Jorja's Top Ten

Jorja posted her first video for her SBO campaign. The top ten reasons why people should vote for her. She is so funny.

Today is my brother John's birthday! Woohoo! It is also Madison's birthday. She is one of Jorja's best friends. Jorja and I went to the store this morning to get some things I needed and a few yellow things for Madison. Jorja wanted to make her a yellow box. We went to Harmon's and they are awesome there. I stopped at the Harmon's gas station. The guy yelled not to worry, that they spray everything down after every customer. He then brought me gloves I could put on to pump the gas. Once I started everything he asked if I would get in the car and he could finish up. He said that he had to spray everything down anyway, so why not. I got in the car and he washed my window while he was waiting. Jorja and I went through the self checkout lane at Harmon's. Again, they sprayed everything down after every customer. Loved it.

We let Madison come over. I figure they have already been in close contact with each other. They worked five hours together in the drive through and were within a few feet of each other. It was good for Madison to get out of the house too. She has kind of a chaotic situation going on around there right now. Nothing bad, sometimes it is just nice to have a change of scenery.

Jorja with Madison's yellow box

My nephew Jacob got his mission call today! We watched it on Instagram live. He has been called to the Colombia Cali mission and is going to the Colombia MTC July 16th. It will be interesting to see if the world is back to normal then. I hope so, because this sounds like a perfect mission call for Jacob!

Gobert is Positive

Jorja was sick today and I had to get her from school. Her plan was to just sleep through history and lunch and then come back to take her math quiz. That didn't work out, she couldn't get up. She did go back to school after it was over to film the GSIA club. She then went and looked for the flag with Kelsey. They had no luck, even though they looked a ton of places.

The world changed today. I dropped off a jar of apple cider to Burke Jr. for his birthday. I was talking to Burke Sr. for a bit and came home to find out that Rudy Gobert has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. Shortly after that happened the NBA suspended the entire season. WHAT??? So crazy! Maysen texted that the high stakes bingo game she was planning on going to with Me'lani got cancelled. All on campus events at Utah State have been cancelled until April 8th. Wow.

Jorja had work today, but got sent home because she was sick. Her immune system has not fully recovered since having mono last year. If she is a little sick her body has trouble functioning. Kelsey came over today and brought Jorja chocolate covered raspberries and sour patch watermelon. She gave her a note that thanked her for being such a good friend. That was so nice! The stereotypical version of the head cheerleader is they are very unkind. Definitely not the case at Alta!

Mike and Jorja finished her poster for her campaign. They don't get any signs this year because of the construction. Each candidate gets one poster. Jorja sent hers to Packer for approval. She might tweak things before it becomes official. She didn't like the picture very much. I think it's adorable.

Hippie Salt Flats

Jorja has been working on a video for her student government campaign. She wanted to film her part out at the Salt Flats, which are about two hours away. So early this morning, I drove to the Salt Flats while Mike and Jorja slept in the car. (Mike was going to do a lot of driving today.) Anyway, we found a spot that was beautiful to film. Jorja looked adorable. I hope the footage we got works for her. These were the pictures off of my phone before it shut down. The first three pictures are my favorite.

Jorja

 Jorja & Mike

Jorja is planning on lip syncing to this video

Porge

This is where my phone died. Mike also got some drone footage and I bet the stuff on the fancy camera looks great. Jorja had a few selfies on her camera. It was funny because she was signed into her friends 'Lightroom' account for some reason. She didn't realize it, but all her random selfies were being uploaded onto his account. She left him a message when she figured it out. Luckily none were too embarrassing. Here is a montage of Jorja's selfies.

 Driving home now

 This is when Jorja realized she was signed into Ivan's account ~ whoops

Jorja taught me a tik tok dance

Mike packed up and headed to the cabin with Maysen and Preston. Jorja headed out to lunch with Ben. Jorja's oil light came on while they were together and Ben helped her with that.

Ben & Jorja

 Jorja and her new car

 Ben

Jorja brought her work stuff so she could go straight there, but forgot her shoes. I had to run them down to her because these 90 style looking shoes weren't going to work.

Cambree & Jorja

Mike was wondering if there would be enough snow at the cabin to play. Well, he sent me these pictures after they arrived. No worries there! It took him fifteen minutes to dig the 4 wheeler out of the garage.

The 4-wheeler exit

 The entrance Mike climbed in

 Parrydise

 Garage

 He did it!

Ring's Back

I checked Jorja out of school right after first period. She went to the Link Crew advisory to film them for her campaign video. She knew Packer would be mad if he knew, which is why she wanted me to check her out. I also found her CTR ring that has been missing since the beginning of November. She took it off when she was throwing up after Ben dropped her off. We have searched and searched for it with no luck. I randomly came across it today. In my shower. What? I think Jorja's only used my shower once, she had to wash off the throw up. Guess her ring fell off in the process. Well, nice to have it back.

Alex Boye

Jorja had her last day of campaigning today. It is disappointing that it is half as short as it usually is. Jorja was able to miss part of her English class to be able to go to the other lunch. She talked to people non-stop. One of her friends told her that he thought she talked to everyone in here. That's the idea. She doesn't like it when she is clumped with other posters, so she walked away a few times to get the space she wanted. She feels really good about her chances. Although she is more nervous now. After school Dallen posted a video on Instagram of him with Alex Boye. It was edited really well. That's kind of scary. How can Jorja compete with that?

Jorja went to the Alta/Corner Canyon soccer game after school. She went straight from the game to work. She didn't get home until after midnight. Talk about a long day!

I saw this quote the other day. I think it fits what Jorja is doing right now perfectly.

You'll never be brave if you don't get hurt.

You'll never learn if you don't make mistakes.

You'll never be successful if you don't encounter failure.

I am so proud of how brave Jorja has become. It is mind boggling how much she has changed since 6th grade. She amazes me.

Ax Throwing

Jorja's first day of campaigning was today and I can not believe I don't have a picture! I dropped Jorja off so she could hand out her signs this morning. I waited in the parking lot for her. She didn't go to Chinese today. Her class was having a field trip, but she couldn't go because of campaigning. She was disappointed about that. I brought Jorja home and we watched Psych until it was time for world history. Jorja had a great time today. She does love campaigning and all the people she gets a chance to talk with. Too bad it is so stressful. We can't figure out how Dallen was able to get three signs, three shirts and stay in the budget. Jorja wasn't able to get any shirts done this year.

Jorja had a date after school today. She works with twins that are sophomores at the same high school Weston goes to. They planned a triple date. Jorja set Weston up with Chloee and Drew up with Brynlee. She asked Teancum. He works with them too and also goes to the same high school as the others. The date didn't start out great though. Jorja was driving everyone in the pilot. She backed into our pillar as she was leaving. I don't know how she did it, but there is a giant dent in the pilot now. Jorja felt so bad. She came inside crying saying she was sorry. Hopefully it was a wake up call for her about how careful she needs to be when driving. I would rather her hit our pillar than another car or a child! Anyway, Jorja and her friends went ax throwing and Jorja had the best time. She said she awful at the beginning, but then figured it out and was able to get five bullseyes in a row. As a result their team demolished everyone else. Too bad Jorja didn't take pictures either! After ax throwing they went to pizza and back to our house to play Jackbox games. I had to remind Jorja that she and Drew have school tomorrow. The other kids are on spring break this week. I'm glad she had such a good time.

I went to Dixie Ray's bridal shower today. I was talking to Jaime and noticed she was wearing really pretty earrings. I have been wanting to get Jorja some nice earrings for Easter. I asked Jaime about it. She said she got them at OCTanner when she was working there years and years ago. I didn't recognize the store name but it sounded fancy. I asked her how much the earrings were. She kind of stuttered and said she was able to get them with her employee discount back when she was single. I stopped her and said, "I'm looking for earrings for Jorja and I don't know where to buy them." She laughed and laughed. They were REAL diamonds! They were huge! Nope. That is not what I'm looking for for Jorja at all!

More Bears

These are the pictures Maysen sent me yesterday of her working with the bears. She says their claws are getting sharper and they are biting more. She was bleeding after she left today. Ummmm. Kind of scary for a mom, but I'm glad she's happy.

The neighbor's dog broke through our fence on Friday, then again today. Luckily on Friday Mike saw the dog running across the yard and was able to get out there super quick. Today he got into the duck pen again. We could see where the boards were moved. Friday we gave them a board to nail where it was broken, the dog broke through a different spot today. Mike called the owner, again. This time this college age kid broke through our fence. Ummmm. How is this going to keep the dog out of our yard? He was kind of a jerk about it too. He told Mike that the homeowners policy says that you can't have farm animals on your property. Soooo, our ducks are more bothersome than a giant dog that terrorizes the neighborhood? Mike was fuming. He wishes he would have mentioned how we have been very tolerant as neighbors. We never called animal control when Malone was always in our yard. We didn't press charges when they lit off illegal fireworks and burned our tree and electrical socket. We never call the police to complain about their loud parties they have all the time. Super loud. Hard to sleep loud. All we want is for them to keep their dog out of our yard. Not sure how this giant hole in the fence is going to help with that.

We had dinner at Matt and Sam's house today. It was nice to have a break from having it at our house. I have gotten a little burned out lately. Anne sent a message to Jorja and asked if she could bring her nail polish. The little girls love it when she paints their nails.

Jorja, Jeff, Anne, Abby

 Jeff wanted his nails painted too! Hahahaha!

We left early so we could work on Jorja's campaign posters. Mike and I picked them up from Sam's Club yesterday. The printer at the school is broken and Sam's Club was the cheapest we could find. It used up her entire budget though. Usually she has three posters and three shirts. She isn't going to be able to do the shirts this year. Disappointed with that, but as of now she is running unopposed, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

Posters

Conference is over and I am sad. Maysen is back at school. We figured out her schedule for fall between the two sessions. Hopefully it will be an easier semester than this one. This one has been so hard! One month left Maysen! You got this!

1st session

 2nd session

Mike and Jorja worked on her campaign posters during conference. They turned out amazing! I love them! She gets three posters. She has six different pictures for front and back. They are perfect.

These next few weeks will be stressful for her! Campaign season is crazy! She loves being in student government though. I hope she will get this experience again.