Bethany and Benjamin love the ipad.  Benjamin doesn't do very well by himself.  He gets crazy mad at it and throws it.  He does a lot better with someone bigger helping him.  Bethany can do it by herself, but her very favorite thing is to play "scary games" with Megan.  Meg does really well helping them with the ipad.  "Scary games" are something Meg and Bethany share.  "Scary games" are those I Spy type games where there is a mystery and you have to find certain objects and solve puzzles in order to solve the mystery.  Apparently, they are the best!

I went to Sarah's home game this Monday.  It was so fun.  She's playing great.  She doesn't think so, though, of course.  She doesn't much like losing, or almost fouling out, or bad sportsmanship from her team or the other team.  (These games are way more intense than I remember my games being in high school.)  Still, she does like her coach (Jill) and practices and making everybody laugh (when they're in the mood -- like at practices, not at games).  She also really likes wearing her cool warm-ups.  They played again on Thursday and they won their first game!  Go Knights!  Go Sarah!

In other basketball happenings, Cali and Chey had practice on Tuesday.  Calianne demonstrated what she learned about blocking out on her dad.  It was pretty impressive!  Mariah and I had practice on Tuesday and Thursday.  Meg and Kevin had practice on Monday and Thursday.  Mariah and Dad's club team had practice late Thursday night and a game (which they won by a lot) on Saturday.  It keeps us moving.

I've had a bad cold all week.  My voice even went out for awhile.  It wasn't very fun.  At least I had a good excuse for not exercising and sleeping in.  :)  Otherwise, it was dreary.

On Friday afternoon, the choir from Brookside and the ukulele club performed together.  Mariah is in the choir and Cheyenne in the ukulele club.  They both did great.  I love to see them doing these good things and developing their talents!

Mariah is in light green, fifth on the top row.

Isn't this a great view I had of Cheyenne?

My two shining stars!

On Saturday, I left Benjamin home with Kevin and took the rest of the girls (minus Savannah who was working) to the dollar store to let them shop for presents for each other.  They were all so funny.  We had a grand time and I think many fun presents were chosen and will brighten our day come Christmas morning!

That night we all watched Miracle on 34th Street together.  It was fun being all cozy together!

Savannah had a big work week.  Two of the regular workers were unable to fill their regular shifts, so instead of Savannah working three days, she worked five.  The poor girl.  She is sick, sick, sick of Christmas music!