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What a wonderful and busy time it's been so far this spring. Last weekend, my mom and I headed down to Cannon Falls for the "girls shopping getaway day". It's always so much fun to take a little road trip and spend time with her. I bought some amazing things (my mom is on a shopping freeze for Lent), and then she took me out to lunch. Yum!


We also watched Yental (Deb's sweet dog) on Saturday, as Deb was moving out of her home into a new one. Moving is not a fun activity, but Deb's new home will be a lovely fit for her once she's all settled in!

Pria loves laying on Ava's bed


On Thursday night, G and I headed to the Red Pine Spring Arts Night, where he promptly ditched me to hang out with friends. Luckily, Ava was meeting us there. She will be shadowing the art teacher at Red Pine, so this was a great chance for Ava to meet her prior to the mentoring that begins next week.

Spring Arts Night is a really big deal...every student has art work on the walls throughout the school, there's a glow dance party in the gym, snacks and pizza in the cafeteria, and a glow light space themed event in the art room. It's always an amazing turn out, and there are SO many people there. After Ava headed home (and G was still ditching me), I ended up hanging out with the parents of his friend group. These are the ones that I generally flock to at these events, and it struck me that this will be one of the last events that we will all be together. Most of G's friends will be going to a different middle school and high school. His elementary school splits between two different cities, and he's heading south to Rosemount, while his friends head north to Eagan. It makes me a little sad for him, but I know he'll have a bunch of friends that will be at Rosemount with him...just not his best friends.

G's planet Earth




After art night was over, there was a stargazing event, so we pulled out the blankets, and whipped out the apps to view the constellations. We found Jupiter, Mars, and Taurus! It was pretty chilly, but the kids LOVED playing on the field in the dark, lighting the way with their glow sticks.

On Saturday morning, I headed to my friend/neighbor's house. We had been talking about royal icing cookie decorating for quite a while, and enough people expressed interest that she hosted a cookie decorating party. I don't have the most patience in the world, but I can see how this would be a really fun activity to do, as long as there was adequate time to work on them.


I ended up decorating 18 cookies but this one was one of my favorites


On Saturday night, we're heading to my parent's house for an early birthday dinner for meeeee! Can't wait to celebrate with them!

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