Mariah went to Arizona to run in the Cross Country Regional Finals this past weekend.  They had to leave on Thursday morning so they could arrive Friday afternoon and run Saturday morning.  Mariah ran one second faster than she did on the same course last year so we're calling it a win!  She had a great time with her team (lots of hours on a bus!) and came back safe.  The especially good news is that now she will not have to take herself on grueling runs after grueling basketball practices.  She'll content herself with just the grueling basketball practices for a while.

The underclassmen called Mariah "Mom."

Cheyenne got her braces off this week!! Yay!!  Actually, she was not excited at all because she was dreading the pain.  Still, she made it through and now is starting to like her smooth, straight teeth!

Cali and Cheyenne went on a field trip to Topaz, Utah this week and learned lots about WWII and Japanese internment camps.  Cali got to go on another field trip, too, with her drama class to the high school to see Cinderella, the musical.  Fun times!

Bethany went to her first activity days in our new ward.  I think I've moved into the only ward in Utah where I will need to drive my daughter to activity days!  It's just a weird geographic ward with us being high on a mountain and all that.  Still!  She had a good time and there were lots of little girls to hang out with.

Ben built a big house on Minecraft this week.  But, he admits, that is something he does every week.  Still, he got to do it in a beautiful setting!

The couch for our "Fireplace Room" got delivered on Monday of this week and we were so excited!  It's a six piece sectional.  Turns out that only four of the six pieces fit through the doorway. . .  Oh well.  We will figure that out later.  Our clothes dryer broke this week, but good news!  The new dryer we bought DID fit through the doorway--all three doorways--and the hallway.  It's a nice dryer and dries clothes faster than my last!  Yay!  I also got the matching bookcases I wanted for downstairs and my friend, Robin, came over on Thursday and helped me put them together.  Which meant that I got to unpack the last of my boxes, which were books, of course!  For the first time in my married life, I had room to display my entire collection of Black Stallion books on my shelf.  I had no idea it would bring me such a thrill!  Anyway, then I decorated with Savannah's bottle collection on top (with Savannah's permission) and I just love it.

Kevin went to a doctor on Monday and found out that he does not have a torn rotator cuff (yay!).  He actually has brusitis, which is still crazy painful, but with the right meds, the inflammation is going down and his range of motion is improving.  I still try to stop him from doing things, but mostly he goes ahead and does it anyway.  Even though I tell him not to, I still am really grateful for his help.  This moving thing is the job that keeps on requiring!  Still, we are getting markedly more settled and are really enjoying a lot of things about our new house.