Magical Mother’s Day Weekend

During this crazy time of Covid 19 flights have been very cheap.  Everyone is scared to fly so that reflects in the flight prices.

Rob called Dale and told him they had 50.00 flights to Arizona and he should come and bring the boys.  Rob has a cabin up in the Arizona woods that we have always wanted to go to.  But never been able to because paying 200.00 per person to go to Arizona for our whole family was something we just had not done.  We have always felt like if we are going to spend that kind of money we need to be going to see our kids.  Dale decided he wanted to go!  Rob called me and said “Tricia the prices are so great you should come too.”  Of course I’m nervous about that.  But ultimately we decided to go and I’m so glad we did!  

We arrived early morning on Thursday and we changed clothes and the boys jumped in the pool.  This kid was so excited to see his Aunt Tricia!

I was very excited to love on this sweet girl!

Rob’s cabin is just magical!  Look at the views!















First time for me on a 4 wheeler! 























You will have to ask Madi about this one....


One of my favorite games I used to play with my Dad.  It’s so fun that Rob has it!   We played with Lauren and Lyla.  Rob and I were pretty much killed.


Rob made 4 batches of this, oh my it was so good!


We all loved on this kid.




Dale and I did our best to eat healthy.


These were the views on our way home back to Rob’s house from the cabin.




We got to have dinner with Aubrey and Jackson. That was so fun and their baby Logan is adorable and gives me so many Sam vibes.


We ended the trip with lots of swimming.   Cabin, cousins, and swimming.  Does get much better than that! 

Hoping we get to come back soon!

This is how we had to go home.  

Masks now required.

Corona Adventures

We we got word during spring break that school would be closed two weeks.  Mickayla and Steven at the time were up to their necks in projects and also still need to pack their home and move.  All of this while Steven worked, Mickayla pregnant, and wrangling a 1 year old.   We realized flights were super cheap.   We made the decision after talking to Steven and making sure his boss was ok with it that the kids and I would fly out and help them.

Little did I know that the world would get super crazy over the 3 days before we would leave.  They told everyone not to leave their homes unless it’s for groceries, the stock market tanked, and our restaurant was told to close for take out only.  

I felt very nervous to go.  We even cancelled our flights the morning we were supposed to go. I called mickayla and told her we were not coming.  She broke down and cried.   After cancelling I sat in the living room and just felt awful.  I knew that was the wrong decision.  Dale tried to call and rebook our tickets with our credits.  The site wouldn’t work and we needed to leave in 20 minutes.  The kids were not up yet and I had wet hair.  Dale said get the kids up and in the car and we will try to call and book on the way to the airport.  Calling had a 30 minute wait.  So that’s what we did!  It felt crazy and we didn’t have a booked flight until a few minutes before arriving to the airport.  

The airport had people wearing masks and gloves and people not. We were shocked to see so many elderly people on our flight.  

We arrived and found out Steven’s boss was upset we did come even though we asked permission and that felt awful.  That eventually got worked out but it was a lot of drama for the first part of our trip.  I felt horrible putting Steven in that position.  

I’m so glad we went.  They needed us and we all worked hard and served for a week.  

We arrived in Idaho on Tuesday.  We could not go see my mom after we flew to SL because of the virus.  She is in quarantine.  So we shuttled to our rental and drove to Idaho.  The NEXT day Utah has a huge earthquake!  Yes life feels super crazy.  My mom felt it the most.  Now 4 weeks later she is still feeling them.  Then last week Idaho had another even bigger earthquake. 

This is my moms makeshift shelter if another one hits.

 It truly feels like the last days and Jesus is coming.  General Conference is tomorrow and six months ago it was announced that it would be a very special conference.  So now we are all thinking Jesus is the guest speaker. 

Haylee, Jesse, and Madi all can on Sunday to spend the day with us.  We had church together and Dale FaceTime with us so we all had church together.  I had not had a lot of peace with what was happening in the world and church is exactly what we needed.  We even had the sacrament.  It was a beautiful day. 

The World Changed

Just so I NEVER forget..... April 2, 2020

Yesterday we paid $1.41 for gas at Tom Thumb...

School is cancelled until May 4th & we will see if we go back. We haven't been to school for 4 weeks now. We are teaching virtually on-line. 

Self-distancing measures on the rise. We have been been sheltering in place "home" since March 23rd. It's not set to end until April 30th. 

Our business is working at 50 percent.  Hoping the stimulus package will help.  Our business was already fragile and this feels scary but we are having hope and faith that God is in charge.  

Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (6ft) from each other. Only one family member in for shopping to reduce risk. Hours are limited and open early for those 60+. 

Limited number of people inside stores. Therefore, people line up outside the store doors & line wraps around building. 

Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.

Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.

Entire sports seasons cancelled including professional sports and Olympics postponed until 2021. 

Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled.

Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled. Funerals immediate family only and grave site...should be less than 10 so not everyone can attend. 

No masses or services ...churches are closed. 

No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now 10 or less. 

Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home.

Children's outdoor play parks are closed.

We are to distance from each other.

Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.

Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.

Panic buying sets in (people hoarding items) and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towels, no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.

Shelves are bare.

Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.

Government closes the border to all non-essential travel. Texas Governor, Greg Abbott, closes border to Louisiana. Mexico closes border to US. 

Fines are established for breaking the rules.

Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.

Press conferences daily from President Trump with daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.

Government incentives to stay home and passed the Corona Stimulus package. Unemployment rate high.

Barely anyone on the roads, mostly semi trucks. 

People wearing masks and gloves everywhere. 

Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.

Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.

This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11, 2020.

Spring Break!

I came home and Rob and Steph had arrived at our home the day before.

Our families will be spending Spring Break together!  

We headed to San Antonio the next day!




We are super excited to go to Fiesta Texas!

San Antonio River Walk

San Antonio was magical!  Fiesta was an empty park due to the Corona! 


This boy needed a haircut before I left for Idaho. When I got home he looked like a mountain man! 




Tobi got lots of love! 


This boy has my heart!  He put our picture on his screen saver.  He says he loves me 80 percent!  I’ll take it!