the rest of March 2021

monthly photo summary

3/14: We had our virtual "New Beginnings" meeting for Young Women three months into the new year. It's not officially called New Beginnings anymore, but we welcomed the newest girls to move up and had a wonderful lesson by President Sherry Allen.

3/14: Heidi and David flew to El Paso, TX to pick up his three boys and drive to Colorado for a snowboarding trip. Heidi and David went on a hike and she sent me this cute pic of them together.

3/16: Shalane and I met up at Waffle Luv for breakfast so that we could catch up. We hadn't seen each other in so long!

3/17: Disneyland is reopening!!! Only for California residents, but it's opening!

3/17: St. Patrick's Day!
Sophie had an all-green lunch for the special occasion and she brought chocolate coins to hand out during recess as the classroom's secret leprechaun.

3/18: It got up to 60° and I went on a 15-mile afternoon ride before the girls got out of school.

3/18: progress!

3/19: Ellie finished her Wisconsin state report.

3/19: Draper City got a new logo and they had a crew going around the neighborhood putting updated logo stickers on all the street signs.

3/19: Ruby attended an aerial cube workshop and they sent a picture link afterward. Looks painful!

3/20–21: Bryce Canyon Trip

3/23: Another covid test for Ellie to attend Saturday swim at Cottonwood HS.

3/24: Jeff and I went to Springville Museum of Art to see the In Sight, Out of Mind exhibition, a reflection on our relationship with the natural world. It might be my favorite exhibit ever because nature is my favorite subject.
1 - Mitchell Butte (2019), David Meikle
2 - Color of the Monsoon Rains (2020), Gilmore Scott
3 - The Art of Subtlety (2020), Havoc Hendricks
4 - Desert Mountain Overlook (2020), Cody Chamberlain
5 - Morning Light, Mt. Timpanogos (2019), David Meikle
6 - French Country Scene (1899), Edwin Evans

Pitch Field Three (2020), Stephanie Leitch
"Pitch Field Three preserves multiple processes, including the artist's creation of her own tar-like substance and a repetitive pattern of fishing lines that capture drips from the hanging reservoir. The falling fluid stimulates pitch, or asphalt, and is extremely viscous, or a thick consistency between solid and liquid. This viscosity is a chance to explore how the liquid is both penetrable and impassable. The artist said, "The viewer must circumambulate the boundaries of the work and access its interior solely through desire."

3/26: Ellie's swim friend Sarah broke her elbow and had to have surgery. Ellie and Berkeley went to Sarah's house to bring get-well gifts and lift her spirits. Sarah has osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), commonly known as "brittle bone disease," so her break was more severe than a normal break.

3/27: We had an unusual new bird digging in our front garden. Ellie noticed it and took a picture and I looked it up. It is a Northern Flicker, which is a type of woodpecker that feeds on the ground and nests in cavities.

3/27: I sold two of our old devices (my old phone and an old iPad) to Trademore. I got $30 for this first-generation iPhone SE and $61 for an iPad Air 2.  It's not much but they aren't sitting in my cabinet anymore and they'll be refurbished or recycled.

3/29: I started the process of obtaining my Associate Educator License (AEL), which would allow me to apply to the Utah APPEL program. The APPEL program allows individuals with a bachelor's degree to obtain a teaching job while completing a teacher education program.

3/29: The church announced that the Draper Temple will move to phase 2B reopening starting April 12, making proxy baptisms available for the first time in just over a year.

3/31: Woohoo! One more step to getting back to life not ruled by covid!