We started out this week celebrating Cheyenne and Calianne's birthday!  Their birthday was really on Friday, but we knew we'd all be different directions on that day, so we celebrated Sunday at Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik's!  It was so fun to see them excited about their presents and to all be together for their eleventh birthday!  They are fun girls who love crafts and games and doing things together.  I'm so blessed to have them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still don't have pictures of Sarah and Megan playing tennis!  :(  But they played twice again this week and both won in separate matches against both schools.  They are pretty awesome and they sure love to play!  It's fun to see them enjoying it so much.

 

Wednesday was Ben's first day of kindergarten!!  Tuesday, Grandma and I took him to McDonald's for lunch to celebrate all the "Grandma Days" he had before starting school.  Grandma often takes him to McDonald's for lunch and he loves going with her!  Afterwards, he and I went for a bike ride.  He took me to the creek and climbed up and down the bank, throwing rocks, and climbing on piles of driftwood.  Wednesday he had to wait all the way until after lunch to go to school.  He was very excited to go and he came home with chocolate all over his face from the cupcake he got as his first day treat.  He's liked it ever since.  I like it, too.

 

Megan and Mariah ran in the American Fork grass relays with their cross country team Saturday morning.  I wasn't there, but Kevin went and brought Beth and Ben.  He said it was a mass of teenage humanity!  Meg and Mariah both ran great and had a lot of fun.  Their team placed 1st in their region and 9th in a field of 32 schools.

On Thursday after school, Savannah and Cheyenne and Calianne and I drove down to Las Vegas.  My sister had a baby and my brother's baby got married!  Sounds like a good reason for a road trip, does it not?  Savannah and I got to attend the sealing Friday morning in the temple.  My niece, Samantha looked soooo happy.  Savannah got pretty giddy and declared, "Oh!  I want to get married, too!"  What a special day for Samantha.  It filled us up to be there.

Later that day we got to take a break from celebrating my oldest niece and meet my newest niece:  RoxaBelle Berlin Owen.  She was born Wednesday!  My sister did a great job on her and is still worn out.  What a sacrifice we make to bring these babies into the world, eh?  They're so worth it, though!  What a happy thing!  Great job Diane!  We love RoxaBelle!

Then we went to the reception for Samantha's wedding!  It was so fun to visit with family and friends and celebrate the happiness of the day.  Samantha looked beautiful and happy!  We were so glad we could be there!

Sam threw her flowers at the end and Calianne jumped in the air to catch them!
She quickly handed them off to Sam's bridesmaid, though!
I guess she's not ready to get married, yet.

The next day we slept in late and then drove halfway home to Cedar City.  Maggie's kids have been rehearsing all summer for the musical Aladdin and they were performing Saturday night.  So, we got to see that, too!  There were 240 kids in the production, the sets were great, and the costumes were fabulous.  All the kids did a great job!  We were super impressed.  It was great fun and we were glad we could be there and squeeze in a little bit more family time.

Lunch at Popeye's!

Those not in the play!

Those in the play!

Savannah, Cheyenne, Cali, and I drove home right after the play and got home around 12:30am.  We had a fun time together and were pleased to find everything well at home with their good Dad in charge.  It was a full week!