Froemmings

I think we're all officially ready for spring now! We got dumped on again this week, but first here are some other goings-on, besides snow. :-) We had finished up with supper one night last week and Clara was trotting down the hall with her piece of bacon. I heard her fall down and she decided just to stay put and finish her bacon right there. Ha. She'll usually come either in the middle of the night or around 6:15 into our bedroom to see if she can cuddle with us. One morning she crawled in and then fell back asleep. It took me forever to wake her up for school! Mom and dad's bed is so cozy. Sisterly bedtime stories. We had heard that there was going to be a super moon this past Tuesday in which the moon would be really big and bright. I had left my regular camera at my office for a work project that I was working on, so these are just with my cell phone which stinks for night time pics, but we did a good glimpse of it. Brynn had Dana's old...

I will be attending another trade show for work coming up next month and we were thinking of serving this drink from our booth called chicha morada. It's a drink made from purple corn (which we supply), pineapple, cinnamon, cloves and then served chilled with fruit. I wanted to try it out to see how it tasted and how much it truly yielded. It was actually pretty tasty! We woke to some gifts from Daddy on valentine's morning. Clara wanted to be sneaky and hide her valentines in her coat as we were walking into school. I walked out to my car as I was leaving work for the day and came out to what I can only describe as reverse icicles, I guess, since that one was coming straight up out of the ground. We opened up our gifts from Daddy and Daddy opened his Reese's heart from us girls. The girls also opened up all the family valentines they received. Thank you, everyone! It's above zero today with no wind, so it's actually pretty ...

On Friday we headed up to Grand Forks since Brynn had to be at UND at 7:30 AM on Saturday to report for the state LEGO League competition. We thought we would go up early to swim and the hotel and what not. Well, we didn't get going very early so it was already a bit late by the time we got checked into our hotel. The pool area was a little disappointing and we only spent about 10 minutes in the hot tub before returning to our room to get ready for bed. Of course no one slept very well, as always seems to be the case when we stay in a hotel. Brynn was up and ready to compete in the morning, though. Dana dropped her off and then came back to pick up Clara and me. The morning consisted of presentations on the team's robot design, core values and research project. The presentations were very interesting for Dana and me to watch and the kids did such a good job. Clara didn't find it as interesting and was over it all pretty quickly. That and she was lacking sleep. :-/  ...

Last Saturday we had a fun time celebrating cousin Elise's 10th birthday party at Detroit Mountain in Detroit Lakes. After a brutal week of cold, we really lucked out with a nice day for tubing. Happy birthday to Elise! After that party, it was on to the next! We celebrated Holly's birthday at True Blue and then with skating afterward. Happy birthday to Holly! Haha! This scene was so hilarious. When we were out to eat Christel ordered seafood strew which included a couple of crab legs. Apparently the girls hadn't seen anyone eat crab legs before and they didn't seem to take too kindly to it. Brynn looks horrified and Clara traumatized. I think they're ok now, though. My mom has been cleaning out some stuff from storage and organizing things at their house. She came across an old dress that my grandparents had brought back for me on a trip they took to Mexico. I'm sure I was a long smaller than Clara is now because it seemed to ...