I think this was a couple of weekends ago the girls made some brownies...apparently just for Dana and me. ;-) Truth be told, I'm pretty sure I did end up eating most of them.
Last Friday I surprised Brynn during lunch at school. She was very surprised... and not in a good way at first as she seemed to think that I must there to deliver bad news or something like that. Once she realized I just wanted to sit with her while she had lunch, she was excited. We sat together with her friend, Addie.
Speaking of friends...last weekend the girls were at Dead Lake so Dana and I went out with Dana's co-worker and his wife. Not only did Kaily suggest Olive Garden for dinner, they then invited us over to their house in which we made a deal that we'd all be in our sweats. We proceeded to play ping pong, visit, listen to 90s rap and snuggle their huge cat until late that night. Good times!
Proof of Dana petting a cat!
McLovin' is the kitty's name; he's so big and soft!
Last Sunday we rode our bikes to Bennett Elementary to play on their playground. Clara is just now getting into riding Brynn's old bike with training wheels. She really gets going on there and I don't think it will be too terribly long that she'll have the training wheels on. In fact, on our way back home she had to go up a pretty good incline and she kept backing up to take a better run at getting up the hill. She has such perseverance; she didn't want me to help give her a push or anything. And then during what must have been about the third or fourth try she says "pedal, Clara!" Haha.
I've been getting up again in the mornings to run. :-/ (After a three-year hiatus! Uff!) Anyhow, of course it has been such nice weather these past couple of weeks. The sun was especially pretty the other morning, so I had to stop and snap a few pics along the way with my phone.
I run through the nearby neighborhood of Briarwood. It's really quiet in there and there is this little creek that runs through the middle of it which you can kind of see in the below pic.
I was surprised by a deer one morning. You can hardly see it just to the right of the light post there.
Back home - our snow crabs are in full bloom! I love it. This picture doesn't even do justice to what they look like in person.
On the second to last day of school when I dropped Brynn off we noticed the principal had relocated his office up on the roof one last time. And it truly is one last time for him because he is retiring this year. He was such a great principal. Whenever I would happen to pick up Brynn from school at the end of the day, you could always find him out there helping the kids find their way to the buses. And so many kids were always giving him hugs. When I went to Muffins for Moms earlier this month, I was surprised to find him directing traffic in the rain.
Ice cream social at Hope on Wednesday...
*Sniffles alert! Brynn's last day of elementary school was yesterday. She had a great experience at Centennial and we were so glad she was able to finish out her elementary education there, even after we moved to a different school zone. She is nervous for middle school, but I think she'll do great. She wants to try volleyball and basketball and plans to continue choir as well. She will no longer go to Hope after school, but instead ride the bus home.
This summer she'll be attending most of the summer camp at Hope and they even asked her to be a junior leader since she is one of, if not the, oldest in the group. So, she is super stoked about that.
As I'm sure most of you know, Clara misses the cut off to attend Kindergarten this year by a few days. I believe you need to be five years old by July 28 or somewhere around there. But, she will start at Bennett near our house, rather than attend Centennial, next year.
We had to celebrate the last day of school with some ice cream, of course!
Here's to a great summer! We did head out to the orchard to take pics on Wednesday night, so I will try to get those posted soon. On Sunday I'm off to New Orleans for a work conference that we're exhibiting at and won't be back until Thursday, so we'll see how far I get on pics tomorrow!
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