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Pre-Christmas
Double sister friends. :-)
Rae came over to play last weekend and the girls had a spa going. hehe.
Clara sang in church last Sunday.
They did such a great job. I couldn't hold it together...again, surprise to no one.
Brynn made one my favorite Christmas cookies: raspberry ribbon.
She was looking to make some extra cash and shoveled off the deck. Dana said she looked like how all of North Dakota has felt this past week or so.
Clara and I attempted spritz and they turned out pretty well!
She also made a Christmas countdown chain.
Still so much snow and cold! Trying to make the most of it.
Someone sent these amazing chocolates to my work this week. We really enjoyed them. They were so cool and had a bunch of unique flavors.
Visiting Earl while Clara does her piano lesson.
Christmas dance exercise class this week.
Picking Clara up from school on a particularly nasty day. Ugh.
Scientist Brynn!
One of the staff at Brynn's school was randomly handing out DQ gift cards one day this past week and Brynn was a lucky recipient of one. So nice! Clara had a couple saved up as well, so we picked up Dairy Queen for dinner last night.
We've been getting ready for Christmas today, the girls' first official day of holiday break. They each baked and decorated a birthday cake for Jesus and helped clean house. We'll enjoy the cake tonight when we do our own little family Christmas before Dana's family comes tomorrow to celebrate with us.
Merry Christmas! We'll miss you at Weckerly's. Love all the baking the girls do. I should hire them...I make the same stuff all the time. Love you
Anonymous said…
Aw, I love the pictures from Clara singing in church. She looked very pretty! Haha, poor Brynn; enough with the snow already! Earl is so fluffy and cute. I love your MSUM Christmas sweatshirt!! That was so nice about the DQ gift cards. Merry Christmas!
A couple of weekends ago Clara had a very busy, but fun Saturday with her friend Cora and her sister, Violet. The sisters' dad took them to the Breakfast on the Farm near Hawley (We had gone many years ago. Clara was so little, she didn't remember it.) They also stopped at the dirt track races on their way back into town and then Dana met up with them at MSUM so they could go to the oceanarium there. We had never been before, but it was on our "Moorhead List" of fun things to do in the 56560 zip code. So, check! Out on side-by-side rides any chance we get. We parked on Sunset Road, as we've dubbed it, to watch the sun go down. There is usually one or two other cars parked on this low maintenance road whenever we venture down there. Clara into her granny hobbies. :-) We attended the last of this year's graduation parties over the weekend. I went to one in town on Friday night and then Clara and I stopped at Karlie's party near Fergus Falls on our way to Z...
The girls had Thursday, Friday and Monday off from school for the Easter break. So, Dana and I took most of the same time off (work) to match. Always reading. 💜 Hanging out with Brynn. 💗 Dana and I went on a Costco date. We tried our hand at homemade ravioli again. I think it went a bit more smoothly compared to last time. Hubert's sister Abby stopped by for a visit. We hadn't seen her in a long time and so it was fun to have her We celebrated Dana's birthday and kicked it off with some Sandy's donuts. I don't recall what was so funny. haha. Clara's card. Birthday King Clara dyed eggs. I baked a birthday cake for Dana, messed it up getting it out of the pans, and Clara somehow cobbled it together into a masterpiece. Dana chose Lucky 13's for dinner out. On Saturday we packed up to hit up Oliver's birthday party before we went on to Dead Lake for Easter. Oliver is 9! Photo Cred: Grandma Wanda In a shocking turn of events, most of the kids ended up in ...
We were able to spend the Fourth at Tamarac again this year, with my sister and her family. We arrived just in time for Brynn to change into her tennis outfit for the boat parade float. Their theme was sports this year. Clara and Oliver caught candy from the dock. This was the first Fourth of July holiday spent at my sister and Chad's own cabin on the same lake that Chad's parents have their cabin. Clara brought my mom one of her favs, Tootsie Roll. We were also celebrating Mom's freedom this holiday...from working on the Fourth! For the past how many years, Mom has had to work the Fourth of July parade back home in Carrington. However, this year as she is preparing to retire and training in her replacement, she gave the parade reins to her successor. It was great to have both Mom and Dad spend the Fourth with all of us together. It was just like old times when we all gathered at Terry and Wanda's for lunch though. I made a new recipe for dessert: red, white and blue c...
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