Sarah found out this week that she is a semi-finalist for our region's Sterling Scholar winner!  That means she gets to go to the interviews!  Ok.  She's not really that excited to have to go get interviewed, but it is an honor.  Maybe mom and dad are more excited than she is!  She also got the news that she was accepted at Utah State.  There are a lot of great things happening in her life!

Sarah's Sterling Scholar Picture

Megan hates school and hates her life and wants to go live in a hole.  So, this week was much the same as others.  She made a super-cute, animated video in her Digital Media class about an evil mug of cocoa.  It was terrifically funny!  She also continues to knock herself out studying and getting straight A's and practicing for the upcoming track season.  We love her to bits and are so glad she doesn't live in a hole.

Mariah had an epic day this week!  She got to start in the Sophomore game, the JV game, AND the Varsity game all on the same day!  That probably won't ever happen again in her whole life.  She doesn't usually even play in the Varsity game, but the coach asked everyone to shoot on their own last Saturday.  When she asked who had actually done the practice, only five raised their hands.  To teach a lesson, she let those five start the Varsity game and sat all her usual starters!  She only played two minutes of the Varsity game but we were all there to cheer her on!  That was Tuesday, she had games again Friday.  In Friday's last game, they won in the last twenty seconds of the game when the ball was stolen and passed to Mariah for the winning lay-up!  Such good times!

Cheyenne and Calianne have been loving their basketball this week, too.  They only had two games and one practice this week but they loved all of it.  Cheyenne had to have four baby teeth pulled this week that were getting in the way of her orthodontist's grand plan.  None of the roots had dissolved, so they left gaping holes in their wake.  Ouch!  She stayed home from school but then joined her activity days group (including Calianne) to tour the temple and then rush over for an afternoon basketball game!  What a trooper!

Bethany had dance and piano and school and played with her sisters and Ben and her friends.  She also loves to talk to her teenage-sister's friends whenever any come to the house.  She is quite the social butterfly.  She went with Cali and Chey sledding on Saturday when we had a sunny day after all the snow fell this week!  She had fun with her sisters.

Benjamin had a cavity that got filled this week.  They said he did well!  yay!  He got a balloon so he was happy.  I babysat twice this week and he loved having extra friends around for that.  He put his train track all back together with some help from a friend.  I was impressed!  He also had his 100th day of school and made this cute hat!

Kevin left on Thursday for Arizona where he is being trained to teach the workshops he attended last year.  We won't see him until tonight and we can't wait to have him back!  He will probably be doing this four times a year from now on.  It's a great opportunity and we will continue to be happy each time he returns to us!

I worked seventeen paid hours this week!  All from home!  I'm so impressed I managed to fit so much in.  I won't usually work that many hours, but the first week of the month is always time-consuming in accounting.  I'm glad I could do it.