More Quarantine Adventures

With everything closed, we tried our best to find fun things to do.  We went on lots of walks.  Toward the end of quarantine, Colin had lost interest in walks, but Cadence liked to go and look for frogs at the creek.  

On one walk, she found some dandelions...

And we spotted one of the bald eagles!  It sat perched there for a while...

Long enough for us to call the boys & they drove down to see it!

One of our favorite things to do as a family is go on a bike ride down on campus.  Sometimes we ride a bit on the Olentangy trail.  We ALWAYS spend time on The Oval and we ALWAYS get Adriatico's and Buckeye Donuts!

The kids found a good tree to climb near the library.

Mirror Lake is so pretty.

Quarantine Saga - Beauty Edition

We had some fun with hair, nails, and makeup during quarantine - keep scrolling to enjoy this "Beauty Edition" post...

Cadence asked me several times if she could give me a makeover - I finally caved (and then went to Kroger afterward!)  She did my makeup, complete with a cat eye with eyeliner, and curled my hair.

She did a pretty good job!  I may or may not have washed off the eye liner before I went grocery shopping...

Luckily there were  a few bottles of "fun color" hair dye left on the shelves when I went shopping - Cadence wanted pink, so that's what she got!  The color lasted longer than we thought it would and it turned out great.  She's so cute!

We tried it out on Colin also, but it didn't really "stick".  He was a little bummed after all that time sitting with color on his hair - he got over it quickly, though.  Here he is goofing around with Cadence's feather boa. Scarlet was a victim of the boa as well...

Who wore it best?

Cadence also went through a phase where we braided her hair in several small braids after her shower at night - it turned out pretty crimped in the morning!  Here she is taking a selfie (we're in trouble when she's a teenager and has her own phone!)

I came inside after doing some yard work on the weekend and found Colin dressed like this - Cadence must've convinced him to try out a makeover as well!  They even snuck into my my drawers and swiped a bra!  They are something else, those two.

I ordered several packs of Color Street nail polish strips after seeing them advertised a bunch.  I tried it out on Cadence.  It worked pretty well, but I think I learned a lot to make the next application better. 

Quarantine Saga - Part III

Here's some of the fun we had after Easter...

We sent a note to Colin's teacher to show her the first puzzle we finished (he enjoyed working on puzzles in class) and she told us that she had an unopened puzzle that had been in the trunk of her car for months.  She made a special trip and dropped it off for Colin on our porch!  It was nice to see her and say, "hello!"  It was a puzzle with US landmarks.  It was a lot of fun - it only took us a few days to finish!  Again, Colin did most of the work!

Cadence did her makeup and requested a photo shoot.

Scarlet wanted in on the fun with puzzle #3...

This 500-piece Pokemon puzzle only took a day to complete!

Colin spiked up his long quarantine hair and he looked like Johnny Bravo (from Cartoon Network) to me!

At the beginning of the stay-at-home order, the weather was just starting to warm up.  We took advantage of it and took daily walks down to the creek.  I was able to sneak a photo during one walk when the kids weren't bickering.

Mom made Danny turkey burgers, homemade mac and cheese, and tater tots for dinner for his birthday.  As you can tell, he was stoked!

Since we're not going anywhere, the kids have gotten creative with the hairstyles...

Aren't they so cute?!

Cadence likes to watch crafting YouTube videos.  She got the idea to refresh her worn out squishies.  Here she is trying to dry the paint on one of them.

Colin helped Danny assemble the new patio furniture.

I sent Danny this photo while he was at the office.  The kids made a blanket fort in the backyard while it was sprinkling.

Cadence has been taking remote piano lessons using Zoom.  It's nice that she can still keep up with her lessons at home!

We've had a little more screen time than normal with being home all day, every day...

Hopefully it's only temporary...but they've learned a lot of new technology skills being quarantined!  Here's Colin during a Google Meet with his class for show and tell.

Easter - Quarantine Style

This year, Easter looked a little different.  We didn't go over Grandma and Poppa's house, we didn't dye Easter eggs together, we didn't have dinner together, but we made sure to still make it fun for the kids.  And as normal as possible.

The kids agreed to check out their Easter baskets first and then hunt for eggs.

Cadence received a bunch of stuff to make slime

Colin's always happy with Matchbox cars

Let the Easter egg hunt commence!

For weeks they talked about hoping that there would be eggs outside...It's always weather dependent.

There are 2 kids in there...

Poppa made us cinnamon rolls...we gave them mimosas!

We dyed eggs in the afternoon

At some point, Colin got a hold of the camera and began snapping away.

She likes the attention...

We hopped on a FaceTime call with Grandma and Poppa while we dyed the eggs

The finished products!

Later in the day, the weather was nice, so we hung out in the driveway with the 'rents!  It was nice to spend some socially-distanced time with one-another!