Apple Orchard!

Center Grove Apple Orchard is probably one of our favorite things to do in the Fall.  We can usually go on a warm day where the sun is shining and the farm is ours to explore! They have everything you might want and need (ahem, apple cider donuts!) for a fun fall adventure.  As I type this post up a few months later, the winter wind is whipping around our house and I would love to go back to that warm fall sun.  You know, the sun that keeps you warm and makes everything a pretty golden color.  Anyway, here are a few pictures that I couldn't resist posting, even if they are a little late!

The Corn Pool. 
Whoever thought up the corn pool is seriously awesome.  I wish we had a corn pool.  I could just stick them in it and they would play for hours!  It is in a huge barn and probably 30 feet by 80 feet (Michael's guess, not mine, so it is probably pretty accurate).  It is so cool and the boys just love it!
{I love Hutchinson's dirty face in the bottom left picture and his tiny feet and baby legs and arms.  I love that he is still pretty little!}

We hit up the Orchard a couple times and one of the times we went with Rachael and Lucas.  Lucas and Hutchy are the same size, so it fun to watch them explore together.  The boys loved checking out all of the farm animals and Finnean really loved pumping the water to race to rubber ducks.  We even took the hayride around the farm. 



Grandma Lisa was in town and we took her to the Apple Orchard on a Friday night.  It was beautiful! We explored and showed her around the farm.  The boys showed Michael around too, since he hadn't been there this year.  Everything is more fun when Dad is around.  See him swinging Hutchinson up high-you should have heard the giggles! The boys LOVED the goats.  The make them giggle so much-they are pretty funny animals! :)

We haven't pick apples before, so we thought since Grandma was with us, it would be a perfect time to do it!  We had SO MUCH FUN!  I love their little faces.  They were so excited to be getting apples right off the tree!  Finnean loved using the picker and carried it around most of the time.  His face when he got one down off the tree was priceless.  I love the family picture that Lisa captured of us.  Smiles all around! After the apple picking we headed back on the hayride to bounce on the bounce pillow.  By that time it was getting close to 6 and the boys hadn't had supper yet, so we gave them a apple cider donut and called it a night! 

This was the sunset from the evening.  It doesn't even look real, but man was it beautiful.  It was a perfect way to end the night!