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Hunting Trip + Pumpkin Patch + Confirmation Retreat + Nature Scavenger Hunt

 Poor Brynn was under the weather last week and ended up missing about three days of school. :-( It must have just been a bug or something as I did take her for a COVID test which thankfully came back negative. She pretty much was holed up in the spare bedroom for four days straight. 


I attempted to make her a single serving of one of her favs, chicken pot pie.

Clara wanted to get a fire going the other night for some reading outside before bed.

Clara and I took a walk through Briarwood on Tuesday while dinner was in the oven.


Clara helped Dad make monster cookies to take up north on his hunting trip.


Once Brynn started to feel like herself again, she got a little wacky. haha. (She was removing her acrylic nails.)







Dana left on Wednesday for a hunting trip with his dad and Grandma Holly came up to stay on Thursday. Brynn and Brooklyn left on Friday for a weekend church retreat.

Grandma took Clara out for some fun on Saturday morning.








Thanks, Grandma!

In the afternoon we brought Adria to the pumpkin patch with us. It was chilly, but I think the girls had a good time.





They wanted to do a serious one. Ha.
















Must have been a pretty taxing day, huffing those pumpkins around and all. ;-)

Dana sent some great pics from their trip.







I was scouring the Hope Confirmation social media accounts as they were posting photos and video from the weekend, but alas, no footage of Brynn popped up, so here are couple general ones that I saw. Both she and Brooklyn reported that they had a good time when I picked them up.


Clara and I forting this afternoon...

Then we decided to go on a nature scavenger hunt. BRRR!






























Comments

Tessa said…
I'm so glad Brynn is back to feeling herself again (even if she is wacky, haha). Love me some reading by the fire! That is such a cool life-sized lite brite thing. I'm dying over Clara & Adria's "serious" photo. And the bath one, ha! Wow, kudos to Dana for great pics from the hunting trip - looked like fun and beautiful scenery!

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