Whew! I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do on the old blog here.
The first holiday program of the season was Brynn's choir concert. This was just the sixth grade performing and they sounded fantastic. It was really fun to listen to them.
Last Friday night we met my parents at Jimmy's Pizza in Hawley for some delish pizza and trivia. It was just general trivia for seven rounds. We nailed many questions, but had no clue on several as well. I think we ended up at fourth place, without a prize, but it was still super fun. They are having another trivia geared just for kids on December 30th, so the girls want to come back for that.
Clara wasn't as much for the trivia, but she did make a friend and stayed busy playing with him most of the time.
We got home kinda late. Oops!
Clara was still up with Daddy the next morning to help him make coffee though.
I had seen in The Forum that Bonanzaville was having a Christmas on the Prairie with a Santa visit and other activities, so we took that in on Saturday afternoon.
They had the museum portion open for visitors, so after we scored some hot chocolate, we made our way through some of the exhibits.
It was all really interesting. I hadn't known about this great fire Fargo had back in 1893. I even learned that we used to have an opera house back then which they did not rebuild after the fire.
Crafts!
Roasting marshmallows for s'mores. It was pretty chilly, so we scurried into the craft fair that was going on at the same time. Brynn got sucked into many conversations with the different vendors. It was kind of comical. She did come away with a sample of homemade soap, so she was pretty excited about that. Clara even got one too.
They had some activities in the other buildings on site there, so we tried to hurry between them to find the other things they had going on.
Inside the church...
One of the houses was baking these sugar cookies (it was actually the one that was shown above as "Fargo's first house") and then you went over to this house to decorate them.
Brynn wasn't interested in visiting Santa this year, so she warmed up in the car with Dad while Clara told Mr. Claus what she wanted for Christmas, which I think was a stuffed reindeer, or something like that.
Then she made a phone call straight up to the elves.
It was a really neat and interesting set-up at Bonanzaville. We didn't make it around to all the different buildings, so I'd like to come back when it's nicer outside and we can spend a little more time look around at everything.
Sharing screen time.
Clara sang in church with the other Sunday School kids last Sunday.
It was really difficult to see her in the mass of children. This was just the K-1 group for the Sunday 9:30 service.
This is most of my Sunday School class; a couple were gone. They are so fun.
On Tuesday was Clara's preschool program. Oh my goodness. They were the cutest things that you ever did see. I was laughing and then crying because they were so precious. They had a super hero theme going on. Clara is the one in the back (waving), pretty much directly above this guy's head. :-) She was supposed to be Wonder Woman.
Clara with two of her besties from school. Silly girl.
Grandma Holly came to stay with us this week while Grandpa was gone hunting. She re-painted our whole downstairs. Thanks, Grandma! Clara was a good helper and assisted in removing the tape.
Wednesday was ugly sweater day at work!
Also on Wednesday, Brynn's confirmation leaders took their group shopping for gifts for the giving tree at church. One of the leaders sent this photo to us parents.
Here's a video of the performances and Clara's phone call with the elves.
Thank you to the grandparents for coming to watch the different programs!
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