Ben gave Bethany a black eye this week!  They were playing (when they were supposed to be going to sleep) and Ben, acting as Captain Hook, swung his truck around and hit Bethany in the temple, right at the side of her head.  I've never seen anything go immediately to goose egg like that!  The next day it was a black eye.  The day after that it was an even worse black eye.  It happened Monday night and it still looks horrible.  He felt really bad.  He's just got a lot of energy and doesn't quite know how to control it, yet.  How happy that Mariah taught him how to climb trees!  I don't know if that's a good thing or not . . .

Cheyenne and Calianne had nothing but piano one day after school this week.  They played with friends everyday, as usual, though.  They also talked me into getting Fraction Samurai on the ipad.  They played it at school and wanted to play at home!  Chey woke up early Saturday so she could come with me to watch Mariah's basketball game.  Cali had stomach flu Thursday night so she stayed home Friday.  Ben loved it.  He played with her all day.

Mariah had basketball practice on Monday and Friday, a game on Tuesday, and a tournament on Saturday.  I watched her play Saturday and she is playing GREAT!  Her ball-handling is smooth and unstoppable.  I don't think Kevin even wants to see what a game would be like without her.  With her, they won the tournament!  Go Mariah and Kevin!  Mariah won some pink athletic socks!  Cool, right?

Megan made the junior high basketball team!!  Go Megan!  She's had basketball every day after school this week.  They are working her hard.  She thinks their team won't be any good, but that she is going to have fun anyway.  Kevin, Sarah, and I can't wait to see her play!

Sarah got her driver's license this week!!  Hurrah!  I had to talk the girl into it.  She finally came with me to the DMV on Friday.  That night she asked if I could take her to the store and I said, "You could drive yourself!" and you should have seen her face light up!  I think this is going to take a while for her to readjust her thinking to her new freedom!  She also got a perm this week.  I think it looks really cute.  I got my hair cut at the same time.  Aren't we beautiful?

Savannah worked three days this week.  I also took her over to the gym to get a membership.  Apparently she is short one PE credit for graduation.  The principal gave her permission to do exercise hours in exchange for the credit.  It's a lot of hours she has to do, though, so we'll see how it goes!  She might have to drop something next semester to take PE.  Crazy, right?

I taught the Beehives how to make pie crust on Tuesday.  All ten of them!  They did pretty awesome.  I also wrote 2,000 words a day for NaNoWriMo.  Our Relief Society organized a toy swap and it was on Saturday.  A lot of toys were given away but not many moms came looking for toys.  I got a lot of great things!  It saved me at least a couple hundred dollars for Christmas.  It was pretty great!

Also on Saturday, I took Cheyenne, Calianne, Bethany, and Benjamin to the discount theatre to see Monsters University.  They got free tickets for being such good students.  It was pretty fun!  Ben made it about halfway before he started climbing over seats and exploring the theatre.  It was a good thing the theatre was mostly empty!