All The Food...

Oh man, the food...ALLLLL the food...

You would think since we were stuck at home, unable to go anywhere or spend money on anything non-essential, that we would have saved a lot of money during the quarantine. Welllll...let's just say we realized exactly how much food we go through with 5 people eating breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner at home every single day of the week, and it was a LOT! Pretty much every 7 to 10 days, I would do a Walmart pick up order that cost around $250. It was always very exciting to the kids when Daddy came home with a van load full of food! Hahaha! It's just a happy sight to have a fridge and pantry full of good food to eat. 

Truly though, we are very thankful that we have a beautiful, comfortable home & plenty of food to eat, without financial stress during this time when so many people are struggling. God has been so faithful to provide for us & meet all of our needs! 

One thing I did love during this time was learning to cook some new things...for instance, we now have what is referred to by Madison as our "fancy dinner"...complete with real mashed potatoes! I'm not sure that I should be proud that I just learned how to make mashed potatoes by myself, at almost 38 years old, but whatever! Ha! I also discovered a new taco/cornbread casserole that the kids love & I learned how to make French toast! 

Madison, our little baker, made muffins, cupcakes, cinnamon toast...OH yeah and we also learned to make chocolate chip cookies from scratch! They were so good! 

So I think its easy to see that we were not exactly counting calories or eating "healthy" during this time. Third trimester, ya know?! I just keep telling myself that it won't always be like this, but for now...well...let's EAT!! =0)))

There's a first time for everything, right?! My first time EVER to make mashed potatoes...what can I say?! I bake cookies...I don't cook...but maybe I'm getting a little better since I'm being forced into it! 

Brian took good care of us & went on all of our grocery runs. I tried to order online as much as possible to make it easy for him. Going shopping for groceries is not one of his favorite things to do! 

We had lots of "breakfast for dinner" nights! 

Making "Easter" cupcakes! 

Muffins by Madi

I got lots of texts from Brian like these..."which butter?" or "this kind?" =0) He did so good! 

Craziest thing...Brian waited for over 2 1/2 hours past when they said our order was ready for pick up...finally got our food...around $250 worth...and then a few days later I got an email saying the order had been cancelled and we were never charged for it. Wow! Such a pain to have to wait that long, but it ended up being a blessing to us anyway! 

Such a fun treat!

G-Ma brought us strawberry pizza one day...and it wasn't even my birthday!! YUM! 

Another of Madison's muffin creations...

She made this breakfast all on her own! 

April Misc.

Here are just some misc. pics from April. One thing we really did enjoy was not having to get up early for school/work. Since we were stuck at home week after week, and the days were long, I didn't see any reason to get up early! While we tried to keep the kids occupied and busy doing things that didn't involve electronics every minute of the day, the picture above is just reality. I wish it weren't so much that way, but I am 8 months pregnant and not at the top of my game these days. I figure there are worse things they could be doing than binge-watching Full House and My Little Pony, and creating things with Minecraft on the XBOX. 

Pretty girl! Madison doesn't care that we are staying home every day...she comes downstairs in the mornings with makeup on, wearing a dress 90% of the time. She makes me laugh! 

My van was completely on empty...like I was praying I would make it to the gas station after my dr's appt...I filled it up for only $22.75...wow! The price of gas is crazy low...good for us, but bad for the economy. 

Brian did this parking lot Wednesday night youth event at FBC Muskogee at the end of April...

How in the world she sleeps like this, I will never know! 

And then again a few nights later...there were even more...haha! Makes me claustrophobic just looking at it! I think she said there were over 200 of them...and rest assured, she knows every one of their names! 

Brian was such a trooper and did all of the grocery shopping (I mostly did online pick-up, but he had to actually go into the store a few times for big loads of groceries.)...this was right before Easter and he kept sending me pictures to ask about things for the kids' Easter baskets. =0) 

On April 16th, our connection group met in a parking lot and visited for about an hour. It was so good to see our friends again! We did this again a few weeks later! 

Brian has been riding his bike a lot lately! 

Looking at this picture, I'm just hoping she didn't actually give Buddy Bear a real haircut! 

Around 30 weeks...we're getting there! 

Can't go anywhere without a mask on these days! 

We made them clean their rooms really good one Saturday! 

Coronavirus is NOT glamorous! 

 I don't love this picture of me, but I sure love this little boy & the way he loves me!

Thanks to Jonah completing his Math Facts, we all got to go on an OnCue "field trip" for icees and snacks one day! Way to go, Jonah!! 

Day dreamin' and wishing we were eating mickey ice cream bars at WDW today instead of in our backyard! But what a fun treat that they sell at Walmart now! 

Our Little Gamer: 

**Once this baby comes and I'm feeling better and things return to some kind of normal, we are going to have to detox him off of the XBOX! 

I'm not sure when Madison wrote these instructions, but I just found them & had to take a picture! She's definitely going to need to go to culinary school if she wants to own a bakery! 

It was fun to get cards in the mail while we were stuck at home!

Jonah's picture of Mickey Mouse! Hahaha! I love it!! (And I'm a little scared of this Mickey!)

I got this letter in the mail from Aunt Barbara...