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Thursday, November 6, 2008

apples, apples and more apples...

last weekend we went apple picking at oak glen with clyde, kelly, kai and mom. it was about an hour and half away from clyde and kelly's house. it was a beautiful day for apple picking...

there were 2 different sizes of bags we could buy to hold our picked apples. of course we got the bigger bag..

what is an apple???

oh, those... i have only eaten apple sauce.

mom starts picking right away

kai is picking his first apple

aw, so cute. kai is looking at a baby apple

jeff trying to reach the big ones

mom and jeff are a team!!!

mom reaching for the big ones too

clyde trying to get kai to pick an apple

me pretending to pick an apple

virginia winesaps - not too sweeet and crunchy

winesap trees everywhere filled with ripe apples and hardly anyone picking

our bag of apples. the bag held around 22 apples. it was fun but easier to just buy them...

lunch time!!!

we got some bbq. it was just ok. next time we want to bring our own picnic.

fresh apple pie. wow, that was good!!!

got some bbq corn too

last stop, we did go to another apple place but didn't take any pictures

arkansas blacks

mom waiting for her free sample (she has perfected her technique at costco over the years)

kai enjoying some apple. look, he likes it.

we could have listened to his stories all day.....as long as he kept feeding us apple slices

(arkansas black, fuji, and granny smith)

fresh fuji's

on sunday kelly made an apple tart. it was super yummy.

can't wait to go apple picking again next year....

Friday, October 31, 2008

happy halloween

our halloween time at disneyland

cinderella pumpkin

mickey and minnie

haunted mansion holiday

jack and sally, oh scary....

hope you have a happy halloween!!!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Last month we saw this sign out at a new store at Irvine Spectrum. I was excited to see that Rob from the Rob and Big MTV series was going to be there. I loved the show and wanted to check it out. It was a Saturday so we decided to eat lunch first and see how long the line was...

lots of kids and their skate boards, the line was not too long so we decided to get in...

we waited

and waited

rob and me!!!!

it wasn't too long and fun too...
i am sure our nephew eric who loves skate boarding will like this one

Monday, October 6, 2008

today is kai's first birthday

it's so hard to believe that kai is one year old today. just seems like yesterday when we first heard that he was born in japan. then a few weeks later we got to see him for the first time. he was so little...