Anniversary Date Night and Pool Time

Last Sunday after we got back from Cousin Camp, Grandpa Kim stopped by for dinner on his way home from the lake. The girls sucked him into a card game after dinner.

The weather has been great for pool time this past week.

On Wednesday the girls went to stay with Grandpa and Grandma Froemming at the lake for a few days. I guess Brynn complimented the neighbor guy on his bib overalls, so he went shopping in Fergus and outfitted them with their own! Haha. I couldn't stop laughing at this pic Grandma Holly sent me.

While Brynn and Clara were gone, we decided to make a go of a night out on the town to celebrate our wedding anniversary which was on June 26th.

We first went out to eat at Rustica downtown. We hadn't been there before except for when it was a different restaurant altogether under different ownership. It was really good.

After we ate, we tooled around Island Park for a bit. We hadn't really been down there much before and it's a pretty nice, well-known park in Fargo. In front of the tennis courts they had these odd concrete bleachers. I had terrible shoes on and didn't want to go up that high to the top, so I let Dana go on up ahead and check it out.

Safe at the bottom!

I had seen on Facebook that one of the local pizza places, Rhombus Guys, shows movies outside on their rooftop every Friday night at 10:00. So, we found ourselves up there with a yum pizza and 'Indiana Jones' for the movie.

We had a good view from up there of the Bank of the West building where I interned when I was in college.

Yesterday Dana ran to the lake to bring the girls home. It was great to have them back!

Brynn's neighborhood friend stopped by to play for a bit and they worked on a sidewalk beautification project. :-)

Lunch outside today.

Brynn and I made s'mores bars. Delish!

More pool time. Our friends Amanda and Adria came over to play this afternoon and Adria's daddy joined us for supper later. It's so funny to watch them play together.

Clara had a nice, long nap this afternoon, but she was looked pretty haggard by the end of the night tonight...she was dirty, played-out and had lost her shirt to a spilled milk incident.

Still had enough left in her for some strawberries before bath and bed, though. Brynn is back on a bracelet loom kick.

Always watching what big sissy is doing.

Comments

theweckerlys said…

Summer fun! That overall pic was hilarious. Love lunch outside and Adria and Clara time!

July 17, 2017 at 7:06 AM

Anonymous said…

It was a blast visiting, and watching those two minions in action together!

-Amanda : )

July 17, 2017 at 6:17 PM

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