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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, everyone!

Comments

Cindy B said…
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
December 23, 2022 at 5:17 PM
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!
December 23, 2022 at 8:37 PM
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