Before this week, started, we made some chocolate covered pretzels to give out to some of our neighbors.  We try to give the girls a chance to give something to their teachers and leaders in the ward and also to be a part of the making of the gift.  Chocolate-covered pretzels seems to include everyone at once and is still pretty simple, so that is why it is our neighbor gift of choice.  It was pretty fun to make them, but our week was so busy, we didn't get a chance to deliver until Saturday!  It's a good thing we made them Sunday night.

Monday night was Dad and Megan and Mariah's last game with their Mapleton team.  They had a great game and won by eight points!  Go team!  They had a great season and had a great time!

That night Sarah also had a game, then Meg had practice with her Springville team, and Mariah had practice with her Bantam team.  Kevin coached both practices.

Tuesday afternoon, Cali and Chey had practice and Me and Mariah had practice.

Wednesday night was Savannah's high school choir concert.  Five choirs performed.  It was all beautifully rehearsed and orchestrated.  The songs varied from happy to spiritual to humorous.  The kids all have a great sense of humor and are super fun to watch.  Savannah even got to play the bells with a couple of songs.  It was a really nice night.  We really enjoyed it and are so glad that Savannah is involved with it all!

Thursday was Christmas hat day at the elementary school.  It's a good thing they told me it was coming up before we went to the dollar store last week.  It is really handy to have a child on the student council!  Don't they look adorable?

That evening was our busy basketball day.  Sarah had a game and everyone else had basketball practice at different times.  So . . . Beth and Ben helped me make dinner.

And that night we also went (between basketball practices) to Bethany's dance recital.  The little girls dressed as Disney princesses and danced to A Princesses' Twelve Days of Christmas.  It was adorable.

Friday there was only a half day of school.  It's a good thing because it was Kevin's birthday!!!  Yay, Kevin!  So, we packed up the family and went bowling!  That's what Kevin like to do for his birthday so it is pretty much a yearly tradition for us, now.  We take up two lanes with all our family members, now.  We are quite the bowling party!

Bethany gave her ball a kiss before she sent it down the lane! Is that sweet or what??

Go team!

We didn't have to tell Ben to push hard.

Kevin schooled us all!

Afterward, we went out to eat at Brick Oven and Grandma Gazdik joined us.  It was a fun time!  When we got home, Kevin took Sarah and Mariah to the church gym to end the day with some basketball just to make the day complete.  Happy Birthday, Kevin B.!

Saturday was Megan's birthday!  We went over to Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik's at lunch time for Megan's birthday dinner.  Savannah had to work form 2 to 9, so we moved Meg's party to earlier in the day.  She didn't complain.

Beautiful girl.

We had a great lasagna dinner, opened presents, and had cake.  It was great fun.  Afterwards, Meg, Savannah, and Mariah wanted to go to The Nest, a store in Springville, to get things with their gift cards.  It took quite awhile to pick out all the perfect things, but the girls had a fun time there.  When we got home, Meg and I went to the store to rent The Avengers and buy some soda and chips in order to continue the party atmosphere well into the evening.  After the movie, while I bathed the little ones, the rest of the family played the T-Shirt game to finish the day with a bang.  It was a fun birthday and we love that sweet girl.  Happy Birthday, Megan!