Trip to the orchard

We went to County Line Orchard on Sunday. It was my first time there. The boys went when E was in preschool and E remembered it some.

 

We got some hot apple cider that was soooo good! Then we headed out to the orchards on the tractors

Ethan’s favorite kind of apple is Fuji so we were headed for that field, also T wanted Suncrisp that was in the neighboring field.

We were told that a lot of the trees were really picked over. We walked down 2 aisles of Fuji and there were NONE.

He picked some Golden Delicious ones first.  

We found a big bin at the end of an aisle and Ethan said he found a Fuji in there, at least he said it tasted like one. I doubt it really was, but it made him happy.

T found some Suncrisp apples

and T even asked if it was “all you can eat when out in the fields” That poor kid gave him the oddest look. 

ooh Ethan thinks that one is a little sour

we walked back to the main barn to pay/weigh our apples and to get some donuts!!  I believe the total weight of apples was 9lbs.

apple cinnamon donuts

pumpkin donuts

the pumpkin donuts were my fav! We just got 3 of apple and 3 of pumpkin. They were $1 each! or 6 were $4 and 12 were $7.

Ethan thought this big apple was neat and he had to get that cute little pumpkin that he named Minnow. 

 

we were trying to find the MooChoo Train ride that we bought a ticket for Ethan. This lady led us the back way through the Kids Farm. She didn’t realize that we didn’t buy that wristband to get in there, though! We got to see all this stuff, which was neat.    

this band was playing where we were standing in line for the train and there were bunch of picnic tables for there for the grill. 

i liked this guy’s sparkly purple guitar – so cool!

It was a really neat place, it was crowded and it was a cool day. We were surprised by the amount of cars from IL.

We ended up buying a dozen pumpkin donuts

9 lbs of apples

a big caramel apple

a little pumpkin and a big pumpkin

and I had 2 hot apple ciders- so good!

We were so full that we skipped lunch. We ended up going to Northwoods around 3:30 and then a trip to Target.

Wedding weekend

So Trent was in a wedding on Sat. his college buddy, that was in our wedding 11 yrs. ago. Kevin and Liza had a lovely wedding day.

We left early early Saturday morning, like in the car by 6:40am. It was down in Brookville, we stayed in Batesville, reception was in Guilford and they were all basically 30 min apart. The wedding started at 1:30, which was 12:30 our time and then T needed to be there an hour prior since we was an usher. We got there right at 12:30.

We thought Brookville felt like Hobart. The downtown area really resembled it, but I’m sure the population was way less.

Ethan was good at the church, for the most part.

     And then he got annoyed with his tie…

and then had use the bathroom during the ceremony, but luckily T went to the back since he had to do his dismissing duties soon after.

Ethan and I waited outside and he created his own ‘boutonniere’ a word I don’t think he really knew before this weekend.

  i love how put it in his little button hole, too!

by this time I let him take off the tie…

We used Dave’s tomtom, plus I had printed up some directions in the different combos. The tomtom gps sent us through some back roads, I guess it was the quickest route. They route we took from church back to hotel was super curvy and hilly, but was neat. 

The reception was at a winery and again, used the tomtom and thought we were lost but then just ended up and found it.

We asked someone to take our pic.   

We sat with another family with 3 kids, I guess Liza used to be their babysitter. Ethan hit it off with the 2 little ones and was even dancing with them later.

 

E was too cute asking for a ‘kiddie cocktail’ at the bar!     

 

Ethan was happy he got to go swimming on Sunday morning at the hotel and have the breakfast buffet. I missed both and slept in.

On the way home we stopped in Lafayette to eat lunch. I wanted to go to the McDonald’s diner, a sit down service diner that we saw on the travel channel. We couldn’t find it so we ate at Fazoli’s since it has been forever since we had it. Googled that mcd’s once at home and found out it they changed it way back in 2004! Way for the updated program on unique McDonalds there Travel Channel! 

Sept - Fall

My family received sad news with death of my mother’s cousin. Mary Jane was her dearest closest cousin. She died due to a tragic accident while driving a 4 wheeler atv. So sad and sudden. She enjoyed such adventures with her family and they had been out in Colorado when it occurred.

The visitation was on Friday/Saturday down in Indy. My parents shuffled their trip plans around to be able to attend it. I My sister and I did not go down, though.

Odd thing that on the day before she died I was using the nice farberware pot she gave me for my wedding and truly thought of her. 

On Sat. night was Casino Night at the fairgrounds. T and I went again this year. Always a fun time and this year we knew the dealer, but that didn’t help. At all! This was the first time we lost all of our money! Shocking! We usually break even or just lose around $5, so bad this time.

 

and then the Zubie bros sat at our table at the end of the night. We played blackjack for like 6 hrs and I don’t know why but it is fun! It was packed with people, so we made sure to get a table early. T gets us in for free and we get food, drink with free refills at the table and dj music. It is really loud with the music and people talking though. T and I look forward to this weekend all year, we don’t really go out enough.

his ankle is fractured!

So I guess his ankle is fractured after all. We went to see Dr. Tim today to get another xray. Last Monday he thought it just might have been since it was still a little swollen. He is walking normal without a limp, I even catch him running and tell him to stop.

I have no experience looking at x-rays but when it was on the screen even my eyes went to this little triangle spot that looked like it was chipped! That was the fracture. The one good thing was that he didn’t need a cast and crutches. He said that kids at the age are resilient and he should heal without it. Just no running or jumping still and no gym.

We go back on Oct. 4 for another set of x-rays and see the progress. Dr. Tim said that if the same injury happened to adults, we would be casted for 6 weeks for it to heal. Interesting.

photo of his ankle from 8/23

from 8/24…

fun at playground

My mom was wanting to take her grandkids to the new playground at her elem school she used to teach at. Ethan had never been to it, so he was so excited.

We made sure not to have E jump off anything or run with his hurt ankle.

They had this neat zip slide like thing. I was worried E would fall off of it and kept walking with him.   

Amanda was so funny yelling hi to me from my mom’s new car…so then Matt had to say hi… then Ethan, of course, had to try it out too…