School Firsts

School started.  All 3 girls left at home went back to in-person school.

The lighting in the house is dreadful!  Or maybe Delaney is just too radiant.

Callie is ready and excited for the day!

Rylee gets to walk a mile to school every day.... and walk home.

Callie also had her first Cross Country meet.  She ran great, but it was tough for her.

 

I did a thing

Since Callie got the okay to have bunnies, Rylee was lobbying fo rats. She'd been thinking about it for a while and talking about it for a while, and Dan and I finally agreed that if they stayed in her room, she could get rats.  She bought a cage with her own money and was all ready to get some pets.  

This popped up on Facebook, on our local Buy Nothing page, while Rylee was away at Girls Camp.  I thought, oooh, if we get older rats, then they won't live as long and we have a chance to see how it goes. So I commented that I was interested, but I didn't think we would get them because two other people had dibs ahead of me.  I was shocked when the lady messaged me and said we could have them.

I got the cage all set up super quick and went out to pick them up.  Rylee got home 24 hours later to a big surprise!

Rylee, meeting her rats for the first time.  She's a bit mortified about this fresh-from-camp picture, but she's so cute!

 

Girls Camp

The girls only had a few days home before they headed off to Girls Camp.  I took them to the church to meet up for departure.  Dan actually got to go this year, so I was all alone for a few days.

As we were waiting for the vehicles to get loaded with gear, the girls reminded me that we needed our traditional goodbye selfies.  So we had to do selfies.

Me and my three darlings.

Callie is a YCL this year.

Delaney was unenthusiastic about going, but he did hsva fun.

And it was Rylee's first year going to Camp!

I got just a few photos of the girls during their time away.  They camped 2 hours north at Lake Elsinore and seemed to have had a great experience.

 

San Diego Temple

We have a small group of youth, but they are awesome!  As are their parents. One of the moms jumps on it as soon as the temple releases slots for the youth to do baptisms, and she has tried to make sure the kids can go at least once a month.  We missed out, being gone all summer, so the girls were delighted to have the chance to go once we were back. And it was Rylee's first time, so that was cool. 

Here are my lovelies, at th San Diego Temple.

 

Callie's Project

I have not mentioned that Callie had a long-term project.  She planned and researched and convinced us to let her get some pedigreed Holland Lops.  She got the two girls back at Andy and Kera's house, and yes, we hauled them across country and they stayed in the yard at the rental house during the wedding festivities.  And no, I did not take a single photo of them once we got them.  On the drive home from Salt Lake City, we stopped in Cedar City for the night.  We picked up the cute little boy bunny there. 

This is the adorable boy bunny!

Oh yes, the girls were absolutely smitten.

He was exactly 8 weeks old.

And those ears are to die for!

His name is Merlin.