Bridger Lake

Mike and Preston came home from Bridger Lake today. They had a great time. Here are a lot of pictures from their weekend in random order.

Top of Stockton's head, Alyssa, Mike, Preston

Preston

Mike

Alyssa

Preston and Alyssa

Mike

Preston, Alyssa, Stockton

Preston

Preston ~ Happy Little Dinosaur

Preston & Alyssa

Bridger Lake

Brasa Grill with Preston and The Porge

Mike, Jorja, Preston and I all went to Brasa Grill together. We had the best time and Jorja and Preston kept cracking us up. I am enjoying every second we get to spend with this girl. Home MTC is the best!

Preston & Jorja

Jorja went to the temple with her friend Kylie.

Kylie & Jorja

I think Jorja will miss the ducks more than they will miss Jorja.

I have a problem with emails.

Preston's Braces are OFF!

Preston got his braces off today! Woohoo! Always good to be done with that part of your life. Not fun getting them off though. I remember how bad that hurt. I was tempted to stop the orthodontist and ask if I could just keep them on. Glad it is over and his teeth look great!

Preston ~ before

Preston & Dr. Watson ~ during

Preston ~ after

One of my favorite pictures of Jorja is the picture I took of her in the car after she got her braces off. It is still the icon on my phone for her. I asked Preston to let me take a picture of him with his braces off. This is the result.

Preston and his new smile

Jorja sent a picture back showing him how it should be done. Haha

I ordered Jorja a Chinese CTR ring with Joshua 1:9 on it. Just the reference, not the entire verse. Joshua 1:9 is what she picked for her missionary plaque scripture. "Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."

Jorja's home MTC ~ Sister Gale, Elder McRoberts

Elder Darlington, Sister Smith

Stockton found out today that he is not allowed to compete in the Goldwater scholarship because he already needed to be doing a research project. He texted me, "You've been recommended as someone who should apply for this.... Oh wait, you don't fit the requirements." That is disappointing, but at least he found out at this stage and not after he jumped through a ton of hoops. Anyway, here is a picture of Stockton and Alyssa riding their bikes in the dark in the rain. I'm pretty sure they were coming back from their Calculus 3 class. They signed up for an online Monday night class, only to find out it has now been switched to an in-person class at the library. Lame! But they are good sports, which is why they are riding bicycles.

Stockton & Alyssa

Preston had to make a how-to video for his Chinese class. There are a lot of videos on my phone of the process, but I'll just show this short clip of the end. Haha. Love that boy!

Dad's 79th Birthday!

 Jorja feeding the fishes

Jorja out to sushi lunch with Mike and sent this picture to troll me

Bear and his fans

Jorja & Preston ~ he's going to miss her

Chinatown Crabs

Today was Jorja's first full day being a missionary! And it was p-day. Hahaha. Jorja did not like starting her mission with a p-day. Mike and I took advantage of it and took Jorja down to Chinatown. That was a lot of fun. We had delicious food and I absolutely loved the bubble waffles. Delicious!

Jorja

Mike

We went to Mr. Charlies Chicken for dinner and then Jorja and Preston spent a long time being crabs. Why crabs you ask? I have no idea. I'm going to miss these two hanging out together and their shenanigans. 

Jorja & Preston

Back to the Blog

Welp, I am behind on my blog by A LOT. A lot, a lot, a lot. Hopefully I can piece together half way decent posts, but I got to start somewhere. Jorja went up to Logan to say good-bye to people. She was able to stop by Stockton and Alyssa's apartment and see where they live. I'm glad she was able to do that before she left.

Jorja, Stockton, Alyssa

While Jorja was in Logan she sent me messages asking me to look for this card that was with some of her mission papers. It looks like her mission will be ending February 12th. I forgot about that card. Stockton had one that said his mission would end on February 5th, and his mission did end on this exact day. It will be interesting to see if this works out the same for Jorja.

Alexa, Jorja & Reagan

Maya and Jorja went and got icecream together

Preston passed his drivers test today! He sent these pictures to our family group chat. Haha. I love him!

Stockton found out that his science class involves going on quests. Haha. That will be interesting. He also found out that his and Alyssa's calculus 3 class that was supposed to be online has been changed to in person. It is a super late night class, so that is quite disappointing. I'm totally annoyed about that. How can they change a class AFTER everyone has signed up? What if you worked your entire schedule around that class? Well, it is what it is and I suppose they will manage. School starts back up for them today.