The night before, Jack said he was going to an auto competition. It was at Dixie Technical College and I said to text me and we'd shop afterwards. Jack was going to meet me in town at Christensen's department store. Uncle Greg works there and because it was closing for renovations, everything was heavily discounted. Jack sends me a text that said,
"Be there in about 20 minutes, just gotta load up my prize."
So I asked him, "What did you win?"
"$10,000 worth of Matco tools"
What?!? He competed against 45 kids from surrounding high schools. He said there were kids from all over. There was a kid from Kanab. He said there was a written test consisting of questions about how cars and car parts worked and diagnosing problems. There was a hands on parts identification portion and something else I'm forgetting. He won first! All these tools and a won a scholarship to Dixie Technical College.
I'm going to have to lock that box so it's not missing a bunch when Jack gets home from his mission! I love it when my children succeed!
Also, I tried and tried to get California poppies to grow while Maxine was on her mission and I couldn't seem to get them to grow. One of the seeds decided to grow and this is my first orange poppy! Love it!
And we shopped at Christensen's and Greg hooked us up with great discounts and Jack got almost all of his mission clothes. So easy to shop for boys!
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