Picnic Lunch With Rebecca's Family and Dinner With Ben's Family; Carson's Baptism

The working person in our family has been able to continue working through this pandemic. He was already working from home. He has Zoom meetings in place of the meetings he used to go to in person. It is working out great for him/for us.

He has always worn a suit and tie on each work day. He has continued to do that in quarantine as well. Despite a couple of our neighbors making comments about how he must be the only person these days who wears a white shirt and tie at home, he says it gets him in the work mode.

The Tuesday morning WebEx Relief Society class I have been attending has been nice to give me something to look forward to in the middle of the week. The group decided to extend the class since we are still home bound.

Since we had come to the end of the manual we were using, ideas were shared about what we could study and discuss to continue the class. My suggestion was agreed upon and I felt good about having a positive input.

We are going to study the talks given in the Saturday morning session of general conference and come prepared with our thoughts and feelings about that. The next week we will do the Saturday afternoon session and so on for the next 5 weeks.

When the Golden family came to weed one day, they brought Costa Vida for us to eat before we all got busy in the yard. YUM!!!

It is very socially therapeutic for me to have family close enough to see and talk to in person. Weeding is way more fun when there is someone to visit with while pulling the pesky weeds.  

The Golden family enjoyed roller blading around their neighborhood. Great exercise for the whole family!!

What a fun thing to roast marshmallows in their back yard.

Caroline wanted curly hair one day and Brooke wanted straight hair.

Caroline completed a very ambitious project--making cinnamon rolls. They look so DELICIOUS!!!!

Abe sent this photo of him and his family having pizza and a movie. He said it was the 5th time that week. HAHA!! What quarantine will do to people! 

Home church rolled around again. I really enjoy getting dressed up on Sunday to do our personal worship. It makes it really feel like the Sabbath Day.

That day was our friend Colleen Kossin's birthday. I talked Glen into going with me to sing happy birthday to her--from a social distance, of course. I was sad they weren't home. We stood on their porch and made a video of us singing to her and then texted it to her.

She said they had decided to take a Sunday drive up to Pineview. It was such a beautiful day for a drive. What a great activity for them to get out of the house.

Abe's family provided a little mosquito bait when they planned a fun day at Klarissa's grandmother's house. Her grandmother has passed away. Abe's family was able to have a swimming experience all to themselves.

Since we had had two picnic lunches with Rebecca's family, we thought it would be a good idea to have a picnic dinner with Ben's family.

When we offered to pick-up Texas Roadhouse, they got really excited about that. With Kade's allergies, Ben said they would never dare step foot in that restaurant with all the peanuts throughout.

Kade was a little bashful at the beginning of our visit. It has been a while since we have seen them in person.

We were carefully situated to keep our social distance.

Kade loved playing on the little playground right near their home. We were so glad we decided to have a little get together. Once again, it was very therapeutic for me to be close to our loved ones.

We were really on a social distance visiting roll with Mom and Dad coming to see us to deliver two masks for us that her neighbor had made. Not so hospitable to host a visit in the garage, but it was certainly better than no visit at all.

Glen was so happy to see the new blue mask. His white platypus mask has been put aside for this more stylish one.

He got his new mask just in time to go golfing with his friend Randy Bambrough. I was happy he got to spend some time outside. He was happy his golf score was amazing after having not golfed for 4 years.

He treated himself to a Chick-fil-A take-out meal on his way home from Layton. Look at the smile a chicken sandwich, waffle fries and lemonade puts on his face!!

Sarah and Jeff debated whether they should go ahead with Carson's baptism during the stay-at-home orders or wait until restrictions were eased and people could attend. They decided to go ahead with the scheduled baptism.

The attendees were the Excell family, Jeff's parents and their bishop.

They had arranged for family and friends to watch the baptism via a Zoom call. This was what Sarah put up on the computer screen for us to see as everyone joined the call. 

The program was as follows. Sarah and Eli gave excellent talks. 

After the closing song and prayer, Sarah put this up to end the baptismal service.

Abe sent this photo of his view of the baptism Zoom call. All our children were able to be at the baptism via Zoom. Dad, Mom and Nani joined in. 

Jeff's siblings and a couple of Sarah's friends were able to witness the baptismal service as well. It turned out to be a nice gathering of love and support from all different parts of the country. 

Home church rolled around again. 

Our now-traditional Sunday photo is how I have been counting the weeks in isolation.