Masonic Village - Our Trip to the Apple Orchard

We had such a great field trip to The Masonic Village apple orchard. I have to say that this was by far my favorite so far!! (Heather Denove.. If you're reading this... I was thinking of you the whole time we were there.. You would have been in heaven with all things fall going on!) I had asked Derrik to tag along with me for this field trip. He was off work anyhow, and a lot of dad's had gone on the previous field trip. Of course he was only one of two dad's on this one,but I think he enjoyed it.

 

 

The big apple tree when you pull in.. of course I forget the whole story behind it, but it's really old :)

 An attempt at a class picture... getting four year old to line up and smile is a big joke!

Some were off with the parents crying too... not their best attempt!

 Raya making sure she has the hands of her men while we walk to the orchard.

 Farmer Ted (I think that's his name.. I could totally be making that up) took us to a big barrel where they put the apples out in the fields. Once these are full they bring them back up to the farm to be sorted.

 Daddy manned this guy while Farmer Ted was giving his spiel about the apples.

 These two held hands all the way into the orchard and stood here like this for at least ten minutes...

Love does start young!!

 Landon and Charloote share a common love as well... FOOD!

We have so many pictures of them eating together in the couple short months they have known each other. I guess that's what little brothers and sisters do on field trips.

 We then heading inside to the freezer to see how all the apples are stored

 And sorted...

 By this point I was trying to keep Ryder from puking. He has a weird thing with smells all the time, and the smell of the apples in the freezer and then the cider was just too much for him. You could see his face getting pale. We had to walk him away from it all for a second.

 

But Landon didn't mind it at all!!

This apple cider was AMAZING! I'm dying to get back to have more!!

 We the headed back to the orchard so all the kids could pick their own apple.

 Kind of blown out, but I think you can see how excited he was :)

Anyone who visits we can go here just so I can get some more apple cider!!!

BEHIND!!!

HOLY SMOKES!!

I'm not sure i've ever gotten this far behind in blogging!!

 

We have been BUSY!!

 

 

I have also been busy snapping away on the camera. We have had a vacation, battled a hurricane, and all four of us have been sick. Also, trying to run a photography business means that sometimes my blogging time will be put on the back burner to edit photos, but I haven't blogged for four years to fall behind now.

 

POSTS TO LOOK FORWARD TO:

 

Apple orchard field trip

 

Our trip to Florida

 

My friend Megan's wedding

 

Our Halloween party at my mom's

Some awesome pictures of my sister and her friends

 

Our weekend get-away to the beach

 

Getting our pumpkins

 

And hopefully some pumpkin carving pictures if we get around to actually carving them :)

 

 

We survived the hurricane just fine. Our cable flickered once and our electric held out the whole storm. We are so thankful for this!! Pictures coming soon!!

Wordless Wednesday - My Boys

 

Stauffers of Kissel Hill

Yesterday we had a really great field trip with Ryder's class. We went to a local garden center, and they had all sorts of fall activities set up for us to do.

 

Waiting for everyone to get there. Of course a chance for a photo op!

Our first activity was painting pumpkins.

Examining his pumpkin and getting a game plan..

 Hard at work

 There is the classic Ryder face

 Landon and Charlotte (Lilly's little sister) opted to snack on some gold fish instead.

 The final product

 Next up was a scavenger hunt which proved to be rather difficult. It had us parents all over the garden center while the kids followed behind begging us to do all the fun things they kept seeing.

 

We had to count all the pumpkins in the gazebo.

 At that point Landon wanted free to check the pumpkins out.

 After the scavenger hunt it was snack time.

Mrs. 9 made the coolest pumpkin and mouse cookies!

 Fishing for apples with no worms

 Finally time to play in the hay maze!

 After that we made macaroni necklaces (or pasta necklaces as Ryder called it). This did not hold his attention very long at all. The pumpkin bowling was really calling his name at this point!

 Landon went to check out some more pumkins while his bubby worked on his necklace

 FINALLY... allowed to get going on the bowling!

 Ryder and Alex were pretty awesome bowlers and got quite a few strikes!

 Meanwhile Landon enjoyed himself a little more in the corn pit... or maybe I did becuase he kept wanting to play with the pins in the bowling area :)

 Or run away like this!

We had such a great trip with all our new friends and look forward to our next field trip to the apple orchard next week!