I taught preschool this week.  We were learning to write the letter H so we talked about Hats.  It was great fun.  We even made hats out of the bottoms of milk cartons.  They liked that.  They're doing really well and learning a lot!  They are a great group of kids.  I like teaching them.  :)
 

Benjamin has taken an interest in a couple of train shows on TV before, but this week, his interest in Chuggington morphed into full-blown obsession.  Wednesday thru Friday, I think we watched Chuggington 20 times.  That's like ten hours, just so you know.  As soon as it was over, he'd pull me back into the TV room and demand that I turn it back on.  Then when the title song played, he'd yell, "YAY!  Trains!  YAY!" When Friday rolled around and Kevin and I were out for our weekly night on the town, we went to the toy store.  My only hope to get the kid off the TV was to buy him some trains for himself.  It seemed to work.  He has carried them around and taken them to bed.  We will buy more for Christmas, but for now he needed something!  We have boxes of dolls and ponies and Barbies . . . it's not really a wonder that he gets bored.  Poor kid!  I guess that calls for buying him some things even when it is not Christmas or his birthday.

Our biggest news of the week is that our sweet Cheyenne FINALLY got to get her cast off!  Yay!  Yay!  Yay!  She has been such a good sport.  With this second cast, she did not complain at all even though I know it was more painful and I know she was already tired of the inconvenience by the time her first cast came off six weeks ago.  What a little soldier we have discovered that she can be!  I have been very impressed.  When they took off the cast, they also took new x-rays and everything looks straight.  Now, she just has to figure out how to use it again!  We are so happy to be on the last leg of this journey with our sweet Cheyenne.

 Savannah had her Cross Country banquet this week.  She had to work that night, though, so she drove over during her dinner break.  She got a nice certificate that says she has lettered two years in a row.  Letterman jackets aren't a big deal at her school, though, so I don't get to dress her up.  :(  She got a cool picture of her team, though!

Saturday was a big day for Savannah, too.  She took the ACT!  Yikes!  College applications are just next year!  She took it at BYU even which is where she wants to go, so that was pretty fun.  Well, pretty fun for Kevin and I.  Hee, hee.

So while I picked up Savannah (Kevin dropped her off four hours earlier), Kevin and Megan and Mariah and Benjamin undertook our first leaf raking of the year.  It won't be the last!

Later that day, Bethany had her first dance recital!  It was such fun!  The little girls did their dance three times for each group of parents and we had cookies.  It was the most perfect dance recital ever.  There was no time for anyone to get bored!  We got to watch our favorite ballerina the whole time!  I'll include a video so you can watch her, too, if you want.  I took one in front, too, but she was behind everybody, so the video of her back is actually the best.  Funny that!

Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik came too!

Saturday night there was a big church dance -- with a Halloween theme, of course.  Sarah and Savannah both went and Savannah drove!  Yay!  I didn't have to stay up that late (although I did)!  They had a good time.  What fun!