Jon and I took a well deserved break yesterday and went whale watching in Depoe Bay! While we tried to get photos, it didn’t work out too much :( Just a lot of ocean! It’s crazy to process the enormity of the animal that we were seeing! I quite enjoyed being on a boat on the open sea! (One lady on the other boat did not!)
I’m not really sure yet how I feel about turning 40, but I have enjoyed a lovely quiet day listening to the ocean in the company of my husband and soul mate. I very much appreciate the many calls, texts, and messages containing birthday wishes! Thank you!
Last night the kids iced and decorated our holiday cookies. The kids also helped put out most of the rest of our holiday decorations too.
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!
Side note, Happy 22nd Birthday Evan! Wish we could be there celebrating!
So COVID-19 rages on. For the most part, we have maintained a strict social distance and relative isolation. Last Tuesday we took a family trip to the coast. We chose a less popular beach and a weekday hoping to have more distance and few human interactions. We were pretty successful in that pursuit. We did get too much sun.
All of us have a pretty significant sunburn. Taylor’s is probably the worst as he chose to sit out in the sun most of the day and only applied sunblock once. I tried to tell him, but teenagers.
A few weeks ago Jon, Liv, and I went on a long hike. We meant to travel to the coast, but we misread the length of that journey and did not go prepared for a hike that long. So we did a shorter loop and had a lot of fun and exercise doing it.
Tay and Liv participated in a virtual summer camp through our local community college. Here Tay explains one of his projects. Wes loved that his program caused a light to blink and change colors. They both had a lot of fun.
Ava created this my little pony puppet out of construction paper and toilet paper tubes. She ran out of pink paper right in the middle but creatively solved her problem.
Anyway, a few ways that we are passing the time. Our schools will start 100% virtual in a couple of weeks. They will stay that way until at least Nov, then the district will re-evaluate. Wish us luck!
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