July 2021

So we are completing the month of July. Summer vacation is now over and the kids have returned back to school, well, Jacob started his first year of school finally. We celebrated the lamest 4th of July ever, since we are usually with family. We just parked at a local stake center and watched the fire works go off at Scnepf farms. Lets be honest, the kids could actually care less about fireworks and we had just come home from a fun trip to San Diego. So we're fine with it. The kids started school. Mixed feelings of happiness, sadness and fear this year. Lily we all know is soooo much happier finally being in school after a whole year and a half of virtual school. She loves her new class, she's going to be learning how to play the violin and has already made the WOW board twice. She's doing awesome. First day of school, we walked the kids to the gate to join them for flag ceremony. Lily says 'alright, I know where to go, I'll see you guys later.' lol, she doesn't need us. Jacob started Kindergarten, and he needs it so bad. Finally going to school after we held him one more year due to covid uncertanty. He did a really good job the first day, did not cry or act clingy with us. We stayed for flag ceremony with him, there were a ton of kids so I'm glad we did so he wouldn't feel lost. He kept giving me a thumbs up to let me know he was okay, he gave some concerned looks to the kids who were crying probably thinking 'should I be worried'. I had to be all smiles and not let him know that I was dying inside with him starting school. Once we gave him his hug good bye, and started to walk out, then the tears were able to flow. I have peace knowing that he is where he needs to be, and I am so glad we decided to keep him till he was 6 because he could handle it alot better. However, it still hurts to not have him with me everyday. He hasn't really left my side since he was an infant. My boo boo bear has been doing so well in school so far though. He has made a new friend everyday and when I pick him up from school he is excited to tell me about his day. Lately he's been a bit more clingy when going to school, probably because his teacher is on materninty leave now and they have a sub he says is not always nice. But he will get through it. And I'm okay with the extra hugs when I drop him off. I can already tell he is learning a lot. He is identifying letters he couldn't before and doing really good with his homework each night. He is a little loud and loopy when he gets home, but I know it's due to the long days at school. Why they got to make school so dang long?! There is a new covid variant that is causing high case rates now, the Delta varriant, which concerns me with the kids being unvaxxed and returning to school. Just when we thought we were past the worst of it! This week I started having the kids wear masks again while they are in the school. But seems as for right now they are some of the only kids wearing them. Our govener refuses to make it a mandate in schools dispite the fact that kids can't get vaxxed. I hate how politicized this pandemic is. It's not about following health officials, it's about following whatever dumb political party you follow. I for one will follow whatever the health officials say we should do, I'm not putting my families health in the hands of politicians. Anyways...Fingers crossed that we continue to be safe from covid, would hate for any of my babies to have to indure that kind of illness among others. Aside from that, I got to have a couple mom/daughter, mom/son dates with the kids the week before school started. Just some one on one time before Mr. Nacho enters into our world. Took Jacob to Walmart to pick out a toy and Weiner scnetzel which he loves. So fund to talk to him and laugh at random things. He is getting older and it is so fun to get to know him and his fun personality. Love him so incredibly much! Lily and I went school shopping and frozen yogurt. She is definitly getting her own unique style in clothing and interests. She is such an amazing girl, so full of wisdom and confidence. We have some pretty in depth convo's about life and how/why things are the way they are. She is so funny and so optimistic, I wish I could be like her. Love her so dang much! Mark and I truly are blessed to have such amazing children. Can't wait to see how amazing our little Nacho will be. We also have been having monsoon rains almost everyday the past few weeks. One of the storms we had was the worst we've ever seen. You could hear the rain start, Mark had to go outside to get our garbage cans, when we opened the door the wind was hitting so crazy hard I thought mark would get blown away! We looked out the window at the storm and the windows were starting to bow inwards, it was crazy. We lost several large branches from our front tree and it almost took the trampoline, good thing nailed it to the ground last month. The neighborhood had lots of large trees down causing damage and trampolines randomly disperard around the neighborhood. They say it may have been a tornado, but all I know is it was crazy. Monsoons are so fun, but also unpredictable. They cause flash floods, which recently took the life of a four year old girl whose family got stuck in their car during a flash flood. Somehow, the little girl was lost in the water. So so sad. I'm sure we will have more monsoons this season, which is awesome because the land needed all the rain. We got a new washer/dryer and refridgerator. While we were cleaning behind the dryer we found a scorpion for the first time ever in our house after 4 years of living here! My world was rocked, and now I'm shaking and checking everything in the house. Yuck! It climbed onto the wall and Mark and I were talking about how to kill it for like 5 min when it fell to the ground making it easier for Mark to smash it with its shoe. I can imagine the poor scorpion thinking 'are these people going to kill me or what?!' And then gave up and fell to make it easier for us. lol. Glad to have new appliances, waiting till the fall to get the new floors and turf in the backyard. I was orgnaizing our room and putting away the things for Nacho. I am getting so anxious for this boy to come! So done with being pregnant, but that's for another post.