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Halloween Preview 2020

 I saw this guy rotting in DQ the other day. 


The secondary grades take their school pictures early for their school IDs. Clara's pictures will be next week. Brynnie looks so old! I always think her pictures turn out well, but she was pretty pleased with how they turned out this year especially.



Clara does some school work on her iPad while in-person at school as well as submitting assignments via their classroom app while distance learning at home. I noticed this video pop up in the app earlier this past week when Clara was in school. It's kind of hard to hear some of it with a lot of background noise, but it's worth it to make it to the end. :-) So precious. 

If you couldn't make out what she said at the end, it was "I'm special because I'm made from Jesus." 💓


I spent Friday down south in Frederick, SD again...where I first went to take drone video and pictures of one of our growers two years ago. I was excited to go back to see the fam again. They were doing black bean harvest right now.



Meanwhile, Holly came up to spend the weekend with us girls while Dana went back up North again to help cut woods at their family friends' cabin and ride four wheeler.

Holly took the girls to a couple of garage sales and Brynn added to her scrunchie collection.


Pancakes for brunch on Saturday.


Since it was pretty rainy all day on Saturday, they set up with sewing most of the day.


I thought we were going to try and do Halloween pictures outside of our yard somewhere nearby with some more fall foliage trees, but the girls decided at the first break of the clouds and the sun peaked out this afternoon that they were ready to do them right then! So, I figured I'd better just get while the gettin's good.

Clara is Wonder Woman this year!






Brynn is the Grim Reaper. It turned out great!








Yay! Can't wait for Halloween!

Comments

theweckerlys said…
Love the video of Clara's school project - so sweet. And yes, Brynn's school photo turned out great! I love their Halloween costumes!! Can't wait for trick-or-treating!

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