Fall Orchard Trip

The best Michigan field trip is hands down a fall trip to an apple orchard.  We went to Sietsma Orchard this morning with some homeschool friends.  I took all 6 kids and it actually went pretty well!  Good thing it was only an hour tour that included donuts.  :-)

Here's the whole crew:

After a hay ride through the orchard and a short tour of their apple storage and cider making, we all had delicious, fresh donuts and cider.


Aaron and Luke were pretty happy about this part of the field trip.


After cider and donuts, we went back into the orchard and each of the kids got to pick an apple.  Luke was able to eat about half of his, seeds and all!

 
It was a beautiful fall day!


J liked the donuts, apples, and seeing his friends!

 
Ok, let's watch Mabel closely in this picture and the next two.  This one turned out pretty well, all heads are turned toward the camera.


Mabel hears a clucking sound behind her and turns to see what it is...


a dreaded chicken!  Shrieks of terror ensued.  Another animal that Mabel does not like.

Fall 2014 pics

We performed an amazing feat a couple of weeks ago.  We took pictures of  6 kids!

Check out 2012 and 2013.

 

 

Luke, 20 months.

 

 Aaron, 4 years

 Joel, 6 years

 Andrew, almost 10

 Noah, 7 1/2 years

Fall photo shoot

On Saturday we headed to the pond across the road from us for the boys annual fall photo shoot.  However, the photographer and the camera kind of stink so none of these pictures really turned out well.  Or maybe I can blame it on the lighting??  Anyhow, here's a few to look at but I think we'll have to try again

Boys Group Pics~October 2011

Chris and I took the boys to a pond down the road last night.  Here are our heroic photographic efforts:

Daddy wanted us to be silly!

I think this is one of my favorites.

Sir Noah!

Do ya think this is staged??

I love fall pics!

The best of the bunch.

Honey boy

I think there's too much light.

They were pretty much done by this point.

When kids hit age 4, its automatically cheesy smiles every time the camera comes out.

Almost natural.

Easiest boy to photograph.

He'd rather play in the leaves than get his photo taken.

Fall Fun with Cousins