Froemmings

I hope you are staying warm this week! We are sure trying our darnedest. I thought the sun looked so neat setting outside my office window one day last week. By the time I walked out of my office to another window to show my co-worker, it was already gone. Last Saturday Clara attended one of her friend's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. She had a blast, of course. Sadly, Dana's grandma Delrose passed away last Thursday. She and Brynn shared the same birthday which was special to Brynn. They were born 75 years apart! Sunday was the visitation and Monday was her funeral. I had to snap some pics of the photos the family had put together. I always thought she had such a good sense of humor. Love this family picture of Grandma and Grandma and their children. Dana's dad is to the right of Grandma on the couch. We stayed at Dana's parents Sunday night and Christel was surprised with their great-grandpa's burial flag as he

As you might know Brynn joined a LEGO League through school this year. She would meet at the school after classes were done for the day to work with her teammates on coding, researching and building robots. What I have learned over the past several months is that this league has fairly little to do with LEGOs and more to do with robotics. She has seemed to enjoy it. Brynn's teacher and another fifth grade teacher who also specifically teaches science lead the groups. They send parents messages and photos through an app for your phone. They sent the below one this past week as they had been working extra hard preparing for their upcoming competition. This past Friday several area schools came together to compete against one another with their research projects and robots they had built and programmed. I think there were about 16 groups there. It was held at NDSU and the morning portion consisted of judging their research project and code of ethics board. Brynn's

The weekend before Brynn's birthday, we got started on making the cakes for her Harry Potter-themed parties. Brynn was also busy decorating cookies using the new cookie cutters she received for Christmas. On her actual birthday, she chose to eat out at Space Aliens. I don't think we've seen the alien out and about before when we've been there previously. Brynn had Friday off of school, so she spent much of the day preparing for the parties. The first party was Friday night with a few of her friends. We made magic wands as a fun project that the kids could take home. We had also found a potion online to try. I wasn't able to find any spiders, though. We celebrated with family on Saturday. Thank you to everyone who remembered Brynn on her birthday and those who were able to join us to celebrate. Poof! There went another year already. She seems more mature all the time. Happy birthd