Froemmings

Auntie Tessa thought of Clara when she saw this recipe and sent it to her in the mail. 💜We haven't had a chance to make them yet though. Brynn is a histology hero! Her anatomy teacher gave them some stickers. It gave me a chuckle. Clara's accelerated learning teacher always asks them to come up with questions and I think she had noted this one to bring to class. Dad and Brynn! Last week Brynn and I started out on a walk and realized the Northern lights were very visible. I hadn't heard that they would be out, so it was an awesome surprise. There was a lot of movement as well which was extra cool. Brynn took these with her phone as I didn't have mine out with us. We were so amazed to see them so well from right in town. Some of the Red Dragons swim team practices have been at Moorhead High, home of the Spuds! They have a brand new school which I hadn't been in yet. It was so fun to see a bit of the inside as it turned out so impressively.  Our friends, Jessica and R...

Happy Halloween! We did trick-or-treating at my office again and celebrated National Cat Day a couple of days late. Unicorn making magic happen! The kids and Freddy. We got a little bit of a late start around 7:30. We went to a neighborhood near the high school where several of Clara's friends live. We stopped at Micah's house to say hi and another schoolmate happened to be over as well. We got to visiting too long and by the time we headed back out, some houses either had run out of candy (including Micah's, where they went through 600 pieces his mom said) or were already done for the night. But, we still got around to several. It had just gotten done raining and the wind was cold, so I didn't care to be out too long myself. Clara asked to have another post-Halloween party this year and Brynn planned and executed the whole thing. One of our fav parts was the missing children posters which were all the guests. Green Army Man, Clara Barton, Luna Lovegood (from Harry Pott...

 In order for Clara to cross over to a full scout in February, she needs to have an overnight campout somewhere. They had already done one as a pack right before Clara joined so we had to go it alone, which was fine because then we could be on our own schedule and all that. But, we figured we should get it done sooner than later since the weather wasn't going to get any more favorable between now and February. So, Dana booked us a spot at Maplewood for one night. It was decent weather when we were setting up the tent and we had a nice spot right next to one of the lakes. Clara got into whittling. We had brats over the fire for dinner. Clara telling us some spooky stories once it got dark. Then we went to Tessa and Chad's lake for a bit since we were cold and bored once it had gotten dark. We were so thankful for that! We didn't get much sleep in our tent. We tried to put down a bunch of blankets under our sleeping bags, but all three of us got so cold and the ground was so ...