The girls were off of school this week on Thursday and Friday and out early on Wednesday for teacher's convention. I had taken Thursday and Friday off of work to meet up with Tessa and Elise at Fort Ransom State Park. We were set to spend the night in one of the houses on site and then do a hike the following day before heading back home.
The house was very old and completely overridden with box elders and lady bugs. I think old houses are neat, so that part was cool to me; the bugs not so much, however.
Tessa made a fun 'would you rather' game: Halloween edition, so we played that and snacked on energy bites in between collecting bugs in a soapy jar of water.
I had to send my mom a pic of me snuggled into my 30-year-old sleeping bag that we bought for me for some camping trip when I was younger. It's still going strong!
We slept in and chatted for a while in the morning before heading out
It was such a beautiful day out; we really lucked out with the weather.
We went a total of about four miles and then found a picnic table to have our sack lunches.
Thanks to Tessa for arranging everything and being our trail guide. It was super fun.
Dana got home from work late on Thursday night. He hadn't even made it into the house yet when I ambushed him and asked if we could go out on the side-by-side for a picnic dinner. We made it just in time to watch the sun set.
Tessa and the girls (plus friend, Addie) stayed with us Friday night and the teenagers took in the Taylor Swift concert/movie.
Clara had gone to Grandpa and Grandma Froemming's farm to spend some time there until she had to return to Fargo to attend her friend's birthday party on Friday night.
Clara was off again after the birthday party to stay at the other grandparents' as Oliver was there for the weekend as well.
Dana and I went out on the town downtown on Saturday night and had a fun time.
First stop was drinks and apps at Teddy's. Dana hadn't been there before, but Tessa had taken me there for my birthday a few years ago and I was happy to come back.
The weather was still really great so it was a nice night to walk around downtown to each of the places we went to.
Next stop was Pounds' new location.
We wanted to catch dinner at Old Broadway, a bar that we had gone to sometimes when we were in college. They've redone part of it to a full restaurant and it looked really nice, but they were closing about five minutes after we got there, so we moved on from that idea and ended up at the Blarney Stone.
We called it an early night and came back to these two having a later dinner (courtesy of Hubert) at home. 💓
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| Photo cred: Brynn |
My mom sent me this pic of their kitty, Ninja. She's so cute!
It would have been cool to actually have a photo of Dana or me (Brynn chose not to go up), but I screenshot this from one of the other services at our church that was streamed online today. We had the opportunity to re-affirm our baptisms, either by just having water poured on our forehead, or you could fully submerge in the tubs that you can see on both sides of the picture. If you hadn't been baptized yet, you could during this time today as well. It was just so emotional, and of course, I was blubbering. It felt very special to being able to re-affirm our baptisms, but to see people - both kids and adults - getting baptized for the first time, was also so cool.
Dad and Brynn on a spur-of-the-moment post-church Starbucks date.
Clara carved her pumpkin today after she got home from the lake.
Cozy Clara reading her book this afternoon.
It was a wonderfully full fall break and it felt so good to have a couple of days off work too!
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