Labor Day Weekend

The girls waiting for the bus one morning this past week.

Clara has officially mastered making pancakes all by herself now.

Saturday afternoon and evening we celebrated my mom's birthday at the lake by catching and eating fish, gifts, cake and doing TikTok challenges and dances.

Ollie and I tag-teamed fish frying. He was on top of coating the fish and I fried.

Grandpa tried out his popcorn maker on the fire.

And some fish too...

Clara decided it was pretty good!

Happy birthday, Grandma!

We still had never actually spent the night yet at my parents' lake place in Lake Park, though the girls have several times. But, Saturday we finally did. Dana went on to his parents' to bring in our jet skis on Sunday morning and we stayed a bit longer at Duck Lake to have lunch at the new malt shoppe in town. The food and ice cream was really tasty.

Earlier this week Clara had found a recipe for some bread dough that she wanted to make. I told her Monday would be a good day to try it out since we were planning on hanging around home anyhow.

Once she started looking at her cookbook a bit more, a cinnamon roll recipe made from the bread dough caught her eye. It only used half of the dough that the recipe makes, so I think maybe we'll use the rest for fried bread or something.

The rolls turned out pretty good!

We just got stuff done around the house today; Brynn mowed lawn and did some homework. Daddy and Clara cleaned my car inside and out for me. So wonderful!

We snuck a trip to the park in right before bedtime tonight.

Comments

Tessa said…

Great labor day weekend! So glad we got to spend it with you guys.

September 7, 2021 at 7:16 AM

Amanda Lamm said…

So much fun so many places!

September 7, 2021 at 8:12 PM

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