{"id":3278,"date":"2016-10-17T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2018-12-29T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T18:55:32","slug":"apple-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=3278","title":{"rendered":"Apple Picking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple picking has been on my long list of \u201cfun things to do\u201d for the last few years and finally Justin and I decided Saturday was the day. We started looking up orchards on Friday to find out that peak apple season for many of the orchards is in September (oops!).\u00a0 We came across one Macintosh Fruit Farm in the Shenandoah Valley that still had a variety of apples in season and looked like it would capture the girl\u2019s attention for a few hours. We arrived in time for a late lunch.\u00a0 Justin and I had the BBQ sandwich, Emerson the cheese quesadilla, and Harper and Avery a hot dog. \u00a0I love how big Harper’s eyes get when she eats a hot dog!\"_mg_4315\"<\/p>\n

The food was actually pretty good and reasonably priced. \u00a0After our bellies were full, we made our way to the orchards. The girls had fun looking for apples….\"_mg_4318\"and posing….\"_mg_4331\" \"_mg_4329\" \"_mg_4328\"<\/p>\n

Justin had fun trying to get apples high up in the tree.\"img_4337\"<\/p>\n

The girls enjoyed watching.\"img_4333\"<\/p>\n

We enjoyed using the fruit picker as a prop.\"img_4349-1\"<\/p>\n

Harper got tired and wanted to be held pretty quickly. We settled on some piggy back rides instead.\"img_4353\"\"img_4356\"<\/p>\n

The girls played on the playground, checked out the ponies, and checked out the horses.\"_mg_4369\"<\/p>\n

We bought eight pounds of apples! Sunday we made homemade applesauce with some of the apples and we also decorated pumpkins with felt and stickers. \u00a0It was a great weekend and it was neat that the girls and Justin and I all got to experience our first time apple picking together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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