Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts

Friday, July 23, 2010

Illinois Trip


My parents decided to go to IL to visit my Dad's parents, so we loved the excuse to drive there and meet them and get to spend time with my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. We always have a great time with family when we go to IL and Tori and James love all the extra attention. These are a few pictures of Tori and James with their Great-Grandma and Grandpa.

I don't have many pictures of the trip because I forgot my camera, so these are the cute ones that my mom sent me. I think she got some really sweet pictures of them playing at the mall play area (one of the James' favorite things to do).

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Baby Olivia's visit and trip to IL

Tori's cousin Olivia came to visit along with her mom, Danielle and Grandma and Grandpa back at the end of September. Tori loved her adorable little cousin.
She loves babies right now so she had a lot fun giving her plenty of toys and giving her "under-doggies" on the baby swing.


We love any excuse to ride the carousel at the mall, so we did that a few times while Grandma and Grandpa were here.

We also took everyone to the apple orchard to pick apples. Tori loved riding on Grandpa's shoulders and kept saying, "I want to touch the sky, I can't reach it." It was a bad year for apples at the orchard, but that didn't stop Grandpa and John from finding quite a few (I think it was actually more fun, because it really was a challenge to find a good apple.)


And, of course we had to get some of the delicious apple turnovers they make and Grandma was generous enough to share hers with Tori.

All of us, then drove to Illinois to show off cute little Olivia to all our cousins and Great Grandma and Grandpa. Above Tori is getting pushed on the swing by mom's cousins, Mandy and CG. She just loved playing with them and after we went home kept asking, "Where'd Mandy and CG go?"
While in Illinois, we visited a farm that had goats you could feed, a fun maze, an obstacle course and pony rides. Tori loved it all and was very upset when it was time to go. Below she is having her very first real pony ride. I was impressed that she wasn't scared at all, but loved it.