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The week after I had come back from my Vegas work trip, Dana had to go to Wisconsin for training. I usually get up and go to the gym before everyone wakes up and then Clara gets up to eat breakfast with me around the time that I get home. I didn't want her to worry, though, if neither Dad nor I was upstairs if she woke up before I got back, so I told her she could go snuggle with Brynn if that was the case. Well, one of the mornings I got up and went past her room and didn't see her in it. Here she had already gotten up and moved down to Brynn's room. Ha. I have no idea what time of night it was that she went down there. It was so sweet how they were snuggled in sleeping together.


Speaking of me being gone, when I had returned from my trip, I noticed this sticky note Clara had written...well, written me out of the family, is what it looked like to me! So, I asked her why my name was crossed off and she said because I wasn't here. And I asked her if she didn't think I was coming back or what, to which she replied, 'no.' :-( Yikes!


She's not always such a morning person. :-)


Saying prayers one night before bed. Tonight we had finished up eating and she hadn't cleaned up her dinner plate and such and had another mess to clean up as well. (I thought) she said, I'm going to play," and we told her no, she wasn't because she had to clean up her stuff first. And I think she said, 'no,' which is a little unlike her to just plain refuse to do what we're asking. So, then she says, 'No! I said PRAY. You know, like talk to God!?" hahaha. So, off she went then.



Brynn's sixth grade school pictures turned out great, I thought! Except for that she looks so old!


Clara and her bestest friend at school. They are so funny together.



Brynn had a school friend spend the night last Friday night. Brynn and Clara had made these monster chocolate bars that Brynn is holding earlier in the week, so Brynn was having one for dessert.



After Brynn's friend went back home, we headed over to Rheault Farm for the Fall in Fargo event...which used to be called the fall festival.










There was a thankful tree as well so the girls wrote on the leaves what they were thankful for.

If you can't read Clara's it says 'my family.' Well, that's what she meant, I think; it actually says 'family my.' :-)






We could only spend so long at Rheault Farm because Clara had a birthday party to attend later in the afternoon. She was able to take a cupcake for the road and the mom of the birthday boy even sent one home for Brynn too. So, they enjoyed those on Sunday after lunch.



School has been going pretty well for Brynn. It seems to be an adjustment and transition for her as she is getting used to juggling separate classes and teachers and working to stay organized. She is typically working on something for school every day whether it's math homework, reading or lately it was a language arts project. They were to put together a book recommendation with accompanying photos and such. Brynn's book was 'Holes.' She did a great job writing her recommendation.

I thought she was pretty well done with having used the pictures and all, but then I came home one day and she had put together a 3-D model too. It turned out great. Hopefully she'll get a good grade for all her hard work.

There is a movie version of 'Holes' as well, so Dana and Brynn watched that tonight.


Clara was helping Dad out in the garage one night this past week.


We ran to Walmart and she asked me to take her picture with the ICEE polar bear.

Brynn hand-sewed Clara a pocket in her Family and Consumer Sciences class. It was so sweet and Clara loved it.



I am part of a mile-per-day walking challenge at work. Brynn always wants to come to Courts Plus with me. One night this past week I hadn't gotten my mile in and so we quickly went to Courts to do it together. She was trying to keep up with me and ended up sprinting at 8 miles per hour to do so. (She was kind of messing around, going slower and faster and then realized she could watch live TV right on the treadmill, so she got a little behind me.) I thought her legs were going to fly off! Haha. She said at school that they aren't allowed to go over 6 miles per hour. For good reason, I think! She did catch up to me. :-)



I can't remember if I mentioned before on here that we are headed to Disney World in four days! The girls are super excited and Brynn is especially so for Harry Potter World at Universal Studios. This time we're going with Dana's sister and her husband. We had talked about doing a countdown chain or something, but then never seemed to get around to it. Brynn wanted me to make a puzzle with the same number of pieces as the number of days until we leave. I finally got around to that tonight, but it's not going to be a very challenging puzzle with only four days to go. Oops!


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theweckerlys said…
Always fun at Rheault Farm! Looks like Brynn & her friend had fun. Her school picture turned out so great. And I love to see pics of Clara at school, too!

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