Apple Picking

It's apple picking time again. I LOVE going to the orchard. This is the second time I've taken the boys since the orchard started selling apples this season. Ryan automatically knows what we're going to do when I mention the name of the orchard. He says "First we'll pick apples and then we'll play on the swings." That's usually what we do. This time around we also went on a hay ride (haven't been on one of those since college!), picked a pumpkin and even ventured into the corn maze in addition to our normal apple picking and park playing.

I really love this time of year. I'm trying to spend every last minute outside with the boys before it's too cold to even entertain those thoughts any longer. I'm trying to take lots of pictures too. They seem to be growing up so quickly in these last few weeks!

Were'd the sun go?

We went from warm sunny weather to dark fall-like days so quickly. I can't believe it's already September! Where, oh where, is the year going?

Today, we're working on moving fall clothing from containers in the basement up here for the boys. I'm so blessed to have a family give us so many hand me down clothes for Ryan. And I save the really good stuff that's left over at the end of a season for Tim. I can't imagine just how much people must spend on clothing since kids grow SO quickly.

We recently had our first yard sale. It was quite the success. I was sad to part with some of the toys because it means our boys are getting so big, but it was nice to make extra room in the house. We will do a sale again... perhaps earlier in the summer next year. Ryan was delighted to help out and he loved giving the customers their change and guarding the money box. This morning on our way to the bank he exclaimed "that's where we had our yard sale. Right there. We sold lots of stuff." He's so cute.

Tim is quite the talker these days. He's discovered that he loves music and is always asking me to sing. They sing lots of songs I don't know at daycare so I've had to have his teacher teach me the songs too! Tim has also recently started putting things in order by shape, size, color... etc. The funniest one recently was his Dora fruit snacks that he sorted by color and character...

Adam and I have had lots of movie nights recently. Last night we watched Hollywood Homicide. I liked it. I also liked one we watched earlier in the week... Inkheart. I highly recommend that one, if you haven't already seen it. I suppose our movie nights are coming to a close, just like summer, as Survivor and the rest of our weekly shows will be airing soon.