Saturday, September 19, 2009

Apple sauce, your not the boss





the day before apple picking it was 60% chance of rain and then when we got up, it was 10% and just before we left at 10:00 it was raining and 70% for the rest of the day. luck had it that it didn't rain very hard and it made the trees sag for easy picking. we picked 5.5 bushels in just over an hour with the five kids (helping!). There was also tons of poison ivy everywhere, literally everywhere, but by the grace of God nobody got any on them. We got home and started cutting. we did a bushel and a half, two gallons of apple sauced and a gallon of apple butter.

Dan, The bug and snake handler

Dan is not afraid of too many bugs or snakes, Oliver loves them too but doesn't like them enough to get them so he gets Dan, Oliver is getting good at taking pictures of them so I think we are going to start a bug blog.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Hair Cuts

It was pretty painful to cut the boys longish locks off, but they're still so very handsome! Ellis was less than thrilled to get his head shaved ( he scares easily). They all felt better when it was done.


Solomon

Solomon is such a smiley little guy!