What Brady loves right now!

Brady loves to color. If someone else is drawing or coloring he has to get in the thick of things. We have had a few drawings on the wall, door, or body. We hope that when he had to scrub the door with his Dad he will not do it again. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

October Snow

We woke up Sunday morning to snow. It was such a heavy and wet snow. It snowed pretty much all day Sunday. The kids were just begging to go out to play in it. Finally, the parents relented and the kids played until they had blue fingers and toes. Katelyn and Eva made a snow dinosaur and Garret and Will made a snow dinosaur.(my camera died before I could take a picture of Garret and Will's) The snow was gone by Tuesday but it was nice to see snow, but it was telling us winter is just around the corner.

Apple Pressing!

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It is that time again, when we get to pull out the apple press and make yummy apple cider. Well, it just so happens that everyone bugged out on us this year, so we recrutied Kim and her family for the adventure. So rude that Grandpa Manwaring went to Kentucky and Blake's family moved to Michigan. We picked apples Saturday morning and then pressed apples all afternoon as we listened to conference. In all we made 41 gallons of apple juice. The morning we went over to pick apples in the freezing cold. All the kids picked apples until we had filled all our containers. We headed home with the kids wanting ice cream after freezing outside, don't quite get that. We got home getting ready to press apples all afternoon. As always the younger kids usually have fun for alittle while and then they lose interest. Katelyn was our babysitter for Luke and the rest of the kids in the house. Blakely stayed outside with us, manning the bottles. I kept reminding her to be careful in pouring the juice into bottles, but soon enough Mom hits the bucket on the table and spills juice out of the bucket. We thought about making applesauce and pie filling, but by 6:30 we decided just to juice everything. I still would like to try pie filling, so maybe next weekend. We have been offered more apples so maybe Shawn and I will juice some more. It is nice to have yummy apple juice in our freezer.