There was no school on Friday, so we gathered as a family (which is not as easy as it used to be now that we all have such different schedules!) and went hiking!  There's an old lime kiln on the side of the mountain along the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, so we explored the kiln and then hiked north along the trail for about a mile then turned around and came back.  It was a pretty day and a pretty trail and it was fun to be together!

 

Sarah nannied for her babies all week.  She also went to the YSA FHE at the BYU art museum and had a great time meeting new people!  She wanted us all to go see Beauty and the Beast when it opened in the theatres, but her twin sisters had a birthday party they'd been invited to, so we rescheduled for next week!  She is a planner of activities that girl.  On Thursday night, she and Megan and Mariah went to Barnes and Noble and then Krispy Kreme and then found a quiet road above Springville to look at the lights . . . where a cop found them and warned them against loitering and curfew and other malfeasances.  They came home and laughed and watched Studio C skits about cops and laughed some more.  I love that they are such good friends!

Megan decided this week to accept BYU's admittance invitation and will attend there in the fall!  She even might room with one of her friends.  Another friend brought her this bouquet of balloons to congratulate her!  Fun, right? 

Mariah ran in her first track meet of the season on Tuesday.  She ran a 5:34 mile and a 2:31 800 meter.  Both times are PRs over last year and it's only the first meet!  We are still trying to get enough calories in her and get her enough sleep to make up for all that she asks of her body!

Cheyenne and Calianne started practices for junior high track this week and have been more sore than they have ever been in their lives!!!  (Self-reported!)  They still love, love, love the cows.  They had a great time with their friends at that birthday party and had a couple friends over on another day to watch themselves in the play they did two years ago (the friends were in the play, too!)  They did a lot of laughing at themselves!

Beth and Ben are both still really loving Karate!  It is strange to me that Beth likes Karate because she has always had such a sweet, peace-maker personality.  She came home Thursday talking about punching and kicking and that her jaw was sore from being punched in the face?  That's what I signed up for?  And she likes it?  It's so weird!  Still, I'm glad they like it!