Another week and....the last of QUARANTINE!!! Yes, we finally got the order from Inslee that the "Stay Home, Stay Healthy" order will end May 31st. Which means June 1st....absolutely nothing will change for Yakima. Head slap.
Yeah, so we have like 2 billion cases per 100,000 or something like that so we don't get to move ahead to Phase 2 with the state. When will we? I dunno. August. December. 2024. It's anyone's guess. But we are happy the order is no longer in place and that other counties can now begin to open up. Progress, right?
Other world news: there are racial charged riots exploding all over the US right now. One huge one was just a few blocks down from Mom and Dad in SLC so they got a lockdown order and today cannot leave the house for any reason. People were setting fires to cars and beating the crap out of each other with bows and arrows and skateboards. Between this and the major storm that blew into Moxee (more on that later) we are feeling a little "end of days" over here.
Back to the good stuff - the cute kids!
Monday was memorial day so we took a huge drive up to Wenatchee to hike some very neat trails. The kids did great and tried out their new wireless headphones. Big hit!
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And we may have accidentally left Char's poopy diaper in the parking lot. After I ran over it. Not wrapped in anything. Yeah, we did that. And realized it 30 minutes later and felt like total jerks. Sorry park ranger or bear, whoever finds it first!
We came home and Dana promptly took a nap in his comfy hammock and everyone else got baths!
Clark drew this funny pig for homework one day. I love kindergarten homework:)
We got very daring on the swingset one hot morning and Clark tried on one of his new Uncle Matt t-shirts.
And Clark learned how to make a Charlotte slave. Push me, small human!
When it went from 70 degrees to 95 in the span of 1 day, I decided it was time to bust out the sprinkler. We don't have a fun water toy or anything but we do have a spray attachment and that was all Clark needed to get wet and wild.
Miss Char was not so enthused but maybe she was just wondering where her clothes were:) She refused to run through the sprinkler but did dip her toe in once and of course would scream murder if Clark came near her...so he did that every 5 seconds. Brothers.
Then I broke out the water guns and it was a whole new ballgame. Charlotte shot the moon, me, some plants, me again, her own face and finally figured out she could chase Clark around and get him to scream murder. So she did just that. Sisters.
Saturday I did a butt kicker workout on Zoom with Aunt Kristen (it was her birthday!) and now I can barely walk.
We did a walk, ran some errands. Let me see...what else? Oh yes, got hit with a hurricane!!! Apparently, every other Moxee citizen got notified that 70 mph winds and a sandstorm were headed out way. But not the Gailans. Dana went out for a run while I started dinner and just as me and the kids were sitting down to eat we got whaloped by winds like I've never seen before. I ran outside to put the plants in the shed, noticed the grill had slammed into the fence and toppled over and then of course our wind sail ripped free with part of the shed attached and clipped me in the side of the head. Thankfully no blood but it was pretty scary for a second.
Dana made it home ok but said it was dicey up on the pass. We lost power from 5PM until 1AM so we spent a restless night with our flashlights, trying to coax Mr. Clark to sleep with his window open. He finally did - at 11PM. Oh child. Miss Char passed out like clockwork and didn't even wake up when we snuck in to open (and later shut) her window and blinds. Bless that girl. One of our curb lights broke off in the melee so I brought it inside and used it as an improvised torch, which was kinda fun.
Today we are cleaning up the aftermath. Dana is scrubbing the grill and we have to figure out how to put our shed back together but all in all we are feeling mighty lucky. Moxee lost a bunch of a trees but thankfully none of our members had any fall on their houses.
Whew! Can 2020 be over yet?
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