Corona "Spring Break"

Although this didn't feel like a typical spring break, it was nice that Danny was able to stay home this week. He started on Project Home Gym! We emptied one of the storage rooms and combined it with the rest of the storage.

I should have taken a before shot, but these are from when I thought to document.

First, he treated the floors with bluish gray apoxy.

Then, they got busy framing. The boys and Katherine helped too.

Looking good, Guys!

Next, they added a couple more bucket lights and several electrical outlets.

Next, step drywall! It sure is nice to have a handy and motivated husband and helpful kids.

Danny worked on this room for the first few days of break. It is now almost completely dry-walled, including the ceiling and the closet. 

I didn't happen to take many pictures this week, but  I can tell you about a couple of the things we did.

Victoria and I watched a couple free photography classes online. 

Grant got a new tool for his skateboard and had fun with that. Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa.

Katherine ordered a craft kit with her gift card. She made some neat butterfly magnets.

I have spent some time indexing old marriage records from the 1800's from the state of VA.

This cute girl and I have watched  the latest season of ...

When Calls the Heart 

and Bringing Up Bates. We need "feel good" shows right now.

We have also spent time sleeping in, reading, going on walks, playing games, playing video games, and making good food.

On Wednesday night, we decided it would feel more like a break if we went to the river house.

We got there late that night and pretty much just unloaded and went to sleep. 

We had fun on Thursday and Friday though.

See? Doesn't this look like fun? I am not really sure how this game came about, but

everyone got a dollar and whoever could hold theirs against the wall the longest got to keep them all. 

The boys had the idea to entertain themselves with games /a movie on a phone.

Grant won!

That morning Victoria and Christian had seminary, Danny and I played Farkle, and Katherine and Grant played. We had a very chill day. It was kind of cold and somewhat rainy. Christian and I worked on a puzzle for a bit. We played Psychiatrist. Ate lunch. Victoria and I went to the grocery store.Not as many cases here, but we were so surprised that most people were wearing masks. We wore them too. Danny and the other kids had fun riding in the golf cart.

After dinner, I worked on the puzzle again and Danny and I had a nice long walk.

The next day, Friday, was better for outside stuff.

Danny worked on and fixed the boat lift, and de-winterized the boat so we could take it out.

 While he was working on that stuff the kids and I did some yard work. Apparently there must have been a storm with a really high tide because there was a lot of debris at the bottom of the hill. We took care of it, picked up sticks, and mowed the grass.

We made a picnic lunch and enjoyed going out on the boat together.

Osprey nest (this is a better place than where it was starting to build one on the boathouse).

It is fun to ride upfront some times.

Danny was a good driver. 

V and I had a good kayak to the island.

It was a beautiful day and it is awesome to spend time in undisturbed nature. 

There was beautiful natural artwork in the sand layers in the water.

We had a fun time exploring and saw lots of mussels, razor clams, oyster shells, and more. We found some fallen trees with really cool peeling bark. If I had brought Grant and the canoe, I bet we would have brought cool bark "paper" back from the island. Maybe he and I can go to that spot next time.

Katherine wanted to take a trip to the island too. However, the wind was pretty strong, so we headed into the creek instead.

We  found a few neat places to stop and explore.

Katherine loves the little snails. 

She is such a fun little explorer.

So I mentioned the wind. It was rough coming back in. Eek, I was getting a bit stressed out. The wind kept pushing the front of the canoe to the side faster and stronger than my paddling could correct. Katherine was helping too, but several times we went in full circles. We took a few minutes to regather, and texted the big kids and Danny that we may need help soon. They didn't get the texts and didn't respond. Uggh. We said a prayer and I told Katherine that I needed her to help and really paddle the best she could. 20 minutes later, we made it back! 

After dinner, we decided to clean up and go home. 

Katherine was upset that she didn't get to go to the island, so she Danny and I took a quick trip over on the wave runner. Happy girl with her fern.

We felt so lucky to be able to get away. I told Danny that during spring break I have driven/ridden in a truck, van, golf cart, boat, wave runner, canoe, and kayak! That is pretty fun stuff. Feeling so blessed to be able to do such neat things with these special people.