Bunch of Apple Pickers

After picking Trent's car up from the shop, we ran down to Bauman Orchard to pick some apples. The kids have been to this one before with me last year, so they helped show Trent the ropes.
Inside this little shop, you can buy apple cider in little apple jugs. They also sell a bunch of other farmer produce.

The building behind Brenden and to the right where you can see 3 windows is where they house the animals for the kids to pet. Turkeys, goats, rabbits, sheep. Don't go near the turkeys though. It's also where the hay bale maze and slide are located.

This place has 177 acres of 25 different varieties of apples and 15 varieties of peaches (among other stuff). That's alot of fruit trees. 

B had the whole thing down-inspect, twist, pull. A regular pro.

His class was learning about Johnny Appleseed in class that week, so we found a couple regular sized apples and a couple huge ones to bring to show and tell. When he brought them in, I wasn't sure if he was going to be shy and not do any showing or telling, but he did great. Stood at the front of his class next to his teacher and pulled out the apples and I printed out a picture of him being lifted into the air by his Dad to reach an apple at the top of the tree. He showed that one proudly. (The picture we used is below).

117 acres of this...

This is the one we used. He is grabbing an apple about the size of a softball.

Kyleigh got in on the top of the tree picking. They had a hail storm awhile back so alot of their east facing trees were damaged. And we went late in the season, so it was pretty picked over on the bottom of the trees.

Why not fill up our quota of 15 apples with a little hand toss-assembly line into the wagon?

Prized apple

Kids love this hay bale maze. Brenden can just see over, so when he's lost, he peeks up to see where he needs to go. Kyleigh got stuck, so we directed Brenden to find her.

He successfully found her. And she was so glad.

Pumpkins were another day's adventure. We're a one fruit/vegetable picking kind of family.

Kids asked if we were going to go to the hotel on the way home from this day because it had felt almost like a vacation to them...family time and we had dinner out that night. Trent and I just smiled and felt the day was a success.