Wednesday was the first day of school!  Sarah and Megan went off to the High School.  Mariah went to the Junior High.  Calianne and Cheyenne left me for Brookside Elementary.  And Bethany went back to Sage Creek Elementary to continue in the Chinese immersion program.  The youngest three were excited to go back to school!  My older three said, "Ugh.  School."  And for the first time in fifteen years, Savannah did not have a back-to-school day!  Benjamin won't start kindergarten until next week.

 

Sarah a senior, Mariah a freshman, and Megan a junior!

Calianne and Cheyenne 6th graders, Bethany 2nd grade.

Ben stayed home and sawed stuff.

Sarah and Megan had tennis matches on Tuesday and Thursday.  They lost to Orem on Tuesday but won easily against Timpanogos on Thursday!  Varsity had a tournament Friday and Saturday and Sarah played in that, as well, even missing her third day of school!  She and Allyson played four matches Friday and won all of them.  Saturday they played the winner of the other bracket in a championship match and they won again!  It was fun to watch!  They had a lot of great shots!  They're playing really well.

The Springville team won the whole tournament and were awarded t-shirts!

Megan and Mariah ran in their first Cross Country meet on Thursday.  It was pre-regions and had every team in their region at SHS for an enormous, exciting race!  They ran three miles with 105 runners.  Mariah placed 8^th overall and was 2^nd on her team with a time of 21:09!  Megan placed 33^rd overall and was 6^th on her team with a time of 23:31!  Those girls are fast!  What a great race!

 

 

In addition to starting school and competing in sports, we also had some fun ward activities this week!  On Tuesday night for YM/YW, the kids had a cardboard boat race at the reservoir.  They had a ton of fun and everybody got wet!  It was a great last fling before school started the next day!

 

 

Then Friday night we had a ward campout!  It was tons of fun!  We used to do these every year so we have fun memories of doing these with our kids as they were growing up.  It's super fun when there's a lot of participation.  The little kids run around with all their friends from church and play in the wild and get super dirty and the parents sit around and talk and laugh.  It's pretty perfect for everybody.

Surrounded by my friends' tents!

Yep.  That's Ben over on the dirt hill with the other boys.

Mariah organized some of the younger girls for Bunny, Bunny.

Megan and Mariah slid down these rails multiple times!