March

For the month of march we have mostly been staying at home because of the corona virus. Its been pretty crazy with school cancelled for the rest of the school year, thrown into homeschooling, people panicking and buying all the toilet paper and other items at the store, church moved into our own homes. Everything has been cancelled so we have been home. We are so very grateful for a living prophet and apostles who have already prepared us for this time with food storage and come follow me learning from home.

Easton had a fishing trip planned with Grandpa Miller and his cousins and uncles. He was excited that that was one thing that didn't get cancelled.Especially after the man trip was postponed until fall. He loved every minute of fishing and was beyond excited for the fishing pole from Grandpa!! He even caught a fish! While the fishing and cooking of the fish was fun he wasn't a huge fan of eating it. Haha we will have to try again. But he can't wait to go fishing again!

Before the state was placed on "shelter in place" we were "social distancing" We decided to get out of the house and into the mountains! It was a bit cold but we enjoyed some fresh air on Mt Lemmon. There was a lot of water up there and some leftover snow to play in! We even got to camp in the same campsite area where Chad proposed.

We used our pancake griddle as a snow sled! Worked pretty well!

Easton finally lost his first tooth! He has been asking for months when he was going to ever lose a tooth. He pulled it out all by himself. He was so proud.

As a part of our homeschooling we have been doing a art class on youtube. The kids have had so much fun learning to draw different characters.

Kimberly came from Oklahoma for the weekend and we had so much fun. We did a lot of fun random things to keep us entertained in the house. We made plaster of paris handprints and sidewalk chalk, tower building competition, salt drawing using only your nose, lots of cooking, and just fun hanging out together!

Skywalker was so funny with Aliya. She loved her so much and didn't want to leave her shoulder. She just kept looking at her lovingly and playing with her hair. She would get mad if anyone tried to take her away.

Clayton Disneyland Trip!

In February we went to Disneyland for a few days with the Clayton family and had so much fun! I loved getting to watch William experience the magic of it all. And it was amazing because all of our kids were tall enough to go on most of the rides!!

The first day we did California Adventure.

William thought Cars Land was so cool. We waited in line to meet Lightning McQueen but he left and we met Mater instead. He was pretty sad but I told him we would come back and try again.

The kids just loved hanging out with their cousins! I hardly saw Sophie, Lydia and Easton most of the time as they were just having so much fun.

William insisted he wanted to meet Anna and Elsa with the girls. Elsa touched his shoulder and he blushed and smiled and was just in awe of her. He still talks about how Elsa touched his shoulder and he liked it haha.

We went back to Cars Land in the evening and William finally got to meet McQueen!!

The next two days we spent in Disneyland. Easton thought Star Wars land was the coolest. He was in complete awe of the storm troopers and loved the Millennium Falcon Ride. 

William got to meet his favorite character ever! Mickey! Easton had been telling him for weeks that Mickey was just a guy in a suit and was fake. But William declared after he met him that "He didn't have a zipper! Mickey is real!"

For Christmas Aimee gave me a gift card so I could get silhouettes of my kids! It was amazing to watch the artist just cut them out by hand!

William just thought it was so cool that characters were just wandering around. He gave Donald a big hug.

On the way home we stopped at Seal Beach to play and enjoyed a delicious local bakery.