Sarah and McKay graduated from UVU this week!!! We are so proud of them. What a great accomplishment! Because of COVID, a drive-thru graduation was provided and we had great fun. We were one of many decorated cars. We cheered for our graduates, professors cheered for the graduates along the route, everyone cheered for everyone else. We also waited in a long line to get pictures taken by the giant UVU letters, and it was worth it! Afterwards, we took the grads out to eat at Golden Corral. They went back to listen to the commencement speech (from their cars) and watch fireworks. What a terrific reason to celebrate!

Savannah had a good week. Her bird loves to ride around on her shoulder and they spend all their time together when Savannah's not at work! Also, Bro. Berger came over again this week to check on the bees. Savannah came back in the house so excited! The queen is laying eggs (she got to see!) new bees are growing in the "brood box" and honey is being made. She bought herself a notebook covered in bees to record her beekeeping journey.

Cali and Cheyenne took the AP Physics test this week. It took 4 hours!!! They came home with the glassy-eyed look of zombies. Then they had more homework to finish from other classes. They are really hard working kids! In addition, Cali worked at Funfinity this week. Cheyenne ran in the JV finals track meet. Kevin and I watched her run the 300 meter hurdles. She finished second in her heat and looked fantastic! They still managed to meet up with their friends this week and we are happy they get to do that because it always rejuvenates them. Oh, and they got their first vaccination this week.

Bethany had track practice all week and a meet on Friday. She ran the 100meter hurdles and it sounds like she did great. She also had karate this week. Probably her favorite day was Saturday when she went to Annaliese's birthday party from 2 to 10! Fun times.

Benjamin had karate this week. He also helped his dad cleaning the garage and mowing the lawn. Minecraft is still his favorite thing especially when he meets with his friends online. He finished listening to all the Harry Potter books on Alexa. Now he is listening to The Green Ember. He also got a kit for his birthday for making crossbows and catapults and he built one this week!

Kevin continues to play a lot of tennis and is thinking about participating in the senior games in St. George in the fall. That could be fun! He is working on getting our sprinklers to hit spots they have historically missed. Of course, he continues to go to work and help people with their lives.

I finished book ten of my ten-book series this week! Yay me! I need to revise now and write a query letter and a synopsis and research literary agents and publishing houses and while I do all that, I need to not feel too terribly overwhelmed by the odds stacked against me in this publishing endeavor.  :) Obviously I'm not doing very well at that. In the meantime, the world has greened up around me and it makes me very happy! Here is a picture from our canyon. This is the fourth bench which is almost a mile and a half up, up, up from my house. I ran back. It was a beautiful exercise morning!