I watched a lot of tennis this week!  On Monday, was the doubles portion of the Maple Mountain Tennis Tournament.  Sarah played with Allyson and Megan played with Alisa.  Their first match was against each other!  It was fun to watch them and they all played well.  Sarah and Alyson have more experience though and won!  They went on to play two more matches that day and never lost.  They won the whole thing!  It was a lot of playing out in the sun but great fun to see them do so well!

Megan and Alisa went over to the consolation bracket and they won there which made them the winners of the consolation bracket!  Yay!  I forgot to get a picture of Megan and Alisa together but here is Megan with her ribbon:

Megan started again Tuesday morning to play in the singles tournament.  She lost, entered the consolation bracket and then played again Wednesday morning.  She lost there, too, thus ending our three-day tournament experience!  She had fun, though, and learned a lot!  It was a good experience.

Tuesday (after Meg's morning match) we had Bethany's friend birthday party!  She wanted a jungle party so we made monkeys out of construction paper, played jungle games, had a monkey piñata, and even had make-your-own monkey cupcakes.  It was great fun!  After two hours when I announced the party was done, Beth said, "What?  I thought we were going to play some more games!". I guess she wanted to play all day!  A few of the friends stayed most of the day so I think she got her wish!

 

Wednesday after piano lessons, Mariah, Cali, Cheye, Beth, and Ben went over to Grandma's for dinner and fun!  Cali, Chey, and Beth spent the night even!  The next day Cali and Cheye spent the morning with a friend and then went to sewing class with her!  They made cupcake pincushions and headbands.  This was their second sewing class and they really love it.

 

 

Friday was the 4th of July!  In the morning, Kevin, Sarah, Megan, Cali, Cheyenne, Bethany, and I went to the tennis courts.  We just became the new owner of a ball hopper and 72 tennis balls!  We all got some great practice and then Kevin and I played doubles against Sarah and Megan.  Kevin is good enough and I am bad enough that the teams are almost even!  :P.  It was fun to play as a family, though.

 

For lunch we went up the canyon and had a picnic lunch with all the Gazdiks that were in town!  Grandma and Grandpa, of course, but also Mike and Sanae and Kayla and Jordan and Julia.  We had a great lunch and then spent time visiting and playing some games in the shade.

 

When we got back from the canyon, the girls got really serious about changing the rooms.  They had finally packed and sorted and organized enough to make things happen!  It took most of the rest of the day and is really still in process, but we got the beds and clothes moved that night.  Everyone is now sleeping in their new room with just all the reorganizing left to go!

 

On Saturday, Kevin and I went to the Spanish Fork pool with Mariah, Cheye, Cali, Beth, Ben, and Julia.  It was tons of fun and really hot so it cooled us down just right!  Kevin and I took Beth and Ben down the slide lots of times and practiced their swimming.  The other girls played lots of games.  It was fun.  That night we had the Gazdiks over to our backyard for grilled steaks and more great food and visiting.  It's always fun to have them over and it made for a great weekend!