brown at heart: Apple pickin time!

We made our annual trek out to Eckert's today to pick some apples. The kids get a kick out of "hunting" for them and finding just the right 1 (or 100) that they think will taste the best. Stephen likes "yellow" and Richie likes "red" and I love to watch them picking them straight out of the tree and eating a ton.

Of course we have to ride the rides first. Eckert's in Millstadt has more that our kids like to do like the pig races and the slide, but they love the rides in Belleville too. The video is of them riding the barrel ride. They both think they are super tough and spin it as fast as they can. By the time the ride was over they were both very pale and looked like they were ready to throw up. I loved listening to them laughing and having a good time!

As soon as we were out of tickets, we hopped on the wagon out to the apple orchards. The kids love the wagon almost as much as the other rides that we go on, and they like to sit on the bottom. I guess because there's always a chance we'll fall off. They're a little nuts like that.

We got out to the orchard and of course they go apple wild. They would come home with 50 bags of apples if I would let them, but we don't really eat that many apples to begin with and they would go to waste on our counter. Every time they find one I hear, "Mom! Take my picture! Look at this one!" My kids are picture hams and love to see themselves on the digital camera.

Of course, being the Mom and a fan of taking pictures of my kids, I always have to make them pose in front of the flowers and pumpkins. It's a very fall sort of picture, and I have these pictures of them from when they couldn't even sit up by themselves and had to be propped.