Saturday, April 18, 2020

Easter 2020 and more Corona Time...

Life is still fairly shut down for us here in Brownwood.  But we have celebrated Easter, had some good family time, and are trying to maintain positive through all of this!!  Here's a look at some of the positivity!


Caedmon is getting a ton of driving time in!
Our family was GIVEN a treadmill and a TotalGym, so they turned our upstairs into a family workout room!
Sleepover for the girl cousins at Uncle Cloud & Aunt Rita's house!

Caedmon spent Good Friday fishing with his good buddies Weston and Malachi!

That's a heck of a catfish!



Cambree has had the time to make a "pink scrappy quilt" that she wants to donate!
Our Saturday afternoon 42 partners!
For Easter, our church had a drive-in service!  It was a neat experience and so good to finally have faces!
Randal, Landon, and Caedmon helped with the sound!
My kids dressed up for Easter, even though we didn't have a traditional service!

My handsome Cason!
My other handsome boys!


Mom & Dad came over for Easter lunch!
Carrot cake!
Then, on Easter evening, we had a cookout with Blu's brothers/families!
And the traditional cousins Easter egg hunt of course!

We also celebrated Brenden's 12th and Keysi's 13th birthdays!

And had a lot of fun with confetti eggs!




They look so old here!





Poor Shade was on duty and missed out!
I love this pic of us! (and my $2 pineapple shirt from Burke's!)
Cloud's family came from Costa Rica/Mexico and are living in Brownwood until this Corona ordeal passes!
My two gorgeous sisters-in-law!
Anyone else been doing a lot of cooking lately????!!!
A lunch break from online school!
Blu has been staying busy working on the Bangs house!
Caedmon looking very teenage-boyish.
We have been able to make a few deliveries for schools, so that's been helpful for our business!  Blu was mad after stepping in dog poop at a Dallas school. ;)
Downtown Dallas was pretty empty - we enjoyed lunch with a view!
It's April 18th today...but still cool enough for a fire inside for me!

Saturday, April 4, 2020

More from the Corona Quarantine...

Well there's NOT A LOT happening over here!  Here are a few pics showing what we've been up to the last few weeks, which is NOT A LOT.  *sigh*

These two have still been working on housebuilding!

I got a new "cruiser" bike!  I've ridden like crazy - 2 mile bike rides with Mom or the kids, and daily trips down the hill to check our mail!


A little baseball practice at home!

Every Monday - Thursday, we head up to the church gym for an hour and do a family basketball practice!

A Sunday afternoon at Coggin Park - 6 feet apart!
The 3 Tidwell boys...together again...from a distance!

We spent a Saturday evening with the Prescotts a couple of weeks ago and got some of Kesi's famous brisket!
Cambree and Kenli

Caedmon and Coach P playing Mario Kart!

Cason and Kharis

Sunday morning services now look like this on Zoom!

And our school days look like this...they aren't doing too bad with their Google Classroom assignments!  Cambree does almost all of her work on Mondays for the whole week, while the boys keep up day to day!


I found Cambree randomly in a box in the pantry...

A Wednesday night Zoom session!


Mostly I'm going crazy during the quarantine.  My house is deep cleaned/organized, and there's just not a ton to do, and I love to be busy.  But I've enjoyed MANY cups of hot peach tea every day! 

Spring sunsets and backyard baseball!


And trampoline (P.E.) time!

We had Staci over for supper last Saturday night!


And then we had fun playing with some new Mary Kay makeup!  (My sis can hook you up if you need some!!)



More school.  Exciting stuff.

We always wait for Blu to get home to do Science!

He's gotten TONS done on the Bangs house with help from Caedmon, Paw, Dad, and Cloud and Shade!

Another Zoom Wednesday night service with the Tidwell Kids as the live audience!

Sadly, Ocker Brethren Church, where my dad pastored for 15 years, caught on fire the other night!!  Thankfully the building was saved!

Caedmon and Cason made supper for us on Friday night!  They learned how to make tacos!

Cambree has returned to her love of knitting!