Cali was our last college kid to move out and she did so on Monday! She is living at Heritage Halls building 12. This just happens to be right next to her on-campus job at food services where she frosts brownies and puts cookies on trays! She's thrilled about being so close and not having to drive there and back everyday like she's been doing for the past month and a half. But she does miss us and we miss her!!! Thursday through Saturday was New Student Orientation and she had a great time meeting new kids and feeling the spirit and getting excited about BYU.

After we moved Cali in on Monday, Cheyenne had convocation at UVU. It was a pretty great show and they even dropped balloons on the freshman at the end as the rock band played the fight song! Afterwards, all the families and the freshman got a free dinner! Yum! It was fun! 

We stopped by WalMart before dropping the girls off at their respective dorms and WalMart conveniently had BYU and UVU signs right next to each other. What a great photo op!

Cheyenne had a pretty intense first week of classes. She's pretty much been doing just classes and homework. With her 19 credit hours, that's pretty much what we told her to expect. It's still been an adjustment, though, and will continue to be! She did manage to play some basketball at her apartment building and even catch some downtime on their outdoor hammocks. Nice!

Back here on the home front, it's been very quiet. It's weird. Especially Friday night when there weren't twenty teenagers in and out the front door. Ha ha!

Bethany, after much deliberation and even missing the first two practices, decided that she would, indeed do junior high cross country this year. She started Wednesday and seems really happy to be back! She had karate and helped with the YW activity which was to give a water party to the primary. She hung out with her friends Friday night and no one was (too) seriously injured.

Benjamin had guitar, karate, tennis, and YM this week. I am trying to find time for him to study Chinese at home and am having a seriously hard time! He still finds time for computer games every day! He also listens to Harry Potter and finished Book 6 this week.

Kevin was released as Elder's quorum president today. It will be different for him to not be in a leadership position for a minute. I feel confident that he will rise to the occasion, though.

I am taking an independent study research methods class from BYU and I worked on it some more this week. I also really want to submit the book about engineering that I finished in the spring, but I need to do some editing and rewrite the first chapter. I'm gearing myself up for that. It'll happen. I will be happy when it is in my past and not in my future. Ha ha!