What We Do in a "Quarantine Summer"

Summer of Covid hasn't been much fun.  Summer camps were canceled.  Field trips were called off.  Church & youth activities were canceled.   Hanging out with friends wasn't an option either.  But, we made the best of it and tried to have as much summer fun as we could...  Some things were more fun than others, LOL!  The girls were able to go swimming a few times at the neighbors pool...

We also cleaned out the gutters.  Boy was THAT fun!

 We played in the creek and caught crawdads.

We assembled several puzzles. 

Went swimming again... 

Played in buckets of water...with popsicles. 

More creek... 

Magige grew some green beans! 

Kayley raised some tadpoles... 

And there is always the ice cream man!

It's the little things.

Due to a shortage of summer things to do...we have decided to go ahead and start school next week!  Hopefully when things settle down...eventually..we will take a little bit of time off and go enjoy some of the things that we missed all summer!  

Legoland, Florida 2020

We decided it would be fun to make a trip to Legoland while we were in Florida.

This visit was worth every penny!  The park was nice and quiet...and many of the rides rival Disney with NO or Low wait times!

Plus, everything is made of Legos.  

Which is just super awesome!

Here are a few pictures from our fun day! 

  

That's a Wrap!

By way of a catching up, here is the tail end of 2019.

It's funny, as I was going through the pictures from December, I realized I took very few.

I should try to do a bit better with that for sure!

The girls joined Homeschool Orchestra this year!  Kayley played cello, Maggie the violin.  They enjoyed it very much.  They learned a lot and made several new friends.

They played a great Christmas concert which was standing room only!

Of course, by March all classes were canceled and we have been unable to go back since.  Hopefully we will be able to attend in-person classes next year?

We also took our very first trip on The Polar Express.

We had a great time! 

Meeting Santa. 

Christmas was as great as always! 

We made a trip to Bennett Springs during Christmas break.  It was fun to have my brother, his wife and my nephew here!  The weather was gorgeous and we didn't even need a jacket by midday.

Kayley also was given the privilege of dog sitting for a couple weeks.

She loved it.  I learned that I do not want to get a dog anytime soon. LOL! 

And that ties up the loose ends from 2019!