No pictures this week!  Sorry!  I guess after all those Easter pictures, nothing else seemed quite as picture-worthy.

Let's see.  Savannah kept herself going to school and doing homework for at least another week.  She is getting rather tired of high school especially when it is hard.  Shouldn't the rest just be an easy downhill glide?  We're proud of her that she is still keeping up with everything.  We got a visit from Anna and Erin Gazdik cousins before they went home to California after their freshman year at BYU.  They got Savannah excited about living in Helaman Halls and gave her tips on picking teachers.  It's always fun to see the Gazdiks!

Sarah has been offered a job at Funfinity!  Yay!  We are all excited for her.  Especially Savannah.  Sarah is still a bit unsure.  She said that during her interview they asked her what was the scariest thing she'd ever done, and she had wanted to say, "This interview!". We know she'll get in there and get comfortable and do a great job.  Sarah also played her first match in a USTA tournament this Saturday in SLC.  It was a doubles match that she played with Allyson.  That was a pretty scary thing to do, too!  They played great, though!  They lost the first match in a tie-breaker.  It was really close!  Then they lost the second match 6-3.  It was best 2 out of 3, playing to 6 points.  Kevin and I had a great time watching.  They'll both play singles matches next week.

Megan ran track again this week.  At the meet on Friday she placed 4th in the 400, 5th in the 800, and 1st in the 4x400.  Their dad went and watched them again!  Meg also went to her fiddle lesson on Saturday.  She continues to beg me to cancel lessons all the way to the lesson and then chat happily about how great her lesson was all the way home.  One can dare to hope that this won't always be the case, can't one?  It is a serious emotional roller coaster!  She did a great job taking care of the little ones and getting the house cleaned up while Kevin and I went to SLC Saturday night with Sarah.

Mariah ran track all this week, too.  At the meet on Friday she placed 4th in the mile with a 6:19, 4th in the 800, and 1st in the 4x400 (she and Meg are on the same team, of course!).  Mariah had a crisis with her fish this weekend.  Sarah was sewing in Mariah's room where we have the sewing machine set up (since there is the most room there!) and Ben had come down to chat with Sarah.  After that, he dumped a whole canister of fish food into the tank.  Crimanee.  Mariah had to get all the fish out and change all the water and it was a two hour job that Mariah did not want to do and she was worried for the life of her fish and absolutely enraged with her brother.  But it is over now and all seems to be well again.

Chey and Cali have had a good week caring for their rabbits, playing piano and tennis, and playing with friends.  They got to go on a field trip to This is the Place Monument and Pioneer Park.  They had a great time doing that.  They had Activity Days on Tuesday where they "made pumpkins!". Actually, they planted pumpkin seeds which is about as close as you can get, right?

Bethany played with friends and went to kindergarten and gave great hugs and was just generally adorable.

Benjamin hung out with me while I tried to make a new creation out of my old bike, built terrific creations out of his Duplo blocks, gave great hugs and was generally adorable -- even when he accidentally destroyed months of habitat building in a much-cherished fish tank!

We hope you are all well, too!