Family Fun Night + Soccer + Grandpa's Birthday

How we play hide and seek nowadays. haha. I was trying to help Clara. Brynn is a really good hider!

We're so glad the weather has been so nice lately!

Clara at swimming lessons on Wednesday:

On Friday was the family fun night at Clara's school. She and I walked over and Clara ate pizza while I visited with her friend's (Cora, sitting next to Clara) mom until I had to show up for my volunteer shift at the cookie walk.

Coming to join in on the cookie walk.

After winning a couple of rounds, Clara found another friend, Cade, and they helped call the numbers for a bit.

Clara brought home a couple of balloons, and I carried two gallon-sized Ziploc bags of leftover cookies. :-D I'll remember to work the cookie walk again next time. hehe.

I was able to make up for my lack of photos from Clara's first spring soccer game on Saturday. She was still unsure about playing, but about two-thirds of the way through the game, jumped in and was back in action. I can't remember if I mentioned in the last blog update that Dana is co-coaching Clara's team this season. 💙

Wednesday was Grandpa Kim's birthday so on Saturday night we went back to Pit 611 in Audubon to celebrate. The food is so good there. It was Dana's first time there and he enjoyed his ribs that he ordered.

Two German chocolate cake lovers of the family. Thankfully Grandpa shared with all of us.

After we got back to the lake from dinner, Grandpa gave Brynn some driving lessons. She really did great and picked everything up really quickly.

This was Grandma Darlene's Bonneville that will be Brynn's. She is so excited to have Grandma's car. It'll be a really nice reliable vehicle for her and she says she feels really comfortable driving it.

Brynn discovered this prayer on the sun visor. 💜

Bynn made some chocolate chip banana bread after we got home on Saturday night.

Clara bought the donuts at church on Sunday.

More soccer in the afternoon on Sunday...

Ha - not sure what was going on here.

Showing me her golf swing. :-)

Clara bought herself some (Strawberry Shortcake!) skates and was excited to try them out as soon as they were delivered today. Brynn dug out my old Rollerblades and they were tooling around the driveway together tonight.

"Squat Skating" or something like that...

Comments

Tessa said…

Great soccer pics! That German choc cake looks delish. I need to try Pit 611 too! Grandpa should open his own driving school :) :) So glad the lesson went well for Brynn. She'll be a great driver! Love Clara's church outfit, so cute. Jean jackets for4eva. Nice skates, Clara!

May 17, 2022 at 8:03 AM

shelly said…

Ok, thanks TJ! Got me bawling now. G/ma's car and that prayer. Uff Dah! Glad Brynn's going to get to enjoy it. Don't know about that teacher she has tho. LOL

Go Clara. Looks like you will be a soccer pro soon.

May 17, 2022 at 10:09 PM

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