apples, orchards, pumpkins, friends & cider.

As we did last year, we attended a local orchard/pumpkin patch with my friend Anisa, her husband Larry & 2 of their children. Brenden missed out this year as he had a football game that Grandpa attended with him. There's only so many hours in the day, each weekend gets overrun with soccer & football games and Brenden didn't really give a rip anyway. They won their football game and he was treated to a doughnut, cider & a caramel apple when we all met back up at home. I did miss having him with us though.

At the orchard, we bought cider & donuts, watched the cider being processed, rode the train, played with the apple catapults, slid down the titanic slide (isn't that a really morbid concept of a ride?!), Everly rode the mini-train & apple worm ride and everyone jumped in the bounce house. We had great weather, even if the wind was a bit crisp, the kids behaved and then we went to a great burger place afterwards. I even managed a really long Sunday afternoon nap when we got home. Can't complain about a day that great!



Garth got this picture of Everly & I LOVE IT!!!


An ode to Sen. McCain ~ not positive if its Joe's crack because he's a plumber or if Joe is giving McCain a message. I prefer to think it's the latter: