More Days Of Our Lives

During this time at home we’re still watching A LOT of electronics. The deal is that before the kids can use electronics, they have to finish all their school work for the day and do some physical activities which include running a mile, making baskets, and hitting off the baseball tee (Chase). We always seem to start off strong and I do a good job of enforcing the deal.....but then we all get lazy....

We're trying to get outside for mental health and physical exercise - most of the times we don't do it, but one Thursday we finally made it to the beach~

We celebrated Miles' 6th birthday in the Isakesen's backyard~

The kids have discovered the joys of washing a car. Although they really only want to sit on the roof~

There's also been a lot of fort building~

Memorial Day 2020

Jayden and Riley wanted to wear matching outfits -

A flyby honoring those who gave their lives-

Finally getting to play with someone. So fun to have cousins come over and swim-

This Memorial Day we had Grandma Nish, Ron, Marcus, and the Isaksen family over. We stayed outside for the most part and enjoyed Stonefire Grill takeout bought by Grandma Nish. It was nice to gather together and have an almost “normal party”.

Days of our Lives

Zoom calls with Dodgers:

Water balloon fights

Science experiments - capillary action:

Card games:

Eating crab caught by Ron’s friend:

Hero Day:

Cleaning the girls’ room:

Distance Learning

Online PE class:

Chase uses his room for all of his class Zoom calls:

Riley and Jayden use the dining room table for school work:

No Knead Rosemary Bread

For some reason I have been wanting to make new things in the kitchen while we’re being “safer at home”. So I tried making homemade bread for the first time...

Letting the dough rise for the first time-

It didn’t turn out like I envisioned - which was round, golden brown, and shiny.  It ended up looking more like a chicken coming out of the oven:

However, even though the texture was dense; it was still pretty good! The crust was crispy and the inside was soft:

The girls didn’t like the taste of rosemary. Riley said, “that spicy just stays in your mouth forever!”. Chase, however, thought it was pretty good, especially with butter:

I don’t think I would recommend this recipe. The dough is really wet and hard to manage. I’m looking forward to trying other recipes out because it’s a bit like doing a science experiment.

Easter 2020

Although we couldn’t celebrate with extended family, we had a fun Easter celebration. The kids woke up excited and saw that the Endows had been given Amazon gift cards and the Easter Bunny left them a clue to where he hid the baskets:

But first, the kids went to the backyard to find the Easter eggs that Grandma Nish and Ron has his the night before. I was on a FaceTime call with Grandma Nish and thought I was recording the kids finding the eggs, but what I really recorded was this:

Next, the kids hunted for their basket from the Easter Bunny:

The Easter Bunny gave them one big box to share that was filled with chocolate and pool toys:

Tanner and I usually don’t do baskets for the kids, but since this year’s pandemic has disrupted our lives, we did one. To make it extra fun, we locked up the baskets and the kids had to use the clues to figure out the lock combos:

They figured everything out pretty quickly, Jayden was probably the MVP as she figured out the correct order of the numbers in the last lock:

After some swim time in the pool, we dyed some eggs:

Pasta for dinner and Easter 2020 was over. The kids said it was their best Easter. Cheers!

Dinners 3.29.20-4.5.20

Sunday: Skillet Lemon Chicken Thighs - Barefoot Contessa

Monday: Pablo Crusted Chicken Breasts 

Tuesday: Taco Tuesday 

Wednesday: Leftovers

Thursday: Pot Roast w/carrots, potatos, and onions in crockpot

Friday: Marinated Chicken Drumsticks

Saturday: Rascals