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Friendsgiving + Chriskindlmarkt + Broadway Square Tree Lighting

Our friends, Roger and Jessica, brought another couple that we've gotten to be friends to stay over for a visit last Saturday night. We headed to Drekker for some drinks and then Junkyard Brewing before heading back home to some brisket Dana had smoked. We had quite the spread going so someone in the group declared that we actually were having a Friendsgiving. We just hung out and visited at our house the rest of the night.

Sunday afternoon they had the football game on at home, so the girls and I went to Christkindlmarkt.

The girls tried hammerschlagen. 








I bought some candles, Brynn had some mac-n-cheese and waffle-on-a-stick and Clara and I got Scoop-N-Dough and Clara got these fun elf ears and a ceramic trinket dish.

Brynn and Clara both wrote letters to Santa.




The Grinch already came to our house and tried to steal Christmas and it's not even Thanksgiving yet!

Brynn drew this meme that no one can understand or figure out, so I made Hubert take a matching photo with it.



Clara rolled up all her change this summer only for us to unwrap it all and dump it into the coin counter machine at the credit union. :-/ Oh well. She ended up with over $100, so that was great.

Clara's friend Cora was able come play outside on Tuesday afternoon.


After we dropped Cora off at home, Clara and I headed downtown for the tree lighting in Broadway Square.


We did our usual of hopping across the street to Blackbird as soon as the lights light up the tree.

We were reading the notes that were stuck in the wall. There were a couple good gems.









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theweckerlys said…
Aw, I love it! Looks like everyone is getting into the holiday spirit!

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