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Apple Picking

 Saturday we took the boys and Jack's friend Hunter up to the mountains to do some apple picking.
 It was the perfect Fall day - cool and sunny!
 There was so much to do there.  We started off at the children's play area.  Once they made it through the maze they had a big slide area to play on.
 Ethan and Wyatt really enjoyed playing in here.
 Wyatt wants to know, where did Ethan go?
 So much fun!
 Slides, sand, tires to crawl through, over and under.
 Follow the leader.
 Wyatt climbing up the ramp to slide down the slide.
 Independent Ethan going back to slide some more.
 Wyatt fell on the slide at the horse farm where Ethan gets his therapies and has been a bit gun shy of slides since then, so Daddy had to help.
 But once he went down and realized he wasn't going to fall he was happy.

 Jack and Hunter playing.
 Hi Mommy!
 Kerplunk!
 Daddy and Ethan (all snuffly).
 Look what passed by while the boys were on the go cart track.
 Jack way in the back getting some help from Daddy and Wyatt.
 There he goes - he finally got the hang of it.
 Check me out, Mommy!
 There goes Hunter.
 Ethan waiting at the bottom of the gigantic slide.
 Hunter was the first to slide.
 Then came Jack...
 All the way down.
 Another play area.
 Everything was Wyatt's size -- we had to drag him out.

 Hunter on the cow.
Ethan did not like the cow, but Jack did.
 Wyatt didn't like it either.
 By the time we came back around to this slide there were no other kids there so Ethan and Wyatt took their turns and loved it!


 It was a steep hill, but they didn't mind climbing it.
 After all that we barely had time to pick apples.  We did spend quite a bit of time picking just the right apples.  Jack and Hunter each had a small bag to fill and then Jason and the little boys filled up a medium size bag.

 Isn't this view beautiful?
 The boys had a lot of fun picking the apples and running up and down the rows of trees.
 Ethan is doing it the lazy way -- from his stroller!
 Wyatt preferred the apples on the ground (so much easier to get) but he eventually got the hang of it.






 We had such a fun family day out.  Now I have two bags of apples to find recipes for - YUM!

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