Apple Extravaganza

This post is a few weeks behind, but better late than never!

  Fall is my ABSOLUTE favorite time of year!  Other season have their perks but, everything about fall is just wonderful...the weather, the colors, the smells, apples and pumpkins everywhere, it is just perfect!  I have vivid memories of apple picking with my grandma and my family when I was little.  I remember being hoisted up into the trees and using pole pickers to get the apples at the top.  There was a long period of time for whatever reason, I didn't go anymore. A few years ago Jonnie and I went on our own and I rediscovered how much I love apple picking!  Two years ago the family apple picking extravaganza became a tradition once again!  And few Saturdays ago, Isabel had her first experience apple picking too!

This year our group was bigger than ever!  We had Me, Jonnie, Isabel, my Grandma Logan, my Aunts Carolyn and Cindy, Sam, Nathan, Sienna, my dad and Tina.  We started off at Eckert's in Grafton.  It is not quite the experience of Yates', but it did the job! Eckert's had some fun photo ops like the scarecrow and Johnny Appleseed that turned out really cute!

Isabel loved reaching for the trees and grabbing the leaves.  She really is pretty happy with anything outside!  Then it was time for her first taste of fresh apple!  She didn't quite know what to think at first, but it didn't take long before she was in love. She and daddy shared a yellow and a red apple, and she kept coming back for more!

After getting our apples, it was time to make our yearly trek across ferry.  We stopped at Hagen's for pumpkins, but we were sad to realize the pumpkins did not fill the yard as in years past!  We were just a bit too early for them this year.  We were able to catch a few pics with the pumpkins they did have, but we will be making another trip later to get the full pumpkin patch experience for Isabel!

Then it was onward to the old soda shop.  This was a new find last year, but this year it also had changed.  It was mostly a restaurant and lacked the seasonal and crafty things for sale so there wasn't much to do there!  After a quick taste of a homemade vanilla soda it was back on the road and onto lunch at the River Dock in Hardin.  This proved to be the same delicious food we have come to expect!  Jonnie and I shared pizza and sweet potato chips with cinnamon butter...Yum!  Isabel was worn out from all of the excitement and traveling and fell asleep before we paid the bill!

Although things may not have been the same as always, it is always great getting together and spending the day basking in all that is fall!