March Madness!!!

The snow is almost melted, the trampoline is set up and bikes are back in use, and all sorts of craziness is in full swing.... must be MARCH!!! Here's what we've been up to.....

Track has started, and Kayden is THRILLED... and starving. He has his first school meet on Wednesday. He is also playing on a brawleyball team (at their school it's the junior boys against the senior boys playing volleyball.) Rik is coaching their team. They are practicing at 6:00 in the morning a couple times a week. As soon as brawleyball is over, I am signing Rik and Kayden up for ninja classes.... because those two could use some lessons on getting out of the house in the morning a little more quietly. I finally got his Sweethearts Ball picture scanned in:

Kayden and Mariah

And here's a picture of Kayden and Kristen right after she won Junior Miss for Bonneville County. He likes Kristen A LOT. And I do too (even if I do get a little nervous around any of the girls and don't know what to say... how weird is that?!)

Malia is constantly on the run. Her schedule consists of volleyball, piano, organ, more volleyball, friends, church responsibilities, honors classes, babysitting, and helping me out. She is up at 5:30 or earlier every day except Fridays. She just got finished with piano festival, and I have never seen her work so hard on two pieces of music. She was determined to get them memorized, and they were such hard songs this year. On the night of festival, Rik and I were couch shopping (SO FUN!!!) and we rushed home to pick her up with just enough time to get her there. We pull into the church parking lot, and she says that we are at the wrong church. Turns out I went to the place where Taisha had festival the last few years.... and I could not remember which church we were supposed to be at for Malia, and neither could she. Nothing like driving around for 25 minutes trying to figure out where you are supposed to be to calm your nerves right before a big performance. We finally found it, and she played her best, under the circumstances, but was disappointed with how it went. That being said, she got 100%, and the judge used words like "your playing was yummy deliciousness!!"

Malia has volleyball tournaments every weekend except one from now until the end of May.

Whenever she get a free evening, she spends if with her goofy friends.


Taisha's volleyball just started and goes until the end of May. She decided she didn't want to do piano festival this year (but maybe she should have so I could keep my locations straight!) The Young Women in our ward got to run the primary last week, she taught the sunbeams, and told me she wants that calling when she gets older... she loved it! She's getting ready for her first talk in sacrament meeting, and is really looking forward to going to Salt Lake with the Young Women and their mom's for the Young Woman's broadcast in a couple weeks.

McKay finished his basketball season, and moved right into wrestling. He had his first wrestling tournament last weekend. On his very first match he pinned the other boy in 16 seconds. Which was great except, he was so confused because it was so fast, the ref kept telling him he won, and he just didn't get it. And then Rik had to tell him over and over again that he won... McKay ended up getting 3rd place. We got the trampoline set up, and he was a little worried that he would forget how to do all his fancy flips, but it all came right back to him.

Anaya is just busy being Anaya. A few weekends ago, Malia was just getting home from a two-day tournament in Utah. She walked through the door, and Anaya, who was sitting at the table coloring said, "Oh, great... I hope you don't smell stink again!" Nice. Malia and Taisha were downstairs and Anaya was being annoying, so they kept telling her to go upstairs. She finally stomped up the stairs, but not without telling them that they were like evil step moms. And then the other day, Anaya was trying to tell something to Malia, but for whatever reason, Malia couldn't hear her. After repeating herself several times, Anaya finally just told Malia, "Geez!! It's like you have no ears!!" She spends hours and hours drawing, coloring, tracing, and painting. Here's one of her latest:


And I guess you can probably figure out what Rik and I have been up to... lots and lots of running (um, not the good, healthy kind of running though.) The other day at work I announced over the intercom that we were having "Chest Club" in the library through lunch, instead of "Chess Club." Awesome!