It's been another busy week in the Skinner household!

Last Sunday, when Savannah came home for dinner and laundry as she usually does, she also announced that she'd decided that she'd like to go on mission!  Even though it is still months away, (she wants to work throughout the summer and leave in September), she seems to be very certain of it.  What an adventure that will be for all of us, won't it!

Sarah got invited to the Sweetheart Dance this week.  Since the dance was on Saturday, she wasn't sure if she could get off work or if she'd have time to find a dress.  She managed to do both, and once she found her dress, she became excited about it!  Oh, what a dress can do.  A local shop rents dresses so we didn't even pay a fortune for it although it looks like it would have for sure!  She went with a boy who recently moved back here from California and they had known each other before.  They had a lot of fun and she looked gorgeous!

 

Megan stressed a bit about the dance all week long.  She went with a guy she met in Driver's Ed so they've already done a lot of parking together.  (Ha!  Ha!  I think I might be the only one who finds this funny and only because I know she'd be horrified to find out what that meant back in my day. Hee, hee.)  Actually, they've texted each other multitudinously since that fateful day in Driver's Ed and have become pretty good friends, so her stress wasn't too bad.  They ended up having a lot of fun and she looked gorgeous.  She did decide, though, that no matter how cute the shoes are nor how perfectly they match the dress, four-inch heels are not for her!

 

 

Mariah had a full week of play rehearsals and basketball games.  On Saturday her bantam team played two games with only an hour between the games.  She was pretty tired after that, but, oh, she loved it!

 

Cheyenne and Calianne received their parts for the play they're doing for Up With Kids and they've received some pretty big parts so they will be there most of the afternoon on Thursdays from now on.  They are really excited!

 

Bethany wanted to go to the dance with Megan and Sarah.  "It's no fair!" she said.  "Can't I go?  I can just pretend to be sixteen!"  I'm sure she would be a beautiful date, she's just a bit short yet!

 

Benjamin continues to have more energy than our little house with so many people in it can handle at times!  Currently he is wrestling with his giant stuffed tiger.  We are all truly grateful the tiger is not one of us.

 

We have had crazy warm weather this week!  I took off my sweatshirt.  I drove with my windows down!  This has never, ever happened in February in Utah.  We are all loving it, except for maybe the chickens who are getting a little more attention from Ben and the neighborhood kids than they are used to.