Sarah left on her adventure to Vienna on Monday of this week!  She left early Monday morning but Kevin had points for a free hotel room near the airport so Sarah, Megan, and I went up to the airport Sunday night and didn't need to wake up quite so early on Monday!  Megan and I dropped off our brave Sarah and hoped for the best!  She arrived safe and sound and has been having many great adventures!

Monday was also the day of the TOTAL solar eclipse!  Although, here in Utah we only got to 92%, it was still super cool.  Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik even invited us over for a Solar Eclipse Party!  We had waffles and eggs and used Megan's solar glasses to look at the sun and watched the updates on totality in Idaho on the TV and played Uno in between.  There were even decorations!  It was really fun.

There's the eclipse!  Lots of them!  Out of paper!

See the eclipse??  Not at all!  So, if you did look at the sun, you'd burn your eyes and still have nothing to see!  You need those super cool glasses.

The shadows photograph well, though, and were amazing to see!  This is the eclipse through a colander.

The next day, Tuesday, was the first day of school. (No!  Say it wasn't so!!  Yes.  Goodbye to our lovely summer.  *sob!*)  Actually, Beth and Ben were pretty excited to go back and have been enjoying going to school again.  Cali and Chey and Mariah not so much!  But they are trying and are grateful for their chance to get educations.  (I think).

 

We've been working on switching the kids into other rooms and making updates to the house and Wednesday night, I realized that it's never going to work and we're going to have to move eventually.  Then, within minutes, Kevin happened to check his computer and see that a particular house we really liked drastically cut their asking price.  So we decided to put an offer on it and try to sell our house.  We decided Wednesday night.  Kevin left for Canada Thursday morning.  Signing documents electronically means that everything continued to move forward and we had the first showing of our house on Saturday.  Crazy, right?

Thursday, Megan had her first day of work at the Helaman Halls Creamery at BYU.  She got this super convenient job right next to where she lives working three days a week from 4 to 9, which fits perfectly in her schedule.  Plus, she'll be able to continue to meet people where she lives.  It sure sounds great!  Plus, she's great, so . . .

On Friday I went on a hike with Robin and Jessica.  It was beautiful with a cascading river and waterfall views.  Yay!  I love hiking!

Savannah had a busy weekend with dates on Friday and Saturday nights with different boys.  Friday night, said boy came here and got to play games with all her sisters.   That's how you really get to know people!  Right?  She worked a full week, too!

On Saturday, Mariah  competed in her first Cross Country meet of the year! Grass Relays are held in Saratoga Springs and involve a two mile course, a five-member relay team, and hay bales which need to be jumped throughout the course.  Mariah's team came 6th out of over 20!  But if everyone had run as fast as Mariah, then they would have been first!  She had a great run and a great time! Her hard work is paying off.

Kevin has been in British Columbia to teach this time around.  He says it is beautiful and had to take a ferry and a pontoon boat just to get there.  We will be very happy to have him home again late tonight!