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July Fun, Friends, Family and Fair

Last week Brynn was able to stay at Dead Lake to hang out with Grandpa and Grandma's neighbors' granddaughter, Margot. They had a lot of fun together, including sharing this amazing sundae from Applebee's. 

When Brynn was at Dead Lake, Clara and Taylor hit up the zoo.



I was absolutely cracking up over this pic of Clara in the combine. When Taylor sent it to me, I immediately texted it to Tessa to let Chad know that Clara is ready to help with harvest this fall. 😂



Clara also had an overnight at Adria's house to celebrate Adria's 7th birthday. I got a chuckle out of the card Clara made for her.

Buddies in matching shirts. 

I had bought this little movie projector that I intended to use for outdoor summer movies. So, Dana and I tried watching a movie on a deck date last week, which was all good and fun until the mosquitos drove us in. :-(

We met up with Brynn at Dead Lake to celebrate Froemming Christmas in July.








Clara's fav, turtle! A Froemming delicacy, turtle usually shows up along with the fish at the fryer.



We are excited that Auntie Elaine is moving back to MN!













How it started...

...how it's going.

Dad finally relented to Brynn mowing our lawn, though it wasn't as good of an experience for Brynn as she would have hoped. After a break and some dinner, though, it seemed to go a bit better for her. She's looking for some money-earning opportunities and thought this might be a good one for her. She thought it was more difficult with our mower and lawn compared to when she mowed at Weckerlys', but it sounds like she's going to stick with it. She, and all the farmers, are hoping for rain. ;-)

This week Brynn started the Junior Zookeeper program again and Clara is doing an Artmania class through Fargo Parks. Auntie Tessa was in town with Elise and her friend Addie for their Cobber volleyball camp, so auntie helped us shuttle the girls around to their activities while she was here.

It was so fun to have them stay. We made it to the pool on Monday night and then out for some ice cream afterward.



Taylor took the girls to the fair the other night and they had a good time.




Clara showed me all the creations she made at Artmania this week:










Comments

Tessa said…
So much summer fun! The kids just mowed here yesterday; we should have saved it for Brynn haha. Thanks again for hosting us - everyone had so much fun! I love Clara's clubhouse drawing.

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