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Easter + Oliver's Birthday Party
The girls dyed eggs on Saturday after Brynn had come back.
Clara sang in church on Palm Sunday. I should have reversed the two video clips because I zoomed in on the second one and you can see where she is better, but she is in the middle, slightly to the right, in a green dress. I love the songs that they sang.
The girls were off of school on (Good) Friday and Dana and I had taken off work, so we headed out to my sister's in the afternoon.
The best pizza in all of North Dakota!
On Saturday we celebrated this guy's 6th birthday with an epic Mario Kart cake and festivities. Happy birthday, Ollie Man! We were so glad to celebrate with you.
"Cut the cake and say 'hi-ya!'"
😍😍😍
The older kids held an impromptu bake-off. I was lucky enough to be a judge!
We had such a fun and relaxing stay, spending time with the Weckerlys in their hot tub, hanging out and visiting and learning shuffleboard. Thank you for having us! Love you guys.
Turns out the Dietz Girls shouldn't be allowed to team up for ANY games, not just Pictionary. :-D
It was no surprise that Ollie and Clara were the first ones up, but they so nicely and patiently waited for the other kids before searching for their Easter baskets. The weather hadn't improved much come Sunday, and Easter service ended up being cancelled. It was so strange not to attend church on Easter morning.
The boys got these cool light saber chopsticks.
Clara didn't waste much time getting into her candy.
Unfortunately Clara wasn't feeling well and spent most of the rest of the day resting after her Easter basket. So, she was missing from our family pic.
We were most certainly missing our special Easter Bunny this year. Thankfully her successor did show up though. Clara was really sad once she realized the Easter Bunny paid a visit, but she had missed out. :-(
Thank you, Weckerlys, for hosting another wonderful Easter holiday. He is risen! 🕇
Clara made a countdown chain to her 10th birthday. We baked a red velvet cake for her family party and chocolate cupcakes for her friend party. She looks so tall in some of these pics! Izabell's boyfriend, Neil, and Clara share the same birthday, so they all went out for lunch on their actual birthday on the 2nd. And then Neil had to get a tour of the Clara Express. Dana was in charge of getting balloons for the party and I sent him to Dollar Tree which apparently doesn't fill latex balloons, only Mylar. Dana "just knew" he had gotten the 'wrong' ones, and called me in a fit of rage over it and then followed up with this photo. haha. It all worked out just fine for Clara's ninja themed parties and I was able to pick up a few more black latex balloons from Cash Wise on my way home from work. Clara had already started partying at Prairie Joy's birthday party the night before, so I think she was short on sleep. I couldn't find her when I got home on F...
Brynn and I were very excited to embark on our mother-daughter trip to Chicago this week. We had gifted Brynn part of the trip as her sweet 16 birthday gift. We flew direct out of Fargo on Wednesday. We stayed at the Grand Plaza apartments on State Street in a VRBO rental. We loved it there! The building had an outdoor rooftop pool, library, gaming/movie room and gym on the 9th floor. This was us looking down from our 50th floor balcony. I refused to go to the edge of the balcony. Blech. (Photo credit: Brynn on this one!) Here are a few pics of inside the apartment that I hawked off of the VRBO listing. We got our things settled and ran next door to a Jewel Osco grocery for a few things and then got ready for dinner at River Roast along the Chicago River. It was very good and beautiful weather. I think Brynn said this was her favorite place that we ate at. Our waiter Jorge brought Brynn a carrot cake when we said we were celebrating Brynn's birthday on the trip. We came back to the...
S'mores on the deck... We got Brynn's team tennis pics back. They turned out great! I had to get a couple of pins and magnets. I should have taken a pic of Hubert and me spectating at one of her games last week as Hubert was sporting his pin. :-) We three girls played last week during a nice evening. Clara's class is doing an alphabet countdown to the last day of school. J was joke day. And Clara loves to share jokes with her teacher. She made her own joke book to bring. Cindy took Dad and me out to lunch for our birthdays last Thursday. It was such a fun time and Dad and I each got a cookie skillet for being the birthday kids! So delish. We went to Granite City. Always good! Dana and I went to Sartell, MN on Thursday night and arrived late. We stopped over at the after party of the groom's dinner for our friends getting married on Friday. I snagged their kitty for a snuggle. Roger and I were the photographers for the wedding which was beautiful. We had such a good tim...
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