Since We Got Home

 Between getting home from our US History trip and writing this, A LOT has happened.  Good things!  But before I get into the really fun stuff, here is a smattering of the every day ordinary happenings that make life meaningful

Fantasy Football draft day.  Because Ben, Hunter, and Landen are all big Chiefs fans, NFL is a popular topic.  The three of them, plus Cannon, Abe, and Bethany all have teams and are having a fun time with it.

We're also having a fun time with BYU football.  

Cannon had some friends over for the season opener

We had a new and very fun experience of attending Salt Con-- it's a board game convention and WOW!  It was a sight to behold-- rows and rows of tables set up in a giant convention center room.  Our good friends, the Walkers, invited us to join them and we are so glad they did.  Just rows and rows of people learning popular new games or testing out games that are in development.  

Clark and Brianna joined us for a bit as well.  We're playing Blokus, which isn't a new game. Rather it's more of an oldie but a goodie.  Salt Con has a library of like 2500 games you can check out and play.  I mean, talk about geeking out!

Prepare yourself for something very shocking....

Are you ready?

THIS.  George is 15.  He has a learners permit.  It is legal for the boy to operate a motor vehicle on public streets.  

Now, it's not that he is a bad driver.  He's actually quite a good driver.  It's more the SHOCK that George is old enough to have a permit!  How is this possible?

Anyway, in this picture, George is driving the two of us to the local thrift store-- Desert Industries.  It's our favorite outing.  Sometimes we are looking for something in particular, and sometimes we just manifest finding something amazing.  And when you go thrifting with George you are pretty much guaranteed to find great treasures among other peoples' trash.  

But on this particular outing, George found something....well.... culturally diverse, shall we say?

I told him he could get these things if he promised to roll himself out of the store and to the car in them.  

George is just so.... unexpected.  He's hilarious and brilliant and intriguing and creative.  In addition, the room tidying skills of such a mind do leave something to be desired.

A trip to the temple for proxy baptisms with Elinor and George.  

He's Wicked Smaaht (his souvenir from Boston)

Are you kidding me?  How can a little human be so cute?!

Long story short... Abe got to go see Christopher Cross-- the singer of "Sailing"-- which is basically the anthem of the Yacht Rock genre.  It's also the song that the administration of his elementary school (Sunrise Elementary) would play over the sound system when it was time for the children to walk in a zombie-like trance through the hallways on their way to a school assembly.  Apparently it was soothing to them and encouraged good behavior.  

Because of our trip, the boys were a little late to the game of school starting.  But here is George's first day of seminary (9th grade) and Cannon's last first day of seminary (12).   Over the next year our house is going to undergo some MAJOR changes with people moving on to new adventures.  It's going to be a wild ride!