Cider Mill, Take 3

So we visited our third cider mill of the season. This time we went to Uncle John’s cider mill with the J. Reuben Clark Law Society.

First, Tennyson got all dressed up.

Then we went to meet everyone at the cider mill. It was a little cold there, so we had to dress warm.

We played on the fire truck and rode some tractors.

Then we went inside to warm up and drink some cider.

The donuts weren’t quite as good as what we had at the country mill, but it was cool because we got to see them making the cider.

I don’t know what we’ll do when winter hits and we don’t have all these cider mills to visit. Our Saturdays will be empty!

Playing at the Park

I decided today that Tennyson and I spend too much time cooped up in our condo, so after Tennyson’s nap, I thought a trip to the neighborhood park would be nice. I pulled out the stroller, grabbed the diaper bag and camera, and we were out the door. When we got there, I saw that they have some of those baby swings so I put Tennyson in and started pushing him. He was a bit skeptical at first, but it didn’t take him long to start really having fun with it. He learned that if he held his legs straight out, he could kick me. This was hilarious to him and he would laugh every time he got me! He thought it was the greatest thing ever! We also spent some time playing with all the fall leaves. He loved the park so much that he talked about it the whole way home. I can’t believe my baby is big enough to do stuff like this. It still seems like just yesterday that we brought him home from the hospital… but he’ll be 6 months old next week. How time flies!

 

Cupcake Adventures

So we watched the Biggest Loser this week and Curtis Stone made these raspberry cupcakes that were low-calorie and looked pretty tasty so we thought we’d try them. We got the recipe online and all the ingredients and we made them.

They were disgusting. Mike and I took one bite and threw them away. The frosting was pretty much straight cream cheese and the cake was the blandest thing ever. So…
We decided to heck with the low-calorie cupcakes. We’ll just make regular ones. We did go to the store and buy a mini cupcake tin and some mini liners so that they’d be smaller and therefore better for us (that is how it works, right?). We looked through all sorts of recipes and decided on a vanilla, vanilla base with strawberry frosting.

They taste AWESOME. They look a lot better than the first batch and they taste about 100 times better.
So if Mike and I look like we are fat enough to roll next time you see us, you’ll know why.

Sitting is soo last week…

This week I’m moving on to standing!

A Weekend With Grammy!

This weekend Mike’s mom came into town to spend Columbus Day weekend with us. The weather was absolutely fantastic and the leaves were all colorful.

We went to Grand Ledge, MI for the Color Island Festival. It was fun. They had people dressed up in pioneer clothes and giving demonstrations. It was on a beautiful island and the colors were awesome! It is great being somewhere that has an actual autumn and being so close to the country and farmland.

 

We also went to the cider mill where we got some delicious donuts and apple cider. We also picked our pumpkins for this fall. We got a big daddy one, a medium mommy one, and a small baby one.

 

We wanted to really see the fall colors, so we went to the Fenner Nature Center to walk around their maple grove.

 

Of course Grammy spent a lot of time playing with Tennyson.

 

It was a perfect fall weekend and we loved having Mike’s mom here! We’ll be sad to see her go.