On Monday, we finally got a chance to take our whole family to see the Provo City Center Temple Open House (Savannah was there in spirit!).  We even went out to eat lunch beforehand at Chuck a Rama.  The kids loved it as we don't usually spend the money to take everyone to a restaurant.  We're not sure why, but at the temple, the ticket holder line snaked up and down and throughout the whole parking garage!  So, we waited in line for an hour and twenty minutes before we got to the video (which was really good!).  We entertained ourselves while in line and had a good time, anyway!  The temple is really beautiful with a pioneer theme.  I loved it!

Megan is getting squashed!

 

 

This is the entrance from the parking garage.  It's pretty!

 

Tuesday was Mariah's last basketball games!  She will continue to practice with the Varsity until they're all the way through the State tournament, but the Sophomore and JV games wrapped up on Tuesday.  I didn't get to see the JV game, but Kevin said when they put Mariah in, she turned the game around and they ended up winning!  Go Mariah!  Sarah had to work on Tuesday, but the rest of us all went to cheer Mariah on at the Sophomore game.  She is our favorite player!

 

Also on Tuesday, Cali and Chey had their science fair!  The science fair was optional this year so only six projects got completed in the whole 6th grade.  Still, Chey and Cali really wanted to do it and they did it mostly on their own, so it was fun for us all!  They made cookies and split the batch, putting baking powder in half and baking soda in the other half.  We got to eat all their cookies when they were done so it was even more fun!  Seriously, though, they did a great job!

Wednesday, Cali and Chey and Kevin had a basketball game at 7:30, and Sarah, Megan, Mariah, and I had practice for the temple's cultural celebration at 7:00.  So, Beth and Ben came to the church with us.  I did some homework with Bethany in the Relief Society room, but mostly they had a great time chasing each other around the gym.

Thursday Cali and Chey had basketball practice in the afternoon, as did Mariah.  Sarah and Megan worked.  Bethany looked particularly adorable while practicing piano before school.

Friday I went to the first day of the Build Your Blog Conference in Salt Lake City.  (The kids were like, "You're going to a conference AGAIN?!" Poor souls.)  I went on Saturday, too, and was home by 4:30 both days.  I learned a lot about the very confusing blogging world and even figured some things out!  My impression is, even successful bloggers aren't completely sure why things work, so they keep doing everything possible just in case. The social media world is crazy.

Sarah went to the USU Eastern campus in Price for an overnight "get to know us" event.  She reports having a terrific time, BUT she thinks a bigger campus would be more her thing.  She was accepted to BYU-Idaho, too, this week, which means she is considering Utah State, BYU-Idaho, or UVU.  It's a hard decision which she's thinking about very carefully.

Kevin worked on this old house on Saturday and fixed our leaky bath faucet and a leak in our toilet, too.  What a handy man!  The good news is that Ben was fascinated by the whole process, and now that he's been playing Mario, he thinks becoming a plumber would be awesome!