Grace off to college and the primary ice cream party

Our breakfast date at the old timey diner.

Packing for college! We have a LOT of pull-ups boxes.

Painting ugly ceiling spots that have been there since we moved in.

Danny and his best friend, Collin, at school.

Grace on a date with Charlie to McDonald's.

Cute guy.

Our fall-time garden.

Grace's snail pic.

Alice and friend Olivia waiting to sing in the stake conference choir.

Charlie and the guys heading up to sing in the choir.

Danny.

Poor Alice was pretty mad when Toby stole her sweater and wore it around, but she eventually got it and hid it.

Alice's friends love to take stalker photos of her and Clinton.

Charlie and Malcolm AKA Milkman.

Directions: Write a sentence with the word "a" in it.

Toby: If a bird is blaming a dog at 1 a.m., a fabulous car wash show will come up at about 11 a.m.

Me: Toby, did other people write long sentences like that?

Toby: One girl wrote a 4-word sentence, but it didn't even have the word "a" in it.

Hahaha, his poor teacher! What's she gonna do with him?

Lots of hugs this week.

Grace left an old watch for Toby.

Toby's self portrait.

Charlie got to be the guy who marks the downs at Danny's flag football game.

Go, Lions!

Toby had to write an apology note to a girl in his class when he yelled at her for taking the spot in line he wanted. He doesn't totally understand the concept...

Grace made the posters for my primary ice cream party one evening when she needed something to keep her mind off the stress of moving off to college.

Our last night with Grace at home.

They LOVE it when she makes up stories for them.

Checking in.

Moving in.

Nice view from her window.

She can see Utah Lake.

And the football stadium.

It's a really nice, new, clean, big apartment.

And some of her roommates are Swifties!

We took Grace and her roommate, Eva, to lunch at CupBop.

Then, final goodbyes.

We stay in touch, and she talks to Alice a lot.

Alice prepping the room to move Toby into Grace's spot. See her playing Wicked Witch of the East under the bed?

She's less excited than Toby is.

Toby said he wants to be an artist when he grows up.

Charlie's trophy from the youth potluck contest.

Danny does a good job making sure Toby gets from the car to the K/1 playground before school.

Grace sent a pic from orientation. So many freshmen!

We sent her a pic from dinner.

At Liam's apartment. She's starting to get to know his roommates. You know it's a boy apartment when only one of the six is known for his good hygiene!

Primary ice cream party. My presidency was SO helpful!

Toby and Charlie walking to the event.

Toby and some little boys hanging out together!

Success!

More freshman orientation fun. Grace says she's somewhere in the red circle:)

Grace got to make earrings at one of her orientation classes.

Another stalker photo from Alice's friends.

Big sandwich for dinner.

Grace ran into Grandma Terisa! They are in the same college:)

Facetiming Grace.

Date to Farmington Bay as the sun was setting last night.

Great horned owl!

Danny's class popsicle party.

Cleaning the church this morning.

Pelicans! Toby and I drove to Farmington Bay just to keep him out of trouble this morning.

My little birder!

Egrets.

Ready for the first BYU game of the season!

Grace and Toby's drawings.

Painting prep in the boys' room.

Fit check for her game day era.

Playing in the outdoor sink.

Using our dead corn stalks to decorate the front porch.

Danny's football picture in Norman Rockwell style.