Visiting Utah State

So...what a busy busy week!  It started out---still in Logan---to check out Utah State.  I think Shawnee will love it there.  We met with housing people, had a campus tour, and met with her counselor (who we figured out knows Kim and Tammy and was Tammy's assistant camp cook).  Too funny!  Anyway---it was fun to check out campus and see where she might live.  She is thinking she'll live at the "old Farm" townhouses on the edge of campus.  A girl on her ballroom team wants to live there and Shawnee would rather be with someone she knows.  They wouldn't be in  the same room..but  in the same apartment.  I guess that apt building has 3 wards in it and is 90-95% LDS...so that is good.  We felt a lot better about it once we visited the campus.  Just before we left, as we are in the admissions office, we ask if they have her application and scholarship application as they are both due the next day...we wanted to  make sure.  They said...yes...but did you apply for these OTHER 3???  hmmm......what other 3?  So....they were all due the next day (postmarked) and 2 were online...one was an 8 pg portfolio.  We worked from the time we got home at 6pm until about 2:30 AM the next day.  We got them all 3 done and turned in.  And now we wait.......ugh...so hard.     Anyway----that next day I had to be to work at 7:30 and we needed a few more pics from Costco (4 pages of the 8 she did as scrapbook pages telling about herself) so she skipped seminary and I left work an hour early and I got it to the post office 30 mintues before the Feb 1st deadline ended.  WHEW!  

As Garrin is watching the SuperBowl this week, he pauses the TV to go do something.  Koda jumps up on the love sac and starts barking at the 2 frozen football players standing on the field.  He would not stop...it was funny

 Koda and Kaylee

Also---there is a new rap song that sings "Bottoms Up" over and over.  Jaycee was in the car and it was on and she said..."That is SICK".  I said..."How is it sick?"   She says...you know...putting your bum up.  HA.  Garrin had to explain that it was, unfortunately, about drinking...and putting the bottom of the bottle UP.  HA.  

Celebrating Kiera's birthday

Playing games as a family

Devin news from Seattle:   earlier this week Elder Van den Akker wasnt feeling too well one morning so we got out kinda late... but while he was getting ready there was a knock at our door.... which never happens since its a windy  long driveway to where the members live that we live with... so we look out the window from our bedroom and see a black car out front... thought thats pretty weird... so i put on my nametag before i go answer the door and open the door and there are two women on the porch both with smiles on their faces until they saw my name tag then it just got really awkward for them lol they were jehovahs witnesses going around and sharing bible verses... so we sat at the door for a couple minutes and i let them do their spheel then they went on their way... but its really funny cause im sure that doesnt happen too often where they knock on the missionaries doors and the missionaries are actually home... lol kinda weird