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We met up with the Gabrielsons on a September Sunday afternoon to pick apples and enjoy the gorgeous countryside!!  We wanted to continue our family tradition of picking apples, but didn't want to drive far to do it. Luckily, we found Cedar Grove orchard within 20 minutes of our home. I'm not sure how we missed this place in past years. The orchard was huge and beautiful!  Our group of Apple Experts.  The Dads snuck off for a secret apple meeting.  Dallin said that yellow apples are his favorite. He did apple taste tests in school. My friend Lacey and her three musketeers.  My bucket is almost full!! She is becoming such a young lady! Enjoying our apples in the shade. One of my Gabrielson buddies. Buckets all full! (Dallin was all done with pictures)

The BIG DAY finally arrived on Sept 5, 2017!  I took pictures of their shoes, just to be a little different from the traditional first-day-of-school pics. The more I look at these shots, the more I realize how the boys' shoes really tell a lot about them and how they felt on their first day of school.  Tanner's shoes perfectly illustrate his constant struggle to find the right fit with anything he wears. These beloved shoes were found at a consignment store and became his favorite after a few tries. He wore them until the soles were flapping off his feet as he walked. He was devastated to give them up several weeks before school started and he refused to go shopping for new shoes. So instead of tossing them, I paid a cobbler to sew these shoes back together. When Tanner got them back, it was like he had won the lottery. I love how this shot shows his feet long and slender, belonging to a boy rather than a preschooler. With one foot forward, it seems he is willing to step into ...