Apples, Apples, Apples Everywhere!

I had the great joy and hilarity to go apple picking last week with my pastor's wife Pati and our friend Alison and her two children, Connor and Gillian. We had so much fun! We had one tree to pick clean and between the kids continually climbing the tree, Alison trying to go farther than the ladder and Pati would allow, and me dropping lots of apples on Gillian's head, we laughed so hard we almost cried. Plus I came home with about 10 gallons of apples! So now it's an adventure to use them all. Andy bought me a apple peeler/slicer/corer and it works great, so it'll be far less time consuming to use them all up. It seems like we'll be eating apple product all winter...mmmm...yummy... On Sunday I went to Teri's and she and I made lots and lots of applesauce/butter and cut a bunch up for pies and crisp! Yummy! Here are some fun pictures Alison and I took, evidence of how far I climbed up into the tree and then even had to still use the apple picker to get the tip top ones down, but they were the best ones! The adventure being the plastic bag I was using broke at one point just as Gillian was climbing below me. Poor child, she got showered in apples, but she laughed too and then told me she would tell her dad about it...hopefully he sees the humor too!