Home Sweet Homewood!!

It's been an interesting two weeks "back home".   We were able to stay with our oldest daughter Julie and her family in Chicago (Though trying to find parallel parking in a Chicago neighborhood is a challenge!!).  We went to the Pumpkin Farm in South Barrington with Julie and Jonas.

I got to help with the pony ride.

 It is much more fun to see something like this through the eyes of an almost three year old.  What a great place, pumpkin farms have changed alot since Fred and I were kids.  Besides the pumpkins, there was an animal land that would put some zoos to shame.

  We were able to feed the giraffes.  My they have long tongues...

A pumpkin eating dinosaur. (No joke), a corn maze, which was harder than I expected, camel rides and pony rides.  We had a blast!!!

We even got to see Jonas play socceer.











We were able to surprise our other set of grandkids, Spencer and Samatha with a quick visit one day.

On Sunday we were able to see Samantha play socceer and visit with our older grandson Spencer, Andy and Kristina and Andy's parents, Sue and Marty.

 Watch out, this girl can run.  She scored 2 of the 4 goals that day and still had so much energy afterwards.  Oh too be young again.








Our daughter Julie is expecting their second child in December, so Papa Fred and Gigi helped set up Jonas' new big boy bed.  The big truck was helpful in transporting all 15 of the boxes that made up his loft bedroom set.  Thank goodness Fred is so handy, as it only took a 1/2 day to put it all together.  Jonas has slept in it every night since then.

We also had fun craving a pumpkin.

After a week in Chicago, we are now staying at Fred's parents in Homewood.  A half block from our "old house".  It was nice to see the old neighborhood, and the changes to the old house, but we are SO glad we don't have the responsibility of a brick and stick any more. We have enjoyed visiting with former neighbors and friends.  It's also been nice to eat some good pizza!!!

We've seen all of our doctors and for the most part have gotten clean bills of health.  One small snafu though, Fred badly sprained his ankle while taking his treadmill test.  The heart is fine, but the ankle will take awhile to be back to normal.  In the mean time, I think Fred likes being chaufered around by me. 

We celebrated Fred's mother's 93rd birthday this past week.  It was so nice to be able to have his sister's Cyndy and Gayle here at the same time as us..  We have so much fun and laughs with them!!!

We have a few more days to spend in Illinois, catching up with old friends and eating at all of our favorite places.