The girls and I drove to Black Tail Reservoir and met up with the Judy's, Weston's and Lafever's. Rhett had his boat and Rick brought his Dad's boat. It was VERY windy and the water was awful, but we managed to have a good time. We rode the atom and I even skied. Nate and Blake did some wakeboarding and Hailey tried knee boarding. Blake did some cliff jumping and Chloe and Brittany chickened out but did some mini cliff jumping.
We stayed Satrurday night at Heather's house. It was quite the slumber party. Lance's girls came ove and stayed too. Brittany and Kylie slept under the couch! We went to church with Heather's family and Lance's girls. It was quite the row of girls, and one Tyler. We took up an entire big row.
After church we met up for a dinner at Rhett's house. Dad, Lance and Clint were hunting and came back to join us. Justin was recovering from his fall off a shed roof, also came with his family. I drove out to Shelley and brought Joel and the boys back. It was fun to get caught up and visit. We didn't have a summer reunion this year, so it seemed like a long time since we had been together. We took some pictures of Coelton with the 5 oldest cousins. We have a freshman, sophomore, junior, senior and college, all one year apart. Of course Coelton and Nate have always been close cousins and have enjoyed growing up together.
The girls stayed with cousins Saturday night and Joel and I stayed at the Hilton with the boys. We had planned to stay in Rexburg, but they don't have Hilton or Hampton. Joel earns free nights with all his traveling, it is a nice perk. We ended up on the river with the temple right out our window. It was really pretty and we saw the spot where Joel asked me to marry him.
Monday morning we drove to Rexburg and started the day in the manwaring center to realize that everything is different. It's not Ricks college anymore and doesn't even look like Ricks College. We realized that exactally 20 years ago, Joel and I were going to college there.
We waited in lots of lines, book line, I-Card line, Tuition line, apartment key line. We were very proud of Coelton to see him pay for his tuition and books with his own money. He also earned a scholarship that helped pay some of his tuition.
Finally we were able to get him moved in. He lives at the Nauvoo House apartment 215. I didn't get any pictures : (
We met 3 of his room mates; Kevin Nester, Daniel Evonko and Nate. They seemed to be nice enough. They are all older guys in their 20's. Daniel is 27. Nate went to Austrailia on his mission.
We went to Walmart for groceries which was a mistake. It was so crowded and they don't have very much food. But we did get the last twin mattress cover!!
At about 4:00 we took Coelton to meet up with his I-group at the Hart. We gave him a hug and said good-bye. There were a few tears on mine and Coelton's cheeks, Caden quickly ducked into the car, so I'm not sure about him, but can only imagine he was very sad to see him go.
When we got home and the garage door went up, we saw the white pick up with the "runner dude" bumper sticker on the back, and I was crying. I looked at Joel and he was crying.
We got the kids to bed and walked around the house, it seemed so empty and all of Coelton's things he didn't take with him made us cry even more. We gave ourselves one night to mourn the changing of our family and the fact that our boy is a man, and living on his own, only to return "home" to visit.
We are so happy for Coelton and the wonderful experiences that lie ahead of him. He will be a great student, missionary, husband and father.
I suppose the saying is true. "A Mother holds her childrens hands for just a little while... their hearts forever".
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Ohhhh, you make me miss him!! You are such an awesome mom! coelton is very lucky to have such a great support system!
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