Froemmings

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 alr...

The swing set is complete! Brynn is loving it. It turned out great. Dana found an infant swing on Craigslist that we have yet to pick up and then Clara can swing, too. Brynn has been on it every day since it went up, most nights until it was time for bed. She told me after the first night that she was going to get up early and go out and swing. So if I got up and couldn't find her, then I would know where she was, she said. :-) It's already so nice having it in our own backyard; I'm glad she is enjoying it as much as she is already.  Our friend Dave came over to help, too.  Brynn made Daddy this bracelet and he has been wearing it all week. ;-)     Poor Clara was sick again these past few days. On Saturday, or probably Friday night rather, she came down with coxsackievirus . She was running a fever of over 104*. She was really miserable. Grandma Holly came to stay home with her (and Brynn) these past couple of days so that Dana and I could put...