March and April 2020 - Coronavirus Covid 19

Wow - it's been a long time since I added to my blog.  I'll try to remember everything.  Peyton and Chad attended her final Daddy/Daughter Dance at Cottonwood Point Elementary - dinner out first at Nick and Jake's with her friends and their dads.  We went to her band concert at Blue Valley Northwest High School - she and her 5th grade band did a job.  Garrison and his Mom made the Patrick Mahomes cake for the Cub Scout auction - he won first place and the cake sold for $110!!!!

We were blessed to have the kids here in March for a few days of Spring Break.  Anticipating not being able to be together for Easter because of the Covid 19, we died eggs - both traditionally and with shaving cream and hid the outside for an early Easter Egg Hunt.  They had fun - so did Grammy and Grandpa.  We did a lot of cooking and baking while they were here.  They frosted and decorated Easter cut out cookies - we fixed taco salads two times - Peyton browned the hamburger and Garrison chopped lettuce, green onions, tomatoes, etc.  We had fun cooking together.  We had to stay home, so we played a lot of games.  Ron took them to the #17 tee box to hit balls over and into the pond - Garrison went two times and hit 13 balls over!!!  Peyton hit 5 over!!!!  They used to all go IN the pond.  They are growing up.

Garrison and I made two crafts out of his Star Wars craft book which included spray paint!!!!  They both went well.  Peyton made her first chocolate pie - a family tradition - from start to finish - even making scratch crust.  She served it when her Mom and Dad came to pick them up.  It was delicious!

The first pictures are of Amanda/family on Easter Sunday.  We had to have Easter separately this year due to the Pandemic - Covid 19 - and the Stay at Home Order which has been going on a month now and might go on for a few more weeks.  We have to stay home except to go to get essentials - food, etc.

I played with Marnie Bellamy for a recorded Good Friday service before the Stay at Home Order began.  Church has been online for 4 weeks now.  It's all strange.  I have been making masks out of bandanas for us to wear when in public.  We ordered food from Walmart online and picked it up in the parking lot.  We made a quick trip to Overland Park the week before Easter to take the kids their Easter baskets - it was raining, so we stood 6 feet apart in their garage, visited 5 minutes and dropped off the masks I made them and their Easter baskets.  Sad.  I miss them so much.

God is with us and God is good.  We are blessed even in this trying time!