May in Quarantine

Well, time keeps ticking along and so does the quarantine!!  The soccer season for Lyla officially never happened this spring, but her team had weekly Zoom calls to keep connected.  One particular call took a fun twist with a “Nailed It” challenge.  The team manager arranged for two guest judges - one was a team member of the Washington Spirit and the other was the Cupcake Farmer (a local cupcake baker).  The girls were told to make a batch of plain cupcakes and assemble some icing and decorations and prepare for two surprise challenges.  The first one was the eagle mascot of the Washington Spirit.  The picture below is what they were supposed to make, then they wewre given 15 minutes and had to create their best rendition. Below that you’ll see Lyla’s creation. I thought her’s should have won!  It was so cute!!  It didn’t win, but we thought he was adorable.

 

The second challenge was the Loudoun Soccer fox which proved to be much harder, requiring them to work with and color fondant.  She had never used fondant before (we just bought a box of it for the challenge), so that one didn’t turn out as well, but it was a fun evening for the girls.

  

A few days later, we went on our semi-annual bike trip to our favorite pizza place, Fireworks.  We drive the bikes to the W&OD trail a few miles from our house, then we bike the trail to pizza and back.  Because of COVID, curbside pick-up only was available, but we knew that ahead of time and the pizza was waiting for us when we got there.  We took it to a park right down the street to eat it, and I think it tasted even better that night than when we eat it in the restaurant.  It’s always good, but it was extra extra good that night!

  

In other news, Cayenne had her first COVID related experience this month.  She was due for her routine check-up and Lyme vaccine back in March, but we kept putting it off due to COVID.  With all of this not going away as soon as we thought, we figured we’d best just get her in for her check-up social distancing style.  Her vet’s rules were for me to wait in the car, call them when I got there, and then they’d send someone out to the car to bring her into the vet and bring her back out to the car when they were finished.  She’s a bit of a baby (obviously), so the girls were so concerned about how she’d react having to go into the vet without mama.  She didn’t even want to get out of the car when the vet tech came to get her - then the whole walk into the vet’s office, she kept looking back at me like “what are you letting them do to me??”  She survived though, and when she was fnished and was walking out of the vet’s office, she practically dragged the vet tech back to the car to get back in!  Haa haa!! Evidently, it’s rough to go it alone at the vet!