Monday, November 1, 2010

apples, pumpkins, costumes

I've got a lot of ground to cover to make up for my blog-slacking, so here is a photo-narrative of the last several weeks' activity.

We went to Hick's Orchard in Granville, NY for some apples, cider, and of course the donuts. Did I mention the donuts??! This is really the main reason why we make the 45 minute trek and they are so phenomenal - totally worth the drive. We can take or leave the apples, but we cannot leave without a few dozen of these bad boys:

As you can see, the girls really enjoyed them.

Mira thought a good chomp into an apple could get that loose tooth to come out. But it hung on for a few more days.

(I was playing around with some photo effects using Picnik. Fun stuff, you should check it out.)
We had to do the tractor ride through the orchard. It's mandatory.


A few weeks later we went to pick out our Halloween pumpkins.
They always have plenty of wooden backdrops to stick your faces in.

Tim and Abby drank too much cider and had to use the facilities while we were there.


Then we went home and carved the pumpkins.


And this shady group of hooligans went out terrorizing our neighborhood in search of candy.