Friday morning my sister and I along with mom and the kiddos went to Cranes Orchard to pick apples with our Moms In Tow group.

It was a perfect day and we ended up picking 16lbs of apples in no time!

Then we headed to mom’s and we got busy making applesauce for the babies!!

I love fall!!

Lovin’ my birthday gift from Robb!

The Pinterest app is my fave!

Long exposure? A pro photographer I am not, so instead we get this cute picture of my boys picking apples!

I have no idea how to take a picture of a silhouette so instead here are a couple pics I took of us today with my new iPod before this years first MOPS meeting!!

gorgeous

Deciding on the final touches!

I've tried catching the sunset the last two nights and just always miss it!

So this is the best we’re gonna get!

My thoughts and prayers are with the many people who lost loved ones due to the attacks on the twin towers 10 years old today. Thank you for those who served and continue to serve our country.

God Bless America!

Today is also my 26th Birthday!

Grayden’s pick

My Pick

my main man changed my flat tire today and took me out to an early b-day dinner among all the other wonderful things he does! Definitely {someone I love}!

Robb’s biggest pet peeve is when I leave dirty dishes in the sink instead of putting them in the dishwasher!
Such a bad habit!

Robb and I started off the weekend Friday night with a date night! We went out to dinner and did a little shopping.

On Saturday we stayed around home and got lots of random things done for the new house. At night we met up with my parents and Mindy, Kyle and Makenna at Red Robin for dinner.

Sunday we went to church and then spent the day at the cottage, it was a little on the chilly side but we had fun inside!

Monday we went to the Truck Parade in Holland like we did last year, can’t believe how little Gray was last year!

Gray covered his ears the whole time! It was pretty loud when those big rigs would blow their horns!

(oh my goodness, what happened to my baby? he’s getting so big!)

At the end of the parade all the trucks line up at the Civic Center to ohh and ahh over! Grayden loved playing in the wrecker with his friend Ryn!

When we had enough of that we went back to the cottage to take all the toys out of the water. We headed home to clean up our mess of a house and I snuck in a little nap!

Love these long weekends!!

Taking in the boats and dock at the lake today

I had to face my fear of heights and climb up the ladder into the loft at the cottage to get this shot!

Grayden picked something green and I picked something green :)

headed out for date night!

I just saw this on Pinterest and thought today would be a great day to start the challenge since its September 1 (oh my!) and there are 30 days in this month!

Oh my goodness, an extended-arm self-portrait brings me back to my high-school days :)

our fam ventured out to the hudsonville fair last week to watch the tractor/truck pulls like we do every year.  We walked through a few animal barns before heading into the grand stands.

Grayden thought the animals that faced the walls were in timeout! So funny!

Sadler made it through one pull and was terrified so my mom and I walked around with him for the night; Grayden and Mindy joined us shortly after!

we’ll be back again next year!

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