Idaho and Friends

I took Stockton and Jorja to the bank to open them a checking account. The only problem was I didn't know their social security number. I hurried home to get it. I had brought their passports with me, but neglected the other. Whoops. It took awhile, but we got them all set up. Stockton was meeting friends to see Ant-Man and the Wasp. We didn't have much time to get him there and he was hungry. I pulled into Chick-Fil-A's drive thru. Jorja loved that. She has eaten there every day this week. We dropped Stockton off at the movie theater right on time. Acea brought him home. Stockton showed him the ducks. Stockton was surprised that he liked the movie, so that's great.

Mike sent me pictures of their adventures. They went to lunch at Subway, much to Preston's delight.

Preston

 They humored Mike and went for a long sailboat ride.

Mike's back, Preston's foot, Maysen

 Mike put risers on the bed so we can stick suitcases underneath.

 Maysen and Preston loved playing Mario Party on the projector in the basement.

Sharon texted and asked if they would like to go river rafting tomorrow. Sharon was going to let Preston come. Maysen didn't want to go. Preston didn't want to go without Maysen. Mike wasn't going to leave the kids by themselves. Preston asked if river rafting was like Rattlesnake Rapids Extreme? Maysen said, "Yes, but with more death." Yikes! They did watch someone setting off fireworks at the beach and enjoyed s'mores. Pretty fun day.

Preston & Maysen

Jorja had the day off. Her only day this week. She made plans to see some of her EFY buddies. Hunter just finished EFY and was still in town visiting relatives. Zach is going to EFY next week and arrived in town today. They were hoping Isaiah could come too, but that didn't work out. I drove up to American Fork with Jorja to pick up Zach from his grandparents house. We then picked up Brooklyn at Lehi and drove to Jamba Juice at Thanksgiving Point where I dropped the kids off. I was nervous driving away, but was assured that Brooklyn's parents would pick them up. That did happen, after they went to Chick-Fil-A. After tomorrow, Jorja will have eaten there eight times this week. Good thing she likes their food!

Brooklyn & Jorja

 Jorja & Hunter

 Brooklyn, Zach, Maggie, Jorja

 Zach & Jorja

 Brooklyn, Jorja, Maggie

I picked her up close to midnight and then we drove Zach back to his grandparents house. I was so tired when I got home. Jorja was so happy, so it was worth it.

Macbeth's Last Day

There were a ton of deer running across our front lawn today. I think Dash on his skateboard coming down the street freaked them out. I wasn't fast enough to get really cool pictures.

We got to Macbeth early. I wanted to get great seats. Turns out that for some reason the entire front row was reserved. Our seats were not great at all, despite arriving an hour early. Oh well. I called Ange and asked if she wanted my dad's ticket. She wanted to go with Bubs. We were able to get them a standby ticket. That was so nice of them to come! I was glad I told the boys what the story was. It is pretty hard to follow along without knowing. I think Preston would have had a really hard time sitting through it if we didn't have that conversation. He was great today. Stockton hung out with Gavin and some other diving friends for most of the day. They went hiking and then played games at Gavin's house. I told him to meet us at the school at 6:45. He did. I was waiting for him with his ticket. He barely looked at me as he grabbed the ticket because he saw Acea waiting for a standby ticket. Acea is his good friend from last year. He was the math sterling scholar last year. He is up at Utah State right now. Stockton loved seeing him!

Acea, Stockton, Nate (Macduff)

 And Mike trying to photobomb

 Mike, Jorja, Stephanie

 Jorja & Drew ~ Jorja was SO EXCITED Drew came!

 Ange, Jorja, Bubs

Mike, Preston and I headed home. Stockton stayed to talk with his friends and wait for Jorja. Jorja convinced them to go get ice-cream. Stockton, Acea, Nate and Jorja went to McDonalds. They had an ice-cream cone that lasted two minutes, then sat and talked for an hour. I asked Jorja if she felt like a third wheel. She said, "Only when they talked nerd." Hahaha! Stockton, Acea and Nate are the biggest nerds in the best way. Both Stockton and Jorja had a fantastic day.