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Games + Lake + Anniversary

For our XaBeat class on Wednesday morning, the birthday person chose a theme of 'why is this still in my closet?' Of course I had to pull out the beloved fur coat my dad had bought for my mom. It was way too warm to dance in, though, so it didn't last long. I did feel very fancy though.

I could see Clara swinging outside my office window when I was working from home one day last week. She was supposed to be cleaning her room before Nanny Izabell came, but I think snuck outside instead.


Last Wednesday was the Robins last soccer game for the season and it was a great one! They had an awesome season and they had a good cheering section with Grandpa and Grandma Froemming, Grandpa Kim and Brynn in attendance. 









Big thanks to Dana for coaching again! The girls really got along and played together well.







Izabell and Clara had prepped some water balloons to bring for some post-game fun. Clara nailed Dana.






After the game Grandpa, Clara and I went straight to the Redhawks game which had a delayed start of about an hour due to rain. It was a fun game, but it started to get pretty late so we had to leave in the 7th inning, I think it was.


Brynn and Brooklyn made some yummy banana bread last week.

Dana and Clara went to Dead Lake on Thursday and the plan was for Brynn and I to join them on Friday after I got off work, but there was nothing but rain forecasted for the weekend, so they came back on Friday night and Brynn and I never went. But, Dana and Clara were able to get some fun in before they got rained out.




Saturday night Dana and I went out to celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary. We started out at the Toasted Frog for dinner and then went to Granite City for drinks and dessert afterward. 


The movie we were going to was close by at West Acres Cinema, so I told Dana we should just walk over. Apparently he mentioned something about it raining (wasn't at the time) and supposedly I brushed that off and so we trekked over on foot. Sure enough it was pouring after the movie, so he ran and picked me up, but pulled RIGHT up to the door so I didn't even get one bit wet. 💓 It was a fun night!




Nanny Izabell is on a family vacation this week, so Clara ended up in Carrington hanging with Grandpa and Grandma. They left Fargo Sunday afternoon and fit all that you see here yet that day. Thanks, Grandpa and Grandma for having her!

Looks like she got put to work at Grandma's office right away.




Cousin Oliver got to come stay too!

Brynn worked on an anniversary cake for us on Sunday.💜



And then she messed around with my camera a little bit.


AND picked up flowers for us for our anniversary. So sweet.

The '51 is now road ready, so we took it out for a spin. 

Monday was our actual anniversary which we continued our celebration from Saturday night with a side-by-side ride, of course, and enjoying Brynn's cake. It was delish. Thank you to everyone who wished us a happy anniversary!

Oh, and more flowers! My boss noticed pointed out to me that there were 19 roses for each year of our marriage. Duh!  They smelled so good!












Comments

theweckerlys said…
Ahh, so much goodness! Love that Clara also had her headphones on out on the swings. I'm with her - why clean your room when you could be on the swingset jamming?? Go Robins! What a fun team. I love the look on Clara's face in that last photo. So cute. Dana is a good sport. Dad said he had such a good time at the Red Hawks game. That banana bread looks delicious. I have a bunch of over-ripe bananas on my counter right now, so this is inspiring me to make some banana bread. Sorry your weekend plans got rained out. Looks like you had lots of fun celebrating your anniversary! Those pictures of Clara at mom's office are gold. I might have to commission Brynn to make my next birthday cake - that looks so good.

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