Time with daughter and grandkids

Spend a great day at our daughter Angela and Tory's house in Rochester. It was good to see all of them. We all played Yatzee and went shopping with Angela and the boys. I always spend way too much money when we shop together!!! We both love to shop! At the house before we left, Blake said, "So, when are you two women going to go shopping" It was just so funny to hear him say women to us!!!
Love to spend time with Blake and Riley and hug them and hear them say how they love me! They are two very special boys. They are getting so big. Blake is in 4th grade and Riley in Kindergarden. Where does the time go?
I have now been with all three of my kids and most of my grandkids (all but one) in the last 3 weeks. Nice! I love them all so much!

Street Fare in Illinois

Jeremy on a photo shoot for the paper. This skunk was so soft and so sweet. No stink of course!!!

Jeremy in his face!!!

He had fun talking to the people

The pig was not into getting his photo taken!

This bull frog was big, squishy.

I did hold him, but I did NOT like

it at all.

Angela with the kids at the street fair.

Rutger and Lily getting their

face painted.

Connor is one of the twins of Angela's. He is 20 and has just joined the Air Force. Was very glad that I got to see him before he leaves.

Rutger with his little kitty.

Was not in Illinois very long, but it was good to see Jeremy, Angela and the kids. Went on three photo shoots with Jeremy. One was a high school football game in Sandwich, Il..... weird name for a town! That was really a lot of fun being on the field with the players and laughing with Jeremy as he did some funny stuff.

Another shoot was a street fair in Ottawa. Angela went with us, which is rare, but she seemed to have fun being out with the kids. There was a farmers market that took us all of 5 minutes to go through. Nothing like our Farmers Market!!!

Another shoot was at a retirement home and care facility for elderly. They had tons of food, a petting zoo, kids games and entertainment. It was so fun to watch Jeremy take pictures.

The song, "I'm crazy..." was sang by a worker at the home and Jeremy and I started laughing because for years I would break into this song whenever anyone said "crazy". We danced to the song together in the middle of this crowd of people!!!!

Met a friend of Angela's, Angie... I rented the movie "Momma Mia" as Angela had never seen it before. We laughed a lot through the movie and then we all sang with the sing-a-long with our felt pen microphones! Great fun!!

I was really getting homesick while here.