Anniversary + Fishing + Mom's Fun Day

Dana, Roger and Zander made another weekend of fishing at Dead Lake again this year.

Dana was gone over our wedding annivesary and came back home with these beautiful flowers. 💜

I spontaneously took last Thursday off of work to take advantage of some good timing to do some things I had been wanting to for quite a while.

The first thing was pick strawberries at Farm in the Dell. Of course the strawberry season is only so long as is and picking days out there are on Mondays and Thursdays. It was a beautiful morning and we got lots of good berries.

For a long time, I had wanted to take Brynn to K's Bakery for lunch and we were able to finally make that happen as well. It was super yummy.

Before lunch she and I did some thrifting and these were my top finds!

I hadn't been to the newly redone Island Park Pool and it was an all-access swim day which meant it was free to get in. So, Clara and I took advantage of that. I got a kick out of watching the other kids launching off the slide and doing flips off the diving boards.

We ran into Cora the pool who was there with another friend! Cora and Clara had a sleepover planned for that night so we saw her again later!

I had such a fun day and was glad I decided to take the day off. I ended up with a four-day weekend with the Fourth of July holiday...which will be my next post!

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Tessa Weckerly said…

Summer fun!

July 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM

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