Weekend Back Home

This past week was ND Teacher's Convention on Thursday and Friday which meant Brynn was off of school those days. On Thursday Grandma Holly and Brynn had a girls' shopping day together. Brynn had so much fun and she got a lot of great things shopping. The first pic was a new outfit she got that she is totally in love with. I had to peel it off of her over the weekend, as she had already worn it for about two straight days...or more probably! Thanks, Grandma Holly!

I had planned then to take the girls back home over the weekend as Dana went up north hunting with his dad and their family friends. I took Friday off of work to be able to visit the great grandmas while we were home.

First we visited Grandma D.

Uncle Randy came over to visit, too, and measured the girls' heights and marked them on Grandma's wall. Hopefully they will not have grown too much by the next time we come back to visit!

We spent the afternoon visiting with Auntie Tessa and the cousins and then all got together with our parents at Grandma Darlene's for supper. The kids had a great time 'helping' Grandma with her leaves.

Grandpa Kim likes to do a now annual fall hayride for the grandkids. It was a great day for it on Saturday.

The kids had to stop and pick some corn along the way.

I got some good snuggles in with Mom and Dad's cat, Seymour.

Brynn made him a house of sorts.

We decided to make homemade donuts last night. They turned out yummy!

Clara and Grandpa playing ping pong.

Clara really didn't have a chance yet to decorate a pumpkin at home so she did that this afternoon after we got back home.

Brynn was impressed. :-)

Comments

theweckerlys said…

Great pictures! Love the donut making ones. Grandma Kim? :) Glad to have you guys come!

October 24, 2016 at 8:39 AM

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