On Wednesday morning we headed out for Dead Lake to stay for a bit of a vacation at Dana's parents' lake cabin. We had some rain, but mostly great weather. Brynn was already at the cabin waiting for us, as she went a night early with Grandma, since Holly had already been up in Fargo taking care of Clara while she was sick. (Clara is doing much better, by the way!)
Clara and I were up before Dana and Brynn on Thursday morning, and decided to walk around outside a bit. She really likes to wave now.
On Thursday night we met our friends Dave and Jess at Zorbaz. They have a lake place on Ottertail Lake, so they just jetted over in their boat and gave us a little ride after supper. It was a nice night for eating out on the deck, and Clara's first time to Zorbaz. She loved it!
We had been planning on going to pick strawberries at Herzog's again like we did last year, but on Friday morning I learned from their post on Facebook that they were picked out already by 8:00 am! They had some other fields ripening, though, so we were planning on trying again the next morning. Since we didn't make it strawberry picking, Brynn and I went down the road a bit while Clara was sleeping and stopped at an antique shop. It was so fun. Brynn was so interested in all the old things, especially the stuff she didn't know about.
They had a lot of old records, one of which was the "Sound of Music." Brynn recognized this one as I think a few of the kids played a song or two from this movie at her piano recital. I thought of Auntie Cindy, as I had in my head that she likes this musical.
Brynn was trying out an old typewriter made in Germany. I told her this is what there was before computers and she asked me where the screen was. :-)
That afternoon was really nice and warm for a boat ride. We went out to a nice shallow sandy part of the lake and swam for a bit. And had lunch out on the boat. That proved to be a bit difficult, though, as Clara is into *everything* lately!
I thought the sunset looked so pretty one of the nights...
Brynn was obesssed with s'mores! She toasted my mallow for me and accidentally set it on fire. Oh well; it still tasted good.
On the other end of the spectrum...
I guess there was one perk to getting up at 5:30 to pump milk for Clara. (Only about one more month of that to go and then I'm done! woo hoo!). I do go back to sleep after that though. Anyway, the sun rise that morning was especially orange/red and so pretty. I love how calm the water is at that time of day.
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| It's kind of difficult to see, but on the rocks there I noticed it looks like a bird is just landing. |
Clara seems so much older now, especially since she started pulling herself up on things and crawling all over the place and getting into 'trouble.' She may or may not have eaten a leaf and some string during vacation. :-/ Where did my little baby go?
My parents made it over for a visit last night and we were laughing how she automatically sticks her thumb in her mouth when she has her little blankie here.
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| Nap time |
It's not vacation if we're not pitting up some cherries!
On Friday night our friends who live in Fergus came out for a visit with their little boy. He is about 15 months old.
On Saturday we barely made it in time to pick some strawberries, as they were almost picked out by the time we got there. Of course they were as tasty as ever!
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| Clara helping |
THANK YOU to Holly and Kevin for letting us stay at the cabin while they were on their motorcycle trip! We had a great time.
I thought I'd post these in a separate post, but included my favorite here. I took some pics of the girls on Wednesday night and this one was just too sweet.
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