Quarantine March

 March started out like any other month. Busy and full of activities and commitments. We are blessed with wonderful people in our lives! Knowing that RB & I would be out of town Mol's and Park's teams helped us out. Someone gave them a ride down to RSL to be able to walk out onto the field with their team. What a fun experience for both of them! They loved it! Then they got to watch the game too. I'm grateful for good people who can help out! 

RB & I went to Vegas for the Mountain West conference tournament and we got to watch the Aggies be back-to-back conference champions! All three games were intense to watch! We ate such good food and had a great time watching basketball, hot-tubing, and being together. 

Friday March 13, 2020 is when EVERYTHING changed! I took the day off work to get mouth surgery. I had two holes in my gums that needed cleaned out and compacted. This made it so my teeth wont need root channels. I got home about noon and rested on the couch the rest of the day. That night Gov. Herbert announced the closure of all UT schools. No more school at the schools. That next week RB & I still went into work on Monday and Tuesday to learn online teaching. To top it off, UT had a pretty big earthquake too with some aftershocks. That was quit scary! 

So Wednesday we began out at home online learning. Five kids and two teachers all needing devices to learn on. I'm thankful for our good router and internet service. I'm also thankful for GOOD kids. My kids rocked the online learning. They knew they had to get things checked off before moving on, they got up and got to work every day, and for the most part they were almost always finished by lunch or just after. They were good to know when RB and I could and could not help them based on what we were doing with our morning meetings and our own class zoom calls. Overall, it was an adjustment, but we survived and I feel we survived well! 

Thankful for the morning bus and afternoon bus that brought breakfast and lunch, until they started doing it at the schools again. 

Home learning. 

Cooking class. That was nice that MJ had to cook food for her class. Made it so we didn't have to cook a few nights. :) 

Figuring out zoom. 

So what does quarantine in the Pedersen household look like? Well, it's...

-soccer pickup games in the backyard with the kids

-going on weekly scavenger hunt walks to find things in windows like Disney characters, Marvel characters, temples, flowers, etc. 

-being a dinosaur in daddy's morning message video to his students

-doing music videos for morning messages

-being an extra in the morning messages

-Playing hide and seek

-Finding anything and everything possible to make the tramp more fun

-Flying kites at the park

-Going to friends home to work and play

-Being an Em-a-nator. Silly girl! 

-Doing hair. Sorry Mayo! Didn't even realize I was doing the braids differently. Good thing we can't go anywhere. This is what stress does to you. :) 

-Watching home movies and taking a break

People thought this would last 2 weeks. Well, they were wrong. It is still going! But March was good! 

February

Mayo and Lil went and heart attached the senior citizens doors for young womens. I stole this picture of my cute Lil. 

For some reason I can only find Em with a valentines box. I'm thinking both Parks and Mol didn't make one this year. I think their teachers did the valentines envelope and that is why I don't have a picture of it. But that was so 6 months ago, so I could be wrong. :) This is Em's unicorn box. 

Mayo at the school dance with a her two besties and their favorite teacher in middle school our good friend. They also had a choir concert that of course was really good. 

My co-teacher Paula has her birthday in February. So we celebrated by buying her some Peru things. It's been so fun to have her on our team!

Well I didn't get much in February. But that is what I've got. :) 

 

New Years 2020 & January

It is a new year. 2020! Yes, it is now July and I'm barely starting my 2020 blog. Here is what happened. I print my blog. The website I use to print my blog stopped supporting blog downloads. So I was stuck. At the end of 2019 I decided doing a blog and writing down the happenings of the Pedersen family was pointless if I could not print it for our family. I kind of looked for other options early in the year, but only found one that would cost $200 for one book. So I just stopped. Then this month (July) RB saved the day. He began a search for me and found the perfect website that will take my blog and print it. AND, it was super easy! Plus, it was only $250 for the 5 years I did not print yet. I'm stocked to be back and to be getting caught up! So let's get started with 2020!  

A New Year

New Years was different this year. My oldest two are getting to the age of hanging with friends. So Mayo went to the stake dance and Lil went to a friends home. The rest of us played games til about 10:00 when our friends/neighbors went home with their kids. That left half the family to celebrate. We still had a good time! Welcome 2020! 

The Rest of January

Here is a picture of my coworkers! Love them all! 

One of the best parts of January is the snow. Our neighbor would take the kids on sled rides over at the park. And of course we made our annual luge track in the backyard. Buddy Boy made two going in different directions that would meet at the bottom of the fence. Good times! 

Soccer! That is our life with Buddy Boy and Wolly. They love it and we love watching them love it! Both had a tournament in Mesquite. So we were those parents, and pulled all our kids out of school for two days to go. It was a mini vacation and we had a good time. Buddy's team took second in their division, and Wolly's team took first! They both did a great job! 

Playing with the neighbors. 

What a fun puzzle to put together as a family. 

Lil is very talented! She doesn't believe it yet, but she is! She also hasn't lost many of her baby teeth. Yes, she is 12 years old and had only lost about 3 teeth. Here is her shark tooth. It hurt for awhile, but the one finally came out so the other one can move into the correct spot. We told her maybe when she is in high school she will finally be able to get braces. Lucky for her she can get Invisalign if she chooses. Then nobody will really be able to tell she has them. 

Baptisms for the dead. 

Aggie games. We love our Aggies and watching them play! 

These two are best buds watching cartoons on a Saturday morning. The video of RB talking and Em saying Yep after everything is so cute! One of my favorites!