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End of Summer

One night after dinner Brynn fashioned up a dress for Clara. It turned out really cool! 




The countdown to school is on. August 25th is the first day back. We just learned this week that due to the surge of cases because of the Delta variant of COVID, they will need to return to school wearing masks. Hopefully it won't last too long. 

We did get our back-to-school shopping done.






Clara had her check-up and is very healthy!


Brynn made me into a Simpsons character. I love it.

Brynn spent a lot of time last weekend going through her clothes and stuff in her room and it looks amazingly organized and tidy now. Yay, Brynn!


Amanda and I went to the Guns N Roses concert this past week and had a great time.


Daddy was invited to a guys weekend at auntie Christel and Uncle John's house, so auntie came to visit at our house.

Clara is forever trying to get Christel to do yoga with her. So, they took advantage of the nice evening and did some yoga out on the deck.



On Saturday we went to the Red River Market downtown. It was pretty hot out but luckily we found some shade for Brynn to eat a quesadilla she got at one of the food trucks.



Then we headed to the horse park for more food trucks and Corgi dog races.




Oh! Look who showed up at the races! 
 
After the races, Adria came over for a visit until we dropped her off back at home on our way out to dinner. Brynn was doing makeovers. 

Scoop-n-Dough now has a south Fargo location, so we had to check that out and introduce auntie to the awesomeness after dinner.

Clara decided to get fancy to go out to dinner. She did receive a couple compliments on her dress. 


I was greeted by this big dragonfly on our door this morning.

Nanny Taylor's last day with us is this coming Wednesday, so the girls are thinking of some fun things to do and planning to soak up the last of their summer break with her before she heads off to college. 

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Tessa said…
The dress turned out great! As did your Simpson character. I love the Simpson art I got! Love the back-to-school shopping photos, haha. Fun times with Christel! Love the dress you wore to the market.

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