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Visits + Horse Races

Last weekend Shelly and Lester came for a visit. The girls were so excited to have them come stay. We all had a lot of laughs together, as usual.


Clara showed Shel how to draw a cat.



Grandpa and Grandma Dietz were at the lake all during the week last week as well as the Weckerlys for a couple of those days. Brynn and Clara got to go stay for a bit too.


The beach at Detroit Lakes.

We've been hitting up the pool pretty frequently at home.

This past Thursday the girls and I headed back home to pick up Reagan to come stay with us and to visit Grandma Darlene. On our way to Fessenden, I took the girls on a detour to our old farm.

Everything still looks so nice and pretty much the same as when we left!

The garage doors are different and the shutters and this deck are "new" though. No one was home so we weren't able to chat with the current owners or see inside the house or anything, but it was still pretty neat to stop.


Brynn dug into Grandma's eraser collection when we got to her house. These were my favs...they all brought me back to childhood: Mr. T, Cabbage Patch baby, Garfield, Bart Simpson and ALF.


I think this one was one of Brynn's favorites. ;-)

So glad we got to come and spend a little time with Grandma. 💜

Brynn was hoping to make it to Hurdsfield in time that evening to have Reagan make us some ice cream treats. Brynn was super impressed with the cyclone she ordered. Good job, Regs!

On Friday we made our way back to Fargo. The girls had a long list of activities planned for Reagan's stay. My cousin and her granddaughter (who is a year younger than Brynn) were coming to my parents' lake for the weekend, so the girls all wanted to play together there. There were a couple of things that Brynn and Reagan really wanted to check off the list before we went out to the lake. 

The first one was the graffiti wall. You can see the "Brynn" in black on the bottom of the wall between Brynn and Reagan...that was from the first time we were there.





And the other thing was to hit up Davies pool. It was a pretty hot day, so the water felt really good.

Nails, make-up, hair and tubing were on the list once they got to the lake.







Seymour was even at the lake this time. He comes out to the dock/beach area and then waits for Mom and Dad to come back. Haha.



Clara stayed out with everyone Friday night and came in with Grandpa on Saturday so we could go to the horse races. It was miserably hot and humid (I've never actually seen Clara sweat that much), so we only made it through half of the races before we went to cool off at DQ with Clara's winnings (well, Grandpa's winnings that he gave to Clara. ;-))




Meanwhile, back at the lake, the girls went to Cherry Berry.

Clara and I were back at the pool to cool off Friday night. She had a lot of fun showing me all her tricks.



Everyone is back home now! Brynn and I went on a nice walk on Sunday night...with her cherries. :-)

Comments

Amanda Lamm said…
Oh man, this is all solid gold! Loved a peek back at the farm; spent many hours there : )
July 29, 2020 at 3:28 PM
theweckerlys said…
Baha, the homework eraser. Cute pics from the races! Thanks for taking Reagan along for the weekend!
July 30, 2020 at 12:00 AM
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