Benjamin helped me plant the garden this week!  Monday was cold, cold and that night the temperatures dropped below freezing.  Luckily, Ben and I waited until Tuesday!  Ben enjoyed helping me pull the Virginia Creeper off the fence and taking his turn with the clippers.  He dug large holes in the wrong places and drove our plant cart (above) like a fighter jet.  I did double duty trying to keep the plant stems from being broken and trying to keep Ben from driving the cart into the elderly patrons buying flowers.  He was a sweet, constant companion and I thought he was great fun to have around even with some of the extra challenges he provided!  :). Now we are both proud of our newly planted garden.

This week Cali and Cheyenne had crazy hair day at school.  They participated most enthusiastically.  Last week they had a super-hero day.  I forgot to put the picture in last week, but I wanted to because they made their costumes themselves.  I was pretty impressed!

They have been LOVING having baby rabbits.  They're outside with the rabbits everyday and head there immediately after school.  The babies have gotten over a lot of their shyness so they get held a lot!

Megan and Mariah had their last track meet this week.  It was the two-day district final!  On Thursday Mariah ran the mile and placed 5th with a time of 6:06!  Megan ran the 400m leg of the medley and helped her team to a 3rd place finish.  On Friday Megan ran the 400 and placed 6th with a time of 1:05! They both ran in the 800.  Mariah came in 7th and Megan came in 9th.  Then they both ran on the same team for the 4x400 and helped their team to another 3rd place finish!  Awesome running, ladies!  They are fast!  They've had a great time and Kevin and I have loved watching them.

Lining up for the 800m!  Meg is second from left.  Mariah is third from right.  They're the ones in red!

Mariah handing off to Meg in the 4x400!

 

 

We're their biggest fans!

We had a surprise visit from Grandpa Skinner and Maria on Friday night.  They were on their way back from California and it was a short visit, but it is always great fun to see them!

Sarah has been very busy working two jobs!  The softball games started full swing this week, she worked two days at Funfinity, and took an AP World History test!  She's still doing big homework assignments in Chemistry and Math and is trying to finish a quilt for her sewing class.  Poor girl has had a very stressful week!  We are so proud of all her hard work, though!

In addition, Sarah and Megan got their first chance to do service for the city through Youth City Council.  Saturday morning was "Bike with the Mayor!". They got on their bikes to help chaperone the littler kids and even brought Cali and Chey along!  They got free donuts and hot dogs and got to be there for the inaugural turning-on of the splash pad.  They all had a pretty grand time!

We got to go to Savannah's seminary graduation tonight.  It was a great meeting and we're so glad Savannah had the opportunity to take seminary from such great teachers and that she valued it and finished the work to graduate!  We took her picture with the other seniors in our ward who she has grown up with (and the bishop and his wife)!

Speaking of pictures of Savannah, I made her announcements this week!  Take a look at some of these awesome pictures!

How can she be done with her childhood???  My beautiful girl . . .