Sunday, April 12, 2020

Happy Spring Break, Easter, and Nice Weather!

Happy Easter, Spring Break (wait, that was cancelled for NY students - mostly to allow continuation of the food service and daily connections with students and families :), and nicer weather!  All is well with A^4 and we hope the same for our family and friends!!!  We had lots of laughs this week even if the kids (and teachers) had class this week and we were not at Disney as planned.  We are all safe at home and getting outside whenever we can.

Sunday evening sunset picture that did not make last weeks blog post :)


Shadow taking it easy on Monday.


The kids completing a PE assignment


Ah, FREEDOM!










The gardens are now connected!


Circus time with Adam




Gorgeous moon on Tuesday morning


Addie in her blanket fort (she needed to build something for a school assignment)




Bike ride in the orchard - Ayson left us in the dust!


Ayson is the blob on the road far off in the background.


Our daffies are blooming!


Amy's conference call companion


Addie making black bean brownies (for a school assignment)


Yum!  Addie insisted on having the first BIG piece...and the last piece :)


Completing another PE assignment: burpees.




A Thank You card to Auntie Fran for a belated Christmas gift :)








Trying out a new wood source for the fall - yes, it is April and this wood will be burned in late September




Ayson helping bring in a load of wood to the house


Addie requested a scavenger hunt so Amy made one up of items that they needed to collect in order to have a snack in a blanket fort while reading a book on the trampoline...hahaha.


They also had to pick clover and a few pieces of grass (had to include the front yard into the hunt somehow)




Fort time!  The kids were out in their forts laughing (and bouncing) for a good 30 minutes - yay!  Amy's goal is for the kids to remember this time that we must stay home with laughter and fun and for the kids to not be scared or anxious.


Best Buds


A sunset picture from Long Island from a friend of Amy and Adam's :)


Ayson playing Minecraft with his friend, Graham on Saturday morning.


Time for a walk in the orchard!



Hahahaha!  Adam having kids climb all over him is payback for when Adam used to pick on (read annoy) Amy while on hikes BK (before kids).


Chatting with Cousin Dane


Shadow, WHAT are you doing?!?!


Sunday morning hike!
A fort at Clarks Reservation State Park


Moss on a very very old tree trunk


Ayson wanted his picture taken with the skeleton hand tree trunk




A great spot to read a book :)


Or take a nap....


or slide down a moss covered hill!


Adam estimated 200 hundred steps to the top!


Happy Easter!
Easter egg hunt instructions


And they are off!


Can you find the last egg?!?


Sorting the loot!


Coloring eggs - they requested to color eggs on Sunday (and not on Saturday).


Adam has been wanting to make bread - he found flour in Tully at Kinny Drugs 2 weeks ago BUT he had not been able to find yeast! Hahahaha, Adam rediscovered yeast in our fridge from 2014 and it was still active :) The bread was awesome!


The seeds that we started indoors that are near the wood stove
sunflowers


Tomatoes