Here is two of our cute trick or treater's. Elsie was blue's clues. She loved trick or treating. She walked the whole night and would not let me carry her treat bag for fear I might help myself (smart girl)...Ok sorry that it is side ways. I can't get the computer to rotate it and I am to tired to keep trying........ I am very behind in my blogging lately I am sorry so I will try to catch up all up... By the way sorry you have to hear me sing.
This is Thomas' Birthday. Can you believe he is 13... Anyway I choose the video of the "cake because I have to share with you how smart I am.. Instead of a cake Thomas wanted apple crisp so I made it. Now normally when I make a cake I pull it out of the oven, let it cool down, then frost and put the candles in it. This not being a cake and I didn't have to frost it I didn't think about the cooling down part. So I pulled it out of the oven and just stuck the candles in it to hurry and finish it off so I could move on to the next thing. Candles we learned melt in hot apple crisp.... So a while later I happen to notice that only the tops of the candles were left and all the wax was in the apple crisp. Well we figured we would live if we ate wax so we lit the tiny top candles and sang to Thomas. Now if you look at the crisp closely you will see that more than the 13 candles are burning. Since the candles were so short the oats in the crisp started on fire. So we had slightly burned wax apple crisp for his birthday.
For his birthday we gave him one very small gift. This is his first experience with only one gift. Normally he gets 2 or 3 but with age the expense of the gift goes up so the quanity goes down. He got an ipod and has loved it every day since!
There is still some touch up and clean up to do I think I will get to that on Saturday but this week I am really trying to catch up on all the things I didn't do last week like laundry, bills etc.
We went apple picking yesterday.. We do this every year at a orchard in Cornish Maine. There are a lot of orchards around (probably at least 20 within an hour of our home). Apple picking is a big thing around here and most families try to get out and schools do field trips. Anyway, we have lots of fun and we picked almost 3 full bushels this year so it is time to start drying and freezing them. Thomas found the biggest apple this year it is always a thrill to beat dad in the biggest apple contest. We all ate our fill of apples while walking through the orchard. This is the one of the best places to get apples because the trees are loaded all the way to the ground. We don't have to pick anyone up to reach Elsie could pick all she wanted to. The weather was perfect and we even go a few cute family pictures. After we were finished we stopped and bought vanilla ice cream and made apple dumplings the minute we got home. The girls were especially thrilled because they got to stay up past their bedtime to eat the apple dumplings. Oh Baby were they good.
I gave up on the slide show.. I had a lot of really fun pictures of us at the fair to share with you but it's not going to happen today so I will just share these three. I think I need John's password. We had a lot of fun at the fair. Fryburg is about an hour north/west of our house. It is very near the Maine/New Hampshire boarder. It is the biggest fair in Maine (Maine has a lot of fairs). Grace talked about riding the "colorful horses that go around" the whole way there so we made sure she got to. Funny thing is those were the only horses she would go near. She is obsessed with everything horse except the real thing. She wouldn't even go near the "little horse"
in the bottom pictures. Elsie and Ben loved all the animals but Elsie was especially in love with those baby chicks. Ben would have bought them all if he had the money and a place to keep them. We ate some good fattening fair food, and the weather was perfect!
