Jorgenson Adventures: Summer?!

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Summer?!

How can we possibly already be at the end of August?! Craziness. We had a great summer. Well, July seemed kind of long. Not my favorite month. But the rest of it flew by, and here we are with school starting.

Sage had a busy June with youth conference, Lake Powell, and girls camp. She also decided to do cross country this year, in addition to mountain biking. That girl is busy! Cross country runs at 7am all summer, Monday through Friday. And then mountain biking three evenings a week. This is all before she has a license. She's also working down the street at Lola's. Great job that's flexible with her crazy schedule. Sage got her license last week and we all rejoiced! Now I need to figure out what to do with myself since my part-time job was driving Sage all over the place.

We got to have Kate home for the summer, which we loved. She worked full time at the Deer Valley kids camp. They work those counselors hard! When she told me about her days it sounded very exhausting. But Kate did a great job. And the kids loved her, as usual. Kate got to experience her first break up this year. Everyone has to go through it. But she's set herself up to have a great 2nd year at Utah Tech! She left on Sunday, and we miss having her around. But love hearing about all the fun things she's doing.

This was the first year that Zack wasn't home for at least part of the summer. He's still working full-time in Logan, and enjoying his job. For his birthday Jake and Sage and I went up to Logan to camp with Zack for the weekend. We had such a good time. It's beautiful up there. We went mountain biking and then went to Bear Lake and rented some waver runners. So fun! Sage is hooked and can't wait to go again. Zack took us on a birthday adventure hike to the highest peak in Cache County. It was a hard, but beautiful hike. A few weeks ago Zack wrecked on his mountain bike and dislocated his thumb. It looked pretty bad and the doctor saw the films and said plan on surgery. Of course it's his right hand, which is not good when you're a mechanic. He finally met with the doctor today and she said no surgery. Instead he'll have a cast for a month, then back to a splint, then PT. We're grateful for answered prayers.

Sage and I finished off the summer with a trip to Seattle. Sage got a filling and then was having tooth pain. Figured out she needed a root canal, so we got to go to Uncle Randy. And decided we might as well stay for a few days and turn it into a mini vacation. We hung out with just Mel and Henry because the rest of the family was in Utah. Sage got to see what it would be like to have a younger sibling. By the end they were fighting like siblings. It was pretty funny. Mel and I went running every day, we went hiking and paddle boarding. Sage was running ahead on our hike and got stung by a wasp. I felt bad she was hurting, but might have laughed a bit at the drama. We had great fun and even got to enjoy a day of rain, which was amazing since we've had no rain at all this summer.

Another great summer. Now on to a new school year!

First day of junior year!

First day of sophomore year at Utah Tech!

We got to bike across the bridge behind us. So fun!

Hallelujah!!

We went for a drive/picnic in the Uintas. Sage had a headache so she strapped the ice around her head.

Sage got to have her 16th birthday on a Sunday. Every kid's dream

Birthday floats

We used Kate's employee benefits to bike at Deer Valley

Birthday boating for Kate. This was right after Jake was surfing, fell, and no one noticed until we were halfway across the lake. It was funny. It took him a second to forgive us.