Sunday, October 31, 2010

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween Everyone!







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Pumpkins Pumpkins Everywhere!

Next stop on the outing list for fall is Kersey Valley Pumpkin Patch. Or I guess it is now Kersey Valley Spooky Woods. We have gone to this place every year and really enjoyed it. The only unfortunate thing this year was they have increased in size so much due to their award winning spooky woods that they now charge way too much and are not very  "mom and pop" any more. I was very disappointed to arrive and have to now pay 5.00 for parking when we have never paid parking in the 4 years we have been and it was not advertised on the website. Then after waiting in an extremely long line (because they are only open Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm) to verify prices (since the price advertised at the farm were not the ones on the website) we come to find out that it doesn't cost anything to get on the property and just buy pumpkins as we suspected and riding the cow train is only 3.00 for unlimited rides and the kid corn maize is free. Too bad all the others in that long line probably have no idea about that since all they see is a price list that states general admission is 10.00 for the big 2 hour Corn maize cow train and jumping pillow. All of which I have no problem paying except I am not one who likes to be scammed or not told all the truth. Especially from a place that was never like that in the first place. Either way we of course made it a wonderful time. I do hope next year they don't completely get rid of the pumpkin part because the kids really love it.





After a great time picking our pumpkins and riding the cow train we headed home to crave the pumpkins Caden picked a nice funny face while Christian of course picked the hardest thing I could possibly do. But I am a mother who aims to please so I did my best. Pumpkin you will be Star Wars Storm trooper if it takes me all day.....thankfully it didn't and I was actually impressed I was able to do it. And Both boys were completely happy. And that makes me happy! :)

For the record, Caden wanted to be the horse, not the sheep.



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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Veggies.....what do I do?











What are some creative ways to add veggies to recipes so your kids will eat them? Suggestions are obviously welcomed.
My first attempt came out pretty good. I made this Betty Crocker recipe, although I think it was a bit more like cake if you ask me. But the kids did eat it. My only change to the recipe for next time will be to grate the zucchini finer than I did. Christian is just a little to smart. "This is good mom but......what are these green things?" he asked as if he knew it was a vegetable and knowing would ruin the good flavor. And for my reply, "What green things?" :)





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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Apple Picking does family memories make.





I love when it is time to pick apples. It is my sure sign fall is here. Sometimes in NC it is hard to see the leaves change color like they do in CT. Most of the leaves here just go from green to brown with no hint of color first. So when apple picking comes, any doubt of fall being here goes right out the window. This is the first year we were able to go apple picking here. After a crazy morning of finding out the original place I found on the Internet was actually 3.5 hours away instead of the 1.5 hours I thought it was, we picked APPLE HILL ORCHARD & CIDER MILL. And a good choice it turned out to be. 


The drive was great. When we arrived it was nice and busy, a good sign my dad would say. We went up to the barn and received our baskets and headed to the rows of Granny Smith. Our only hiccup was there were no more wagons left so the walk back with all the apples was a bit of a workout with 3 little ones to say the least. But they were troupers. 


























They loved grabbing the apples and trying to find the biggest ones. Nico just loved trying to run in the rows. His new found freedom of walking was exercised very well in the rows at the orchard. After we picked all that we literally could carry (which turned out to be 1 bushel) we headed back to pay for the apples and get us some apple cider, apple cider slush for the kids, and a few .50 apple donuts. MMMMM those were good! 






And then after we were rested up and had our snack we head for some pictures and back to the van so I could get working on an awesome apple pie for Chris' birthday. He doesn't like cake so I am glad I can make a pretty good apple pie. Nothing like my Great Grandmother DD's pie but I love that every time I make a pie (apple or pumpkin) I always think of her. She made the best pies. So see, apple picking does make for some great family memories, new and old.




















































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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Halloween Ugh!





Halloween is almost here already?! Looks like I better get in costume mode. For some reason I am having a hard time. Maybe it is the fact that my boys can't seem to keep there mind on one idea! We started with Christian wanting to be Darth Mall (is that how you spell that?) and Caden wanting to be Elmo. Elmo? Whatever..... now we are at Christian wants to be a Robot, which he did when he was 3 so I might have that one down, and now Caden wants to be a bumble bee. A bumble bee? Again...whatever. As long as he is happy though I can already hear the, " Oh look at that GIRL! Isn't she a cute bumble bee?" Yikes! It reminds me of the time I was a devil and everyone kept saying, "look at the CUTE devil." I wasn't cute! I was a devil! I guess I didn't notice that my costume was furry and fluffy because when I look at pictures now, I did look pretty cute. :)





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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Dixie Classic Fair!

I can't believe fall is here already! With such a busy summer time flew by to quick. But with fall comes THE DIXIE CLASSIC FAIR. And you know Christian had to enter some of his legos. Unfortunately the week before we had to bring them to the fair he and Caden AND Chris got a really bad stomach bug. So when it was time to enter them, poor Christian was not in the mood to make anything so I had to grab a few things he had already previously made. Not his best work....but good enough. :) He was happy and that is all that matters. Of course now everyday he gets out his legos he builds more amazing creations and tells me, " OH mom! Look at this! I should have made this for the fair." I say "Oh well. There is always next year."





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