Savannah found out that she can't work more than 910 hours before she's considered a full-time employee.  Since she's getting close to that cut-off, she has cut her hours down to six a day and we've seen her a little bit more!  She got her influenza shot and has been doing stuff with friends.  She says it feels weird to have her friends starting school and not be going herself!  I don't think she thought she'd miss it as much as she does.

Sarah had two tennis matches this week.  Tuesday's match was against Springville's arch-rival Maple Mountain.   Sarah and Allyson duked it out with them, split sets and had to play a third, and finally pulled it our for the win!  They emerged from the match to find out that Maple Mountain had defeated every other Springville team.   Way to be the victors Sarah and Allyson!  Thursday they took their turn to lose and they did not like it!  Sarah worked Friday and Saturday and went to the football game after work Friday and out to see a movie after work Saturday.  She also started her during-school-hours internship this week in a special needs kindergarten.  She LOVES it!

Megan also had two tennis matches this week.  She and her partner, Elizabeth, lost on Tuesday, but won Thursday in a ten-point tie-breaker.  It was pretty exciting!  She is getting better and better!  On Saturday morning, Megan ran at the BYU Cross-country Invitational in the Junior-Senior JV race.  She set a personal record for herself, running 3 miles in 22:14!  The top 30 finishers were awarded a t-shirt.  Megan blasted past three runners in the last 50 meters to claim a t-shirt for herself landing in 30th place!

Mariah also ran in the BYU Cross-country Invitational on Saturday.  She ran in the Varsity race and also set a personal record for herself coming in at 19:52 for three miles and claiming her own t-shirt in 30th place!  Mariah is running as the second runner on her Varsity team as a freshman!  She is super fast!  On Saturday afternoon she went over to her grandparent's house to watch the Nebraska/BYU football game and may have been just as excited as her dad when BYU won!

Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik came to watch the races Saturday, too!

Cheyenne and Calianne are working on their applications for student council and as such, they have to complete ten hours of community service.  They worked on that this week, going to Sister Holm's house on Tuesday to sort thousands of beads and to their grandparents house on Saturday to wash windows.  I also took them to Barnes and Noble to use the giftcards they got from Grandma and Grandpa Elton for their birthday.  They loved picking out their own books and then BONUS, because it was their birthday, they got free cookies in the B&N Café!  Fun times.  Friday night they had their friend Elizabella over for a late-night and they baked a cake and frosted it themselves.  Cali put frosting all over her face!

Bethany had a special treat at her school when students from Taiwan came for a day of school and a special performance that evening.  Beth loved it and her dad enjoyed it very much, too!  She started piano lessons with her own teacher this week and is super excited about that, too.

Benjamin continued going to kindergarten all this week and he still really likes it!  Yay!  He especially loves coming home and having his friends come over and play.  We've had boys living it up in our backyard everyday after school this week.  I think it's pretty great to have him come in dirty and exhausted from a great afternoon of playing hard.  Friday morning, Grandma Gazdik invited Ben over for a morning together before she took him to school.  He loves that too!

Kevin left Wednesday for Lincoln, Nebraska.  A Father in the Catholic church in Lincoln asked Kevin to come do some training for Catholic clergy and counselors in his city.  Kevin saw it as a great opportunity and scheduled it with the Father to coincide with the weekend that BYU would be playing in Husker Stadium.  It was definitely a win-win.  Kevin returned today and had a great trip.  He learned a lot about the Catholic church and his training was very well received.  He also had a great time watching football especially when the Cougars pulled out the win in the last seconds of the game.  What a great time for Kevin B!

The church Kevin taught at.

Kevin attended the game with his friend, John, from our ward.