Fall in the Mountains...

As much as we loved summer and were sad to say goodbye...there is something magical about Fall and all the excitement that surrounds this time of year. And no matter what time of year- we love to sneak in a few hours anywhere we can and escape to the mountains. I love how at home my kids are in the trees and dirt. I love how they play with sticks and climb trees and make up games using the world around them.

Our Apple Press...

I am pretty behind on posting on our blog and so I am playing catch up but that might take a while, so I am also just going to start posting our more current happenings...hopefully that will last!

One of our goals for the year was to buy or make an apple press. We searched long and hard and finally found one in Utah- Cory's sister just happened to be in the town where we found it (an hour south of her house) and picked it up for us. We had to wait for about a month until Cory could go pick it up from Utah but we have loved it! It is old fashioned and super user friendly and the best part...the juice of course! Everyone loves it (I actually only drink a sip from each batch...but I LOVE how festive it feels!) and it is so healthy as well as fun to make.

We like it so much that we bought some apples...a lot of apples. Like 400 pounds of apples to juice!

We used a few of our apples from the trees on the property but the turkeys (24 wild turkeys to be exact) and the worms got to most of them before we could!

A few spontaneous juggling lessons and performances have happened in the process.