This week we celebrated Savannah's 18th birthday.  Wow!  18!  I can hardly believe it!  She is beautiful and confident and strong and if she is "done" being a kid, I'd say she turned out well.  Really well.  What a treat it has been to be her mom . . . and will continue to be!  We love her to pieces.

For her birthday, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik's and had a lovely dinner, cake and ice cream, and opened presents.  It was great fun. 

 

Friday, of course, was Valentine's Day.  Kevin took me out to an early dinner since the restaurants were packed and then we came home to eat the chocolate-covered strawberries that I made him and to watch Sherlock.  Fun times!

 

The rest of the week was pretty much the same as other weeks, basketball games for Cali, Chey, and Mariah.  Tennis and working at basketball games for Sarah.  Work for Savannah.  Piano lessons for lots of kids and a fiddle lesson for Megan.  Lots and lots of homework.  Oh! And some Olympics watching in the evenings to spice things up.

 

On Saturday we had a surprise as our two "female" rabbits had baby bunnies!  Oops!  They only lived a few hours, though, which wasn't surprising since first litters rarely survive.  We decided to go ahead and put the rabbits back together and let them raise at least one litter of bunnies.  It will be fun for the kids.  After that, I am planning on taking them to the vet.  We will see how it goes!  Right now, it is raising lots of questions about how babies are made!  We will see how that goes, too!

 

On Saturday there was also another BYU Women's basketball game. The older girls were busy so we just brought Mariah on down.  Ben made it to half-time but then started wandering the empty rows. Kevin was watching him, but then lost sight of him.  We searched everywhere in that stadium and had all the security guards at the doors looking out for him.  We couldn't find him anywhere when suddenly he comes walking out of the Men's bathroom a few doors down -- with his pants down around his ankles.  Nothing like having a three-year-old take himself to the bathroom in a stadium built for 20,000!  Fortunately, it was mostly empty.  Still, it made the day pretty exciting.  Not that the game needed extra spice, it was a great win and we had fun!  We were glad to have all our children when we left at the end!

We watched the BYU Dunk Team at half-time.  Cool stuff!

The twins and Bethany danced the chicken dance.

We even made posters!