Bear Bread

Jorja went hiking with Ivan today. She was excited. It is the first time we have let her hang out with him since the social distancing thing. Once they watched the sunrise in separate cars. She has begged me to let her go hiking with him. Hiking should be easy to stay six feet apart she said. I told her I didn't believe she would stay six feet apart. Welp..... Jorja is a hugger. This social distancing thing has been hard for her. Hopefully her immune system will be strong. It has failed us a lot in the past few years though.

Ivan and Jorja

I met Heather and Jordyn at Zac's for lunch today. We did better than Jorja and Ivan at social distancing, but we weren't perfect either. We sat outside at a table to eat. It was soooooo wonderful to talk with them. I love having them live so close to me. Both of them are also the only girl in their family. We relate to each other really well.

Heather

 Jordyn

 This is the biker gang that Jordyn joined

 I got a sunburn just from lunch. Didn't expect that today.

Bear is still lethargic. We do give him sedatives to keep him from running around while his stitches heal. Bear came in and dropped a loaf of bread by Mike. What the???? Preston set up some play tents outside to hang out in with Mike and Bear. He loved that.

Bear and his bread

 Preston

 Mike

 Bear

Riley had asked Jorja if she could come down and talk with him after work. Jorja came home Monday from work sad. When I asked her what was wrong she said she just friend zoned Riley. Well, they weren't able to finish talking because he had to leave. He sent her a message when she got home Monday and asked if they could talk. He said that no matter how things shake out he would still be her friend. That made Jorja feel so much better. Anyway, they talked for a long time after work. A lot longer than I would have liked! I got annoyed. But they decided that being just friends would be the best thing for them right now. Jorja came home super happy. They are planning on going on an early morning hike tomorrow. She went to bed at 1:30 and wants to get up at 5:30. She said she could get herself up. Hahahaha

Riley & Jorja

Deer

Bear does not like deer. Well, I guess Bear does not like deer in our backyard. It scared him. He was outside playing by himself today when all of a sudden he starts freaking out. I opened the door to see what was wrong and he ran to me as fast as he could. It took me a bit before I saw two deer in our backyard. Bear was shaking so bad.

Bear and Preston

Ivan came over today and brought Jorja a package. They took Bear on a walk while they were six feet apart. I did feel the need to text her and remind her of the 6 feet distance. This quarantine is hard on Jorja, but she did get a dog out of it.

Hidden Email

Stockton was supposed to have a baptism today. I kept checking google photos all day to see if a new picture had shown up. It never did. I did get this picture from a lady who said Stockton helped them build a wall for their trampoline and their kids love his puppet. Haha. Hopefully the baptism happened too.

Stockton

This morning when I went to see if there was a picture from Stockton I stumbled onto something. I have to switch to Chrome to see this. Jorja's email is there in a file as well. When I switched to Chrome a message popped up saying something about Ivan. What? I switched over to her email to see and there was no message there. I went to her sent items and there were 28 messages between her and Ivan. TWENTY-EIGHT! I went to her deleted folder and they were all there. What the??? Didn't she just get in trouble for deleting messages? And she knows she isn't allowed to contact him right now because of it. So... today didn't go well. What is annoying is she still thinks we are the strictest parents and all of her friends get to have adventures and no one wants to be her friend after they find out how strict her parents are; yet we STILL let her have the Chick-Fil-A get together for the A team that she had planned. Yep, we sure are horrible. Anyway, only Madi and Riley showed up. They ended up watching Toy Story in the movie room. Riley had to watch that for his film studies class, so two birds...

Jorja trying to look like a boy

 Madi & Riley enjoying grilled cheese after the movie

Friend Quiz

Today was a hard day. Last night Jorja told me she needed to finish an assignment after work. Preston has been sleeping in Maysen's bed, so Jorja went into Preston's room so she wouldn't bother him. I asked her if she would plug in her phone when she was finished. Right before I fell asleep I thought about going downstairs to make sure her phone was put up. I didn't. I figured she knew the rules by now and I trusted her. Jorja woke up before me, which never happens. She was playing with the dog. I saw she had her phone with her. I asked to see it and it was almost out of batteries. I asked her why it wasn't charged. She told me she plugged it in and wasn't sure why it didn't charge. Jorja said she was tired and went back to sleep. I looked through her phone, which is something I do at least once a day. I learned the hard way that this needed to be done. Anyway, as I was looking through her phone there were a few things that didn't add up. I had a thought to check her phone logs. I rarely do that. Nothing was there. I just knew I was missing something. I went and prayed. I was 100% convinced that she had talked to Ivan last night. I had no proof, I just knew it. This would be against two of our rules. She wasn't supposed to talk to anyone that late at night and she is never allowed to delete anything. I knew she had deleted the phone log. When Jorja woke up I asked her about it. She denied everything. I told her I knew she was talking to Ivan and that she had deleted the log. Eventually she admitted that she had. She said she fell asleep on FaceTime talking to him and he must have fallen asleep too because she woke up at 5:00 in the morning and the call was still going. She didn't want me to think she had been talking to him all night long, so she deleted the call. I was furious. Every single person in my family knows how important honesty is to me. They know this is my love language, even though it isn't an official one. They all know that when they lie to me it is like they are purposely telling me they don't respect me and that they don't care how much they are hurting me. We have had this conversation many, many times. Things did not go well this morning. Jorja was mad. I took her phone away until it was time for her PLT interviews. I told her she could contact returned missionaries and seniors, because they are sad right now. I also let her contact the new SBOs in their group chat. Everyone else she just needed to ask me first. Pretty lenient. I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to have her feel the consequences of these mistakes without messing up her mental health. Quarantine has been hard on her. Ugggg.

One of Jorja's friends made up a silly quiz. It had questions like favorite food etc. After about ten questions it would tell you which 'friend' you were. Emily, Hailey, Alison or Jorja. Jorja had us all take it and I got Jorja. This is the message that popped up. Pretty cute.

She's Coming Home!

Maysen texted today and said that Utah State granted approval for on campus housing to move out without penalty! Looks like Maysen is moving home on Monday!!! Mike and I are heading up to Logan to move her stuff home, then she will drive home Monday and be here. I'm so happy to have her back! Plus, Utah State is refunding the rest of her contract. That will be awesome!

Today was pi day. We didn't do much, but did get pizza. Ivan came over and painted with Jorja, then we played Nertz with Ivan, Jorja, Preston, Mike and I. Mike destroyed us. Didn't see that coming.

Ivan and his avocado

 Ivan, Jorja and the magical unicorn

 Jorja & Ivan

The World has Gone Crazy!

Utah State cancelled all classes until Tuesday, then they will be online after that. Today was Maysen's last day of going to a college class in person. At least for undergrad. She also picked up her graduation stuff. Her gown and tassels, things like that. Maysen was going to see if she could just check out and come home, but Utah State sent a message asking people not to leave. So, I guess she'll just be doing online classes up there.

Jorja is sad. Prom in cancelled. Elections are maybe going to be online. Not sure how that is going to work. Jorja said hardly anyone is at school today. She sent me this picture of the lunchroom.

 Jorja made a 2020 yearbook just in case

 Dawson, Riley, Jorja, Kelsey ~ not practicing social distancing

 Random picture of Jorja and Ben

Mike flew out to Universal Studio's in California with Larkin for her birthday. Disneyland also announced they would close in a few days. Luckily Universal was open today, even though it was raining hard. Mike sent us these pictures. Larkin LOVES Harry Potter, so glad her birthday trip wasn't ruined! There was hardly anyone there and Mike got a little sick going on the rides quickly. He would have loved that as a kid!

Larkin & Mike drinking butter beer

 Larkin in the Harry Potter ghost town

The NCAA announced they cancelled March Madness today. So sad! BYU and Utah State were both heading to the tournament this year. BYU has not been good at basketball for years, but this year they were amazing! This was the only year the seniors had made it to the tournament, and now they don't get to go. Sad that this happened on a year when BYU was really good! Charles made this bracket. Pretty accurate.

I picked up Audrey from Alta and took her to the bus stop. I had just gotten home when Sherry called me and told me to go to the store and get milk and anything else we needed. She said it will probably be gone if I waited until after work. I hurried to the store. It was a madhouse in there! It looked like Black Friday. The lines went halfway through the store. I was able to secure milk and other items. So that's good.

Elder Alia came over today. He texted yesterday and said he would be in town. Stockton loved having him as a companion. It was awesome to meet him!

Jorja, Preston, Jae Alia, Stephanie

 Mike got home right as Elder Alia was leaving, so we got a quick picture with him

Jorja went on a hike with Ivan. She told me Ivan's friends would be there too, but they ended up not coming. I wasn't too thrilled about that. She had a good time, but got home way after dark.

Ivan & Jorja

Church was also cancelled today. Now that is weird!!! Home church. I do love home church. I think that is actually going to be pretty fun.

Big Dog

Happy Leap Day! Mike spent the day at the cabin with Maysen and Preston. They played Cover Your Assets and Preston got $935,000 in one hand. Wow. Jorja met up with John. He has been helping her with trimming the music for her SBO video. Apparently he has a big dog.

Jorja & John's dog

 Jorja & John

Jorja went straight to work, then went and hung out with Ivan. I think the plan was to paint at a park, but it ended up being too cold. Instead they watched Phineas and Ferb in the Walmart parking lot. Sounds exciting.

BYU WINS

Jorja worked most of the morning/afternoon. Ivan picked her up after work and they were together for SEVEN hours! I'm guessing they got a little bored. This was actually the first time they met. Ivan goes to a different highschool. Hutch gave Ivan Jorja's number and asked him to call her. Jorja has always wanted to be set up on a blind date. I know they played arcade games and made rings. Luckily Jorja got home before her curfew.

Mike took Preston to see Dr. Doolittle. They wanted me to come, but I REALLY wanted to watch the BYU/Gonzaga game. Mike let me stay home to watch it. It was AMAZING!!! BYU is ranked 23rd and Gonzaga is ranked 2nd. BYU ended up winning by 13. It was such a fun game to watch! The crowd stormed the court. My brothers and I texted throughout the game. Made it much more fun. That would have been a fun one to watch with them. What a night!