The Gabrielsen Seven

The Gabrielsen Seven

Saturday, August 29, 2020

First week of online school

 Baby Grace, for Justin's family zoom/phone game. She took one for the team.
 On our date furniture shopping today.
 Charlie's drawing of a Frankenstein, witch, and werewolf.
 Toby.
 My face.
 Grouchy guy.
 We had to harvest a couple pumpkins because the vines were drying up.
 Chocolate chip bran muffins.

 First day of online school.

Danny-K, Grace-8th, Charlie-2nd, Alice-4th.













 Toby - grade 19 months.
 Zoom call.


 Getting creative with our overabundance of cucumbers.
 "Exercising my faith," she says.
 Quail by our peach tree. It was with another adult and like 5 babies.
 Just doing his zoom call;)
 Toby is really into this fuzzy blanket right now. He likes to have us lay it on the floor, then he "swims" in it.
 Don't know what that face is, but Charlie claims any big box that gets delivered to our house. He loves cutting out houses for himself, and taking up a lot of space in our living areas...
 Danny's rock collection. He keeps it just outside the back garage door, which can sometimes cause issues. But whenever I can't find him around the house, I know where he is.
 Our first apples from our tree!
 Fire pit last night.

 All ready for a night on the trampoline.
 Decorating my door will surely make fall come, right?
 Paul on our date to RC Willey. I was surprised it didn't glide. He said masculine chairs don't glide. Whatever.
 Our budding paleontologists getting filthy and digging holes to Madagascar.
Sometimes, we make weird faces.
See? I told you!

Saturday, August 22, 2020

Last week of summer break

 Grace, queen of the magformers.
 Alice's giant magformer diamond.
 Hazy sunset with the smoke from the wildfires.
 Chinese takeout at the church pavilion with my boyfriend today.
 Pretty sisters.
 Toby loves being read to.
 Charlie made himself this crown.
 Of course he made one for Sharky too.
 Smoot Park Creek.












 One day's harvest. We took a bunch of it to the Food Pantry.
 Alice's ankle appointment.
 Charlie's drawing.
 Grace peeling, seeding, and chopping the green chiles Paul roasted from our garden.
 Cute little guy.
 Lunchables are neither healthy nor filling, so the kids finished them and then refilled the containers to make a full lunch.

 The newly opened Island View Park.



 Charlie's cute drawing of him and his siblings at Pineview reservoir.
 Paul with the lunchbox peppers we grew.
 Big breakfast for dinner. I soon remembered why I never buy grape juice - both boys needed their clothes rushed to the washing machine!
 His hair was sticking straight up.
 I had to go to four different schools to check out all the kids' devices: 2 ipads, 1 laptop, and 1 touchscreen laptop. We thought ahead and had ordered Toby a toy laptop for the occasion!
 At my friend, Heidi's house. That middle girl is her daughter, Brie.
 Charlie's chalk art.
 Paul's date with Danny, looking through his rock collection from college.
 Danny was SUPER interested. He loves rocks!
 Paul on our date today.
 One of Grace's organizing projects today. She made cardboard dividers in the art drawer.
"Hey, Grace! School starts this Tuesday!"