Apple Picking

We went apple picking a lot later in the year than we have in the past. Schedules and the weather caused us to put things off-but we made it! And this year we went with some members of our Community Group from Church.

The weather was brisk! We thought about putting Lily in our backpack carrier but opted for our Ergo so we could keep each other warm. After most of the picking was done she fell asleep and napped for a good hour.

We thought the pickings would be slim, but the girls were able to quickly fill our bag and help our friends with theirs with no problem.

 

 

 

 
After apple picking the girls looked at pumpkins and Abigail and Jonathan were interviewed by a local internet TV station.

We look forward to apple picking every fall. This trip and experience did not disappoint!

Want a Little Cookie with Your Sugar?

I made four dozen sugar cookies last week. Half we brought to our homeschool co-op for decorating and the other half I took to Nonna and Papa's so the girls could decorate them with their cousin Bridget.

Abigail started off nice and neat icing cookies at Nonna's house. We didn't use piping bags, so instead used our fingers. Towards the end though, Abigail became her own assembly line, dipping her fingers in blue icing, then the green, then the pink, before applying it to her cookie. Then she insisted on using every color sprinkle we had to make her cookies "colorful". She ended up putting a significant amount of each color on each cookie.

Sarah decorated maybe three cookies total. Then she ate each of them. Oh, and she made a mess. But she had fun!

Bridget was given a cookie, which she ate. Then she managed to reach all of the sprinkles Abigail finished using because Abigail always put them in Bridget's reach. Then Bridget "decorated" the table with the sprinkles if we weren't able to intercept the sprinkle containers in time. She made a mess too, but I think she also had fun. It was cute to hear her repeat Nonna, especially when Nonna would hand Abigail sprinkles and say "Here you go". Bridget would immediately repeat Nonna with her own "Here you go".

Check out Bridget reaching:

Maybe we should go ahead and make this another Christmas tradition.

Apple Picking!

The past few weekends were pretty rainy and miserable, so we ended up postponing our annual apple picking adventure to this weekend. It ended up working out perfectly as the weather this weekend has been unseasonably warm with highs reaching the upper 70's/lower 80's.

We went back to Smolak Farms, where they celebrated 30 years in business this weekend. We got there earlier than normal, which I am glad for. As we finished up picking our apples the crowds came rolling in.

The girls enjoyed picking lots and lots of apples. We ended up with 73 total. I'm looking forward to making pie, apple crisp, maybe some apple sauce, and a few caramel apples wouldn't hurt either.