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Grandpa's Retirement + Soccer
We're in the home stretch to summer break! Clara's teacher is doing an ABC Countdown in their classroom with something fun planned for each day until the end of the school year, which is on June 3 for both girls. Clara is already having so much fun with each day's theme and can't wait for P day when they get to wear their PJs to school and make and eat pancakes in class."
Clara gathered a dandelion bouquet after school that she carefully brought home on the bus on Friday. She got them into some water for a nice table centerpiece.
We signed up to bring treats for yesterday's soccer game so we made monster cookie energy bites and banana chocolate chips muffins. (Photo cred: Brynn)
I am so glad I quickly grabbed my phone when I saw Clara heading outside to share a package of Reese's Pieces with Dad. 💜
Friday night we surprised my dad with a retirement celebration dinner at Porter Creek. It was such a fun evening out with everyone. Congrats, Dad!
Tessa and the kids stayed overnight with us and came to Clara's Saturday soccer game while Elise attended a babysitting class. It was so hot already by 10:00 AM; we were all sweating!
Tessa took Reagan and Brynn shopping while the younger kids hung out at our house. They had so much fun playing together.
Today was already the last day of Sunday school for this year. The kids had fun making some crafts, playing games, singing songs and having a bubble dance party to celebrate everyone's birthdays.
Clara will be going to Vacation Bible Xperience at the beginning of June and Brynn is old enough to volunteer to help this year. The theme is Jolly Ranch and they are both so excited already.
Our first deck date of the season. No bugs yet, but it started to get a little chilly so we didn't last too long.
Clara had another soccer game today which was a gorgeous day for soccer.
Clara's cheering section, including her #1 fan in seclusion under a blanket. :-) Brynnie said she needed shade. Thank you to everyone who has come to watch Clara play soccer! It's so much fun and she is really enjoying playing.
Right before Christmas break was done, Brynn and I went downtown to Nichole's for some graduation planning. Making lefse! Clara finished up her time in robotics league with a presentation of the robots and mission that she and her partner/friend, Elizabeth, had been working on. Here's a video compilation of two of the missions they presented. It was so cool. I especially liked the one that picked up the rocks. Some of Brynn's recent drawings. Bedtime snuggles. 💜 I was messaging with Clara's teacher to see if he could let her know that Brynn would pick her up from school one of the very cold days last week. He wrote me back to confirm Clara received the message. I asked Clara when she got home if she wrote that last sentence. Haha. Clara had her first swim meet on Saturday, which was a 'home meet,' hosted by Clara's team, the Red Dragons at Moorhead High School. She was disgruntled about getting up at 7:00 am on a Saturday morning, but each team had specifi...
I was in full fall mode watching 'When Harry Met Sally" in my turkey leg slippers the other night. Dana and I went out to eat at Granite City on Friday night and I think I found my signature cocktail for Christmas. It's called Snow on the Beach and it was so pretty and tasted really good! Saturday morning Clara had her piano recital and did a great job! Thank you to sister Brynn and the grandparents for coming. After lunch with everyone (family, not the other piano students), she was off to the next thing which was a Scouting event at NDSU. She had to miss the morning session because of the recital, but in the afternoon they made a tool box. It turned out great. That night we had the XaBeat (the exercise dance class I go to) crew with spouses over for a little XaFriendsgiving. It was super fun. Dana mixing up old fashioneds. There was no shortage of food - it was an amazing spread. Dana smoked a couple turkey breasts that turned out really well and the stuffing sausage bi...
Christmas gift wrapping shenanigans: Keeping Brynn company while she wraps all of our Christmas gifts. Brynn and I couldn't help but peek at the 150 Famous Poems book we gave to Clara. So many good ones. Getting into the holiday spirit at Courts Plus. Ha! Christmas eve brunch. Clara's gingerbread house contest strategy notes. Contestants were allowed 20 minutes to shop for their houses at Wal-mart. We left ourselves little time to get ready for the 3:00 Christmas eve service at our church. But, we made it and thankfully didn't have to sit in the overflow area in the chapel! It was a beautiful service. We had bit more time in between church and when we planned to leave for Tessa's, so I mixed up my eggnog and we got the car packed. Tessa's family hosted Christmas eve at their lake home. We had a great mix of people to play a game of Mind the Gap. Getting cookies ready for Santa. Clara got Dana and me up around 7:30 and we watched her open her stocking. I think Dana a...
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