100 lbs of Apples and other Beautiful Blessings

~ Watching "The Wizard of Oz" with the girls. I love this movie <3 Its one of my absolute favorites <3

~ Realizing Lil' G is dressed like Dorothy

~ Picking apples from our tree!

~ Getting 100lbs or so of apples!

~ Having Heidi and her sis come over to help pick apples!

~ Seeing T-bug having fun with her Sunday School teacher...aka Heidi lol!

~ Going on a mini vacation to the Y to go swimming afterwards!

~ The girls being brave with ice skating and swimming!

~ Seeing how big T-bug is now <3 T-Tot wore that dress when she was little. 

~ Realizing that all the girls were wearing dresses from Aunt N! I love this one on L-Jo!

~ Being amazed by how big Lil' G is getting! She looks like a big girl!

~ Knowing I cant imagine life without my sisters <3

~ The fields being harvested!

~The beautiful fall leaves! <3

~ T-Tot getting compliments from an art teacher on her work! The lady told her that her paintings/pictures are better than some of the kids in her class.

~ T-bug's creativity for sleeping lol!!

A Missing Hairbrush and other Beautiful Blessings!

#worstbloggeroftheyear ;~)

Anywho, since I have forgotten to post the past several days, here are some blessings!

~ Meeting up with my old dance teacher so I can begin strengthening myself for the dance year ahead!

~ T-Tot's surgery (last one!) for a mole went well!

~ The smell of fresh picked apples!

~ Taking a mini-vacation at Walmart! Aka......drooling over cookware and squeeing over CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~ Rejoicing that there are only 81 more days till Christmas!

~ Plotting Christmas presents!

~ Celebrating the fact it is October!

~ Squeeing over the beautiful colors on the trees!

~ Watching the kids use their imagination with their Color Clix! Here is a gun that they made!

and double motorcycles!

and, what I like to think of it as, "A Great Big Electric Whocarnio Flook" from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas!"

~ Crocheting 85 baby hats so far!
~ Fresh Apple Cider Donuts from Grandma and Grandpa!
~ A play tea set from our "adopted Grandma and Grandpa"!
~ Seeing "twinsies" again!

~ Having a long video call with a friend!

~ Having an unexpected 10-minute visit from a friend!!

(I had to have a picture for proof that she came over ;~) Heehee!)

Nearly forgot the one in the blog title!

~ A missing hairbrush! For then I had to use a comb on the kids' hair this morning which required me to slow down and be gentle as we were getting ready for Church this morning!

Beautiful Blessings - 9/6/15

~ Lil' G's newest treasure!

~ Our first Sunday School class for the year! I cant wait to see how the kids in 3rd and 4th grow! <3

~ Finding wild animals in the yard ;~)

~ The delicious apples on my tree!!

~ A campfire! And scrumptious corn cooked over it!

Photo-A-Day - Day 12!

"Green" - an apple on my apple tree!

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:~) You guys are as awesome as:

 brownies,

 tomatoes,

 cookies,

cheese,

 donuts,

 ice cream,

 muffins,

 banana bread,

 pickles,

and apples! 

Have a lovely day!!!

Apples!

My beautiful Cortland apples are ripe!

Its hard to believe they used to be flowers!

With my lovely abundance of apples, the first good crop in the past 8 years since getting it I made homemade applesauce!

Some apples!

Cutting them up!

How our old fashioned coring and peeling device works. (email readers may need to click to the blog to see the video)

The peels.

Delicious apples.

Boiling them.

Final product, applesauce, and 2 cups of apple juice. :~)

Our Gardens

Our tomato, broccoli, cauliflower, and herb garden. We have citrus mint, chocolate mint, and peppermint. In another garden we have lemon balm and spearmint. I want to get some wintergreen sometime, too. 

Pepper and broccoli garden.

Squash, eggplant, and watermelon.

Tomatoes, basil, and cauliflower.

Squash plants under a nearby shade tree.

Our veggie gardens.

Apples! I planted this apple tree when I was 7 or 8 and we might have apples this year!

Previous years we'd have frosts, and woodchucks. ;~) 

We love gardens and have several throughout the yard.

Whats in your veggie gardens?