We celebrated Savannah's birthday this week! Happy Birthday, Savannah! Her birthday was Wednesday and we were pretty busy that day, so we had her birthday dinner with Grandma and Grandpa on Sunday. Meat and potatoes for dinner and poke-and-pour cake for desert! It was great fun. On Wednesday, Kevin and I took her out to lunch at a Chinese buffet. It reminded her of her mission. We love that Savannah girl!

Cheyenne had her last basketball game this week. She had great fun playing on the sophomore team all year and spending more time with Mariah. They drove to and from their 5:30am practices together and did other team stuff. Chey's last game was against Maple Mountain and they lost but they put up a good fight. We're proud of that Cheyenne girl.

You'd think Chey would be ready to start sleeping in again but not so! She has been getting up early to run on the treadmill and do pull-ups and sit-ups. She wants a six-pack. I guess she really likes working out in the mornings! She fills her afternoons with her dog job and her refereeing job.

Benjamin had his last basketball game on Wednesday. He scored two baskets! Yay! His coach was really happy to see the progress his team had made and to be watching the final game. Ha ha! Ben also had scouts and karate this week. At karate, he fell and hit his eyebrow on a fire extinguisher. He has a pretty good shiner because of it! Otherwise, he is doing well.

Calianne is still a little lost in the afternoons since her basketball practices used to fill up all that time! No worries, though. She is practicing piano, working on personal progress, and reading lots of books. She and Cheyenne have started watching all the old Saved By the Bell episodes. On Wednesday night they had New Beginnings and both were awarded ribbons for Personal Progress. Way to go girls!

Mariah had her last regular season basketball game on Monday night against Maple Mountain. They won! It was exciting! Now they will go to the state tournament. It's a good thing there was a little break because Mariah got super sick this week. She even stayed home from school all Friday, although her dad and I combined could not get her to stay home from basketball practice the same day! That girl! She is starting to feel better for which we are grateful. In the meantime, for your viewing pleasure, I will include some of the pictures she got back from the two most recent dances she attended!

Bethany struggled with a cold this week, too, and even stayed home from school on Friday. Poor girl! She felt well enough the other days to do her regular stuff and play with friends so that's nice. She had piano and karate and drama. We also played two basketball games this week. Beth is playing great!

Sarah has had a bad cold all week and is still feeling kinda yucky. She still went to (most) of her classes and logged volunteer hours at the elementary school and got herself a boyfriend. Haha! She is dating a boy named McKay and he is very sweet. We like him so far. ;)

I was very lucky this week because my husband and all my kids helped out so that I could go to a writing conference Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Provo. I saw and listened to lots of published authors, my new favorite and the one you should be the most jealous that I got to see was Kelly Barnhill who wrote The Girl Who Drank the Moon and won the Newberry Medal last year--the first time in twenty years that it has been won by a high-fantasy novel! It was just really fun to be there and learn and dream.