Megan and Ammon were able to be sealed this week! The church announced on the day they got married that some temples would open on Monday for live sealings. They were able to get in on Tuesday morning! It was interesting, because Megan and Ammon were thinking that they'd like to wait to be sealed when they could invite lots of friends and family (right now, only six guests are allowed), but they prayed and both felt that they shouldn't wait. The feeling in the sealing room was peaceful and holy. Savannah looked around at all the empty chairs and thought it was too bad they were all empty, but then she thought, "I bet they're not empty at all." Which feels so right, how could it not be true? Ammon's parents came, Kevin and I, Mariah and Savannah.

We all had to wear masks. We took this pic for the history books.

Afterwards, we met with the rest of the fam at a park and had a picnic and talked and had fun. Megan and Ammon had just finished their honeymoon which they enjoyed at a cabin near Sundance that Kevin's partner's dad let them use. It had a kitchen and a TV -- and a hot tub! They also did some hiking. So . . . those two have had it all! All's left is the big reception. We will come back to that idea later. Maybe one year anniversary? Ha ha!

This was the last week of schoolwork for my high schoolers! Yay! They finished work in all their classes and took their chemistry finals and their math finals and who knows what else. Last month we signed them up for May's driver's ed so they started that this week and it has been an unwelcome addition of even more work! (Sorry, guys). Only two more weeks of that and they won't have regular classes to worry about going forward so things will be better.

I think Beth and Ben are done with schoolwork, too. I think next week they will just be given fun stuff. At least that's what Beth's teacher said, and I'm hoping it will be the same for Ben. Beth has done well with online work, but Ben has really struggled. He made it through another week, though! Yay! Yay for me too!

Mornings at our house during quarantine.

We did some fun stuff as a family this week. During spring break, I bought some flag belts for flag football (for Ben, really) and we had never gotten around to playing. On Thursday night, Sarah, McKay, Ammon, and Megan all met us at a local park and we had so much fun playing football! -- once we got all the rules figured out. Ha ha! Then we had some doughnuts, Savannah, Beth, and Ben went home to get warm, and Kevin and I watched the rest challenge the local teenagers to a game of Ultimate Frisbee. We have a lot of really good ultimate frisbee players in the fam! It was a really fun night.

Saturday saw us in the park again. Ostensibly to celebrate the end of the school year, but also to celebrate Jim's birthday. We had fried chicken and jello and macaroni salad. This time the game of choice was spikeball but there was also tree climbing and swinging and a little tag. We love our trips up the canyon with Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik!