Freeman Family Adventure: Apple and Pumpkin Pickin'

A couple of weekends ago we went to Fireside Orchard & Gardens (http://www.firesideorchard.com/) to go apple picking. Locals keep telling me that Minesota is good at growing 2 things, apples and pumpkins, so we decided to try it out and see! One of the neat things about the apple industry here is that the University of Minesota has an exceptional apple breeding program,specific cold hardy apple varieties. What that means is that the University has created (or breed) these apples; Fireside, Haralson, Keepsake, Honeygold and Regent are the foundation of the Minnesota apple industry. Their newer release Honeycrisp has become a break out variety, soon to be followed by Zestar and SweeTango. We are big fans of the Honeycrisp!!!

she keep saying 'papa, twactors'

while we were walking around I handed her an apple, I just assumed she would just hold it

of course, she had to give Daddy a bite, then

She ended up eating the whole apple during our trip and I mean the whole apple! I wish I had a pic to show you, the only left was the core, which she tried to eat! Now she loves eating 'whole' apples, she doesn't like for me to slice them up!

Last weekend we went to the local pumpkin patch at Oak View Nursery (http://www.oakviewnursery.net/pumpkin-patch.php) and we had a blast!!! The weather was great, it was sunny and 60! We went on a hayride, played in a corn bin, jumped in a bounce house, went down a big inflatable slide, saw some animals, and of course picked a pumpkin!!!

she loved looking at the chickens!

she wasn't too sure of the 'horsey' coming up beside her!

such a pretty girl!

She finally figured out they are 'punkins' not apples!

She LOVED this slide....so they went again

Ansley and daddy had a BLAST in the bounce house!

Loving on Mommy and Daddy!

1st Hayride!

They hayride about put her to sleep!

Petting the 'moo'

We let her paint a pumpkin

so serious!

I was trying to put her handprint on the pumpkin

it didn't work so good, but she loved it!

The white blob is supposed to be her handprint....notice how DIRTY her hands are!

she was having a BLAST!!

A little update on Ansley....She is enjoying swim lessons and I just recently signed her up for gymnastics! Gymnastics are every Friday 10-10:45, not sure how she will do, but at least she will be able to play! She is almost 19 months now! Where is my pause button?!? She loves to dance and will repeat and say anything and everything! Here are some random pics of her....