Back to the 80s

Before the fear of the Coronavirus truly hit, we had a fantastic party with some of our great friends!!  I've always wanted to do an 80s party, so this year I finally did it! 

We had a costume contest, a guess who game (everyone brought a picture of themselves from the 1980s), Name That Tune, and 80s Outburst.     

This picture doesn't show Mike's pinch-rolled jeans and my neon legwarmers:)  But I managed to crimp my hair, find pink frost lipstick and do my eyeshadow half pink half blue!  So much fun dressing up for this party!!!

The best male costume went to Scott (the one with the pink hat) 

The best female costume winner was Jessica (beside me with the lips shirt), but everyone had such great costumes!  Traci in front with the 80s prom dress was fantastic--haha.

I was so proud of my cupcakes...and the toppers I made.

I really struggled with party favor ideas, then Mike mentioned that Pepsi was super popular in the 80s and I went with it.  I found these cute mini six-pack cans and bought some Bublicious gum to go with it.  And look at those cute neon bows from the dollar store!

I definitely need to do a 90s party next year!!

Coronavirus 2020

Remember when I said we were hanging on by a thread in 2020...well, the thread broke and we are freefalling.  Just when I thought things couldn't get worse, they did...a lot worse.  The world has been infected with Coronoaviris (Covid-19).  It started in China, then Italy and now it is all over the world.  And guess where the American epicenter is?  You guessed it--Washington.  School is canceled, everyone who can is working from home (including Mike), stores are sold out of hand sanitizer (and toilet paper), the stock market has crashed (big-time), college kids are coming home, temples are closed, church services are canceled, all concerts are canceled, the NBA season is over, March Madness is done--basically everyone is in a huge panic.  I just feel like a dark cloud resides over my head.  I keep telling myself, the silver lining in the whole thing is more family time.  But it is hard to enjoy it when this virus is looming over us.  We had a week of online school, but that too has come to a screeching halt because of equality concerns.  So now, basically everything is done...with no end date in sight!  Luckily the weather is starting to warm up so I can work in my garden and the kids can play outside.  I sure hope this doesn't last as long as they are predicting...

Here are the kids doing their online school...while it lasted

Outdoor PE (badminton, trampoline & scooters)

  

Callie was finally allowed outside:)

  

And even a little chalk art

Now if I can just focus on the positive, I think we can get through this...well, that and if we don't get taken out by this deadly virus--wahhhh.