We started off this week taking a selfie at the doctor's office!  First we went to Bethany's doctor who gave her the go ahead to stop wearing her splint.  He declared her officially well!

After that appointment, I took Savannah to her follow-up, "how ya doin'?" appointment.  She, too, was declared well although she was advised to keep taking it easy for several weeks.  Lots of good news for us on Monday!

Savannah had more good news as her good friend, Scott, came home from his 2-year mission to Canada safe and sound on Thursday!  It was so exciting for all of us to see him again. 

Sarah and Megan continued to do bucket-loads of tennis all week long.  They had their first tournament on Thursday an hour and a half away in Mount Pleasant.  They each played three matches, winning two and losing only one.  They are doing really great.  Sarah and her partner, Allyson, have officially secured their spot on the Varsity team as Varsity Second Doubles.   It is pretty awesome.  It was fun to see both the girls in their new matching uniforms!

Mariah had a busy week babysitting!  She got a call from a family in our ward doing renovations on their house and asked if she could watch their two boys and baby girl while they worked every day this week.  She brought them all over here on a walk one day and she was doing super great with them!  What a competent young woman she has become!  She also managed to go with her friends a couple of different times over to the junior high to walk the halls and find her classrooms.  She can even now get her locker open!  Yay!

Cali and Cheyenne played and played and tried to get in as much friend-time as possible!  We took Cheyenne's rabbit, Pancakes, to the vet on Friday morning.  The nurse said, "So what seems to be the trouble?"  and I said, "Pancakes has been fathering too many baby bunnies!"  They knew just what to do after that!  He seems to be recovering just fine.  We did sell one more bunny this week!  Three left to go!  (And another litter probably still underground . . . )

Bethany and Benjamin were also very busy playing this week.  It's been a great summer for having lots of neighbor friends always available to play.  Beth and Ben came storming inside one day this week with treasures they had found in the yard.  Beth had flowers and Ben had snails.  It made me laugh at their delight in such different things!

Cheyenne wanted to do something fun the Saturday before school started so she decided we should go to the park for a picnic dinner and there say what we liked about each family member.  We went to the splash pad since Sarah could walk there from work during her dinner break.  It turned out to be really fun!  We had a nice time talking and the little ones had a great time in the water.  Ben ran and ran getting as wet as humanly possible and Beth walked around talking to herself and talking to each of the statues.  So sweet!  What a great idea Cheyenne had!