The time has come, for Clayton to get ready for college. He's really enjoyed life as a high schooler senior and dragged for it not to end. Because of that, it took him a long time to even start thinking of packing and then many days to pack. He started with one large suite case, but that was not enough, so after 4-5 days of packing, he end up with two large heavy luggages, a very packed carry on, and a stuffed backpack.

He loved the BYU tie so much that he want to wear it at school. But the backing was falling apart, so FF taught him how to sew the tie. As you can see below, his patience wore thin.


on 8/25/24, Clayton was ordained the Melchizedek Priesthood to the office of Elder by Da. President Arnold was also there for the ordination.
The photo below tells a story of Clayton when mom dropped off his suit to be dry cleaned at ZIPS. He was supposed to take everything out from his pockets before giving to mom. When he got the suit back, he, realized that he left his temple recommend inside one of the pockets. He didn't find it when the got the suit back. So he went to the store, talked to the staff and amazingly they let him inside to the back of the store, to  rummage through their trash. After many minutes, alas he found it, at the very bottom of the trash bin.

Clayton is taking full advantage of being home with his siblings and enjoying all types of food that he'll miss here, like Amish market fried chicken and fresh baked pretzels.

He also wants to eat at Rainbow Sushi one last time. 
We went to see Cindy one last time and she gave us a lot of food.


The BYU college kids, Richard and Isaiah also came over including their family for last dinner. Per Claytons' request: Da's burgers.
The next morning at 3:30am, the boys luggages were loaded into the car. From this photo below, only the blue carry on belong to Brennan, the other 3 belong to Clayton.
....and off they boys went...to BYU college.

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 This year we continue the tradition of making breakfast for the kids on first day of school. This year is a so different because it's the first year FF is going to school by herself, both her brothers are going to BYU. But she still get to enjoy eating breakfast with them and neighbor friends. Being home by herself, she already made plans who she's meeting at school and what's she's doing with them.


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It was our last day with Abbey's brother family before flying back home. So what did Da decided to do? He asked Ian to drive him to the kebab place right when they open so he can order more kebabs to eat on the plane. They made it back just in time for the driver to pick us up to the airport.


We couldn't wait any longer, even before we went through security, we ate the kebabs. It was still delicious after 3 hours in the bag.

SS and FF wandered a little bit on the British Airway double decker plane using the spiral stairs.
And our journey ends with a family selfie on the way home

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