The Parrillo Family

Throughout my life, one of the sure signs that fall is approaching is the arrival of the Frankfort Fall Festival.  I grew up going to it, riding the rides and loving every minute of Labor Day weekend.  Well, the girls have been going for the past few years and they've taken to calling it by it's new name:  "Noonie's Carnival".    Here are the photos from our trip in 2013 .   Both Ellie and Sadie had a blast.  There were a few more rides that Eloise could go on due to height restrictions, but that didn't matter.  Noonie showed both girls a great time!   We went on the bumper cars, the spinning boats/motorcycles/cars, and even the 'big slide' with Noonie.   Check out the moving image below of Noonie coming down the slide! We love spending some 1:1 time with Noonie and the girls love getting to go on adventures with their Noonie.  So, we can't wait to get back down for next year.   ( The fact that we g...

Last week, we packed up the car with our two girls and three of their cousins and drove down to Frankfort to attend the Frankfort Fall Festival Carnival with Noonie. One night each year, they have a deal where you can buy a bracelet and ride all the rides you want.  We've gone down each of the past few years, but it was always hard to get Ellie to ride enough rides to make the bracelet deal worthwhile. This year?  Those troubles are over.  By my count, we went on almost 20 rides over the course of the night.  Little Sadie didn't get on anything except for a ride along with her Momma on the carousel. Ellie LOVED having her cousins with her and they went on rides together. She's getting to be such a big girl.  There were very few rides that she didn't want to go on - which is a HUGE change from just one year ago. After the carnival, which Ellie bills as "Noonie's Carnival", we went back to eat pizza with Papa.  We even ended the night with a Fra...