Millions of apples

We got a chance to go up to Calvin Crest recently. We have worked up there off and on for several years and love the area. This particular trip was nice because we got to experience a couple of our favorite things about camp, apple picking, and fall colors. Calvin Crest was fully dressed for fall and the colors were wonderful. Joining us in this adventure was family friends the Gists, the Nickells, the Starbucks, and Sarah. We started by picking apples and visiting, which was nice. Especially watching the kids run around and hang out together. Then we proceeded to make cider, which was a hard and involved task. Joel, Isaac, and I took turns running the cider mill with occasional help from a couple of other people and it was a workout. The kids were great helpers and enjoyed washing apples in the tub and filling the hopper. Altogether it was a great trip!

Sorry for out of order pictures, we are experiencing technical dfificulties.

Emery enjoyed trying to eat the apples.

Washing the apples.

Straining and collecting the cider.

The finished product!

15 Months

Emery is now 15 months! She continues to be a sweet, silly girl and fills our hearts with so much joy and surprises us with her brilliance. She likes to say hi a lot but not when people are paying attention, example while we're in the grocery store she says hi to people as they go by. She always waves at cars when she hears them or if they pass by. She put on a pair of pants all by herself for the first time this week (daddy gave a couple verbal instructions but that was all)! She loves playing outside, her cousins, going to Grandpa and Grandma Chandler's house, reading books, pushing things, buckling buckles, sticking things in holes, baths, and coloring. She has been teething a lot! I'm not sure exactly how many teeth she has now but it's somewhere around 12 but soon to be more.  Her new words for this month included: ouch, eww, honk, boot, booty, quack, and bonk.