Hiya!!!

Yes, that is a black eye that Ben is sporting.  He split his eyebrow open again about a centimeter above where he got stitches a few months back.  This time we sealed it shut with super glue.  It wasn't as deep as last time.  He pulled a chair down on himself.  Nice, huh?  Needless to say, it hasn't slowed him down any.

In fact, he is Mr. Tough Guy around here.  Like in this picture . . .

Yes, that is Cheyenne in the wagon.  He pulled her all around the block!  He also likes to ride in the wagon, as does Beth, but apparently doing the pulling has great appeal, as well.

On Monday Savannah and Sarah went to see the high school play, The Curious Savage.  They said it was great fun!

On Wednesday Kevin and I went to temple night.

On Thursday Kevin and I took Bethany with us and we went to a wedding reception.  Bethany thought it was vastly exciting.  She got to be alone with mom and dad, she got to ride in Dad's car, she got to be out at night, she got to see the magical reception with the pretty bride, and then she even got a cookie and got to keep the clear plastic plate.  She talked nonstop the whole time.  She made it a very memorable reception.  :)

On Friday we had a YW tournament basketball game.  Kevin, as highcouncilman, was in on the meetings where the stake sports director said, "We just don't have enough interest to have a YW basketball team."  To which you may imagine Kevin's response.  So, we won again on Friday!  They played really, really, really well.  Everyone said, "Good job, coach!" to me (Kevin can't be coach because he's a man and it's a YW team and all) and I just shrugged and said, "I didn't do anything!"  The funny thing is that out of all the girls on the team, Kevin had coached all of them except two on city league teams.  Who was really responsible for how well those girls played, hmmmmm?  It was very fun for Kevin to watch.  Savannah played, too!  Three Skinners on one team!

On Saturday, I worked on Kevin's books all day (blah) except for about two hours when I took the girls to the pool.  I'm going to do a triathlon in June (have I mentioned this?) so I am trying to learn how to swim a long distance.  Cheyenne and Calianne and Bethany were out of their minds with excitement!  Oh, to swim again!!  Megan wanted to go, as well, and we convinced Sarah to come, too.  Mariah was hanging out with her new friends who moved next door at the mall.  (Wow!  She's sophisticated, huh?)  Savannah was working.  Everyone who came had a great time!

Saturday night, the YW played basketball again.  We played at 6:00 and won again!  Go team!  That meant we got to play in the Championship Game at 7:30.  Rah, rah!  Sadly, we finally met our match -- or rather we were finally quite outmatched and we lost.  Still, that put us in second place for our region.  Pretty impressive for a stake with no interest, huh?

We were hating Daylight Savings Time this morning, though.  Ugh.  Arizona is looking better and better.

Where we learn that to children, everything is a climbing toy!