Cidersicles and Apples

Is anyone else sick of this weather?! Every year, our family from Detroit comes to Holland to do our annual Apple-picking at Crane's Orchard. It is usually my Aunt Sue, Uncle Scott, cousin Alex, Grandparents, my parents, and siblings. This was probably the hottest day that we have ever went to pick apples. Usually it's in the 70's, the smell of fall is in the air, and we can wear jeans and a sweatshirt. Wow, it was so incredibly hot that we had to wear shorts, sunscreen, and sandals! My poor nephew was sick and had to be taken to the ER. He has a throat infection and swollen lymph glands, tummy ache, and high fever. Poor little guy was not having very much fun!
Eliza loved the apples! She really enjoyed sucking the juice out of it and she cried when it fell on the ground! Adrianna was too hot to enjoy the picking of the apples. I think she picked 2 off of the tree! We tried our best to enjoy the day but the heat was unbelieveable!

We picked about 20 pounds of apples! We really like Ida Red, Jonathan, and this year we also picked mutzu.
Afterwards we always get donuts and cider. This year because of the heat we got cidersicles. It's basically a small cup of cider, frozen, with a spoon stuck inside. That really helped us cool off! I am looking forward to making lots of applesauce, apple crisp, and some pies!



Adrianna loves her big sister cousin Alex. She is almost 7 and in 1st grade. We wish she lived closer so that the girls could play more together. Alex is so sweet and does a great job of teaching Adrianna how to do things. Adrianna followed Alex around all weekend!






A funny moment......
On the way home from my parents house tonight we were driving by railroad tracks and Adrianna asked what those things were. Shawn and I both asked her what she was talking about and she said "Those candy canes right there by the train"! She was talking about the red and white gates that come down when a train is going by! Too funny!:)