Last week another grandbaby was born in our family!  We are so pleased he arrived safe and sound and everything is going well.  Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic we couldn't see him in the hospital.  But the night he was born, we went to the window of the hospital room which was on the ground floor and looked in like peeping toms (with permission of course).  That was pretty fun. And we've seen lots of pictures.  So precious.

For Come Follow Me this week, we wrote down 20 things that King Benjamin taught his people. Then we made towers and tents and read a verse from our tower and listened in our tents. Some of the towers were a little precarious. Our life skill of the week was learning how to clean the oven.  We have self-cleaning ovens but the computer in the oven has a tendency to break when we use the self-cleaning function.  The oven repair guy told me not to use it.  So to save myself $400 repairs, I clean it myself now and then. Mostly I have a dirty oven.

Since everybody is staying home these days because of COVID-19, our spring break activity options were limited.  Scott still had to teach his online classes MWF, but after his classes on Wednesday he came home early, renting some mountain bikes on his way home.  He took Talmage and Everett up into the foothills for some adventures. They went about 13.5 miles, gaining 2000 feet in elevation.  They did some bushwhacking and a lot of walking their bikes when it was really steep. They found the legendary "Altar".  They also found a Wildlife Guzzler, a natural spring for wildlife. They ended up at the Blue Rock.  The girls and I were there a little earlier, just missing them. Meanwhile, I took the girls on a hike up above Canyon Glen Park in Provo Canyon.  We call it the Blue Rock hike. Last year, on this hike, I discovered an old blue car.  It's tucked away among the scrub hike, not really visible from the trail that people usually h...

Like everyone else, our kids are doing school at home which means a little more free time for my kids since all the extra-curriculars have been cancelled.  My life, however, has gotten a lot busier because my youngest child needs a lot of supervision and help with her schoolwork. I've given up on the family history class I was auditing because I just don't have much time to myself to work on the assignments.  Plus the teacher wasn't grading them anyway...but that's a different subject. A little cup pong ball Talmage's sculpture project:  make a figurine with found objects Anyway, one mom I know has been keeping her kids a little busier by giving them lessons in things you need to be able to do in your adult life, aka life skills.  Lessons she mentioned were cleaning the refrigerator, addressing envelopes, and cleaning the car inside and out.  I'm all about teaching my kids life skills but I've been having trouble fitting that into my schedule wit...