Tuesday was Mariah's sixteenth birthday!  She has grown into a beautiful young lady and we love her so!  Don't worry.  We played her lots of sappy turning sixteen songs!  We had a lovely birthday dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik's on Sunday and opened presents and such on Tuesday, too!  She had basketball practice all week and her first home games on Friday!  She played the majority of the JV game and a good part of Varsity, too.  Kevin and I watched her play (as did Megan and Cheyenne) and it was great fun!  What a great girl she is!

This is us cheering Mariah on at her game!

Megan had a busy week as college application deadlines for BYU and University of Utah were December 1st.  Yes.  She submitted both applications on the same day.  We're willing to bleed red and blue at this house!  She's also been busy at work as Funfinity stays open until 9pm every night during Christmas season.  Apparently, though, when she and her friend, Rebekah, work, sales go up!  Enough that the owner has taken notice.  She is pretty cool.  It's not so hard to notice.

Cali and Chey continue to find time to tell me they're bored in spite of piano lessons once a week, tennis twice a week, basketball practice four times a week, and their first bantam basketball game--which they won.  Oh, and they do go to school, too.  Actually, they have new pieces for piano and have been sitting down to play often throughout the days.  I pretty much love it!  They're also big readers and fill their time with that, too.

Bethany had dance and piano and lots of play dates.  She is also trying to lean Ben's Minecraft game, you know, to spend quality time with her brother.  Her basketball team started practices this week and I have it on good authority that she is her coach's favorite!  (Ha, ha!  That would be me!)

Benjamin is still enjoying school and striving to do his best.  He is also liking Karate and finding his cousin, Dylan, on Minecraft.  He's broken all his pairs of glasses again and has a split lip.  He's awesome!

I found time to go hiking with Robin again this week.  We went on a trail at the mouth of Provo Canyon.  It was beautiful and I wasn't cold, but I was wet when I got home!

Gorgeous, right?