30th Wedding Anniversay

We were glad to be able to celebrate our anniversary by being able to go out and spending some time together! 30 years is a big deal! But we are in the middle of a pandemic so we did what we could amidst the circumstances. We had been on "red" for about 6 weeks. On May 1st we went to "orange". This meant that we could gather with 20 people or less and restaurants opened up to inside dining with limited seating. So we took advantage of it and went out to celebrate us :)

We went to dinner at Olive Garden. It was kind of strange because available tables were spread out, all the servers wore masks, and the menu was limited. So we got to have a quiet but delicious dinner together!

We stayed at the Anniversary Inn in Salt Lake. This is the "Enchanted Forrest" room. Since we couldn't go away anywhere this was a fun place to getaway for a night.

I made a slideshow of our last 30 years together and these are some of the awesome quotes that I liked. I edited this slideshow multiple times and I finally got it down to a good length and to my liking. You can find the link at the bottom of this post.

We also went on a short hike together. 

And here is the long-awaited slideshow. I'm so grateful for our marriage! We make a good team! We have been through many things together. Some good, some bad, some sad, some great, some crazy, some emotional, etc. But overall, I wouldn't change anything! Sure we have made mistakes but we overcome day by day and everything that we have done has given us experience! I wouldn't want to do this life, with all it has to offer without Casey! We were meant to be TOGETHER FOREVER! And no matter how hard things get, we will continue trying to do our best! 

Casey & Lisette 30+ Years Together

April

Quarantine April 

I am grateful for this month because we got a chance to evaluate what we normally do and we were kind of forced to do some of the basics that are more important!

These are some of the things that we have done this month that we probably wouldn't have done if we were busy with everything else:

Homemade waffle cones! So good!

Kahoot games and Zoom calls with extended family

Firepit dinners and smores

Walks to see the Cherry blossoms at the State Capitol

Hike on the City Creek Trail

Snack time on our hikes

Easter with just the seven of us and Buster

Jeopardy games as a family

Made fabric masks to donate

More desserts

More hikes

Learned random but interesting facts 

Found different ways to give greetings

Focusing on love and family

Studied "Come Follow Me" more

We made medical masks for Project Protect.  IHC, Uof U Health, Latter-day Saint Charities, and volunteers made masks for the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal is to make 5 million masks over 5 weeks.

More hikes

We found Pikachu

My mom and Zildy share birthdays but this time we weren't going to be able to get together, so we decided to stop by and give them a gift but then Jonas invited us to have a social distancing picnic. We had so much fun together since we hadn't really seen each other in six weeks!

Sidney finished her degree online! These are pictures that Kailee took while filming Sidney's final senior project!

Sidney got a bachelor's degree in dance from UVU.

Carina got a bachelor's degree in communications from UVU.

On the day the graduation was supposed to be, they opened up dining at some restaurants. So we went to celebrate at Chili's! 

Congratulations to both Sidney and Carina for completing their bachelors degrees! They will hopefully be able to walk in August.