This week was Savannah's birthday!!  Since Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik work at the temple on Wednesday, they had us over for Savannah's birthday dinner on Sunday night.  It was such fun with balloons and presents and even Thor cupcakes!  Grandma and Grandpa sure know how to throw a party!

Seventeen candles this year!  None of us can even believe it!  What a beautiful girl, though.

On Monday Mariah had a basketball game where I coached her and she did great, as usual!  Then, about an hour and a half later, she had another game where Kevin was the coach.  It was their first game of the end-of-season tournament for club basketball.  These games are much faster, but Mariah still does great.  Their team did super well.  At the end of the game, two of their best players had fouled out and they were down by two points when Mariah got fouled on her shot and got to go to the free-throw line.  Guess what?  She sunk both of them!  She tied up the game for her team and sent them into one minute of overtime.  What a star, right??  Unfortunately, the other team managed to score during overtime, and we did not.  Still.  It was an exciting game.  Kevin coached great and Mariah played great.  Their team is done now until . . . March season. Lol!  You knew it couldn't be over for too long, right?

On Tuesday Megan had a basketball game.  She did great!  They've lost to this team before, but beat them by four on Tuesday.  Megan had two outside shots in a row when they were down by five and pulled them into reach.  It was pretty triumphant.  (Ha!  Word from the 80s!)

Mariah got this t-shirt that kind of sums up our lives:

But this week, we did actually have events other than basketball with which to decorate our lives!  Wednesday was Savannah's actual birthday and as an extra-special treat, Grandma Elton arrived for a visit!  Yay, Grandma!  She helped me make water dumplings for Savannah's birthday dinner.  Then she got to come see my last game coaching Mariah's team.  We won.  In fact, this year, we never lost!  Crazy!  My team won t-shirts that say "Jr. Jazz Champions."  There was much rejoicing.  It was a lot of fun.

They were fun girls and a great team.  I hope they learned something.  They sure had a good time.  That I know!

When we got back to the house, Megan had finished making special cupcakes for Savannah's birthday!

Ben had great fun finishing up the extra chocolate hearts!

The next day, Thursday, was Valentine's day!  Calianne and Cheyenne had their basketball game still and they were tons of fun to watch.  However, Savannah was the star on this day, too, because it was the day of her big choir concert.  This year they performed with Dalynn Bayless who is a Broadway star but now lives in Springville.  The choir sang songs from Broadway interspersed with solos from Broadway sung by Dalynn.  Boy can that man SING!  Savannah was in the last big showstopper which was a medley of songs from Newsies.  Boy can those kids SING!  They did great and Savannah, as always, was so fun to watch because she is so happy and animated.  It was a wonderful night.  Grandma Elton loved it and so did Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik and so did Sarah and Kevin and I!  It was incredible.

On Friday night Kevin and my mom and I went out to eat Mexican food.  Yum!  We came back and all watched a movie (the kids, too!)  It was tons of fun.  Also, Mariah came home with that medal that she earned last week:

We had to say goodbye to Grandma Saturday morning after Kevin made us all a big, yummy breakfast.  Benjamin has already asked me about a hundred times, "Where Grandma go?"  We all miss her, but it was so fun to have her for those four days!  And so fun that she could be here for Savannah's birthday and for her choir concert.  It was a good week.  :)