Nature!

Took these pictures on a walk with Dayton around the block. One of the comforts as I drove home from saying goodbye to my Grandma was all of these trees had blossomed. They only blossom for about a week each year and I felt it was a tender mercy from my Father in Heaven that they had blossomed this week to comfort me. There were so many tender mercies as I mourned the loss of my Grandma and this was one of my favorites. I also had a sweet friend (my ministering sister) who brought me over some Daffodils. Another friend of mine had born her testimony on how the daffodils were in bloom when she came home from the hospital with her Downs Syndrome baby that they didn't know about until she was born. It really touched me. Nature is such a special way for heaven to speak to us. 

Grandma Johnson/Young's Funeral

Grandma Johnson passed away the beginning of March. With this being the third grandparent who had passed in five months, this one was especially hard. I had received a call from my mom that my Grandma only had about ten minutes left on this earth and if I wanted to say goodbye I would need to hurry. Thankfully, I already had plans and a sitter set up for Dayton so I ran him over there and rushed to the Meadows. I prayed the whole way over there that she would hold on long enough for me to say goodbye and also that He would hold my hand and help me through this. I knew I wouldn't be able to go through another loss like this without His help. I made it in time and was able to say goodbye. It was so hard to have Grandma pass away. I will miss her so much. Here are some pictures from the funeral.




Grandma used to always dump water on people to wake them up and for other silly reasons so everyone wanted to have one last water fight with Grandma. 

Closet Remodel

Our closet needed a major make over so we did it! We took everything out including the shelving and the flooring and re-did it all. Here are embarrassing before pictures and fun after pictures. 

Church, school, and walks

Church with the Stocks- making Trees of Life with oreos and pretzels, and writing letters to grandparents. 


Picnic at Nana's classroom as she gets us prepped for doing our schooling online. 

More Quarantine Fun

Wacky Wednesday we painted our nails and toe nails wacky- Telsha, Skylee, Brielle, and Dayton :)

Skylee gave me an amazing pedicure!

One of Grandma's friends sent Dayton and Brielle a cute card in the mail with some fun stickers to help with quarantine boredom. 

My birthday was a quiet one but was still really nice. I woke up to this fun heart-attack. My birthday was on a Sunday so it was pretty low key. The day before Jeff had taken the kids out for a few hours for me to have some quiet time and brought back dinner. The one thing I wanted was a Pizza Factory breadstick. I knew I would be pushing my luck with gluten with that so I opted for gluten free everything else. I got Pad Thai from Benja's. It was delish. And then because of the social-distancing rules we took turns with Kelsi and Emil coming over to have brownies and ice cream and then once they left, my parents came over. We lit the fire and hung out around it. We kept our distance and kept it under ten people and kept it outside... following all the rules... It was a nice day regardless of the restrictions. 

We were on a walk the other day and we ran into our neighbor's and got talking to them. The kids got to meet their chickens.

Grandma was missing us so she invited the kids for an outside picnic lunch and to play on the tramp and play set. 


Our neighborhood has been doing fun challenges- bear hunt, safari hunt, chalk day etc.. here are some pics of the chalk day we did. It's helped mix up the monotony of the quarantine.
Quarantine parade! They came bringing treats for the kids and blasting music esp "It's The End of The World as We Know it."
Trying to catch a lizard.






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