the correct weeks but there is really no telling at this point!  

At some point pretty much everything had been shut down- all beaches, playgrounds, restaurants, movie theaters, entertainment venues, marinas, churches, schools, salons, etc. 

The country moved to "shelter at home" status.  Stephen continued to work his shifts at Singing River Hospital and Ocean Springs Hospital as an ER physician but he did only telemedicine for his nursing home job to keep the residents safe. 

There was about a two to three week period where it was just the five of us...all day...every day...so we had to make the best of it (when restrictions were loosened a bit, we let each kid have one friend as a quarantine buddy)

Online school continued on, some of my kids handled it better than others...

The above picture was one of many, many movie nights - we watched Star Wars, some sort of Avenger movie, The Leap Year, My Girl (my pick and after that I wasn't allowed to pick anymore), The Quiet Place, and others that I can't remember, lots of popcorn :)

 

Here Addison was performing a magic show for the family, she got pretty good at some tricks!

She also performed a stand up comedy act and many singing and dancing acts.

 

Our garage turned into fun central- ping pong table, dart board, punching bag, mini pickleball court, b-ball court, basically any toy we had to pass the time came out of hiding.

 

The dogs LOVED us being home so much and enjoyed lounging with us while we played games on the screened in porch.  They also got A LOT of walks and golf cart rides around town.

 

Palm Sunday.  Hosanna!

 

Frost, our adopted cat has 100% adopted us as her family now and makes sure to get noticed.  The second any of us steps outside she comes and nudges us and leads us to the garage where we keep food for her.   If we are inside too long, she starts peering in our windows all around the house until we come outside. 

 

When you only have your siblings to play with, you get creative.

Here is a game Amelia made up, bowling for your siblings.  Basically she is swinging and you better hit the dirt before she takes you out.

 

Did I mention dog snuggles?

Love my Sadie girl so much.

 

Thankfully, my kiddos helped keep my pickleball skills up while pickleball was shut down in the city.

 

The dogs needed grooming and thankfully Stephen and Amelia were up for the job.

 

They did great!  

 

Father/son dart tournament.

 

We also  built a tennis backboard so the kids could keep up their tennis skills during the shutdown.

 

Just trying to pass the days!

So thankful for our beautiful weather and our health!