Coaching

Stockton was able to coach his first dive meet today. It ended up being the weirdest dive meet ever. It was up at Northcrest. The pool was tiny and dirty. The board was loud and awful. They didn't have score cards or parent helpers. (Parents usually add up the scores and with the correct degree of difficulty.) The coaches were the judges (that's normal), but no one knew what scores were given. They had their own kids dive sheets and the judges would just tell the other people what the scores were. Still, it was cool to watch Stockton with these kids. He has done such a great job. This pool was downtown Salt Lake. Only two of Stockton's divers showed up. Cameron and Aiden. After the meet they were playing on the three meter. Aiden chucked a 2 1/2 and Cameron chucked a double.

Cameron & Stockton

 Stockton with the other judges/coaches

The only thing I got from Jorja today was Alta's dance. Each school was required to put together a dance to Cotton Eyed Joe. Alta won 'best reaction'. I'm not sure how many prizes were given.

Jorja and Traven are in the back all the way to the right. Jorja's wearing a white hat.

Incredibles 2

Maysen had her last day of WIFYR today. She has loved it this year. Stephanie Black was her group leader and she did a fantastic job. The people in the group liked it so much that they have contact information from the others and are planning on making a permanent writing group. I think the goal is to have something ready once a month. I don't know if they are planning on meeting in person or just through the Internet. Maysen loved her group this year. She said they were all supportive and everyone became invested in the other stories. Maysen also won an office supply kit that she was happy about. Her own stapler and tape holder were in it. She said she always wanted a tape holder. Ha! Stockton was thrilled when I gave him (or the family) a stapler for Christmas a couple of years ago. He carried that thing in his backpack. My kids make me laugh.

Stockton coached diving again. He was so happy that he got Aiden to do his 1 1/2 back. Aiden could do a double, but the 1 1/2 was scary for him. Stockton worked with him feeling comfortable going into the water on his head by doing back dives. When Stockton told Aiden he was ready, he got up on the board and was really nervous. Right as he was up there his twin was walking by. Maybe his mom too. They were cheering for him. He decided just to chuck it. He nailed it! Stockton was so happy for him! After practice, he had some diving friends come over. Noelle was recently given a car, but she is younger than Jorja. She lives up in Salt Lake. She drove here with one of her parents. Gage came over too. They spent most of the day together. They made Miis, went to Freebirds and Habit Burger, played double dash and did backflips. Gage dropped Noelle off at Trax around 6:00.

Jorja had work today. She worked the cash register by herself and was so proud. Gabe came in for an interview. Jorja's positive he is going to get the job. Great. I was hoping Jorja wouldn't have any contact with him this coming year. He is the one that tried to trick Jorja into making out with him. Gross! Hopefully this won't be a problem. Gabe knows that I won't let Jorja hang out with him. I think he stopped bothering her after he found that out. I hope. Jorja did find out that she doesn't work at all next week. She has leadership camp until Thursday. Too bad she didn't get scheduled Friday or Saturday. She's a bit worried she will forget everything when she comes back. The week after she has Trek, so we will see how that works out.

I picked up Jorja from work and we went looking for shoes. We looked before work too. She wanted some blue tennis shoes that she could take to camp next week. Their color is blue. Surprisingly, that was not easy to find. We picked up a lot of blue stuff at Zurchers already. She wants to be "so blue, you don't even know." We were at Payless when Maysen called and was ready to be picked up. Jorja was still deciding. I left her there and went and got Maysen, then back to get Jorja. We got back about 6:00. Jorja was planning on seeing a movie with her friends that started at 6:10. Well, they didn't make that one. They made the 6:10 showing though. She went with Madison, Carter and Tommy. They saw Incredibles 2. Maysen has been so excited to see that. She didn't want to wait knowing Jorja was seeing it today. I took the rest of the kids to the 7:00 show. Most of the good seats had been sold, so we were quite close to the screen. It wasn't horrible, but I'm glad we weren't any closer. The movie was great and fun. I wish Mike would have been able to come. He is on call and things have been dicey at his work for the last few weeks. He was worried something would break and he would have to leave the movie anyway. I'm glad we were able to go. It was a fun night.

Broken Circuit

Stockton got to coach diving by himself for the first time today. He came home pretty excited because he got Berkley to do a reverse 1 1/2. He kept making deals with people that as soon as one of these deals were met, everyone could go in the hot tub. Well, Berkley was finally the one to do it! Although by the time he did, it was five minutes after class was over. No one noticed, they were so invested in watching the four different kids try to get their dives.

Jorja had to be at school all day for student government. She was so excited! The learned a cowboy line dance to Cotton Eyed Joe. Traven is her partner. Then they started planning Homecoming week. She is on the assembly committee. She had such a good time today! Before she left, I made her get permission from Mike for her outfit. This was the first time wearing this shirt. Unfortunately, it wasn't until she was practicing her dance that she realized the shirt comes randomly unbuttoned. Oh boy....

Jorja

Stockton and I took Maysen out to lunch today. We went to Corner Bakery. Stockton loves the meatball paninis there. When he ordered his food the lady asked him where he works. He said no where right now. She asked if he wanted a job. That was weird. Stockton said, "I think I'll just take the panini." Haha! Maysen had another great day at WIFYR. She met with an agent today. The agent helped her with her query letter. Maysen really liked her.

I wrapped Aimee's shower gift and all of Mike's Father's Day gifts. I hate wrapping presents. I dropped off Aimee's gift at Elaine's house. I sure wish I could go to this.

Jorja was texting me while I was dropping off Aimee's gift. Lots of texts because I didn't answer. Because I was DRIVING! She wanted pizza. I didn't want pizza because I ate a lot at lunch. Finally Jorja asked if I wanted to go to the Core Eatery place I had been wondering about. That sounded good to me. Hailey was with us. We went inside, only to find the food was expensive and it was doubtful the girls would eat it. I decided to take them to Mimi's Cafe. It was delicious, but I ate way more than I was planning. We had a great time though.

Jorja & Hailey

 Hailey & Jorja

 Jorja

I have been so frustrated the last few days. Especially today. The circuit breaker trips EVERYTIME I turn on the dryer. At first I was able to get the clothes dried for five minutes, but after walking around the house and flipping the breaker over seven different times, it got to the point where the breaker would trip the second I turned on the dryer. Mike texted Al Clark while I was out with Jorja. Al came over and fixed my life. It was awesome. This should have been a huge bill, but Al did it for free. What a lifesaver!

Broken breaker

 Al (Mike & I went to high school with him. He is in our ward now.)

 Usually he works on huge commercial businesses, so it was nice he helped us out!

 Yep, needed to be replaced.

I am so thankful for people willing to help with things we are unable to do ourselves. We had the air conditioner off all day, hoping that would help the circuit not trip. It was so hot and miserable. I am thankful this is now taken care of and we don't have to live like that anymore!