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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Connor McGoo


Connor turned 16 on Friday, January 11.  Wow!  That is crazy!  When he woke up Friday morning there were 16 balloons floating around his room.  We were going to take him to St. George for dinner and to let him do some shopping but the kid is totally content to stay in the valley and when he has plans, they better not change or he gets really frustrated.  So instead we stayed home, he made a fire and a dutch oven cake at Grandpa's and just did exactly what he wanted.  We gave him a camp table to cook on since he had confiscated his dad's.  Grandma and grandpa gave him a cooking tote with all sorts of paper goods and some cooking tools.  Aunt Dawna gave him a metal target for shooting, Aunt Dena gave him a cool camouflage jacket and he got lots of money from other family members.  On Sunday January 13, he was ordained to the office of a priest by his dad.  The ordination was done in Logandale 1st ward where he has been attending for the last 2 years.  It makes me sad that he doesn't want to come to his own ward with us because of some things that happened but he is comfortable and happy where he is and the ward there really cares about him and loves him for who he is.  He has a really good relationship with the whole bishopric and the young men's president.  This kid is really one of a kind and even with as many struggles that he has, I don't think I would change him because that would take away the goodness and innocence and service oriented life he leads.
Here are 16 things about Connor.
1. Everyone knows he is a super hard worker and would rather be working than doing anything else.
2. He doesn't have too many friends his own age but he has lots of friends who are adults.  He gets along so well with them and they love having him come over and help them with yardwork and just to talk.
3.  There is an elderly man in his ward who is mostly blind and deaf.  That didn't stop Connor from going over there all the time to visit him and he even sang him Christmas songs.
4.  There is another elderly sister in his ward who calls him when she needs help with stuff around her house. He helped her put up and take down her Christmas decorations and she has his phone number and she calls him whenever she needs help.
5.  He likes to work over at Aunt Dena's and he does yard work and helps with the horses.
6.  He goes shooting alot on Saturday morning with his friend named Gene.  Gene is an older man with no kids to speak of and he an Connor get along great.  The only problem is sometimes Connor takes things to literally and believes that everything Gene says is the truth.
7.  He loves love love Kyle and will play with him for hours.
8.  He wants to get his chores done as early as he can on Friday or even Thursday if I let him.  He is a hoarder but his room is the cleanest out of all the boys.
9.  If you look in his drawers you will probably see numerous items of clothing with the tags still on them.  he likes to wear his old stuff and would rather pull stuff out of his clean basket than wear stuff from the drawers.
10.  He likes to save things.  If we get donuts or have cake or brownies he always want to save a piece for later and wants me to put it up the cabinet.  Usually it gets forgotten about and goes bad before he eats it.
11.  He is on a first name basis with the workers at Wally's.
12.  He usually knows more that us about what is going on in the valley because he has no problem asking a policeman, or fireman or EMT if something happened.
13.  He is a student tutor for the self contained Special Ed class.  The teacher asked for him to be in that class because he is so good with the other kids.  They go on field trips and learn cooking and self help skills so that makes it good for him too.
14.  He likes to play World of Warcraft on the computer and he has a friend who he plays with online when they can.  The friend is John Rockenbach who live across the street from Grandma and Grandpa but he left for college in the fall.
15.  He gives the best back rubs and foot rubs ever!
16.  He loving and giving and helpful and forgiving and will out work almost any grown man.
Happy Birthday Connor!  We love you!


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