We left my family at 9:30am for Morrison, Illinois. It took us a long time to get there because the freeway had some major construction going on. We got to Morrison later than we had hoped, so we were glad that we left early. We made it to the nursing home and almost got blown away by the wind. We had remembered where Mary's room was and while making our way there a lot of ladies kept approaching us admiring our little Aoife. We finally found great-grandma in her room reading a book. She looked very happy to see us, and we let her hold Aoife. She sang a few lullaby's for Aoife while Aoife looked out the window at the leaves. Great-grandma told us that Vivian liked to look at the leaves blowing on the trees. Aoife smiled at Great-grandma, and great-grandma would say, she didn't remember any of her babies being that little. We then said our goodbyes and great-grandma told Aoife to always be kind and good!

We traveled onward to Great-uncle Eldon and Lisa's house. Tim tried to remember his way to their house without Google maps and did pretty well. Eldon greeted us and showed us inside where Lisa and Leah Grace were waiting for us. The last time we had seen Leah grace was when she was about Aoife's age at Christmas time. Leah Grace was huge! She greeted us with a massive smile which went ear to ear. She was very excited. Lisa had prepared a fruit salad and some lemonade for us. Great-uncle Harvey also came to visit. After finishing our food Lisa and I went to the other room to nurse and try to get the babies to sleep. Leah Grace was being a cheeky monkey for mama and was quite distracted with having Aoife in the room. Lisa and I talked "baby talk" while the men talked politics and stuff! I'm so happy that Aoife has a little cousin her age to spend the summers with. I'm sure they will be good friends when they grow up. When we were leaving Aoife was crying and that would make Leah Grace worried, and she would cry with Aoife. It was so cute to see Leah so concerned about Aoife's well being. It was getting late, so we decided to leave.

We were pretty tired, and I mostly stayed in the back of the car to keep Aoife companion. We drove up to Wisconsin via Boscobel, the town where I went to highschool. To get there we drove through Fennimore to take a picture with Igor,the mouse. Great-Aunt Elaine would always stop there with Uncle 'Topher and Tim to take their picture. We went on to Boacobel, and I gave Tim the "grand tour" of my school and our church and old houses.

We finally got back to Holmen at around 10pm. It was a very long day, and Grandma Rachel had stayed up to see Aoife again. She spent about an hour with her before we all collapsed into a deep sleep.