Apple Orchard Visit

We visited an apple orchard while at my daughter's

last weekend and I was able to snap a few photos to

share with you. Don't you just love all these cute

tiny pumpkins and gourds?

Larger white pumpkins for purchase...

they need a bath! lol

Loved this assortment of pumpkins/squash. My granddaughter thought some looked like they were covered with peanut shells.

I brought this greenish/yellowish one on the left side of the photo home with me. I think it is some type of squash, but I just loved the shape.

lovely produce

Hubby and son-in-law tasted the cheese, but I passed. I am sure it was yummy though.

organic popcorn

assorted honey sticks in many flavors for 25 cents each

of course we can't forget the apples! lol

pretty pot sitting outside

GD Allysha, GS Jon and DH on the hay ride we

went on. It was raining so it was nice they had a tarp

over the top!

The driver was supposed to stop at the pumpkin

patch and let us pick one out , but that didn't happen

for some reason so we just picked out a prepriced one

when we got back.

It was a very fun day despite all the rainy icky weather.

Hope you enjoyed your tour !

Oh yes, I missed photos of the most important part. lol.

They make donuts right there at the orchard and of

course we purchased some. They were delish!!

Blessings~

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids...

...it's just that correcting them often

takes more energy than I have left.

~Gene Perret

I snagged these photos from my daughter. My son-in-law took them at an estate near their home and I love them!!

Candid shots of my sweeties.

This is Joshua...he had to be propped up. :)

Allysha ~ our first grandchild and she is 11

years old already!

Perfect love sometimes does not come

until the first grandchild.

~Welsh Proverb

Love this photo!! {mommy snuck in there too}

What a sweetie!

Can I get down now?

Enough already!

I sure hope we are almost done, don't you Jon?

I will leave you with some wonderful grandparent quotes:

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have -

if only for self-defense.

~Gene Perret

My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me,

and I decided to teach her to sew.

After I had gone through a lengthy explanation

of how to thread the machine,

she stepped back,

put her hands on her hips,

and said in disbelief,

"You mean you can do all that,

but you can't play my Game Boy?"

~Author Unknown

What a bargain grandchildren are!

I give them my loose change,

and they give me a million dollars' worth

of pleasure.

~Gene Perret

Have a blessed Tuesday~

Eggs Anyone?

We had so much fun having an Easter egg hunt

for the grandchildren after church today.

We only had three that could attend ,

but it was definitely a day to remember!

I sent dh and the rest of the guys outside

to distribute the eggs. We ended up with

37 eggs per child! That is a lot of eggs

to find places for.

We had to stop our sweeties in their tracks for pictures

before they came bounding out the door to find the eggs.

There were eggs in the bushes...

on the outlet...

among the chives...

and on the ground.

Annika did so good at picking her eggs up and

putting them in her basket.

Jon, on the other hand kept taking

breaks to eat what was inside his eggs! LOL

I found some more!

Once again, Jonathan sitting down eating

the chocolate...too cute~

All done gathering eggs and headed into the house

to open them and collect the goodies.

This is the first Easter egg hunt we have had for

years. We had one when Allysha was younger

and she was the only grandchild, but somehow

it never worked out since then.

It was a lot of fun

watching the grands get so excited over finding

the eggs. We will definitely be doing it again

next year and we hope that Keira can

be here to join in the fun because we

sure missed her today!

{I didn't get hardly any pictures of Allysha because

she took off around the other side of the house

and I didn't know where she was! }

I hope you had a wonderful Easter day !

A hundred years from now... ~

...it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort

of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world

may be different because I was important in the life of

a child.

-author unknown

We spent the last two weekends visiting with our

grandchildren {and children} that live away from us.

We had a most wonderful time ~

Sweet little Keira loves her pretty necklaces Look at all the blonde curly hair. She will welcome a baby brother in a few weeks. She also loves books! She is reading to her daddy and he soaks it all in.

Our precious little Annika who lives closeby

Grandma had just given her a bath

silly little girl

Adorable baby Joshua and yours truly...

I love his little ears!

Isn't he little bright eyed doll baby

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change

and they give me a million dollars worth of pleasure.

-Gene Perret

My sweet Lyshie (Allysha) who lived with us for the first

four years of her life. It went so fast. She is now almost 11 years old.

Love this coat of hers from Old Navy.

and last but certainly not least

is handsome Jonathan.

definitely all boy.

He sure loves his grandma though. :)

Nothing can do for little children what grandparents do.

Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the

lives of little children.

-Alex Haley

I Just Happen...

...to know these cuties~ More darling grandchildren

of

yours truly ~

*Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,

and the glory of children is their fathers".

Proverbs 17:6

Allysha ...10 years old ~

sitting in my mom's flower garden

looking at an old book

Jon...3 years old ~ in front of my dad's shop Allysha and Jon ~ Jon looking up at his big sister. He sure loves her a lot. I can't believe she is 10 already! Where did the years go??

My son-in-law took these pictures the last time there were down to see my parents. They turned out so good I just had to share them with you.

Blessings~