Saturday morning we went to Arthur to the Pumpkin Patch....60 acres of all things pumpkin and autumn. Karen wanted a few pictures of her girls; so, we dodged the other visitors and tried to get a few, but it was difficult. My favorite part of the day was on the drive up there. Emma and Anna rode in my car, and after passing a horse and buggy we discussed the Amish and how they lived similarly to Mary and Laura off of "Little House on the Prairie," one of their favorite TV shows. The girls were very astute in their observations: Mary and Laura lived in a log cabin and the Amish lived in white farmhouses...Ma's dress went all the way to the ground, but the Amish mothers' clothes did not, etc. Although they were good at spotting the Amish by the end of the day, they had more difficulty remembering what they were called. Until Emma actuallly saw the word spelled, the Amish of Arthur, IL, were affectionately known to the girls from Manito, IL, as "the Irish." I love them! :)
Here are a few of my favorite pix of the day!
5 comments:
Oh my gosh!! Love the story!! Love the pictures!! I'm getting some of those printed! Great job Kelly Ann!!!! The girls look so sweet in them. I can't believe how grown-up Emma is getting! She doesn't look like such a little girl anymore!! Anna's getting so tall and Ella looks as ornery as ever!!! Wish we could have been there!
I bet you wish you knew everything that Kendall and I get to talk about since you're not here!!! HA!
We're WAY fun!!!!
Kim
Those pictures turned out great as usual! And Emma and Anna look totally grown-up. Ella's pig-tails still crack me up - they fit her personality I think. Great work!!
How funny -- "the Irish"!!!!! Hope Grandpa Rankin reads that!! The pictures are really good and it's a good thing you got that picture of Anna when you did! Monday afternoon she showed up at my office door with a scraped-up forehead and scrapes on her cheek and nose. She had leaned back while swinging during noon recess and fell off the swing, doing a "backwards somersault" off the swing into the dirt!! The school nurse showed up at my door then and said when Anna got to her office, all she could see was the whites of her eyes, everything else was covered with dirt!! The nurse also said she had Anna rinse her mouth out, but "when you mix water and dirt, you just get mud"!! Poor Anna!!
Thanks for the notes on the pictures, guys!! Except for being distracted by all of the fun things there was to do at the Pumpkin Patch, the girls did really good! I did hear that Anna took quite the fall and that she was all bungled up! So, good thing we got it done this weekend!
I too am totally impressed with the pictures and now what you to do some of my family!! Anna looks so much older in her picture and the one of them walking away is priceless!
Aunt Gail
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