March started out normal enough, but quite quickly became like nothing we've ever seen or experienced before. Here's our "regular" photos from phones for March, which covers life as we knew it before the coronavirus quarantine. I'll make a separate post, which will probably end up being a daily log of our time during the thing called social distancing. And hopefully soon we'll be back to our regularly scheduled photos from phones posts with this whole COVID-19 drama just a blip on the timeline. (Crossing fingers and saying prayers!) Here we go. Remember when? . . .
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| 3.2.20 (just a couple of picture books this week to share. We thought it was funny that the day after reading Birds, Callie learned about Matisse at school in art!) |
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| 3.3.20 (it was Dr. Seuss week and Callie was fully on board with the crazy hair day theme - she came up with this do and I did my best to execute her directions and vision) |
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| 3.3.20 (she walked all the way to school so she wouldn't mush the hairdo in the burley!) |
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| 3.4.20 (since Sam is done napping as of last week, we can now do fun outings on wednesdays after cal gets out of school early - today we went to the dino park!) |
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| 3.4.20 (it's always so nice to go play outside in the warmth of ogden while we're still buried in snow in early march!) |
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| 3.4.20 (60 degrees!!) |
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| 3.4.20 (blue skies!) |
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| 3.4.20 (smiling kids!) |
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| 3.4.20 (most dangerous creatures!) |
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| 3.4.20 (I was trying to get the kids and the contrail and the moon all in one shot - barely made it!) |
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| 3.5.20 (I convinced Sam to ski a few runs with me on a bluebird day) |
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| 3.5.20 (we had a great time and didn't fall on any of the lifts!) |
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| 3.5.20 (found him in the reading corner - makes my heart so happy!) |
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| 3.6.20 (pajama day at school for dr. suess week ("snuggle up and read") happened to also be the day that I signed up to do "fairytale friday" in Callie's classroom. Sam came along in full costume to match the kids. We read The Sneetches and then did a Sneetch craft with the class and then stayed for recess and lunch!) |
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| 3.6.20 (pizza day!) |
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| 3.6.20 (Cal's sneetch on top, Sam's on the bottom - they both turned out so cute and unique!) |
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| 3.6.20 (ky sent me this darling pic of zoe at her dad's water polo game - look at those cheeks!!) |
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| 3.6.20 (saw this while scrolling through insta and wanted to save it to remember - I love Emily Belle Freeman's (and David Butler's) weekly Come Follow Me Study podcast called Don't Miss This) |
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| 3.7.20 (I invited my sibs and their families to come ski at Nordic during their spring deal - Grace was excited to learn with Sam!) |
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| 3.7.20 (Gregg helped Evy learn, too! She was a natural) |
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| 3.7.20 (we made a party day of it - everyone came back for lunch and visiting, Gregg and T went back up for a couple more hours of skiing on the soft spring snow, we watched RSL's home opener of the season, we cheered on the ags to victory at the mwc championship - the first team to stamp their ticket in to the NCAA tourney this season! - ate fajitas for dinner and had yummy lemon bar white chocolate brownies for dessert) |
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| 3.7.20 (cousin babies meet for the first time! Cooper on the left, Zoe on the right) |
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| 3.8.20 (we had a fun blanchard family dinner at Paul and Kim's to celebrate the march birthdays - me and scott; please note the candles are reversed in this picture!) |
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| 3.8.20 (Grandpa pulled out all the stops in the entertainment department!) |
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| 3.8.20 (I really enjoyed this. She has a very poetic writing style and it was great; she meshed nature essays with stories from her family history and emotions of growing up and growing old and joy and grief and life. I thought this was so beautiful!) |
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| 3.8.20 (picture book faves from this week. we all super loved Saturday as our top fave) |
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| 3.9.20 (sunny day and shorts!) |
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| 3.10.20 (paul posted this picture of him and his mom on the family herd site and we all gasped when we saw the family resemblance - is that paul or gregg or sam?!) |
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| 3.10.20 (graupel?) |
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| 3.10.20 (mugs sent me this photo of the moon setting in the morning) |
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| 3.10.20 (these are cute and fun! we loved that Love has a Gracie and a Sam as characters! and we've been spotting robins like crazy for a week now, so it made me think of the spring book, which has lots of other signs of spring to watch for, too) |
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| 3.10.20 (a rare quiet snuggle with a book post-dinner time evening) |
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| 3.10.20 (don't forget cal!) |
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| 3.10.20 (no one was excited about leaving their cozy corners so I took a solo walk around the loop in the sunshine) |
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| 3.10.20 (I got on a little bit of a graphic novel kick for a couple of days - this one about the life of John Muir was fun and informative!) |
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| 3.13.20 (gregg's dad shared this other goodie that I love) |
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| 3.13.20 (our last ski day of the season and it was a doozy - Sam was fine on the green runs and we should have learned our lesson from the top of the hill to just stay on them, but he said he wanted to do bullseye as our last run and then proceeded to have a tantrum saying he wanted to go home and was going to walk/ slide down the hill instead of ski. he's skied this one plenty of times without incident, but today was not the usual day, so we had to battle it out. he finally got back on his skis and made it down to the car without incident, but we only got to see my uncle and cousins who were skiing there that day for about 30 seconds and both sam and I left in grouchy moods (he was so tired, for the record, we drove straight to pick up cal from early out school and he was asleep by the time we got to the school!) |
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| 3.14.20 (callie's latest art installment at our house - these colorful flowers taped to straws were a birthday present, and we finally put them outside to enjoy) |
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| 3.14.20 (she gave them to me with a little note that said something about "put these in the snow and the flowers will grow!") |
And then our world changed dramatically - it seriously feels so weird to look back on these photos and remember life "way back when" two to three weeks ago. Stay tuned for the quarantining efforts and updates on a separate post!
