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February Things

Last weekend I was excited to learn that I had won a dinner of Marge's World Famous Hot Dish and homemade bread from the Boiler Room in Fargo, plus a 6-pack of beer from Fargo Brewing Company.


We ate the hot dish so quickly that I never even snapped a pic beforehand, so I stole one off of the Boiler Room's website. I had always wanted to try this 'famous' hot dish, and it did not disappoint! It is basically tator tot hot dish and it appeared they make their own (huge) tots as well.

Both the hot dish and the bread were very good. It really did put my own tot hot dish to shame. The girls weren't very excited about it, though.

After dinner Clara and I finally made it down to the lights tunnel outside the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead. I had been wanting to get down there to check it out and turns out I'm glad I waited for nicer temps.

It was pretty neat!


It's not really long and thus didn't take us much time to get through it, so we decided to also walk up to the Stave Church. I thought it was beautiful; Clara said it looked haunted.


Saturday morning


Loves 💓 I'm pretty sure there is never an age when you no longer fit on your parents' lap.

Clara was trying to catch snowflakes on her tongue after she got off the school bus one afternoon.

Brynn is at her friend's (Annabelle) birthday party today. They were going to go swimming and have a slumber party. I asked her to send me some pics from the party. :-)




We've had some warmer weather now finally this past week, so things have really started to look and feel like spring (ie wet and sloppy). Clara went through one pair of snow boots and another pair of rain boots getting all wet playing outside this evening.



Always snacking. Bed lunch for this angry bird tonight was cereal.

...and truth or dare. She would ask me 'truth or dare, Mom?!' and then giggle before I could even answer. Haha.





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theweckerlys said…
Haha oh cute. I love all the photos!

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