Mike and Jenny: April 2021

Monday, April 26, 2021

Decorating for Easter

We put up our Easter decorations at the end of March, since Easter was so close to the beginning of April this year.

Juno was very curious about them

Nora and I made a new little garland of eggs and bunnies to go across the fireplace

St. Patrick's Day

Here are some pictures from our St. Patrick's Day

Nora put together the fruit rainbow

For dessert, we got some of the St. Patrick's specialty Crumbl cookie flavors - Chocolate mint, key lime, sugar with rainbow, and Lucky Charms.

We got some GF donuts for Evie, and decorated them to be nice and festive

Someone was quite curious about the desserts

On Animal Crossing, they have a special St. Patrick's drink called a shamrock soda. We tried to make it in real life using lime soda.

We also had shepherd's pie and peas & carroots

There is another thing we celebrate on St. Patrick's Day - Oliver's adoption day!

Trying to get a picture with the kids and most of the pets was pretty crazy

Little Juno Bebe

The girls decided that our new St. Patrick's tradition should be to watch the Holiday Special of The Great British Baking Show with the cast of Derry Girls. Even though it is a Christmas-time special, it features Irish people, so they figured it should count. Hehehe.

Trying out a few filters before starting the show

It is a super funny episode!

Nora, Me, and Evie celebrating in Animal Crossing

February Misc.

Here are a few more pictures from February:

For Groundhog day, we watched Groundhog Day.

Mike took a series of photos of this interaction between Juno and Max

Nora drew this cute portrait of Dorie in the style of the "Bluey" TV show

Our goal with online school:

Oliver is such a cute boy

A strange photo of Max

Max looking so cute in his chair next to Ev's desk

and then he yawned, haha

Juno still loves sitting in the window

GBBO Friday with bonus Juno

A windy walk with Dorie

One of the trees in the backyard full of birds

Nora and Ev got their orchestra shirts for this year - I thought it was a pretty awesome design

Playing Jackbox games - this particular game is called Patently Stupid, and you are given a prompt, and need to come up with an invention for it. You pitch your idea to the group, and then everyone votes for their favorite ones. It is pretty funny.

We watched the new series, "Long Way Up" with Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman. This time they rode from the bottom tip of South America up to LA on electric motorcycles.

Poor Dorie had to get a dental cleaning, and some surgery on her gums. When we picked her up, all she wanted to do was lie in Nora's lap.

For a YW zoom activity, the girls decorated some Valentine sugar cookies

I Spy - can you spot all three cats in this picture?

Juno hanging out with Mike

Mike likes to watch some gaming streamers, and Juno is often very interested in watching too

Dorie a few days after her surgery - feeling much better!

Getting some Crumbl

This is one of my favorite pictures of Juno 💗

Nora helped Dorie make a Valentine card for Oswald

Max's resting grump face

Nora giving Dinah and Louis some of their favorite treat

For a school assignment, Nora interviewed Kate about her business, and what it is like working with animals

Juno looking a little like an alien

Max sitting on the bathroom scale...for unknown reasons

Dorie's face when we told her we needed to trim her nails - not her favorite activity 😬

Dorie sure knows how to relax

One of the best parts of February is that both my parents and Marolynn were able to get their second doses of the Covid vaccine (they got their first doses in January). Two weeks later, we were able to spend time with them again indoors.

We started going to Sunday dinners again. The first time we were getting in the car, this was Dorie's reaction. She is not used to all of us leaving.

We had been showing V our Animal Crossing islands on FaceTime, and she thought they were really fun and cool, so she made her own Animal Crossing island out of legos. It was very detailed!