Apple Festival 2012

Last Saturday we visited Terhune Orchard for their annual Apple Festival.  Besides apple picking, pumpkin picking (a little too soon for us) and an adorable market with fresh produce and yummy jams and jellies, they had other fall festivities that we got to partake in while welcoming in fall!

By the Big Red Barn in the Great Green Field... Lindsay Girl and her Daddy

They had a hay bale maze, and Lindsay had fun going through. I was proud she didn't hop over any of the bales and cheat to get to the finish line like some of the other kids.

Running towards the exit! Success!

They also had pony rides, and Lindsay got to ride a beautiful white pony named "Sweetie". I was a little nervous because this was her first time on a horse, and they had no safety straps to hold the kids on there... thank goodness Daddy stayed with her during her ride. About halfway through the pasture, she told Daddy she was ready to get down...lol.

Horses always make me think about my Grandpa. He was a great horseman, and one of my fondest memories was sitting on his lap listening to him read to me a book about horses. He was even by my side at my very first pony ride at the fair when I was about Lindsay's age. I can picture him looking down from heaven with a big smile watching his great-grand on that pony!

Lindsay had fun riding push-peddle tractors. She couldn't figure out the peddling part, so Jarrett gave her some help.

"Tractor Jam"... tee hee hee.

We saved the apple picking for last, mainly because we didn't want to have to carry around apples all morning. They had Empire, Red Delicious and Winston Stayman and we got a few of each. This week we have apple pie, pork chops with cinnamon apples and an autumn salad on the menu to eat up all our apples. Yum!

I think she had more fun using the bag as purse than picking.

Precious girl had to get in on the apple picking action...

Apples are one of Madison favorite food!

Apple picking is serious business...LOL

My sweet girls and me..

The orchards were so beautiful, and I was dying to get some pictures of the two of them. This is the closest I got. How do those photographers do it? Seriously. I think it is impossible.

Madison Grace... check out her sweet fluffy hair! Love it!

The weather was beautiful, 70 ish with a breeze. The sky is so blue in NJ.

 

 

Come on' Fall weather!! Let's bust out the sweaters and pumpkin spice coffee!