First (second) day of School!

First day of 4th grade!! Kiersten was too sick to actually go on the first day of school, so this is the second day of school! She is in a school where there is only one class per grade. There are about 9 girls in her class. They haven't had a new girl since first grade! So they were pretty excited to see Kiersten. It's different having no hallways! There is no cafeteria, either, so lunches are homemade every day. This school is lucky, because the kids have laptops on their desks to use and they get to go on a lot of field trips, too. Her teacher is Mrs. Young.

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!!!

¡Viva la Fiesta!

 

They sell eggs that are blown out and decorated, then filled with confetti. You smash them on your head to release the confetti out into the world!

Mark came and met us on State Street for the Fiesta!

We went into Santa Barbara for the annual Fiesta! We watched the parade and bought some souvenirs. It was pretty hot, so we all needed our sombreros to stay cool!