Apple Picking

We went apple picking on Saturday, October 3 in a beautiful little valley near Lake City. This was the same orchard that we found last year!
One of the horses neighed, and so Dallin kept his hands over his ears the rest of the time we watched the horses.
Most of the trees with apples were at the top of the hill.
We sang all the apple songs we could think of and did lots of test tasting. Tanner assigned us all our appropriate buckets, and then kept track of who had the most.
Dallin kept eating his apples. He took at least one bite of every apple he picked, haha.
I didn't know Jeremy took these pictures!
My favorite part of the day was sitting with my little family on the orchard hill and enjoying the pretty view. The boys liked throwing rotten apples down the hill.
 
Tanner drew this picture of an apple tree in the car!!
We really enjoyed the apple orchards this year. Simple, peaceful, enriching, and fun!

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