Quarantining in the Mountains!!!

Mommy: "We're just going to take a little break at the mountains."

Me: "Why?"

This is what Mommy said, or at least, what I heard: 

"'Cuz Mommy is bored of EVERYTHING right now! And Avery misses GRANDMA and you probably do to! AND MOMMY NEEDS SOME QUIET! And it's Grandma's BIRTHDAY AND WE HAVEN'T SEEN THEM IN FOREVER AND I'M GOING TO LOOSE MY MIND!!"

So..... Mommy, Grandma, Avery and me took a girls trip up into the mountains.

Turns out Mommy wasn't the only person about to loose her mind...

Avery was super difficult to sit next to for four hours in a hot, cramped car.

Especially after she memorized the lyrics to Hamilton...

 

Grandma was also a little crazy when it was Cake Time (for her birthday).

 

 

 And Fire Pit Time.  This is a picture of her fire. 

 

 

This is me before we started hiking (at the trailhead).

 

 

 

 This is me five minutes into our hike...

 

"HEY, DADDY! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T PUT THIS PICTURE IN!!"

Daddy's edit: "HEY, DADDY! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T PUT THIS PICTURE IN!!"

'This is Emery after Mommy refused to carry her.'

Emery's response/edit: "DADDDDDDY!!! YOU WEREN'T THERE SO YOU WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND MOMMY DIDN'T 'REFUSE' TO CARRY ME SHE JUST MISSED OUT ON THE OPPORTUNITY AND FYI  WE WERE TAKING A POUTY-FACE PICTURE (SEE MOMMY'S LIPS?) BECAUSE MOMMY ONLY WANTED GOOD, CALM PICTURES OF OUR 'CALMING' TRIP BUT I WASN'T CALM AND WAS ACTUALLY DOING A REAL POUTY-FACE AND MOMMY WAS JUST TRYING TO TAKE GOOD PICTURES *annoyed exhale*!"

 

 

 

*breathes in*

*breathes out*

(to herself) "Deep breaths, Emery, deep breaths"

Hey look! This is a picture of when we found water!

And another picture where Mommy made Avery posed with the sun in her eyes

(Lucky Ducky Mommy had sunglasses).

 

Welp ... this was a calming trip, 

I guess quarantine has really gotten underneath everybody's skin!
 

 Oh yeah, and this is what Daddy was doing while we were away ...

caring for our old Big Dog, Scout-No.

NO MORE SCHOOL OR ANYTHING!?!?!?!?!

What in the world!!!!! School and all fun stuff in life is cancelled due to COVID, so no more ...

... lunch runs with Daddy ...

... or showing off on the playground ...

... or like really showing off on the playground ...

... or super fun gym time!!!

NOOOOOO!!!!!

Festival of Books Awards (sort of) ...

Look at what we have here ... Emery's art piece made it onto a poster for the Tucson Festival of Books!!! Too bad COVID scaled back the events, but she still got some great recognition and a gift certificate!!!

Emery super excited about her art piece on an official poster!!!

 

 

 And even in the official art Book!!!! 

Great job, Emery!!!

Band and Dancing Performances!!!

 

 Chinese Festival Time!!!! 

Can you see me under the Dragon's butt????

Here I am dancing in the Go'Go' ...

... I love getting the flag super high ...

  ... so much fun!!!

And here is Avery getting ready to play "Furiouso" at her 

Winter/Spring band concert

Rodeo Days!!!

 

"I love Rodeo Days at school!!!

"Dancing all around with my BFF Josie"

"Spinning and spinning all around, so wild-like!!!"

Check me out in these cool 3 videos below!!!!

Now it's professional Rodeo Days with our BFF Hannah

"Whoo-hoo, the college marching band!!!"

"Hey, even celebrities like Smokey The Bear are here!!!"

"And even tons and tons of ... "

... horses!!!"

"I love the colorful dancers!!!!"

Art Show!!!

 Time again for another art show, but what "works of art" to submit?!!??

 Emery is going with "Dragon on the Hill" and "Self Portrait" ... 

guess which is which???

 

 Avery just can't decide which two of her recent works to submit ...

ok it will be "Pax" and "Librium" ... guess which is named which???

This is the one called "Pax" ... 

note that it's one art piece overlay onto another art piece, 

so it's an art "two-for"!!!

National Arts Program 

 ART SHOW DAY!!!

Emery and her big sister/"art teacher" Avery!!!

Emery and her ""Dragon on the Hill" piece at the art show!!!

Avery and her "Pax" piece, with an Honorable Mention!!!!

 

Avery's "Pax" piece was liked so much that this lady wanted to buy it ...

Whoo hoo, Avery's piece will be hanging on someone wall!!!! 

 Avery and her "Librium" piece, with another Honorable Mention!!!!

 

What a great time at the National Arts Program art show!!!

Science Fair!!!

"What to do for the science fair?!?!?!?" says Emery...

Maybe somethings with robots?!?!?

Or maybe something about the science of friendships?!!??

Or maybe something neat about plants, 

like what kind of liquid makes them grow the best?!?!? 

YEAH!!!

Whoo hoo, got it all done with lots of great data too!!!

Ta-da!!! Showtime!!!

 

Next year's experiment is "How NOT to get lice!!!!" Don't ask us why we know this, we just painfully do!!!

Lice on "someone's head" ... ewww!!!

Let's go see a Circus!!!

 

At the famous Zoppe European Family Circus with our BFFs!!!

Avery watching the circus with Chiara ...

... and fashionista Emery hanging with Sora!!!

Super duper crazy feats on the trapezes!!!

And fantastic tricks on fancy horses too!!!

Even shooting arrows with feet?!?!?!? 

Such as great fun time!!!