Monday was Halloween!  Chey and Cali dreamt up their own costumes and even created them themselves (with a little help from Megan's drawing abilities)!  I was impressed with how they turned out.

I let Beth and Ben pick out costumes at DI.  When we saw two Power Ranger costumes, we couldn't resist!  They got to be matchy, too!

Meg wasn't going to dress up, but then needed to go help pass out candy at Funfinity, so she threw together this cute ensemble!

Halloween went really smoothly this year.  Cali and Chey had a couple friends show up who wanted to trick or treat with them and they all took Beth and Ben with them.  Kevin tagged along a bit and I stayed home with Mariah to pass out candy.  I discovered that's a pretty fun part of Halloween, too!  After trick or treating, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik's for one last candy stop and then headed home.  It was a nice evening.

The rest of the week was full of tennis and piano and karate and dance and cross country and basketball and work.

Kevin left us on Thursday morning to go to Chicago to teach for CSAT and will be back this Sunday evening.  We miss him!  He says it's been a good trip, though and he got a lot of writing done on his book.

Friday Robin and I hiked a bit of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail.

Friday night, Cali and Chey slept over at Grandma and Grandpa's and we didn't see them again until way into Saturday!  When they came back, though, Cali finished two books and Chey sewed herself three headbands while I sat on the couch and finished a book of my own!  Meg worked most of Saturday but went out to a late showing of Dr. Strange with her childhood buddies Hannah and Rebekah.  Mariah helped with the "Angels and Devils 5K" in the morning and had a basketball shooting session and worked on homework.  Beth and Ben played with friends partly at our house, partly at theirs.  It was a fun day, too.  We just missed our dad!

Also, sometime this week when I was being more productive with my time, I finished the redoing of our couches!  I did take a before picture, but I can't find it.  You'll just have to remember.  We've had them for over 20 years, so I'm pretty sure everyone I've ever known has seen them at some point.  Ha ha!  This is what they look like now: