3 days to celebrate

Owen turned 18 on Monday!  It is so surreal to have an adult child now.  He spent the day in typical "adult" fashion and went to work.  For the next 3 weeks, we get to work at the same place.  Being an adult now, he thinks work is important and he doesn't come visit me in my room.  I liked it better when he was skipping school and came to visit me.  He is also helping coach the football team at Rocky until he leaves so he thinks that is pretty cool.

Just because he's 18 doesn't mean he's too old to get balloons.  And no one is too old for a treat either.  

The majority of his friends that aren't serving missions moved up to Utah State on the 20th, so Owen spent the rest of the day in Logan with them.  It is rough with them all either leaving on missions or to different schools.  I'm grateful Owen isn't the last to leave in the group, this is hard on him.  We celebrated some more on Tuesday by going to the stake center and having Dave ordain Owen with the Melchizekek Priesthood in preparation for going to the temple this weekend.  Afterwards we went out to ice cream.  And tonight we finally were able to go to dinner as a family.  I was in charge of a team dinner for the football team, so Davis got two dinners, (nothing wrong with that when he's trying to put on weight for football) so we went to a later dinner.  It was the only day we could all go together, and I wasn't going to leave someone out when our days of going out with all 5 of us are numbered anyway.  What a busy week  going back to work, school starting, turning 18, the priesthood, temple, farewell, and team dinner.