Happy Friday, y’all! I hope you’ve had a great week. After a monsoon on Sunday, the week that I expected to be rainy and yucky has been beautiful and warm. I love fall. Of course, here in the south it doesn’t especially feel like fall yet.

It’s been a rather eventful week. Last Friday, Brianna’s boyfriend asked for and received our blessing to propose to her. (She knows so I’m not ruining any surprises.)

We’re so excited! He is such a great guy and perfect for her.

They haven’t dated long, but Brian and I didn’t date long before we got engaged either. They’re not talking about getting married any earlier than next fall. Hopefully, I’ll have an official engagement announcement soon.

Then, on Tuesday, Megan had her first in-car driving lesson (as opposed to classroom time – she’s been driving with her dad) in the defensive driving class she’s taking.

She had a wreck!

I totally thought she was kidding when she first called me. No, she wasn’t. The wreck wasn’t her fault at all and was completely unavoidable from her end. A kid on a bike veered in front of her and the instructor had to slam on the breaks (dual-controlled car). They were rear-ended by someone following too closely.

The other driver was very apologetic and assured her that she had no other options. She was very shaken up for the rest of the day.

My niece’s shirt cracked me up. I think all the females in the family need one!

Then, on Wednesday evening, Brianna was rubbing Belle’s belly and noticed that her incision where she was spayed last week looked infected. We’d been keeping an eye on it and it had been fine but, sure enough, it looked infected.

So, I had to take her back to the vet yesterday. They put her on a round of antibiotics and don’t expect her to have any trouble. The vet said the incision itself seems to be healing well.

This weekend, we’ve got a wedding on Saturday and a birthday party on Sunday. That’s a pretty busy weekend for the homebodies among us. It should be fun, though.

As far as school goes, everyone is plugging along. Josh was getting a little bored with the Java course he was taking so he spent some time on the C++ class this week. I’m glad we were able to purchase several classes so he has some options.

Those are the highlights of my week. Tell me about yours!

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Happy Friday, y’all! Before I say anything else, I want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with those who have been personally impacted by the shooting in Las Vegas, whether they be first responders, survivors, or the loved ones of those who lost their lives. I just can’t fathom what would go through the mind of someone to do something like that.

It’s been a busy week here, but rather enjoyable. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous! I love fall!

Brian was off work Monday, so he helped me take Belle to the vet to be spayed. The vet we use is over half an hour one way, so it’s a bit of a road trip. Especially with a hyper dog. (Hyper on the way there. Not so much on the way back.)

We stopped for breakfast on our way home, then, came to the house to get school and work started. I also moved the bunnies from their pen to what we’re now referring to as the “big pen” – our screened in deck.

Around noon, Josh drove Brian to the Ford dealership to pick up his car – yes, the new (to us) one. The air went out a couple of weeks ago. Thank goodness it was covered under warranty!

Then, Brian took Megan’s car to get an oil change. Shortly thereafter, it was time to go pick up the dog with a stop by the bank and the electric company on the way.

When we got home, Brian had to change and head out for two softball games. Josh and Megan went and got take-out while I stayed home with Belle since she was still pretty groggy.

It was a busy, busy day.

On Tuesday, I made the ultimate bunny playground in the big pen with some things from the recycle bin. I’m not sure how impressed they were, but they do love being on the deck.

They’ve already gotten to the point where they greet me eagerly at the door of their pen in the mornings and don’t squirm at all when I pick them up. They know where I’m taking them and they can’t wait to get there.

They are really incredibly tame already. They’ll eat out of our hands and stand up on command. So cute!

My niece has really enjoyed visiting the bunnies when she comes over twice a week, too. I got some sidewalk chalk this week. That was a big hit, too. And, I made her a rice bin. Aunt Kris is pretty cool if I do say so myself.

Megan has been experimenting with special effects make-up. I’d show you some pictures, but she’s really good at it and she’s been working on making very realistic-looking gashes and gouged-out eyes, so I’ll keep the pictures to myself. You’re welcome.

I’m totally giving her elective credit for the make-up. She’s watched a lot of YouTube videos and studied how to make it realistic. She started out using just Elmer’s glue, toilet paper, and make-up.

We’ve since purchased corn syrup and red food coloring for realistic fake blood. Yesterday, UPS delivered our Amazon order of latex and spatulas for more authentic-looking sculpting of gaping wounds. Fun times, y’all. Fun times.

Josh has been doing some work on his car this week. On Wednesday, Brian’s dad took him to see a guy he knows who does work on cars to help Josh remove the muffler since we didn’t have the right tools. He also put a new exhaust pipe on it. You know, so it’s loud like guys like their cars. You should have seen the ear-to-ear grin.

As a mom, I have to say, it’s a pretty good muscle-car-sounding loud, not an obnoxious, neighbors-are-going-to-call-the-police loud.

I had to get Megan set up on my old laptop for math. Her laptop quit working. Josh got it working for awhile, but it’s still extremely slow if it does decide to load.

Those are the highlights of my week. I can’t wait to hear about yours!

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Happy Friday, y’all! How has your week been? Between baby bunnies and cute little visitors, we’ve been busy.

Yes, baby bunnies. Josh has been wanting a bunny, so last Friday we went to pick one out from a breeder about an hour away. Brian was off, so it was a fun family road trip (minus Brianna since she was working).

There were two that he was torn between so, in typical Bales family fashion, we got both of them. One is 12 weeks old and the other is 8. Both are male. Hopefully, being raised together, they won’t fight but we shall see.

This is Toby:

And, this is Stitch (though his name has already been changed twice, so we’ll see what sticks):

You can’t tell in the picture, but Stitch has beautiful blue eyes.

Both Toby and Stitch are already really tame and love to cuddle. Josh is working on litter training them. Hopefully, that will go well so that we can give them a bit more freedom, though we may always have to keep them away from Belle, who thinks everything is a toy.

I was worried about the cats, but so far Megan’s cat is afraid of them. Luna, the only other cat who is in the house all the time, couldn’t care less about the bunnies as long as they leave her alone.

My 3-year-old niece has started staying with us a couple of afternoons a week. I pick her up from preschool and she hangs out here for awhile.

I have restocked things that have been absent from my house for awhile, like Play-doh and coloring pages. (Okay, I do have my own coloring book but it’s not for sharing. Yeah, really.)

B loves the bunnies. Aunt Kris’s house is pretty cool, what with the small zoo we seem to be running here.

School wise, everything is going well. There just isn’t much to talk about since Josh and Megan are working independently now. Josh has become very self-motivated this year. It’s really exciting to see him taking ownership of and responsibility for his school work.

Just the other day, he emailed me a paper he wrote with absolutely no prompting. I was a bit shocked and pleasantly surprised. He wrote about how to build a computer – something he is passionate about.

There may or may not still be some degree of nagging involved where Megan is concerned. {ahem}

Now it’s off to enjoy a nice, quiet weekend at home before some busy ones coming up in the next couple of weeks.

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Happy Friday, y’all! How was your week? Ours was different – but a good kind of different. Brian was off so we got in several life skills lessons, along with regular school.

There were some auto shop and carpentry lessons thrown in the mix.

Three of my favorite people from Megan’s Sweet 16 celebration last week.

There is this kid living at my house who looks a lot like Josh but doesn’t act much like him. This kid had the option of taking a day or two off of seatwork in exchange for life skills lessons in the form of helping Brian with some odd jobs around the house.

One of my favorite pictures because of the picture-in-picture effect.

Although he did help with some of the jobs, he opted to get his school work completed, too. I even went into his room one day thinking he was taking a break and found that he was working through his coding lessons instead. {tossing confetti}

I had a cute little visitor yesterday. I picked my niece after preschool and brought her home with me for a couple of hours. Apparently, I make a pretty mean grilled cheese sandwich.

Megan has been plugging along with school, but we’re having trouble with her laptop again. I don’t know if she’s just hard on laptops or we just keep getting lemons. {sigh} It’s very frustrating.

Brianna signed her dog, Belle, up for obedience training that starts next week. She has to go through two levels of obedience training then she’ll be evaluated to see if she can begin training as a therapy dog. We hope that she’ll qualify. If not, at the very least, she’ll mind a little better. Hopefully.

Those are the short and sweet highlights of my week. I hope yours was uneventful (in a good way) or had excitement of the fun variety. Have a great weekend!

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Happy Friday, y’all! I hope you’ve all had a fantastic week. Ours has been great! Thanks for all the prayers last week. I think maybe we’re experiencing one of those blessing-in-disguise things.

The big news is that my mini-me, my baby – Megan – turned 16 yesterday. How in the world have 16 years passed so very quickly, y’all? {sniff}

Megan and her BFF share a birthday. (Gianna is a year older.) As has become their tradition, Gianna spent the night Wednesday night so that they could spend their birthday morning together. They always exchange their presents with each other on their actual birthday, then, they each have a birthday party with friends on different days.

I’m not a huge planner, but I am good at getting up before teenagers. (Brianna pointed out that it’s not that hard since they sleep until noon, but whatever. I was proud of my accomplishment.

I got up and went to get a birthday banner, a balloon bouquet, flowers for Megan, and cards for each of them. And confetti because when your house is already a mess, what’s a little confetti?

I also picked up a Dairy Queen ice cream cake for later and I may or may not have squeezed in a run to Chick-fil-A for sweet tea.

I was able to get back home and get it all set up before they woke up. They really liked it.

Megan and I had lunch and did a little shopping on Wednesday and today we’re getting our nails done – fingers for her, toes for me. She has some friends spending the night, too, so it’s been a good birthday week.

We did manage to squeeze in some school this week, too. We usually take Megan’s whole birthday week off because it usually winds up being about six weeks after we start school. We started later this year, though, so we did school the first part of the week.

Josh has been working through a Java course that I purchased through Udemy. He’s really been impressed with it so far. He showed me his notes the other day and was explaining to me what he’d been doing. I had no idea what he was talking about, so I’m pretty impressed, too! {grin}

Y’all have a fantastic weekend!

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