Fall is here

Apple picking was first on our fall agenda.

Last year once Jackson had an apple to munch on he did nothing else. This time he ate two apples and picked about four. 

 He really enjoyed himself and was willing to share the apple he was eating with us. 

Despite all the apples, the tractors may have been his favorite part of the day. 

Something I was extremely excited to try with all our harvested apples was homemade applesauce. Jackson practically lives on applesauce and fruit snacks so I knew he'd be thrilled to help make it. I mainly went off a recipe of a friend of my mother-in-law. It turned out DELICIOUS!

Crockpot Applesauce

Peel, core and chop as many apples as will fill your crockpot 

Add 2-3 tablespoons of brown sugar

Add cinnamon to taste (I let Jackson shake this in so I have no idea how much we used, but it certainly was not a little bit)

Cook for several hours till apples are real soft and stirring them together mushes them up. We left ours with some larger pieces but everything was soft. 

Baby sister made her debut at our garden recently. The weeds have overtaken it, the tomatos plants are wilting and producing less and the pumpkin vine has snaked through the plot. We are pumped to have two pumpkins growing that we should be able to pick right in the beginning of October. They are a smaller variety so maybe not for a jack-o-latern but festive non the less. Jackson was real excited about them. To help curb his urge to pick it we let him rub it for good luck. You can see him doing so above in his adorable Mickey gardening gloves. 

Looking forward to more fun fall activities soon!