Sunday, September 7, 2014

Monday was Labor Day and as Savannah was starting her first day of college at BYU the next day, we decided to go out to eat with Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik at Chuck-a-Rama.  It's a buffet and we had great fun eating and eating.  Benjamin especially.


Afterward we drove with Savannah back to the dorms to take a picture of her by the BYU sign.  Before we could drag ourselves away from her, we found ourselves playing Frisbee in the Helaman Halls fields.  Savannah's experience with BYU is definitely starting out as a family affair.  What a lucky gal!  Seriously.  I think so.



Tuesday was Benjamin's first day of school!  Joy School!  Boy was he excited.  He had a great time and wanted to go again Wednesday though he had to wait until Thursday.  When I asked if he was excited to go to school on Thursday, he said, "I'm excited for school everyday!!"  I'm so glad he likes it and that he is in a group with two great boys his age.  It's going to be great.  On Thursday he painted a rock.  It was a grey rock.  He painted it grey.  Pretty awesome, right?


Thursday was Mariah's first cross country meet.  It was the pre-region meet so all the schools in the region were there.  Seventy-six girls ran in Mariah's race.  Mariah came in THIRD!!  It was a mile and a half race and she ran it in 10:14.  She is one fast girl.

Thursday was also Sarah and Megan's second tennis match of the week.  They went to Heber City on Tuesday.  Sarah and Allyson won in two matches 6-3, 7-5.  Megan and Alysa fought valiantly but lost.  On Thursday they played at home.  Kevin went to watch.  Meg and Alysa lost, sadly.  Sarah and Allyson had a pretty dramatic finish.  Here is what their coach posted on facebook: 

"Thursday's tennis match against Salem Hills High School was a REAL nail biter (to say the least)!!! With 4 varsity matches completed, the score was 2-2. That left Sarah & Allyson (in doubles) left representing the Red Devils. They split the first two sets. At one point in time in the third and final set, the score was 1-5 (in games) and were down 0-40 (three match points for the Sky Hawks). Not only did these girls come back and won that game, but won the next FIVE consecutive games!!! Thus SHS beat SHHS 3-2. Whew!"



Friday Megan tried out for the Philharmonic Orchestra at SHS.  As a sophomore, she should be in Concert Strings.  Unfortunately it is only offered during the only period that Chinese 2 is offered.  The orchestra director gave her a few weeks to prepare her audition to see if she could be in the higher orchestra.  Guess what?  She can!  She'll start next week.  She is pretty awesome.

Friday we also had a cloud burst.  The sun was shining and the rain was pounding.  Cali and Chey and Beth and Ben all ran out to run through the water.  It was pure childhood joy.


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