Valentine’s Day

NWA is feeling the polar vortex and we’ve been snowed in all week. Aside from it being really difficult to manage homeschool, 3 virtual learners in “crisis learning”, aaron working, Zoom therapy sessions (instead of me dropping off the twins for OT and running an errand or doing car school with Sloane, I’m now needed to do therapy WITH the twins for a 45 min session each. So instead of having 45 min to squeeze in productivity, I lose that 45 min, plus I’m now tied to zoom for 90 minutes of zoom with 1/3 while the other two free range 😬..it’s tricky) plus aaron working from home so I need to keep kids quiet and we’ve had unreliable power and spotty WiFi. Figuring out all the time/responsibility balance management has been nuts, but literally everything else been awesome! 

I helped one of my mom’s life long best friends, (and my friend, too) prepare a relief society lesson about ministering angels.  I could write a whole book of stories about ministering done well. Maybe, someday, I will!  It was fun to sift through photos of when we were in total crisis mode, and feel gratitude for the love from my people all over again. So many emotions in these pics. Sooo much love, too. 

Corbin gave an excellent talk via ZOOM in sacrament meeting about building the cause of Zion. 


On Saturday, we had a break in the weather and Aaron drove Quincy to a Galentine party with some girlfriends, Cadence C and Avery D. 







I usually dip strawberries in chocolate on Valentine’s Day but decided to go for something bigger/more challenging this year. 

We’ve officially reached the “create an enormous chocolate Swiss roll cake” day of this pandemic. 

Giant Chocolate Swiss Roll (lil’ Debbi would be so proud)

Bake devils food cake in a jelly roll pan on greased parchment. 

Roll it up right out of the oven while it’s hot. 

Cream cheese, heavy cream, unsweetened cocoa, powdered sugar, vanilla filling. 

Re roll. 

Too with homemade chocolate ganache and chill. 

So. Good. 

Made a vanilla lemon berry one, too. 





My uncle Rey has been battling Covid for over 2 weeks in an Arizona hospital. He was placed on hospice on Sunday. We are all so sad (Rey was the best!) but especially my mom. We made a dance montage video to the song “just can’t get enough” by depeche mode and posted it on Instagram to cheer her up. We had so much fun making it. This song makes us really happy. I just can’t get enough of my dancing family. I saved it in my ig highlights so we could watch our dance party any time we want.