Off to College!

Fun puppet Tanner got in Solvang! (Completely unrelated to this post)

Jared in the plane on the way to college!

Jared leaving for the dorms!

Cute Brittany!

Playing with camera phone...

We flew up to SLC to get Jared off to University of Utah! We had to fly because our schedule was complicated. More on that later. We got to Salt Lake and Jared's friend, Payden, came and picked us up in Jared's truck. We spent the next few days shopping for Jared's stuff (school supplies, food, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, microwave, etc.). Jared was pretty funny at Target. We had two carts full and he was so embarrassed! "Mom, no one else is buying this much stuff!" I offered to put back the microwave or the mini-fridge, but he declined. I guess he thought he didn't need toilet paper? At least he appreciated all the stuff!

Brittany and I moved him up to his dorm room on August 18. It was really hot in Salt Lake. I am getting used to the weather being more mild here in CA! Brittany was really roasted, so Jared and I walked down to the office to get his parking pass, and we realized that they had mailed it to our house in Alpine. Grrr. So I had to take that to him later.

Of course, I was so busy moving him that I forgot to take any pictures. I keep asking him to send me one of the dorm room, and he keeps saying he has to clean first. So you probably won't get to see it unless you go visit him.

Tanner got to hang out at our house in Alpine and Kiersten got to play with her friends, so they were happy.

We had Tanner's orientation for Open High School of Utah on Tuesday, August 23, and it was pretty hard to get them to let us go the morning session, because he was scheduled to go in the afternoon. But Kiersten's school was supposed to start the next day in California! So we made it work and then headed to the airport. Unfortunately, Kiersten had gotten sick and had a high fever. We flew anyway, and even had to use a wheelchair for her because she was so tired.

And after all that, she was too sick to go to school the first day!!!