It Must Be Fall

Last weekend, Grandma and Grandpa Jaromin paid us a visit…and unfortunately brought along the remnants of Tropical Storm Lowell and Hurricane Ike with them. Nonstop rains and regional flooding meant a weekend spent indoors. We therefore decided to spend as much of the last weekend of the Summer outdoors. One of our favorite Sept/Oct. destinations is Kuipers Family Farm in Maple Park, IL. So, after a very hot and therefore very short, Saturday morning spent at Johansen Farms in Bolingbrook, we decided to head out a bit farther to Kuipers. We invited our niece Keara along for the trip – the kids had a great time. I’m sure we’ll be back again soon!

This year’s family portrait at Kuipers…

Here’s Keara “washing pumpkins” with Annalise and Sean.

Here’s “Farmer Sean” working the fields

These sheep and goats really swarmed…we had to stay close to keep them from knocking him over. Sean loved petting and feeding the animals.

Annalise lasso’d her very first “cow”

Visions of Sugar Plum (Fairies) dance in our heads…

Annalise as the Sugar Plum Fairie

What do you think of my Halloween costume? Aunt Bethie and Aunt Kathy dressed me up and took me to see my cousins Keara and Aidan in their school’s Halloween Parade. It was lots of fun! I can’t wait until Halloween so I can go trick or treating with Mommy and Daddy!