Family & Pre-Easter

Some photos from Brightwheel (Hope Church app):

Choo-choo Train

This past weekend my aunt and uncle Shelly and Les came up from SD to visit family in our area. They stayed at a hotel with a pool and invited us over so the girls could swim throughout the weekend. They had so much fun swimming and getting spoiled. :) It was great to hang out with Shelly and Les.

Monkeys!

Saturday we had our cousin Marcie and her husband over with Shel and Les. It was fun listening to old Fessenden stories.

I wish I would have gotten a picture of these two hooligans...Brynn had a friend over to play on Saturday and it was super nice out. Sun, warm temps and no wind. It was perfect. Brynn and Vanessa thought it was so nice they put on swimsuits and were squirting each other with water outside. I was pretty skeptical myself, until I went out there and it actually was almost hot. Then Sunday rolled around and ruined it all. Ha.

My love, Brynnie. You can't see it in this pic, but that tooth is still in there and now it has a wiggly friend next to it.

Right before Clara woke up from her nap on Sunday Brynn filled a bunch of Easter eggs and hid them for Clara to find. It was so cute. They must have been having a dry run for this coming Sunday. ;-)

Clara was supposed to close her eyes while Brynn hid another round of eggs.

hehe...

Playing with the Old Maid cards after school on Monday.

Counting chocolate chips. Oh Clara, she always makes me laugh and has a nonchalant answer for everything. It is a bit long, but my fav part of the video is in the middle when she explains that she needs to eat the chocolate ships due to lack of space on the counter.

Comments

Anonymous said…

More goggle action, love it!

April 14, 2017 at 9:14 AM

theweckerlys said…

Haha, love the video! Looks like fun swimming. I'm obsessed with Clara's hair!

April 14, 2017 at 7:50 PM

carrington said…

Loved the video! :)

April 16, 2017 at 10:57 PM

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