My sister and her family came this weekend and we've been having such grand adventures! On Friday, Amy and Paul and Kevin and I went out to eat at Olive Garden. When we got back, Bethany, Benjamin, Emma, and Hannah were having a great time together playing imagination games and the older girls, Cheyenne, Calianne, Mandy, and Kayla had started the epic group date they had planned. The daters first had a contest to see which couple could make the best cupcakes without a recipe--much hilarity could be heard from the kitchen. Then they had some "minute-to-win-it" games including racing Box Elder bugs and blowing plastic spiders with a straw. They finished up the night outside playing Ghost in the Graveyard. Fun times!

Saturday morning, Amy, Paul, Mandy, Savannah, and I drove to BYU to show Mandy the campus. She's considering BYU for school next year.

While we were gone, the other kids colored Halloween pictures and displayed them around the house. They also learned some dances to Halloween songs from YouTube! When we got back, we carved pumpkins!

Sarah and McKay came over and hung out with us for a little bit. They watched us carve pumpkins and later pull some taffy!

Hannah and Amy made dinner for us! We had mummy dogs and green macaroni and cheese. Don't worry, we had some veggies, too. It was yummy!

Afterwards, we did some trick or treating. Ben had already left to go with friends from school, so Amy and I drove Beth, Emma, and Hannah to the flat part of our ward where they knocked on doors that had their porch lights on and decorations up. Even with less people participating this year, they still got quite the haul!

Lemon and Lime

We finished the night with a scary movie for some of us and football for others. Fun times! We're so glad they can be here!

In our week before they arrived, Savannah continued to work at Funfinity and Calianne has joined her! Savannah loves teaching Cali all about her beloved store and Cali is adjusting quickly to working a couple days a week. Good things to be involved with, I say.

Chey and Cali also found time to practice tennis this week and do some service with Hope Squad and YCC. On Thursday, they dressed up with a couple of their friends with wide-brimmed straw hats and sunglasses. They looked pretty adorable, but then they always do!

Bethany spent a lot of time this week cleaning her room in preparation for our family coming to visit. She did a great job. She also had to spend a little more time on schoolwork to complete some missing assignments before the end of term on Thursday. For fun, she was the only YW in our family able to go on the Halloween Cruise Wednesday on the Provo River. She bought herself some press-on nails this week. Ben created his own version. I thought it was pretty funny.

Benjamin dressed up for school on Wednesday. Sunglasses were definitely a thing for our family this year. When he forgot his sunglasses for school, he told his friends that he had dressed as "Ben 2.0 which is Ben, just new and improved." Love the way his mind works!