Drivers Education for Gage

Gage is finally old enough for Driver's Education!  We find ourselves back in the same room for the same class and teacher as Gavin had when he went through it.  Top Cops does an excellent job, and it was a packed house for orientation before we left Gage to carry on alone for the three-day class.  Truth be told, it's a long three days with a lot of fairly common-sense information, but I do like the teacher who tries to make it as entertaining and real as he can.  We had to make sure once class started, the phones were put away.  Something tells me that the 6'6" former police officer wouldn't look to favorably on kids watching their phones instead of him in class...but time will tell.

School of Mines Official Visit

This is our first official college visit for Gavin!  We had a half day tour and orientation visit set up with Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.  Tara and I are somewhat familiar with the area, growing up and visiting Golden a bit, but we haven't spent that much time on the campus, so we are equally excited to see what it's all about.  We love the idea of him going to Mines with its incredible reputation and smaller feel, so we wanted it to be a great day.  We started out with some local hot spot food: The Atomic Burgers which definitely hit the spot and had an old school Boulder type feel to it.

We also took him up Lookout Mountain to one of the overlooks that lets you peer down on campus and see the whole university.  The orientation and the tour seemed to be pretty good.  They have a lot of really neat classroom and workshop areas.  They gym and dining areas seem fairly nice.  I would say that Gavin liked campus overall but wasn't totally blown away and fully sold yet.  I think the whole college thing is still just kind of new to him and he is more of a short-term planner rather than a long-term planner...which is fine as a sophmore.

Gangster Gavin?

Welp...this is what we woke up to the morning after Halloween in our house.  Apparently, Gavin dressed up as a tatted-out gangster for his outfit.  Knowing Gavin, there were probably so matching pants to this outfit but that's about it.  Part of me is terrified of what the future holds for this guy and tattoos, but part of me doesn't mind the look.  I guess I was always too skinny to rock the tattoos.  The neck tattoo might be a bridge too far though...just saying!