Fall Activities

We've had a very busy fall, which was especially fun because it's our first real fall in a long time. It involved a lot of cooking and baking, as all good seasons should! We started off with some yummy baking. I found an awesome price on bananas (20 cents a pound!), so I bought a ridiculous amount and made 8 batches of banana bread. Our freezer is now stuffed with mini-loaves.

Our next fall activity was picking apples at a local orchard and making the apples into applesauce. Amy loved picking the apples and sampling them along the way. Matthew liked it too... until we lost his pacifier down one of the rows. Of course we didn't have a backup, and it was his hospital pacifier... the only one he had ever used... and the only one he liked! We've since broken him of his need for that pacifier, but it made for a grumpy baby for a little bit. He liked sucking on the apples though. It took a lot of work to make our applesauce (thanks for the directions Mom Laudie!), but we ended up with some delicious cinnamon applesauce, all bottled and sealed so that we can enjoy it all year long! Amy really liked helping!

We got some pie pumpkins at the same farm that we got the apples. I've never made pumpkin puree, but it was super easy and we're excited to get to try it in our pies and breads and pumpkin rolls this holiday season.

Our non-food related fall activity has been, of course, playing in the leaves! We've enjoyed the beautiful leaves here in Ohio. Unfortunately, I wasn't very good about taking pictures of them. I swear I had some, but I'll have to find them. But Mike and Amy have spent many nights raking and jumping and sliding in the leaves!