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Memorial Weekend

Before I get to our Memorial Weekend activities, I first have to post a pic that I had forgotten previously. This was Brynn on the last day of school and Camp Skeeter with her dirt cup.



Anyway, we hung around home part of this past weekend and were at Dead Lake on Sunday and Monday which were the best days out of the weekend to be at the lake!

Daddy was working on some projects on Saturday, so naturally Clara was helping out.





We also attended one of my cousin's sons grad party on Saturday. My parents had cousin Elise with them for the weekend, so she and Brynn got to play together.



On Sunday we attended a friend of the family's 80th birthday party in Fergus. These other two munchkins below are great-grandkids of the birthday gal and also the daughters of one of  Dana's oldest childhood friends. Clara looks like her piggy tails are going to fly off in the wind. Ha.


It was a nice evening for a pontoon ride on Sunday. Clara loved seeing all the boats on the water and kept waving furiously at each one. 







Swinging on the big kid swing which apparently is only for little big kids as I broke it the next day when I was swinging on it with Clara. :-(




Time for s'mores!









We enjoyed the beautiful weather on Monday!







On Tuesday Brynn had her first day of the HopeKids Summer Camp. She is off to a great start and loving it so far! I'm so glad, as I know she usually prefers to be at home as much as possible. But they started the first week off with a theme that she really is enjoying which is about recycling. She loves to make treasures from trash which is precisely what they did in the below picture. They made homemade paper today and planted some grass out in the church yard. Her good friend Rosha is also attending this summer, so that helps too!



Clara loves to 'do hair' with this play set. She let Brynn play beauty shop on her tonight. Clara is always so patient when getting her hair done. It is always so cute to see them playing together.


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Anonymous said…
A fun weekend. Hopefully, the first of many!
carrington said…
So glad we had a chance to have lunch together and attend the grad open house. Those girls are so fun!

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