Friday, July 31, 2020

Harry Potter's Birthday

We were excited to celebrate Harry Potter's birthday on July 31st.  The boys came home from Orlando with a stuffed Hedwig for McKay just in time for the day.
All of the stuffed animals lined up to get Hedwig's autograph. 
Pretty impressive.
Josh got in line for an autograph.
Hedwig even autographed his hat.  Pretty cool.
Cockroach clusters (or turtles when it's Christmas).  We had Jelly Beans as well for Bertie Bots every flavor beans.  

We made ham and chicken pie from our Harry Potter cookbook.
Our Harry Potter cake was the perfect centerpiece for dinner.
And of course we had to have butter beer.  After dinner we watched Harry Potter.

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Covid-19 Quarantine

The world shut down with Covid-19 and we were told to "Shelter-in-Place."  It went on for a long time and things got crazy some days.  It was overall fun to be with our family though.
McKay wrote all sorts of things that he would read to us.
He built lots of things too.
We played tennis and hung out at Midway park regularly until Covid closed it down.

The boys got super into Risk.
There may have been a few (a lot) of fights.

Lots of school work was done.
Thank goodness our pool was finally opened.  The boys would go either really early or really late on most days.



Hanging out on top of the toys.

Party on the bottom, business on the top.  This is Josh's uniform for his zoom calls.
The boys made lots of food.
Hunter decided he wanted hamburgers, but we didn't have buns and so he made some.  
More games.
McKay would put out bird seed for the birds regularly and then he would tell us what kinds of birds were on the deck.
Lots of night games.
McKay decided to wear these fake glasses and he did it every day.

We made lots of frosted lemonade and orange Julius. 
More cooking.  We divided the boys up to have dinner nights and they would help me with dinner on their night.  Lincoln roasted a chicken on his night.

Not sure where these glasses came from, but they were a hit.
The boys were super good helpers.
More frosted lemonade. 

Lots of guitar playing.  That was my favorite.
Night swimming.

Building forts. 
Hanging out in the treehouse.

These were the things the boy were required to do before video games every day.

Home church was awesome.
The boys were write talks every week.
Lots of good things were said.


Covid quarantine had lots of highs and lots of lows.  We definitely will remember it.