Apple Pickin'

A very nice lady who lives next to DJ's parents has always let us go into her back yard every summer and pick apples off her tree. She just sold her house though so soon we will lose that privilege. I might just have to go introduce myself to the new neighbors and see if they wouldn't mind letting us pick apples too.

We had our first apple pickin' afternoon with Paul and Carrie about 2 weeks ago. The apples were still pretty small so we didn't get too many. Just enough to keep some in the fridge and make a couple of apple pies.

Taylor was having so much fun. I got up on the step stool to reach some higher apples and found these guys . . .

Taylor's favorite thing! Can you tell how excited she was?

We found another birds nest too.

After making the pies we ran out of apples and went back for more the other day. This time we took some friends and Grandma with us.

These girls had so much fun together.

More Grandma love. . .

I was so excited Angela and Aaliyah could join us.

This little girl is so heavy. I could only hold her this way for so long. She kept telling me where to take her so she could get the best apples.

This honestly might be one of Taylor's favorite summer activities. I love that Mr. Carl's peekin' over the fence too.

Pickin' apples will be one of my favorite memories with Taylor.

We came home with SO many apples. 48 pounds to be exact! We have big plans for all these apples. We've made 3 batches of apple butter already and we are freezing the rest in batches for apple pies and other yummy fall treats!

Off To Grandmother's House We Go . . .

Actually it was Great Grandma's house we were off to. To spend the day swimming in the pool.

When we got there we found out Great Grandma had a birds nest in one of the hanging flower pots on her patio. Baby birds were still in there. Taylor thought they were so cute.  

We packed a lunch and headed to the pool. Carrie found some cookies inside the clubhouse that they were giving away and Taylor got so excited! She had her little purse (she is a diva at heart) and her hoarding personality came out. Carrie had stepped out of the pool and she noticed several of the cookies were missing. We found them . . .

Every time I got out of the pool, for anything, Taylor would tell me "Don't take my cookies mom! I want to keep them!". It was so gross.

Great Grandma has been doing a water aerobics class with the other ladies in the community. She wanted to show us their workout. I'm sure it's a great workout but I couldn't miss out on the opportunity to get pictures of these two doing their aerobics together.

Our little fish . . .

Taylor was in awe of Great Grandma's noodle. She wanted a turn of her own so Grandma put her on it

 

But she didn't have enough body weight to keep upright.

When we got back to Great Grandma's she needed some caulking done on the roof of her shed. There were so many wasps flying around that we had to wait a little bit to get to work. So I took pictures of her beautiful flowers while we waited. . . .

I can't wait for our flowers to start looking like this next year . . .