Monday was Ben's 8th birthday!  He's growing up so fast! Tuesday was Grandma Gazdik's birthday, so we celebrated both birthdays at once.  They are birthday buddies!  We ate enchiladas and opened presents and had cake.  Savannah and Meg took a break from college to be there, too!  It was tons of fun.  We love both those people and are so blessed to have them in our lives.

Because of this very-important birthday, I did something on Wednesday that I haven't done as a parent EVER.  I went to my very first pack meeting! Ben did great.  He said, "See you later, Mom!" as he got out of the car in the parking lot.  I had to say, "Wait! I'm coming too!" I was impressed with his confidence! I definitely need to get him one of those cool shirts everyone was wearing, but even without it, he fit right in. This will be a cool new adventure!

Ben also had his first soccer game this week.  He played Saturday morning, the weather was great, and Kevin and I had a great time watching him run around with the cool blue sky as background.  He also had karate and guitar this week and had a friends over a couple times.  What a busy week!

Cali and Chey had another track meet on Friday.  Sarah and I went to watch and it was COLD!  Cheyenne's coaches switched her to sprints so she ran hurdles, the 100m, the 4x100, and the 200m.  Calianne stayed in distance and ran the mile, the 800, the 400, and the 4x400.  Which means, between the two of them, they ran every event except the medley! Wow! Way to fill the time so no one's bored, huh? They both ran great! They both finished sewing pajama pants at school and Friday was pajama day at school as well as the day of their meet, so they wore their track shirts and their new pamjama pants.  They looked super stylin'!

Mariah had a track meet on Friday, too!  Hers was actually Friday and Saturday.  Kevin watched her Friday when she ran the mile.  Saturday she ran the 800.  She led the entire way but got passed in the last 100m!  Exciting!  She's joined a powder puff football team for school and they had practice Saturday night.  Afterwards, she and Cali went to the high school play.  On Friday night, Mariah got together with two of her best friends from elementary school, Jessica and Maddie, and they had a great time being goofy together again!

Bethany had karate this week and piano lessons.  She's sounding really good!  She also had friends over a couple of times, but also enjoyed playing some games by herself.  She and I played Ben's new card game together Saturday night.  It was fun!

Sarah worked every day at Brick Oven this week but is done with substituting. It's always fun to hear her stories and talk about her life!  She leaves next week for school and we are going to miss her!! But we are excited for her, too!

Kevin mowed our lawn for the first time this spring.  It's a lot bigger than he's used to, with a pretty significant hill. He said maybe he will need to hire this job out!  Maybe it won't wipe him out quite so much if he doesn't run 5 miles (up and down our hills) before. LOL! We are still really enjoying our house. We decided that every sunset is gorgeous here.  Saturday, our girls all sat outside and enjoyed the sunny grass and mountain views in our backyard.