Monday, April 20, 2020

Another Lord's day up at the camper

We had another lovely Lord's day up at the camper. (Excuse the blurriness)


Emma made CREAM PUFFS!

(And they were delicious if I might add.) Sorry for the face i'm making in the picture below, I wasn't feeling too well that morning.

I'm not sure if I mentioned that Josiah got a splinter a few weeks ago but apparently the piece of wood was still in his foot and his body made so much pus it stuck out ever so slightly and we finally got it out that afternoon. Poor guy had THAT in his foot for if i'm remembering correctly 18 days!😅

That afternoon we also played Catan and Scotland Yard later but the game of Catan was so funny. The teams were Seth and Willa, Mommy and Josiah, and Daddy and me. At the beginning Seth and Willa kept stealing from us and they would always get the same sheep. Daddy and I didn't want the robber where they had put it so I rolled a seven and we stole back the EXACT SAME SHEEP. I kept rolling sevens and at first it was great but then it became irritable. This same thing happened a ridiculous amount of times and the joke was that joining the feud between our clans you had to do the sacred ritual of stealing the sacred sheep. The whole game I only rolled like five non-sevens. It got really weird after a while.😂 Seth and Willa won if you can't tell from the picture below. They got both the longest road card and the largest army card by the end. I was okay not winning (although it would have been nice to)



When we finished Catan we joined in the Zoom baptism of Valerie Joy Ryan. We were sadly informed this afternoon that she has gone to be with the Lord. Her baptism was beautiful though.

Shakespeare reading

Emma has been doing Shakespeare reading with her college friends for a few nights and each person gets to "play" a person or two. Last Friday Willa and Seth decided to join in on the fun.


Thursday, April 16, 2020

Not sure what I'm doing

I don't know when or how often Olivia and Emma used to post but i'm going to do once a month most likely unless it was a very eventful time.



This past Lord's day was Resurrection Sunday so the whole family went up to daddy's camper after Emma finished preparing a beautiful Lord's day breakfast. Most of us weren't feeling too hot that day but we all had a lot of fun. Willa and I took a walk while Mommy, Daddy, Seth and Josiah played a game called "Smash Up" where you're trying to take over the world as monsters before someone else does. Emma was praying for little Valerie Ryan while we took our walk and they played their game.



Right before lunch everyone but me and Jo played "Scotland Yard" with Willa as Mr. X and while they did that Josiah and I played a quick game of Catan. Then while Mommy was down at the house getting lunch they played another game and this time I joined in as Mr. X. I didn't get very far though. Willa was very good as Mr. X in the previous game. There were heavy storms that Lord's Day and we started to get worried and Josiah got a little scared, so we prayed about it and less then ten minutes later it was clear outside. (What an answer to prayer)



On Good Friday us Kids tuned into the Cornerstone Presbyterian service while Mommy was up at the camper with Daddy.

 Seth's Majestic pose👆

Amanda's majestic pose👆





After the Good Friday service we made chocolate popcorn and made a bonfire. (Willa had fun taking pictures with her high resolution camera 😉) Amanda joined us for a little bit. And recent news: she is living with the Schultz's as of a few days ago.


After Amanda left the bonfire we played a hysterical game of Thumper.


The week before we FaceTimed with Kira, Jedin, and Gabrielle and played Clue. But there was a twist. Everyone dressed up as their character. So Willa was Miss Scarlet, Seth was Colonel Mustard, Emma was Mrs. White, Gabrielle was Miss Peacock, Jedin was Mr. Green, Kira was Professor Plum, and since there weren't any more roles left for me I dressed up as the hostess at the beginning who gets murdered. It was a lot of fun to watch them play. Kira won by one turn. Willa was ready to make an accusation but Kira's turn was before hers so she beat Willa to it. (Seth didn't have any mustard stuff so if you notice, he's got a giant mustache on)







A tree fell down at the bottom of the driveway so Seth took the truck after only one driving lesson on how to back up and cleared the way magnificently, if I might add.