Principal's Award

Every once in awhile, when I go to wake up Jorja I find that Stockton has slept in her room. Preston has been sleeping in Maysen's bed. I laughed because Stockton's head was all the way off the mattress on the floor. How can he sleep like that?

Stockton

I supervised an AP World History test. It went pretty well. Jorja had to stay after school for her NHS interview. They made it super hard this year. So many of her service hours got rejected. It made her more determined to get them done. She wanted to wear the yellow shawl thing at graduation. She was a bit worried about it, but she did it! She is good! Tonight was also the Principal's Award Night. Jorja got a plaque for earning a 3.9. She also got her hawk medallion and a medal for Step2theU. Stockton's year this program was so long. This time when it came to the to medals they read the kids names and they stood up in place and put their own medal on. Stockton's year everyone came up front and it took forever. Much better this way. The medals were on the student's chairs when they arrived. It was assigned seating.

 Jorja getting her plaque

I wanted a picture with Jorja after. She would not take off her mask while she was on the stage. But then she took off the mask to get a picture with Riley when his mom asked her to. Little annoyed by that. Anyway, we stayed after a bit to get pictures with a few of Jorja's friends and let her socialize. We took Ella to her grandparents house and then met Riley and his parents at Leatherbys.

Mike & Jorja

Riley & Jorja

Ella & Jorja

Ella with her 4.0 watch. Jorja almost wore Stockton's tonight. Haha

Mike, Jorja, Stephanie

I wanted a picture of both of us kissing Jorja on her cheeks.

Mike seriously pushed her out of the way! Don't worry, I dodged him for that.

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day! Today was a pretty great day. Jorja stayed home from church because it was Drew's farewell. She has been friends with him since middle school. Annabelle's farewell was at our church. Jorja had both zooms going and luckily she was able to see both talks. We played a lot of Dominion today, that was fun. My family gave me some Jazz signs. They are five signs put together that say Jazz. I pulled out my signed Stockton jersey that baby Stockton used to wear. (He only wore it before it was signed. He was way too big for it by the time I got the signature.) We are going to set up a Jazz wall somewhere. Not sure where it will be though. We roasted hot dogs and watched Soul. Pretty great day. The only thing that didn't work out was bloggers pictures being put in backwards. It seems like they change the site too often. Also, I wish I had gotten a picture of me with all four of my kids. I haven't had Mother's Day with all four of them for awhile. Mom fail.

Bear

Bear & Preston

Spring Fling

Jorja had a Spring Fling dance with student government today. It turned out great, but man alive there was drama getting that pulled together! People complaining to the principal about student government being exclusive. It's really annoying that these kids are never allowed to hang out together without people complaining. Jorja was super mad because dance company had a dance the week before and no one complained. That dance was super fancy. This one was in our backyard. We did go all out and have Jorja pick up the dog poo, so you know.... better shut them down. Actually we did a bit more than that. Destiny and Allison came over and hung lights. Just a few. Destiny is Bode's mom and Mike and I went to high school with her. Allison is Ella's mom. That part was just fun for me because I got to interact with them, and they are just great. The kids ended up going to some ax throwing place and having dinner at Chuck-A-Rama. They came here and Bode had a speaker they were able to use for the music. Then they went swimming. We had the pool pretty hot. The kids were pleasantly surprised. Half of them jumped into the pool in their clothes. I think Caleb (Hailey's brother) and Paige started that. The kids got into swimsuits and continued the dance in the pool. They were jumping around singing to the music. It was really cute. We haven't heard anything about a student government closing social, so this might cover it. If it was, it was a good way to send them off. They all had a blast. (These were not just student government kids. It was just student government that did the asking.)

Riley & Jorja

Nate being thrown

Look at our fancy lights in the tree

We had some on the fence too. And a string on the ground for randomness.

Video of Nate's launch

Back to Zero

 This is sad

I supervised an AP Spanish Lit test. I was a little nervous because I had to do some CD recordings and I don't know any Spanish, but it ended up not being a big deal. Jorja was nervous because Riley has been sick this week. She is worried he has covid. He tested this morning and is negative. That's great, but there are other sicknesses in the world. I think she forgets that. She was really happy because they are doing a student government dance tomorrow. I was a little frustrated because Jorja asked me at the last second to pick up her swimsuit and get corsage stuff at Michaels. I told her I wouldn't do the swimsuit because I would have to go through rush hour. It frustrated me because she could have asked me lots earlier. Of course I ended up doing it anyway. Jorja quit her job at the country club today. It is a lot easier than Chick-Fil-A, but Jorja liked being busy. She also didn't get scheduled very much. So, she now has two weeks left there. She's pretty excited.

Call from Amy

I supervised the AP US History test this morning. When I signed up to do the test I didn't realize that Maysen and Jorja had a dermatologist appointment at the same time. They went together. Jorja is excited because she is now off of accutane. Well, once the pills she has is gone. Maysen, Jorja and I went to this cute place in American Fork called Pastry Place. They had delicious crepes. Jorja also agreed to go back to work at Chick-Fil-A. She will be working at the South Towne store instead of Draper.

Mike and the boys had fun at the cabin. Mike had 300 gallons of gas delivered. This is the first time we have done this since we got the cabin. It was expensive, but it will be nice to fill up the 4-wheelers right at the cabin. Matt and some of his kids came up to borrow a tool from Mike. They stayed and played for awhile. The cabin is awesome.

Matt

Stockton, Preston, Anne, Greg, Jeff

Matt & Jeff

Greg, Anne, Preston

Stockton, Greg, (Anne in the back) Amy, Matt

Amy, Matt, Stockton, Greg, Jeff

Stockton and Matt took the kids on 4-wheeler rides. I know they went to Big Rock, but I don't know what else they did. They were gone for awhile though. Apparently Amy now loves Stockton. (Stockton is fantastic with kids.) When Matt was putting Amy to bed she pretended to call Stockton. Adorable.

I got on the leaderboard for Beat the Streak. It lasted one day. Acuna got a hit for me, but Trout did not. Sad. It was fun while it lasted though.

Fish, Fish, Fish

I supervised an AP English Literature test today. It was super easy. Only one student, a girl named Ireland. She takes the test by herself because she can have breaks whenever she needs to because she is diabetic. She says it is really nice because her tests are always quiet and she can leave when she is done without waiting for everyone else to finish. That does sound nice! Jorja left a cute note on my car, it was really sweet and made me happy. What also made me happy is I am now up to 19 on Beat the Streak. I thought I had lost it, but one of my guys hit a homerun in the 9th inning. Clutch.

Mike had a fun day fishing at the cabin. He went looking for a dock on the other side of the lake, but that one wasn't lowered yet either. So, next best thing... he went out with his kayak. He caught a fish pretty quick and came back for the boys. This time they took the blow up raft. They seemed to have fun. Bear did not like having them leave, but he loved licking the fish when they came back. Once again my pictures uploaded in the wrong order, but whatever.....

Other side of the lake boat ramp

Stockton & Preston

Stockton

Bear

Mike's from the kayak

Mike's feet

Bear watching Mike leave

Random Bear pictures

May the 4th

I took Jorja back to the periodontist to get her stitches out. They said her mouth is looking good. She is starting to be able to eat more, so that is nice. Mike did a lot of random projects at the cabin. He brought up a ton of new pillows to replace the old disgusting ones. He changed the tracks back to wheels on the 4-wheelers. He tried to find a place to launch his boat, but failed on that one. He cut wood. He ordered 300 gallons of gasoline. You know, the usual stuff.

Bear at Parrydise

Stockton & Preston

The dock isn't out yet. It's pulled up on the pavement. Sad for Mike.

Bear & Mud who look extremely needy

Jorja went to some mission call openings tonight. One was to Dallen's. He dressed in a Jedi robe and when he read his call he had him going to some fictional planet in the Star Wars saga. Then fireworks went off. Then he read his real call again and four giant 4th of July style fireworks went off. He is going to Taiwan. Pretty cool mission for him.

Start of AP

 I have signed up to proctor nine AP tests. That was the limit we could sign up for. I was able to get the supervisor slot on all nine of them. That means I will get $100/test. I am going to buy a blender. One that will blend frozen fruit. That is my plan. Anyway, my first test was today. AP US Government & Politics. I had four students because the test had accommodations. It went very well. For me. I'm not sure how the kids did.

I was able to get Jorja and Stockton into the same dorm in the LLC. Jorja had originally been in Richards Hall because the LLC was full. She wasn't too excited about that. I knew that one floor in one of the buildings was a 'student involvement' floor. I thought Jorja would love that. I randomly checked and there was one opening on that floor. I didn't even ask, I moved her over. Then I was talking to Stockton and I moved him over. Their dorms are right next to each other in the same building. How fun is that? I'm so excited about it! I hope they have the best time!

Preston had to take a math test today. Usually the math tests are at the end of the unit, but this one was in the middle. I was doing the AP test, so I couldn't take him down there. Good thing he just did this last week so it was fresh in his mind what he needed to do. Mike dropped him off and Jorja picked him up. She took him to Firehouse Subs. He loved it.

Mike and the boys went to the cabin today. Mike has been anxious to get up there and do some projects. He wants to get the tracks off the 4-wheelers and other such things. He was planning on leaving yesterday until we found out about Preston's test. I'm glad it ended up working out. They will be there until Friday.

Ethiopia

Riley decided to leave on his mission on July 15th instead of October. He texted the information to his stake president this morning. He received a text back saying to check his email in a few minutes. His call was there a few minutes later. On a Sunday. Crazy! Riley decided to keep it a secret from his parents. He asked Jorja if she would come over when he opened his call at 3:00. He called his grandparents and told them what was going on. Still, his parents had no idea. Jorja made missionary cookies and brought them over. Riley told his parents Jorja was dropping off some cookies. Riley's mom apologized to Jorja when she got there. She told her she was sorry, she had no idea that both sets of grandparents would be there and she didn't want Jorja to feel overwhelmed. Everyone was sitting around talking with Riley's grandpa asked Riley about his mission. He started telling the story about his calling and then he pulled out his mission call. His parents started crying they had no idea he had it. So... Riley read his call and found out he is going to Ethiopia, speaking some kind of crazy language.

Riley & Jorja 

Riley's mom threw together a quick opening shindig. Jorja came home and we had a little family night before she went back to Riley's house. Kind of crazy.

Riley & Jorja

And Jazz are back in first

Number Two

Today is Dani's birthday, so Stockton spent all day with her. He has spent the past month with Preston making this computer game for her. I hope she has as fun playing it as they had fun making it. 

Jorja went on a double date with Giselle. Jorja took Riley and Giselle took Caleb. They went to some weird museum that was in downtown Salt Lake. She seemed to have a good time.

Jazz got destroyed by the Suns today. That was a bummer. They have now lost the first seed in the NBA. Hopefully they will get it back.