An apple a day...

I recently took the kids to Apple Holler, which has an apple orchard, pumpkin patch, corn maze, and a bunch of other fun things for kids to do. The kids loved it and we ended up with SO MANY apples. The following week we ate apple pie, apple crisp, caramel apples, apples and peanut butter, etc. SO YUMMY.

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away." I told Cameron this to get him to eat up our apples and now he says it all the time.



Kate did pretty well riding in the wagon.....


and then she fell asleep which was even better (and funny to see her face planted like that). And nope those two boys aren't mine, they are Jenn Randall's kids. Thanks Ethan for pulling the wagon for me!

I can't get enough of this boy, isn't Connor the cutest thing??

Door County in a day and a half....

We recently took a weekend trip to the much acclaimed Door County. It really is as quaint and picturesque as I imagined it would be - my pictures don't do it justice. We drove through many of the small towns - Egg Harbor, Fish Creek, Ephraim, Sister Bay, to name a few.

We also....

saw two lighthouses.....

hiked on the trails and by the water....

threw rocks in the bay....

stood under a very large cow (hey, we are in Wisconsin....)

enjoyed the view.....

played at several fun playgrounds......

rode pedal carts.....

enjoyed the scenery at Cave Point (and tried not to fall in the water....)

and ate at a Swedish restaurant......that was a must for me, the restaurant had goats on the roof so we had to see it!!

Hooray for kindergarten!

I was a little worried at the start of the school year about a few things, like how would Cameron handle being in school ALL day? How would I handle Cameron being in school ALL day? But it's actually kind of nice sometimes to have him in school (Shhhhh...don't tell him I said that!) It's nice because then I only have two kids during the day and the house just seems that much quieter. It makes running errands a little less crazy as well, plus when we're out I don't get as many amazed looks and the comments like "Whoa, you must have your hands full!" (I've never known how to respond to that one, I always just kind of smile and say "yep, I do!" I bet this doesn't happen in Utah.....but anyway, I digress.) I love the fact that I get to spend some one on one time with Connor that we've never really had before. He is such a fun cool kid and we do a lot of fun things during the day. And then Connor has preschool for a few hours a couple days a week, and then it is just me and Kate (!!!) So yes, things are going well :)


Connor dressed up for "beach day" at his preschool. He looks forward to every Tuesday and Thursday when he gets to go to school.


Cameron's kindergarten picture. Isn't he adorable??? He was picked as student of the month for the month of September. I asked him why the teacher chose him, and he said it was for "being good and doing good stuff." So there you have it.