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January to February

We stayed busy in January with some good outside time, friends, family and losing teeth!

The girls and I went out to my parents' lake for a visit and Grandpa did some sledding with us.





Clara getting ready for church. 💚

Out for a walk. Clara likes to climb on all the boulevard snow piles.

Clara's class took a field trip to the Plains Art Museum. They got to make clay cupcakes.


Brynn is really enjoying her graphic design class that she started in this new semester at school. This was the first thing she made. So cute!

Guess who?

Clara finally lost her front tooth that had been hanging on for dear life for what seemed like forever.


The tooth fairy brought her $2.25.

Vesties besties!


Clara played over at Adria's house last Saturday and then Adria came over to play on Sunday.






Clara had two of this same headband so they could be twinning. 



Brynn switched over to digital art for our prayer journaling. So beautiful.

Adria was back at our house for an overnight and Clara's other front tooth fell out. haha. I think Clara was even surprised - we didn't realize it was so loose. I was chuckling at this picture of them because there isn't many teeth left between these two. 

Second note to the tooth fairy.

Finally we had some nice weather yesterday after bitter cold for at least a week straight. Clara had been wanting to go back to our church near the back parking lot where they have pushed up massive hills of snow to do some sledding and Brynn wanted to go find a big hill somewhere near home, so this was a perfect spot.







Brynn baby-sat Clara last night while Dana and I went out for a little date night. We found ourselves at Scheels looking at cowboy boots for Dana. I'm surprised as you are. haha. I guess he had been wanting a nicer boot or something that he could wear in the winter as all he had was some summery loafer type shoes that weren't cutting it in the snow. 


He did find a pair, which was neither of these that are shown above, but he's very happy with his purchase!

Then we stopped at Frank's for long island teas on our way home.















Comments

Tessa said…
I'm glad Dana found some boots that he liked :) The toothless picture of Adria & Clara is truly great. I love Brynn's designs. The braces on the Popsicle - so cute. Is Dad wearing your hat in the sledding photos? Haha.
February 5, 2023 at 12:49 PM
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