February 2021

 Things from February.  Hazel took some pictures with Wyatt.

Myles got home from his mission, so we went to celebrate with everyone.  I remember I had such a great time that day and came home feeling so full of love and happiness from being with all my people.

I'm not sure who made this cool guy in school-- Wyatt or Orrin?

Navy walking to the car after preschool.

Hazel at the dermatologist.

The back of the house being a giant puddle/flood.

Apparently I had a good hair day so had to take lots of pictures.

haha!

Navy's bunny lantern that we made for our lantern parade!

I actually love the color of my walls when the sun is shining in super bright.  (Unfortunately, I don't love it when it's not shining.)

Snowman dancing?

Kami helping me try to decide on a better color. We mixed colors and mixed more colors and had different shades.

Wyatt got baptized!! It was still mid-Covid enough that only a certain number of people were allowed to come (can't remember how many, but Kami's family was there and us). We zoomed in Grandma Bell and some others, and Hazel (who we very unfortunately forgot to tell her to take work off, so luckily there was zoom!) and even Jethro!! (But apparently the sound wasn't working very well, so no one could really hear.  Such is technology.)

Ethne's long gorgeous hair!

Brett kicked Ethne (she originally had her bed and clothes in there and slept there) out of his office, painted the walls, and redid the floor.

Navy and I out to gather some branches.

To make one of these! (this was my inspiration)

I think this was when I remembered I hate crafting.

But hey-- a lantern!

For this lantern parade we had.

As far as parties go, it was kind of a dud.  Some people came, but not very many.  It was very cold (so it wasn't very comfortable, which equates to not too fun), and so some people left early.  We should have met up at our house to have our hot chocolate, but we just drank it by our van.  Oh well.

A mural on someone's shipping container that we want to copy someday.

The sky was super cool that day.

More paint color trying out.  In the end I was too chicken (paint-color choosing anxiety) to do anything new, and I just painted it all back the same color.

The boys were awesome and had the dogs pull Navy on the sled!!

I don't know what sorcery he was working on.

I love pink mountains!!

He built himself special shelves for his office.

Snippety snip snip.

I really like my hair this color.  I should make it permanent.

Art that Hazel brought home from school (that she made).

I like this.  It's her room.

Read-a-thon night.

We counted how many pages we read just in that evening all together and it was a lot.  But I don't remember now.  Sorry.

I took them sledding again, and Talmage convinced me to take him all the way to the trailhead instead of just drop him far back to walk.  He assured me it would be fine and we could just switch the truck into 4-wheel-drive, and yadda yadda yadda.  So I took him there, and I was worried about the way back, but then it seemed to have pretty good traction on the first little uphill, so I was relieved that it would be fine after all.  But then I noticed a truck heading toward me and I was like, oh no, so I put my foot onto the brake, and NOTHING happened.  Absolutely nothing.  I started pumping, and still ABSOLUTELY nothing.  I panicked so hard.  I started yell-praying and told Navy to pray and she wasn't even buckled, and I had zero control over the acceleration/deceleration, so I just steered and hoped and prayed (very loudly) that I would stay on the road and not roll over off the hill.  Luckily the other truck had started backing up, so I wasn't in any imminent danger of crashing into it, so really, I just had to stay on the road, which was so slick but luckily... I stayed on the road and eventually got to a place that was level enough for long enough that I could stop.  Seriously one of the scariest experiences of my life.  And it was all Talmage's fault!!

So this was an app thingee we had done way back in Pittsburgh, but it came up again because I was looking something up about Brett's ancestors on familysearch, so I had to sign in as him, and when it logged me in as him, I got REALLLY confused for a minute, because the little profile picture was this random old guy and I was like what the heck?! who is this???  And then when I saw it bigger I realized it was this weird old-age app picture.  Why does Brett have it as his profile picture?  That is an excellent question.

Here is Navy holding Ethne's hair.  Or a fox tail.  Ethne wouldn't hold it up, I don't know why--she was weird about it.  But we sent it to Locks of Love.

A picture from Jethro.