On Monday of this week, Savannah left with a group of her college friends for a road trip!  We let them take our van and another girl in the group paid for a condo for them in St. George for a few nights.  They hiked in Zion, did baptisms at the St. George temple, and patronized the local pool.  Then they went on to Las Vegas and stayed a night at my mom's house where they again did baptisms this time at the LV temple and went to see the new Avenger's movie.  They came home Friday having safely navigated their first real independent adventure.  I was proud of them all.  What fun!

Sarah really, really wanted to go see the Payson Temple open house and was going to go with another family this week.  When that fell through, I got online and managed to find a few tickets so that some of our family could go!  Sarah and I took Cali, Cheyenne, and Bethany Friday morning at 8 am so they'd only miss a bit of school.  I'm so glad that Sarah's enthusiasm got us there because it was a beautiful place with a beautiful spirit and so it was a beautiful experience!  Way to go Sarah!  Then Saturday morning, as the last Saturday of the month, was the day that our YW's President takes the girls to the temple to do baptisms and she needed me to drive.  Sarah and Megan and Mariah all went.  We went to the Timpanogos temple and that was beautiful too!  What a lot of sweet experiences with my daughters and with the Lord.

Megan had to do 160 pages of Chemistry homework this week.  I am really not at all sure how this is possible, but she managed to get it done through constant work and late nights.  I am impressed!  Her teacher should be as well!  She also ran track all week (though she had to miss a practice for the Chemistry, too!). This picture about sums up her week:

Mariah had a track meet on Friday.  They were missing some of their runners so in addition to the mile and 800 she usually runs, she also ran the 400 and a leg in the 4x400 relay.  I couldn't be at the meet so I asked her afterward.  The conversation went like this, "How'd you do in _____ (enter event name here)?". Mariah:  "I did alright."  Me: "What did you place?" Mariah, with a sheepish grin, "First.". Yep.  For every single event!

Cheyenne and Calianne had their Springville Track Meet for all the 5th grades this week!  It was pretty exciting!  Cheyenne ran the 100 and the 800 and placed 5th in the 800.  Calianne ran the 100 and the 400 and placed 3rd in the 400!  Mostly they had a great time being with their friends and enjoying being outside on a beautiful day!  They had a great time!

Cheyenne

Calianne

 

 

Bethany told me at the open house, "Mom, I know why temples look like castles.  Because Heavenly Father is our King!". She sure got that one right.  She is such a sweet girl and continues to love playing with her friends and learning Chinese at school.

 

 

 

Benjamin had joy school this week and his day with Grandma. When he's home, he does his twenty minutes of online preschool, watches some transformers on TV, plays with his transformers, makes transformers out of his Legos, and draws transformers.  All that is just to fill time until his friends get home from school and they can reenact transformers.  I am only exaggerating a little.  I love how much he loves to draw, though.