January

Clara had really gotten into learning about Japanese culture and the language over the summer and found a book that went through the alphabet. She recently wrote me a bilingual note. :-)

I had booked a spa appointment with these two (Clara and Abigail, Hubert's sister). It was lovely.

I realized Dana and I happened to be twinning this day.

Clara checked out a taekwondo class recently and picked up on things really quickly in just that one class. She seemed super excited at the end, but has since ultimately decided not to sign up. It was really nice of the academy to let us try a class out.

Brynn curled Clara's hair for her one evening this week.

The next day Clara tagged along with Dad to his haircut and ended up getting a trim herself while she was there. She was so glad to have a freshened up 'do.

Clara had a sleepover at Adria's house on Friday night.

Dana and I took the opportunity for a date night. We had set out to go to bingo, but when we walked in (we were at Big Top Bingo), it was quite the snooze fest and Dana decided he didn't want to stay. So, we headed over to the new Junkyard Brewing location in West Fargo.

Then we ended our night out at The Flying Pig/Silver Dollar just down the road. Dana brought the car over and I walked and stopped at the snow sculptures along the way, just across the street. They were pretty impressive.

Saturday night was Clara's turn for a date night with me. We headed downtown to Blackbird for dinner, of course.

And Zandbroz for a little shopping.

The Fargo Theater was showing the original animated 'Cinderella' as part of their classic film series. It was so fun.

Since they were only showing it for one night, they had already switched the marquee (which was actually on the other side) before we came out. We should have snapped a pic before the movie. Oh well!

Hubert and Brynn ended up being able to take in a Force game Saturday night courtesy of our friends, Alex and Kaily, who are season ticket holders and weren't going to be using their tickets tonight.

I guess the Force didn't win, but they were excited they got on the Jumbotron (Alex and Kaily were at this game, but in different seats with a group they went with, so they kindly sent us the Jumbotron pics.) And Hubert was able to retrieve a puck, which he was also excited about.