We had basketball games on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week.  It was great fun!  My and Mariah's team have not won a game yet!  This is sad!  And yet, we are not sad after our games.  Everyone is having a really great time.  So, that is a good thing.  The wins may or may not come, but we are all getting better and having a good time while doing it.  That is what is important.  Sarah, Megan, and Dad won their first game on Thursday!  Yay!  Bethany went down to sit on the bench with Megan and Hannah.  She gives great basketball advice.

Thursday was the last day of second quarter for our schools.  I'm really pleased with my girls.  They are all working hard and doing really well.  Third quarter will start on Tuesday next week.  This affects Sarah the most.  She has really enjoyed her foods class, sewing class, and journalism class.  All three of them ended for her this week!!  :(  Those three classes have really made school fun for her the past few months.  In their place she will have choir, health, and PE.  Megan's classes stay mostly the same.  She will have PE instead of art.  Savannah will no longer have PE or computer tech.  She gets to start theatre and dance.  It sounds like it's Savannah's turn for a fun semester, huh?

Since it was the end of the quarter, there was no school on Friday.  Yay!  We were still quite busy, though.  I went grocery shopping in the morning while I had babysitters.  Yay!  While everyone helped put groceries away, Ben thought of other uses for the groceries:

That is a new abrasion on his head.
He ran into a wall.

 After going to the gym with Sarah to practice shooting, Mariah worked on her science project.

She is trying to simulate the tunnel vision of an owl.
Conclusion:  It's a good thing owls can move their necks so well,
because they can't see much otherwise!

 Meanwhile, I had promised the twins a sewing project.  I found this really easy pattern for making lunch bags.  http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/05/08/lunch-time/  It turned out to be fabulous for beginning sewers:  all straight lines and something they can use!  We didn't use oilcloth, btw, we just used cotton we had around the house and we made it reversible -- twice as many straight lines!  I added the drawstrings to Chey and Cali's bags.  When we were done, Mariah wanted to make one, too.  It was great fun!  It looks like there will be less paper bag use around this house!



We actually started on Friday with the bags, but finished Cheyenne's and Mariah's on Saturday.  Other than that, Saturday was pretty relaxed.  It was 54 degrees here on Saturday!  I love it when winter lets go for a little bit and we get a reprieve!