So, on Monday, Mariah, Cheyenne, Calianne, Beth, and Ben and I went to the Spanish Fork pool. We hadn't been all summer! We went swimming lots of other places, but not there. It was lots of fun and the pool was not at all crowded. We went down the slide lots of times. I took Ben down with me and at the bottom he'd say, "Let's do it again!" and drag me by the hand out of the pool and back up the stairs. Beth went by herself with a lifejacket on and had a great time, too! Cali and Chey and Mariah, of course, just went over and over all on their own. They also went off the diving boards and had races in the deep end.
Even though school started on Thursday, Wednesday was our craziest day. As a new seventh grader at the junior high, Mariah had a half-day of school where just the seventh graders get to rotate from class to class and get a feel for walking the halls before all the other kids get there. Mariah saw a lot of her friends and sort-of got the hang of her schedule with only one major mistake. Overall, I think the half-day may have overwhelmed her more than reassured her, but I'm sure it helped the next day when she had to do it for real and found out that she really could get where she needed to go just fine!
Also on Wednesday, Sarah, Cheyenne, Calianne, and Mariah had piano lessons. We had elementary orientation from 2-3, junior high orientation from 3-5, and high school orientation from 5-6! I didn't actually attend the latter two, but the girls did.
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| Cheyenne and Calianne outside their classes at orientation! |
But, that's not all! Sarah had a tennis meet at 3:30, Mariah had her first soccer game at 5, and Savannah had her first cross country race, pre-regions, at 6:30. That's doing a lot in one day! Even in my book. It all turned out fine, though. I got to see some of Sarah and all of Mariah and Kevin got to see some of Mariah and all of Savannah. Sarah won her set 6-2. Mariah won her game 6-1. Savannah ran 2.95 miles in 24:18. What a bunch of stellar athletes!
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| Beth found Savannah's uniform before the meet and tried it on! |
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| Beth and Ben helped me make cupcakes because, you may remember, "School is a piece of cake!" |
The first day turned out pretty well for all of them. The second day, too, as a matter of fact. Megan was the most dissatisfied. She doesn't have the excitement of a new school and nothing much really happens the first couple of days at the junior high besides going over the rules eight times in a row. She's been bored! Still, she walked to a friends house after school Friday with another friend. At least that was fun! Maybe things are looking up? She likes seminary and Chinese.
Cali and Chey after getting over some trepidation over the possible difficulty of fourth grade, love their new teachers and their personalities and the fun things they have done so far. They also love being with their friends again! At Brookside, most grades are team taught and the classes switch teachers after lunch. Last year, as you may recall, their teacher was Mrs. Evans (the mother of Savannah's friend, Scott). This summer, Scott's brother married a young teacher at the school, creating a second Mrs. Evans! This is Cali and Chey's teacher for the fourth grade! Funny, huh? It's all one big happy family!
Sarah has not decided yet how high school is going to be. Our high school has A days and B days. She has definitely decided that her B day is going to be way, way hard! She promises that she will never do that to herself again. I think it will work out fine. We shall see. She really likes her new Spanish class. (It's on A day!) Oh, and on that dreaded B day, she has a class with Savannah! They'll have AP World History together. Savannah and Sarah do like that.
Savannah reported that she felt like she had never left. I guess senior year feels the same as junior year -- just a lot of work! Chinese 4 conflicted with another class Savannah wanted to take, so she talked to her teacher and asked if she could instead be a Teacher Assistant in Chinese 1 and also do a little independent study with her that period. Her teacher was super excited to have her as a TA! So far, it is what Savannah is most excited about, too!
Meanwhile, Kevin's brother, Mike and his family are in town to drop off their daughters at BYU. Their twins will start their freshman year in a couple of weeks! They are very excited. We were excited to see all of them again! On Friday night, Grandma and Grandpa invited us over for a combined birthday party for Cali, Chey, Julia, and Jordan. It was great fun to be with all the family that was there!
On Saturday we got together for professional Gazdik pictures! Tyler and Stephanie came from Idaho and new freshman at Dixie son, Jacob, came from St. George. Uncle Todd and sons, Bryen and Brady came, too, from Salt Lake! With Mike and Sanae and children, Kayla, Anna, Erin, Jordan, and Julia here from California, everybody was there! I will post pics later when I get them. Afterwards we all went out to eat at Applebee's. We all had a great time being together! It was a good day.
Funniest picture of the week is below. We have used the trailer often this summer and Ben thinks it is super cool. He attaches things to his toy cars so they can pull things. He also loves to take a bungee cord and attach smaller cars to his bike so he can pull them behind. We had the trailer in front of our house this week, for the first time unattached from the van. When I saw Ben do this, I HAD to take a picture! He is so awesome!
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