Elden Turns 11!

Wow!  Elden is 11!  Next year he'll be able to go to the temple with us, which is very exciting.  No more having to try to find a babysitter or someplace he can hang out at! We had an early birthday for Elden with some of his cousins.

We also tried to go skiing one last time.  Sadly we were a few days short.  So sad. 

Food Lion had an AMAZING sale on Ben & Jerry's.  I couldn't resit!  $2.50 per pint?!  Uhhh...YES!

The day before Elden's birthday we had our Relief Society birthday celebration.  It was very simple-ish with a taco bar, a short and wonderful message about ministering from Amy Crosby who is in the Stake Relief Society Presidency, cake and visiting!

Shanna came with me to the dinner that night and we headed to the store to try and find hand sanitizer.  It had been running out everywhere.

I bought a bunch of goodies to give to Lee's employees for St. Patrick's day.  I like doing little gift bags for them for just-because.

Elden requested a Twinkie cake with Nesquik frosting.  I obliged.

Everything is ready to go!

I froze the cake because I didn't want the whipping cream to turn into a mess.

That morning Clark headed off to a tennis match!  Sadly the last one of the season....


Shanna and I ran over to the school to decorate Elden's locker before he arrived at school. So crazy.  He just had two more days of school left and didn't know it...




After school his friends Michael and Kaden came over.

He opened presents from them, and they played.  Later we went to eat at a local restaurant.

We then headed to the church for Activity Days.  Elden wanted two of his teachers to bring their snakes to show off.  The boys loved it.

Later that night we had cake and ice cream.


And a few more presents.

Happy birthday Elden! We're so grateful you are part of our family! We love your giggles and your positive attitude. Your birthday was one of our last "normal" days.  The next day, Thursday is when everything around the US stared shutting down, even church was cancelled for that Sunday.  Friday school was cancelled and then was cancelled for the rest of the year.  So weird!

Snowshoe!

February seems like it was a million years ago! COVID-19 is in full force, but as always I'm a little behind on updating the blog.

In February Lee and I helped with a youth activity one night that Clark led.

After the activity we took Cal to the Nesquik machine but it wouldn't work!  I guess he needed a JMU student card to use it.  Weird.

Our neighbor across the street sadly had to go to a nursing home.  We seriously looked into buying his house.  We aren't sure where the appraisal came in at, but we would overbuild the neighborhood A LOT if we tried to buy it.  Right now we aren't going to, but it was fun going to through the process of thinking about it and doing some research on prices and such for remodeling.

Our big trip in February was Snowshoe!  Snowshoe is a big ski resort in West Virginia about 3 hours from us.  I loved going there.  There are two sections that you can ski at.  We stayed at only one.  I wish we would have gone to the other but people were getting tired.  Next year we'll have to set aside enough time to spend a couple of days there, rent a house and hit both ski areas. So fun!!!

On the way up the weather turned crazy about a 1/2 hour from Snowshoe. 

Normally when we go places we bring our own food to make the event less expensive.  We planned out eating at the resort though which was really fun.  We just skied down and had lunch!  The place was packed but we got our bellies full.

The afternoon was beautiful.  I wish they hadn't been blowing snow though.  That was really annoying.

Haley and Elden loved the little side trails.

On the way home we just happened to drive past Green Bank, West Virginia where they have the huge radio telescope and cell phones don't work there.  Though I find in many places of West Virginia my cell phone doesn't work, haha. I had just read about that town recently so it was fun actually driving through it! Fun day of skiing! Can't wait to go back next year.