Lyla turned one-year old today! What a sweet and fun little baby she is! To celebrate, Sarah had a party in the park for her yesterday! We had sandwiches, chips, pasta, and watermelon. Megan made the most beautiful cake and cupcakes! We opened presents and sang, visited and played. It was really fun and such a beautiful day to celebrate Lyla's presence in our family. We are so grateful for her!

Savannah had to work an hour earlier everyday this week! In return, they got a half-day on Friday, but oh, that was hard on her! Still, she made it! It was great fun to have her at Lyla's party and she went on a date Saturday, too.

Bethany had play practice everyday after school and has really been enjoying it! Her energy is still low and she feels yucky everyday, but her spirits are high and it is fun to see her cheerfulness. We got some bloodwork done on Saturday and hopefully we will get some more answers. She and Megan and I watched a scary movie together Saturday night and that was fun!

Benjamin had cross country practice everyday afterschool and a race on Friday. He is also doing a small tennis league that practices Monday and Wednesday evenings and has matches on Saturday mornings. He still goes to karate when he can manage it, but he is pretty tired. Plus he has homework! Crazy, I know. He is working on getting used to the idea of it.

Kevin has been busy with work and YSA things. He did an intensive this week at work and has been developing more online content when he's home. For the YSA ward, he performed a marriage this week and on Sunday the ward quadrupled in size as BYU and UVU begin classes this week. There are lots of new faces to meet!

Kevin and I also got to have Matt & Lynsey's family at our house for a night as they were here to drop Conner at the MTC. What a privilege to be part of that in some way. It is heart-wrenching to drop off a missionary but also so so good! It's beautiful to be part of something so much bigger than yourself. It was super fun to see them.

As for me, I did homework, drove kids places, and painted cabinets. What do you think?