Still Cleaning

My day was spent on the upstairs bathroom, again. I'm super slow at everything I do, and very particular sometimes. I managed to clean all the cabinets. Every nook and cranny. All the shelves were taken out and scrubbed. The walls were scrubbed. Pretty much everything I could reach. I don't know if the kids will notice, but it feels good to have it fresh.

I took the pictures to show Mike. Funny story about the box with the eyeball on it. Jorja needed more contacts. It took me a bit to get the order in. I ended up ordering a three month supply. She was using a left one in the right one to hold on. They are different prescriptions... anyway, as soon as I came home from picking up the order I notice the eyeball box. I climbed up there to see. A SIX month supply of contacts for Jorja. Whoops. Hopefully her eyes don't change before she can use all these. I'd be so annoyed at myself.

Jorja went to the Alta/Corner Canyon soccer game and then to work. Mike took Stockton on a tour of the boat for the first time. He said Stockton thought it was cool. I played Dominion with Mike, Stockton and Preston while they were at the cabin. So fun! I'm glad my brothers told me about this website, we have had a lot of fun with it.

Just Your Average Monday

The girls and I went to dinner at Jim's. It was our first time here and they had scones. What could be better than that?

Jorja & Stephanie

Maysen

The boys seemed to have a great time at the cabin today. They went night sledding and sent me pictures. Oh how I love them.

Race. Preston ~ red hat, Stockton ~ green hat

(Mike) Stockton & Preston

I spent most of my time deep cleaning the upstairs bathroom. Super exciting, I know.

Snow Again

Woke up to snow today

Not as much snow as the boys had at the cabin, but still.... Dani left this morning, so now it is just Mike and the boys there. They are planning on staying for a few days. Mike is going to work there and Preston is going to do his school. Mike asked me to send him Preston's schedule. Having this schedule has made a big difference. Preston likes it too.

Mike's Bunny Kingdom has already arrived

Week 30

National Parks

The boys had a great time at the cabin. John brought a new game called Bunny Kingdom. Mike ordered the game before they even finished playing. They spent the time playing games and sledding until John had to go home. Super nice of him to come for one night.

Stockton, Preston, John

Dani, Stockton, John, Preston

My new butter dish came. Bear destroyed my old one. I wasn't happy. We got this for our wedding and I love it. I don't know why Bear likes butter so much.

Jorja had a full day. She went to Riley's stake activity. It was a MTC. Kind of an all day event where you go around and learn different things. Riley said it wasn't as cool as other years. Jorja was put in an English class, so that probably isn't as fun. If you are in a different language class you learn a few phrases and a scripture in that language. Jorja and Riley also had tickets to The National Parks. Jorja loves that band and was so excited to go to a concert again. She had a great time.

Riley & Jorja

Herbie

I took Stockton to Dani's house early this morning. They left to go to the cabin with Dani driving. Jorja was texting us asking if we had seen her dresses. I ordered $500 worth of dresses so she could pick out an inauguration dress. Asos is great at returns, so most of the money is coming back. Jorja couldn't find it. I called Mike and asked where he put it. He left it right by the stairs. It wasn't there. Jorja found it. By Bear's dog door. Luckily he couldn't get it outside to his naughty treat spot. Also, lucky he didn't ruin any of the dresses inside. Dodged a bullet there.

Dawson filmed Jorja's video for inauguration. I guess they usually do a 'kill' video where the outgoing sbo is killed in some way. This time they decided to do movie themes and instead of killing, the sbo would leave. Jorja picked La-La Land. She did the end scene, but instead of the boyfriend it was Herbie the Hawk.

Herbie & Jorja

Jorja

Herbie/Jorja

Dawson & Herbie/Jorja

Stockton and Dani made it safely up to the cabin. Most of these pictures are of Bear, but there are some sad deck ones. It's kind of fun to watch the giant snow suddenly tumble off the roof as the cabin warms up. Except this time it destroyed parts of the deck. Rip. Stockton's friend, John, also came up. He drove separately because he isn't going to be able to stay as long. I like John. He's super nice.

Dani & Bear (and Preston)

Rip deck... photobomb by Bear

Photobomb by Dani & Bear

Bear watching the Jazz win the Raptors

Utah State Orientation

Jorja and I went to a Utah State new student orientation today. We left in time to stop at Angie's for breakfast. It was delicious, especially the hot chocolate. These pictures are funny. One super cute young girl and one wrinkly old lady. Hahahaha

Jorja

Stephanie

We met up with Riley and his mom while we were there. We were split into different groups according to their majors though. Ambassadors do these tours. When they found out Jorja was going to be an ambassador they got so excited. It was awesome. She is going to love that program. A bunch of built in friends right off the bat. I'm so excited for her. I wish I could remember more about this day, I just remember she looked so happy and that she fit right in. We did happen to stumble across the ambassador hall when I was looking for the scholarship office. They have pictures of every ambassador. So cool knowing Jorja will be up there. Jorja Smith Alta High School. Love it!

Jorja and Stephanie talking to current ambassadors

Booklets

Jorja made French Dip today and it was delicious. Jack was over and he loved it! Jorja and I went shopping looking for clothes she can wear to work and shoes for prom. She didn't find any shoes she likes, so she is going to stick with some she already has. She got some good work clothes though. We did see this proposal while we were there. Not the kneeling down part, but the balloons in the window.

I wanted to run in and buy something from Seagull on the way back home. Once I was there I saw this display by the cash register. Both of my dad's booklets. The bunny one and the passover one. Fancy.

Bunny/Lamb

I went on a walk with Becky this morning and I loved it. On the way back inside I stopped and picked up the mail. I saw this. Pretty cool Dad, pretty cool.

Classic

Preston really wanted to go to Classic today. He got a coupon for classic when he was given the warrior of the month. We went to eat at Sconecutters and then headed over to Classic.

Preston, Stockton, Maysen, Jorja

We played in the arcade and went skating. Stockton won a ton of tickets again. Reminded me of going to Chuck-E-Cheese on his 19th birthday a few days before he left for his mission. It was a good day.

Maysen, Jorja, Mike, Preston, Stockton

Stockton

Mike & Jorja

Preston and I went on the bouncy slide. The kids then jumped into the ball pit. We played until Classic closed. The kids thought about getting something with all of the tickets, but they decided to save them until another time.

Preston

Stephanie & Preston

Maysen, Jorja, Stockton, Preston

Jorja

Maysen

Stockton & Preston

Stockton doing a backflip

Maysen doing a front flip

Bear decided to try and eat a bag of small cups and lids while we were gone