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Labor Day Weekend

It's been a heckuva past one to two weeks here with illness. Of course! But, it's not who you would think. Clara was the only one who was actually healthy this time. Thank goodness. Last week Dana, Brynn and I all battled some type of quasi-flu thing for which Brynn ended up staying home from school last Thursday. Luckily it didn't last too long. My worst night was Wednesday night and I was rendered non-functional. One thing that made me feel slightly better was hearing Daddy over the baby monitor read Clara her favorite story, not once but twice. :-) And then he actually spoon fed me some cereal later that night. Yay Dana! Anyway, we did go on to have a fun Labor Day weekend at the lakes.

We didn't head out until Saturday morning, so Brynn choose Village Inn to go out to eat at on Friday night. Clara was waiting impatiently for her food.



With the markedly cooler weather this week feeling more like fall, it seems like so long ago that I took these pictures of the girls swimming and playing in the water.



Ooh baby toes!

And big girl feet!




She always thinks she's pretty big stuff when she gets herself into a chair.



Grandma Holly gave Brynn a trim at the cabin.

We celebrated my mom's birthday at their lake place on Sunday. Unfortunately I wasn't feeling well again, apparently with my first-ever migraine, so I didn't get as many photos as I would have liked that day. And Elise came to spend the night at our house, and again, didn't get any pictures because I felt so awful. They had a good time, though, from what I could tell.

My cousin Tammy came from St. Cloud with her granddaughter.

A rainbow last night.

Clara slept in this morning, so I had the opportunity to grab my camera and get a few pics of Brynn getting on the bus. Usually Clara is awake and comes out to see sister off on the bus, and there is no way I can wrangle her and a camera at the same time, so I seized my opportunity today. I don't recall why Brynn was apparently miffed at me in this first pic. Ha.


Same driver and same bus number this year. This other boy sometimes gets on at our corner too, but most often it's just Brynnie. She is still really enjoying school!




Comments

theweckerlys said…
Love the beach pics! Glad everyone is (hopefully) feeling better and that Brynn is enjoying school!
carrington said…
I especially love the first photo of Clara waiting for her meal! LOL So glad our 2nd grader is enjoying school - off to a good start!

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