Last week when we got home from our trip, Sarah found her room looking like this!  It was Jakob's way of asking her to prom.  Fun, huh?  Megan helped her write a poster to answer the boy and Sarah put glowsticks in his lawn.  Prom is this Friday!

So . . . we made good use of the balloons!  Grandma Gazdik came over last Sunday to share a birthday dinner with Benjamin and we decorated with lots and lots of balloons!  We also had a nice dinner and birthday cake with ice cream.  It was a fun evening.

Saturday we also made use of the balloons as we had Ben's friend birthday party.  With 9 other little boys and 1 patient little girl, we had balloon relay races, team balloon gathering, balloon stomps, and balloon sweatshirt stuffing competitions!  It was pretty fun.  We also had pizza and presents and cupcakes and, of course, a pinata.  Ben and his friends had a loud and crazy time!

Also on Saturday, Megan had a track meet where she had to run the mile when she prefers the 800 and then had to rush back from the meet an hour away to get to work.  Then she had a hard time at work and the customers didn't leave until late.  She came home feeling angry and defeated and picked on!  So, she and I went to the bookstore.  Barnes and Noble can make people like us feel better!  Today, though, she is sick, sick, sick.  Poor girl!  I hope she doesn't have what her father had!  She sure works herself hard!

Also on Saturday, Mariah had the same track meet.  She had to rush back to practice with her shooting coach and she rushed from there to go to a birthday party which included going to the temple together.  It was a crazy day for her, too!  She was glad to get home and go to bed!

Also on Saturday . . . just kidding!  I think that winds up the Saturday stories.  Although, Kevin, after going for a run in the morning, buying pizza for Ben's party, driving to West Jordan to pick up Meg and Mariah from their track meet, and taking Mariah to practice shooting with her coach, came back home and took Cali and Chey to practice pitching.

Yep, it's that time of year again!  Kevin and Cali and Chey had two official softball team practices this week afterwhich they were all sore.  Lol!

I could also tell you about Sarah's Saturday.  She worked from morning until midafternoon, then went to see the new Saturday's Warrior with Hunter per his request, came back for some dinner, and left to go ice skating with Allyson, Kam, and Jakob.  I guess she had a busy day, too!

On Saturday, Cali and Chey helped me with Ben's birthday party and later in the afternoon went to the track with their friend, Logan, to practice for the Hershey Track Meet coming up this week.  After dinner, they watched Teen Beach Movie again because sometimes you just gotta, "Surf, surf crazy!"

On Saturday Bethany had some friends who could play for a few hours at a time but found herself at loose ends in the afternoon when the twins were gone and Ben was still playing with friends from his party (EIGHT hours people!  EIGHT HOURS!!)  Bethany so rarely is by herself that she hardly knew what to do with herself!

By then, I was blocking out all the commotion, reading in a chair while cushion forts were built around me.

Sometimes, you just gotta.