We made it to general conference weekend! Bad news, still in quarantine but good news we get to watch conference! We have a stay at home order from the Governor and so it was a bummer we couldn't go out to the farm for conference. But we are here together and that is better then being alone...sometimes, hahaha.
The cool thing about Conference this year is after the Sunday morning session we had a solemn assembly. It was the first one ever being done on TV like this and it was so neat being able to be in our homes for it. I had the handkerchiefs we used at the Meridian Temple dedication and I was so happy to pull them out again. We dressed up for the Sunday morning session because of the solemn assemble, we felt it would be more appropriate and respectful given the nature of the event. But for the rest of conference we were in our comfy clothes and I took our family picture after the last session.
President Nelson announced that we were going to have another fast on Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Sunday, to help stop the spread of the Corona Virus and to get our lives back to normal. He invited all faiths to join us in this fast and although I do not enjoy fasting I was ok to fast again. At first I thought he was going to announce a policy change that Fast Sunday was going to be every week, that scared me, hahaha. But I can participate in this fast, hopefully it will be beneficial of the world.
I am continuing with the zoom video dance classes and this week it was fun to see more kids participate.
The one good thing that I can say about this quarantine is it brought me my friend Stephanie. We never would have gotten to know each other if we didn't have to do these online classes and it has been so great to get to know her. Every time we talk we find more and more that we have in common. In addition to doing our zoom videos we also started filming our youtube dance classes together and that has been so much fun!
After dance class I took Kate Priddy's costumes over to her house to leave on her porch for her. Kate painted me a picture and her left it on the porch so that I could get it when I stoped by. It made me so happy, I really love my little dancers!
For family home evening we had the kids share with us their favorite parts of conference. I loved watching them read from their notes and sharing all that they learned and loved. It was awesome!
Rylee took a picture of Bonnie the Bunny to send to her friends. He is a cute little bunny!
Ashleigh initiated a family yoga session and Tuesday night was our first one. It was a lot of fun to do it with my girls at home and also with my family online.
After the yoga we sat around and visited for a couple of minutes and Joshua and Mallory announced they were having a baby girl. They told us they were pregnant when we were all together in Utah and it is so exciting now to find out they are getting a girl. I am so excited to see those two little boys with a baby sister, so fun!
The government announced that we should start wearing masks while we are out and about, its not mandatory just recommended. I have been seeing a lot of mask tutorials online and thought I would try my hand at making them. I made it out of the extra Little Mermaid fabric I had and it turned out so cute. I wore it once while I went to the Albertsons to get some things and it was really hard to wear. It made me feel like I couldn't breathe and a little claustrophobic, I was also embarrassed to be wearing it. Oh well, hopefully this will end soon.
I was videoing dances for The Dance Connection and I accidentally pushed camera instead of record so I got a picture. I kept it because I thought it was a good picture :)
Clementine's Mom sent me a picture of her dancing to one of my and Stephanie's videos and it made me so happy. I am so glad that a lot of my dancers are utilizing my videos.
I wasn't planning on doing an egg hunt this year for Easter but Rylee really wanted one so she had Kefford take her to the store to get some candy. When they got back she got out the eggs we had and filled them with the candy. She is so cute and I love that she was wanting and willing to do this little project herself.
On Friday Kefford took Rylee, Avynlea and Ryker out to shoot guns and so Ryker could ride his dirt bike. I am pretty sure they had fun being out in nature doing cool things.
Kyah's Mom sent me pictures of her following along to my videos and once again it made my day! I have been delivering costumes to my dancers houses so they could have them and one morning I took Kyah's over to her house. I left them on the porch, rang the doorbell and then backed up so I was on the sidewalk. When they came to the door Kyah was so excited to se me, she started to run out to me to give me a hug but her Mom and I both said she couldn't, ohhh it made me so sad. I loved being able to see her and visit with her for a couple of minutes.
Saturday Avynlea and Rylee dyed Easter eggs. Nobody else seemed to want to do it and they both got to Dye a lot of eggs. They had a lot of fun being creative and I enjoyed watching them and seeing their end results.
I am not sure what was happening in this picture or who even took it but it makes me happy. I love the time can be with my family playing games and having fun. Those times are my favorite!
