Kaycie's First Field Trip

This morning was Kaycie's first field trip, and she was definitely excited about going to the apple orchard.  The weather was almost perfect too as you can tell the kids aren't bundled up :o)

Here all the kids are listening to "Mrs. Apple" talk.  An interesting thing she told us was that their orchard lost 97% of all their crop due to the weird spring weather we had this year.  She also stated that every orchard grower from the Mississippi River east lost anywhere from 60 - 100% of their crops!  Once the growers realized that their crops wouldn't happen this year, they started calling around the country to find apples.  A lot of their apples came from Washington State.  She told us that Washington was having an overly abundant year for their apple crop - that is until a hail storm came about 2 weeks before the harvesting time!  Lost quite a bit of apples from that.  What an amazing year for apple growers.  Mrs Apple said this has been their worst season in over 100 years!

Enough of that . . . as I stated earlier, here the kids are listening to Mrs Apple.

Kaycie and I on the hayride - her favorite part!  She even waved to the cars driving past :o)

We drove around the huge field of pumpkins.

At the end of the hayride, all the kids and parents got to pick a gourd.

Nothing in Particular

Here are some pictures from the past month or so.

Kaycie playing computer games.

This is how Kaycie takes her afternoon naps - I have to make a tent for her  :o)

Had to throw in this picture of our cat Punky sleeping  :o)

The Girls

Today the girls wanted to go outside and play.  It didn't take long before Allyson came in and wanted me to rake the leaves in a pile. I told her "I'm not gonna rake no leaves!"  I told her she could do it, and she was able to get the rake and go at it.

While Allyson raked, Janae and Kaycie picked up leaves with their hands and put them on the pile :o)

The coveted result - a pile of leaves to play in!