feeding the duckies

Happy Birthday, Nathan Kenneth!

Meet Nathan Kenneth. Born November 9th, 2008 at 7:15pm.

Vital statistics: 9lbs., 21 inches long.

First portrait

after the sponge bath

Nathan with Mom and Dad

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A Dinnertime Picnic in November

picnic by the riverwalk

With the temperatures soaring nearly 20-degrees above normal and much colder temperatures on the horizon, we decided to take the opportunity to spend one last evening on the riverwalk. Typically we’ll head down to Washington Street for dinner, often winding up at Potbelly’s. This evening, Suzy packed us a “dinnertime picnic” and so we ate at a table in one of the numerous gazebos overlooking the river.

Following dinner, and a brief game of “tag” between Annalise and Sean, the family headed down to our favorite spot to feed the duckies. Perhaps the geese have already flown south for the winter as there were only ducks around — which was a great thing as the geese tend to be much more aggressive and “crowding.” Afterward, we ran around the “labyrinth” for a bit then loaded up into the wagon and headed back.

It was truly a lovely evening.

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Happy Halloween!

Peter Pan and Tinkerbell

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Pumpkins for Grandma

Yesterday Mommy and Aunt Bethie took Annalise and Sean back to Kuiper’s Family Farm for more apples (yum!) and another photo shoot in the pumpkin patch. Annalise and Sean picked these two pumpkins out to bring home. Today, Annalise wanted to decorate the pumpkins with stickers. As she was decorating the big one, she said that “this one is for Grandma”.

“they are going to be so happy when they come home” –Annalise

When she was done, she said she needed one for Papa, so she decorated the small one for Grandpa. She was very happy with her work (she even let Sean help, a little) and said “they are going to be so happy when they come home”.

Happy Halloween Grandma and Grandpa!

Decorated Pumpkins

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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”

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Filed under: Annalise, Sean on September 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »

First Portrait Sitting

Last weekend we visited Stork Snapshots just as we had with Annalise and Sean. Unlike both of his older siblings, he cooperated right away and we were able to get some amazing shots.