Nathan's Ordination

Nathan was ordained to the office of a Priest today. CJ forgot we were doing it and went home. We couldn't get him on his phone. Chris and the Bishop ordained him. Each time one of the boys are ordained I cry. Must be a mom thing. I am so grateful to have worthy priesthood holders in my home.

Time with Mom/Grandma

Mom flew in yesterday so she could be here for Nathan's ordination. I took the day off so we could spend some together. We got up and got the boys out the door and took our time getting ready. We did a couple of errands that I needed to do.

Came home and ate lunch. We decided to go see a movie. We saw "The Help". Excellent movie. It was about black maids in the south in the 60's. Very eye opening. We really enjoyed it. I want the boys to see it when it comes out on netflix.

Stake Conference

Our stake hasn't had a General Authority attend for 27 years. The church realized this and decided to remedy the situation. We were privileged to have Dallin H Oaks attend today. It was interesting to see how much more relaxed he was versus General Conference.

He told us Elder Packer recommended the 12 get iPads for convenience. He read his scriptures on it this morning and told himself that he could do this. Then he remembered there was a BYU game yesterday. He touched the ESPN app and slammed the cover shut. He said some things he can do without. Everyone really laughed as the Y lost badly.

He talked about temples, and various other topics. It was nice to be in the presence and spirit of an apostle of the Lord.

Nathan's Birthday

Today is Nathan's 16th birthday. It has been a full day. We had promised Nathan that he could go and get his permanent license today. The lines at the DMV are always really long. It takes 20 minutes to drive out there. I got off at 3:00 and picked him up. He filled out the paperwork and then we waited. There were several others that were getting their permanent license too. We finally got up to the counter and paid. They took his picture and printed off a paper copy. They don't give out the hard copies there anymore. They send them in the mail in about two weeks. We were not done until about 4:30. I was glad we had gone early.

From the DMV we went to the insurance agent. They had to get his license number and get info from him. Eye opening experience for him to see how much it was going to cost. That was with Several discounts that they applied.

Next we went to Instacare. We waited a while for the doctor to look at his foot. He didn't x-ray it, but didn't think it was broken. He thinks he bruised the planter facia muscle. Speaking from experience that is really painful. The doctor gave him a stiff boot and a PE excuse for the week.

We finally got home about 6:00. I made a quick dinner and it was present time. He had asked for a black silk tie for church that wasn't a clip on, and a real leather wallet.

We couldn't give CJ an iPod and not give Nathan one too. Of course he had to have an iTunes card to go with it. He was really excited about everything. The only problem was our modem died yesterday and he couldn't set anything up.

Nathan wanted strawberry cheesecake for his birthday cake. I found a huge one at Costco for $13, which W's cheaper than I could buy the ingredients for. He and Chris were in cheesecake heaven.

Nathan's Heel

Nathan called me about 10:00 and said his heel really hurt and he thought he had broken it. We had a major communication error on this. I thought he meant this morning. He has PE and social dance today. After numerous text, calls and getting the office involved, I realized that he hurt it Before now. After dance it was just really hurting.

He told me Fri that he had fallen and hurt his foot. He didn't say anymore about it the rest of the weekend. I assumed he sprained it. Come to find out he jumped off a 7 foot wall and "landed wrong". I asked him if there was a right way to land and he rolled his eyes at me. He is such a boy! He landed on his left heel.

Nathan's16th Birthday Party

Tonight is Nathan's birthday party. I left work an hour early so I could help him with a few things. We went over to Red Box and rented some movies for the boys to watch.

One of the boys called and needed to be picked up. His mom had gone to work and forgotten he had the party. We picked him up and Landon was only a few blocks away. He was waiting for his mom to come home. We pulled up just as she did. She saw Nathan get out from behind the wheel and I saw her job drop. She couldn't believe that he was driving. He is the first one to drive of all his friends.

We got to the house and he had friends waiting for him. They started watching a movie. About 6:00 I went and got the 5 pizzas I ordered for dinner. They ate real fast and then were back down stairs. One of the boys brought their X-Box. There were two game systems and the computer going at the same time. Chris and I have stayed up stairs. We have heard a lot of laughing, so they are having a good time.