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Holiday Break

 After Christmas was over, Clara had her friend Cora for a playdate.


Dana and I were both able to get in at the spa in the bathroom.


Clara's in that box. :) Brynn got in it as well and then exploded out of it when she had a jump scare on account of Clara's bare feet. 


Busy playing with new Christmas gifts.

On the Saturday after Christmas, we celebrated with my side at Tessa and Chad's lake. It was a fun afternoon/evening of playing games, opening gifts, visiting and eating good food.











Ben let me shoot his air soft guns with him. It was so fun. Dad was assisting me...and also taking these pics. ;-)


Playing a game of Guess Who?: Family Edition. Tessa and her girls made a custom game with family members' faces, including pets! It's so cool.



Grandpa put together some games for everyone to play and we also all played Bunco. 



Brynn made homemade dumplings and I made spring rolls. The dumplings turned out so good. Making dumplings was one of the activities Brynn put on the Christmas Vacation Bucket List so she got that checked off.



One of the other bucket list activities was skating so Dana and Clara went downtown for a bit before the rink closed.




We didn't do our house decorating contest this year, so the girls kind of just did some freestyle work. This was one Brynn did that also incorporated graham crackers.

We didn't make any plans for New Year's Eve so Dana and I stayed up past midnight watching 'Ted Lasso' together.

Brynn came out for about a five-minute walk with me on New Year's Day.

After she bowed out, I went on solo and saw some deers. So cute.

I've been able to fit a couple nice baths in during vacation...and trying to keep up on my reading.

Clara and I made chocolate chip banana bread.

And all of us together made homemade ravioli. The filling we used was a ricotta spinach mixture. It was so much work and took forever, but they did turn out really good at least.



Today/Friday is my last day of break. The girls and Dana were back at it yesterday.

It's been a great Christmas break! Happy New Year!









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theweckerlys said…
Ah, so fun! The dumplings looked so good. We are making homemade pasta today!
January 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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