USU (bittersweet)

You want your kids to grow up and fly the coop at some point but it comes a little sooner than you want sometimes. Monday the 19th is upon us and Teesh is moving to Logan. We had spent the last few weeks packing, dejunking, and purchasing necessary items to live in the dorms of Davis Hall. Teesh worked that morning and we prepared to leave as a family to take her up at 3. Like all good plans we did not leave until closer to 4 but it all worked out.
I drove so Corby could study for his exam the following morning. I don't know if it is at a conscious or unconscious level, but Corby has this awesome talent of scheduling all his exams around really busy times for our family. Awesomeness!!!!!

Teesh filled up our Yukon!

We first arrived at Davis Hall, Teesh and Corby registered Teesh and she became the proud owner of her keys, which she promptly misplaced the following day and had to pay $10 to get a new one! Poor Teesh.

Teesh lucked out big time and her roommate changed her mind. So guess who gets her own room? Lucky! We were a bit surprised to find bunk beds in here though. That wasn't how this dorm was sold to us. Kind of disappointing. Teesh, being the look on the bright side girl that she is, brushed it off like a champion.

I thought it would be fun to get to know Teesh's roommates by taking them out to dinner. We found a great local restaurant and went to dinner. Teesh only has three roommates and one is the RA, which means she is never around so it was just Teesh, Jessica and Akyra and our family.
We went to dinner at "Angies" where if you "clean the sink" (eat the entire ice cream dessert out of a kitchen sink) you earn a bumper sticker. We opted to just eat dinner and go get Aggie ice cream from the creamery. 

 Teesh, Akyra, and Jessica

 Sierra, Malia, Bria and Ada

 Look at my beautiful girls, they are my life....love to all of them.

 After dinner, we headed to the creamery. Most everyone in the city of Logan had the same idea, it was one hopping joint.

 While everyone was enjoying their ice cream, Akyra was explaining, in detail, how one can only eat one scoop of ice cream with getting sick due to the high content of fat located in the ice cream. This girl was cracking me up most of the evening. Smart little cookie Akyra is.

 Ada was in quite the mood tonight. Every time we took a picture, she had some silly pose.  Quite the character my little Ada Rae.

 Hasn't Malia blossomed into such a beautiful butterfly?

 Sierra Jane, you are one pretty ice cream lover.

As the evening went on, the realization that we wouldn't be taking Teesh with us grew more and more real. It was hard to leave her there. We helped her unpack and organize her room, took her grocery shopping, and visited for a bit but the inevitable happened and we had to leave. I was so sad to leave Teesh and apparently so was Bria. While we were driving away, Bria said it best, "It doesn't feel very good leaving Teesh Momma." I couldn't agree more Breeta. To help soften the blow, a friend Teesh met at work over the summer showed up at the door so when we left, Teesh was with her. Tender mercy from the Lord to me right there. College is the best time of life. I know Teesh will find her wings and fly but in the beginning it might be a little scary, overwhelming and down right hard. You are always welcome home on the weekends Teesh.

Go Aggies!