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Christmas 2015
This year we celebrated Christmas with my side, but first we had our own little family Christmas at home on Wednesday night. This was the first time we had done it and also the first year our own church in Fargo was having a Christmas eve eve service. So, we ate dinner at home, went to our church service and then opened up our gifts amongst the four of us. It was nice to see the kids open up what we got them since they also get a lot of gifts from our other family members when we're all together on Christmas eve and day.
I hacked this photo off of Facebook, but this was the service at our church.
Brynn was excited to get a new roller suitcase.
New nightgown.
Daycare told us Clara loves the Little Blue Truck book there and so I found the Christmas version to give to her. It has a Christmas tree that lights up at the end.
Clara got a pack-n-play for her babies.
They got a play cookie set together.
Clara also got a car seat for her babies, but has a love/hate relationship with it right now. She wants to use and tries, but it is kind of big for her to carry around and her baby gets stuck in it.
Ugh! The current state of our tree. Top third lit only. Grr. It's going down tomorrow!
On Thursday we headed West since my sister was hosting Christmas eve at her house. First we made a stop at Mom and Dad's and Dana helped them install their new dishwasher. Meanwhile, Brynn was working on a sewing project with Grandma. Brynn thought Grandma's machine was pretty fancy!
Froemming Four at my sister's house Christmas eve.
Reagan, Brynn and my aunt Cindy graciously played some Christmas tunes for us after dinner. It was so fun!
Gift opening time!
The kids carefully selecting cookies for Santa...and Dana photobombing.
Christmas morning the kids opening up their stockings from Santa...
Brynn had a special note from Santa saying he left a surprise at her house in Fargo.
Here was a clue to what the surprise was: a matching nightgown to the one Brynn got from us for an American Girl doll.
Christmas Day we were back at my parents' for more Christmas celebration..
Clara sure buddied up to Grandpa this week.
Being silly with Uncle Chad
Ben checking out Clara's new shades.
Brynn got a hand-sewing kit from Grandpa and Grandma, along with some OneDirection fabric.
A sweet reminder from Brynn. :-)
Trying out Brynn's new Lego Friends set.
Chad and Tessa!
Practicing sewing on buttons.
We also celebrated my Grandma's birthday. Don't mind my horrid singing on the video.
A nice picture of Tessa and me.
"Meowy Christmas!"
"Boxy Brynn"
At about 10:30 pm on Christmas Day, Dad and I decided on a rousing game of ping pong. I'm proud to say I won, but Dad's arm was bothering him, so I suppose I had that to my advantage.
We came back home to Fargo Saturday morning where Brynn found the gift Santa had left for her.
An Our Generation doll! Brynn decided it must be the look-alike type that Santa had told her about.
They actually do look very alike!
Ready for bed in matching PJs.
Today we celebrated Christmas with Dana's mom's side at his parents' house. Brynn and Clara had fun playing with the cousins.
Clara and Reese are about a week apart. They don't see each other very often, but when they do, it's pretty funny to watch them together.
Typical Clara with her tongue out.
I can't get enough of these next two pictures. So cute. Baby toes!
Clara made a countdown chain to her 10th birthday. We baked a red velvet cake for her family party and chocolate cupcakes for her friend party. She looks so tall in some of these pics! Izabell's boyfriend, Neil, and Clara share the same birthday, so they all went out for lunch on their actual birthday on the 2nd. And then Neil had to get a tour of the Clara Express. Dana was in charge of getting balloons for the party and I sent him to Dollar Tree which apparently doesn't fill latex balloons, only Mylar. Dana "just knew" he had gotten the 'wrong' ones, and called me in a fit of rage over it and then followed up with this photo. haha. It all worked out just fine for Clara's ninja themed parties and I was able to pick up a few more black latex balloons from Cash Wise on my way home from work. Clara had already started partying at Prairie Joy's birthday party the night before, so I think she was short on sleep. I couldn't find her when I got home on F...
S'mores on the deck... We got Brynn's team tennis pics back. They turned out great! I had to get a couple of pins and magnets. I should have taken a pic of Hubert and me spectating at one of her games last week as Hubert was sporting his pin. :-) We three girls played last week during a nice evening. Clara's class is doing an alphabet countdown to the last day of school. J was joke day. And Clara loves to share jokes with her teacher. She made her own joke book to bring. Cindy took Dad and me out to lunch for our birthdays last Thursday. It was such a fun time and Dad and I each got a cookie skillet for being the birthday kids! So delish. We went to Granite City. Always good! Dana and I went to Sartell, MN on Thursday night and arrived late. We stopped over at the after party of the groom's dinner for our friends getting married on Friday. I snagged their kitty for a snuggle. Roger and I were the photographers for the wedding which was beautiful. We had such a good tim...
Brynn and I were very excited to embark on our mother-daughter trip to Chicago this week. We had gifted Brynn part of the trip as her sweet 16 birthday gift. We flew direct out of Fargo on Wednesday. We stayed at the Grand Plaza apartments on State Street in a VRBO rental. We loved it there! The building had an outdoor rooftop pool, library, gaming/movie room and gym on the 9th floor. This was us looking down from our 50th floor balcony. I refused to go to the edge of the balcony. Blech. (Photo credit: Brynn on this one!) Here are a few pics of inside the apartment that I hawked off of the VRBO listing. We got our things settled and ran next door to a Jewel Osco grocery for a few things and then got ready for dinner at River Roast along the Chicago River. It was very good and beautiful weather. I think Brynn said this was her favorite place that we ate at. Our waiter Jorge brought Brynn a carrot cake when we said we were celebrating Brynn's birthday on the trip. We came back to the...
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Thanks for everything - so happy to have you for the holiday!