Ada's birthday

 

Our grown Ada had her 19th birthday.  I was so excited that we got to celebrate with her.  She came down Friday night and we had cake and a sleepover.  Saturday, we drove up to Panda Fest.  We had lots of Asian inspired foods, watched some Japanese drums, looked at fun anime pins, etc... It looked like it was going to rain but it didn't until we were done.  Then we got dressed and drove over to the Tooelle temple to do baptisms.  It was gorgeous sitting in that little valley overlooking the lake. The people we so kind and let us do extra names and everything.  Sam and Jer were the baptizers for three different groups and then we drove up to Ada's house for a movie and dinner.  We ate at this asian market.  It was fun.  Then we played games until we drove home.  We sure love our girl.

"Banana Bread"

"Corn bread"

We stopped in SLC to look at the temple in between activities.  It's looking great.

Ada's in college!

I have a college student.  Can you believe that it's been 19 years since becoming a mom?  Jer and I got her moved up to her apartment where she's meeting her roommates, looking for a job and enjoying her classes and working out at the gym.  Her tuition is paid for with scholarships and she's paying for living costs with what she has saved the last couple of years.  She is taking math, biochemistry, medical anatomy, country swing dancing and a health careers exploration class.  I'm very proud of her.  I'm sad that her church building is a 1/2 hour commute from her, but proud that she takes that commute anyways.  I cried dropping her off knowing that our dynamics were changing in a very real sense.  Happy that she wasn't states away yet and I love getting her calls at random points in the day.  I pray that she will grow in light and knowledge and that even the hard things will be for her good!

We got to go to lunch with Alexx and Maura as we dropped Ada off.  That was a fun visit.

Pre college game of Nertz

Ada and I went on a mommy daughter date while the kids started school and she was still home with me.  We did some last minute shopping, saw the Gilded doors at BYU together and had PF Changs.

Ada found a lot of fun clubs and groups to explore, including a Japanese one that was making onigiri.