The biggest news for our COVID-19 update is that Shantel and I are both fully vaccinated! We both received our second shots. Shantel is past her two weeks for it to be fully effective, and I will be in just a few days. The CDC has indicated that fully vaccinated individuals can do most things without wearing a mask (both indoors and outdoors). Shantel got her shot in the afternoon and felt pretty good that night and the next morning, but then the next afternoon was really tired and did not feel good at all. I got my second shot in the morning and felt good until that evening and then was super tired and did not feel good that night. I thought I was better the next morning, but then around lunch I was feeling bad again and it knocked me out for a little while.
Case counts are slowly declining as more people get vaccinated. Cases on April 17 were 413 per day and now on May 17 they are down about 100 to 311 per day.
Here is a good graph to show the progress:
In all the pandemic, this is probably may favorite photo of all. We were sitting in sacrament meeting. Austin had brought gum balls with him to eat. I saw him stuffing all his gum balls into his mask and thought he was trying to eat them all at once. Then I found out he was putting the gum balls into his mask to store there, so that as soon as he wanted to eat 1, all he had to do was open his mouth a little bit and let one in to eat it. I was laughing so hard. Shantel was sitting on the opposite end of the bench, so I texted her this picture and told her what he was doing. She looked over and just lost it laughing. It is hard to argue though- it was a very clever use of the mask by Austin.
Here is Shantel after her second shot. I had to run to the store and she was watching the kids. She just cuddled up with a blanket and let the kids run around while she could not move.
Here I am getting my second shot.
After you got the shot you go to a waiting area to wait for 15 minutes to make sure you don't have an adverse reaction. The tents down there I think are probably in case they need to check you out after you get the shot.
With getting our vaccinations, we have been able to do so many more fun things, here are a couple:
For Lydia's birthday we had about 10 of her friends over to our house for the party.
Starting this Sunday we will be able to attend Sacrament meeting every week and have (shortened) second hour classes including primary. This means that last Sunday was our last church at home week including administering the sacrament. We have loved the blessings of church at home and in particular, being able to administer the sacrament. Our kids have seen so much more closely what the sacrament means and it has been a sacred experience. We are so excited to go back to weekly in person worship, but we have loved the chance to worship at home. Of course, we'll continue with Come Follow Me each week still.
Last year when everything started to happen we had a date scheduled with the Shields right before everything shut down. When we went out we definitely talked about COVID-19 and all the uncertainty, but did not truly know what was coming. They were the last couple that we went out to dinner with. We have missed them and thought the perfect way to celebrate getting fully vaccinated was to go out to dinner with them. It was fantastic. We went to Dirty Bird Chicken and then grabbed ice cream at Rockwell's. It was amazing to spend time with them and was so wonderful to be back to doing some more normal things (even if it did feel really weird).
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