I'm Late, I'm Late with a New Post

 Greetings!

 
 I'm gobsmacked at how long it's been since I posted!! I was flabbergasted when I realized that, while I thought I had posted events that took place at the beginning of April, I had not posted anything from April at all.

Sigh.................
Well, time to stop lollygagging and hop to it then!
So, here's a minimalistic view of what our April has looked like:

 

Rhaevyn has started to make her own postcards using her watercolors. I think they are beautiful. She posts them on Facebook, and the first person to respond is who she mails it to. She just asks for a letter or postcard in return. If you want one, and are not on Facebook, let me know. She'd be happy to paint one for you and mail it off. These are the ones she's done so far:

 

Rhaevyn has also been baking for us. It's hard to resist any of her baking creations because they are so scrumptious!

Aeva has been painting rocks. I don't even know how she does such little lighthouses....

 

We got our garden going, but I think we are actually going to need a few more garden boxes with all the starts we have. We are growing corn, radishes, tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, carving and baking pumpkins, Walla Walla onions, and butternut squash. I hope they all survive. I'm sure with Rhaevyn and Myles's green thumbs they have a good chance. Rhaevyn wins for the prettiest garden with her herbs and flowers.

Rhaevyn and Myles keep bringing me little bouquets from the flowers growing outside.

 Aeva was playing dress up with the two little girls. They were really enjoying that!

 Of course, what's a post without some pictures of Molly?

 

 We have bunnies that love to hang out in our yard. One has a specific spot it sits in everyday and has left an indentation to mark its spot. Usually in the morning we see two sleeping under the trampoline. I took this one morning when I came out the door for my morning walk.

 Silly pictures:
Rhaevyn had put some red lipstick on and came up and gave me a kiss. Then she darted away giggling.

 One of our treats from General Conference weekend was red licorice ropes...

 

 Aeva let  Meg play with her dinosaurs, and she spent hours happily entertaining herself:

 We celebrated two birthdays this month. It would have been easier to combine the two, but having two separate birthday celebrations, actually, was best. 

Elsa wanted strawberries, whipped cream, and angel food cake for her birthday dessert. She got her free birthday burger from Red Robin, and we all ordered kids meals because the restaurant was running a $1.99  special. She also wanted us all to play the Xbox and Kinnect that Ben and Stacey had given us. We had a lot of fun, and there were a lot of laughs.

 

 

Aeva painted Elsa's nails for her birthday. Elsa just thought that was really awesome! Besides that, the only other presents she got were from Oma and Opa, and a violin peg cover crocheted by Rhaevyn (which was Toothless the dragon). We wanted to "do" something rather than "get" her something. So, we'll have to wait for things with the virus to settle down.

 

 

Rhaevyn wanted a Boston creme cake from Chuck's bakery. They happened to have two left when we ventured out to the store. She wanted to go to Lewisville Park for her birthday. We had gorgeous weather, and we had a nice relaxing time spent there.

 

 Myles building a rock dam.

 

 

 

 

 This last video is of birds swooping down and skimming the top of the river. I think maybe they were catching bugs. I just loved watching them.

 

Mr. Myles and Chris have been busy getting the aquarium set up and going. Myles has been thinking about what he may want to do once he finishes high school. So many different ideas and directions he could go. He thinks he'd like to go into a trade. Chris gave him a  plumbing job a couple of weeks ago. We had a clogged sink and he let Myles take care of it............taking the pipes apart and cleaning it out.

 

 

Elsa participated in a Mass Highland Fling. Dancers in the Pacific Northwest took part. It was kind of fun. This is the link to watch the video. See if you can spot her.....

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2874015872666135&external_log_id=ed94a9d35a37e2ff49a54f33aa0597bf&q=mass%20highland%20fling


All the games/competitions have been canceled, at least until the fall. We aren't sure if, in the end, all competitions will be cancelled for the entire year. The Tacoma games will be hosting a virtual mini games, which Elsa is wanting to participate in. We will pass along the link for that once it is posted online. It will be like getting to experience the music, athletics, and dancing all from the comfort of your own home😀

We hope that you are all staying safe and healthy, and bid you farewell until the next post!

 

We are alive and kicking in our corner of the world. We are finding fun things to do outside of our normal routine. We are settling in to a new norm of online music and dance lessons, cancellations of almost everything, and not really making any plans for the foreseeable future since one never knows from day to day what will change.
Our weather has been pretty blustery and stormy as of late. We've had winds, thunder and lightning storms, and several hail storms. It's a little crazy. This is one of our recent storms. It almost looked like it had snowed once the hail storm had subsided.

I've loved having Rhaevyn home to do all kinds of styles with my hair.

Miss Meg lost her very first tooth! She was so brave; not a tear!

Most nights we gather on the couch and watch Little House on the Prairie episodes. We've been watching them in order. Who knew there were so many seasons and episodes?? One night as we were finishing watching an episode, and were preparing the little ones for bed, Myles and Aeva had fun with the baby dolls. They had us all in stitches!

Let's paws 😆 for a few pictures of Molly.....

Elsa is currently working on teaching herself to play a new song called Spootiskery.
It's one that Rhaevyn learned to play a few years ago. This is a video of Elsa and Rhaevyn trying to playing it together for the first time.

Aeva has been working on a new dress. It turned out really cute!

Elsa started embroidering an old shirt:

 

 Myles decided to play a little joke on me with some wet paper towel rolls. The sight sure stopped me in my tracks.

 He also made this little picture/saying, which is pretty appropriate right now since you can't find toilet paper anywhere.

 Just Meg and me sending out a little "I love you" (sign language):

Rhaevyn and Myles made homemade gyoza, a Japanese style dumpling. They turned out so delicious!

Elsa learned a brand new dance yesterday. Here she is practicing it for the first time all the way through (as far as she's learned it). She just has one last step to learn for the dance. It's called Flora MacDonald's Fancy.

 Today, Elsa was teaching Aeva and me some Highland dance steps. I tried the sword dance, and Aeva tried pas de basques. Elsa makes it look so beautiful and easy. We have a new appreciation for all the hard work she puts in with her practicing and competitions. I loved how she was such a little cheerleader for us as we tried doing something she loves to do.

 We hope that you are all safe, healthy, and happy in your corner of the world.....