I took the kids all by myself to Willcox, AZ to visit Apple Annie's Apple Orchard and Produce Farm on the first official day of October break. We left before 7am because google maps said it would take just under 4hrs to get there. The drive in the morning was great. I was a little worried about all the truckers I expected on I-10 but actually there only a handful the whole drive. We had the road almost to ourselves. We arrived at about 10:15am, just over 3hrs and I didn't speed so I am not sure why google had it so much longer. It was a goregous 65 degrees when we arrived and headed to the apple orchard. This farm has two sites...the orchard and then the produce farm with the pumpkin patch.
These beauties are just a few of our treasures. We cut our own pumpkin right out of the field, the sunflowers directly from the stems in the ground and picked the apples off the trees.
I also took an opportunity to get some good, (or at least attempted too) pictures of the kids for the walls and maybe Christmas cards this year. I have a few good ones and well many, many others because it is dang hard to get five nice smiles all at the same time.
This was about as good as I could get...not too bad...and I love them even if some have cheesy smiles.
And I have to balance the 'nice' shots with a crazy, funny face one too.
Off to the orchard...
I LOVE this one...I love how she is holding the basket in anticipation of catching the falling apples Jacob is grabbing. They would squeal with delight every time he 'got one'.
This is me trying to get some of the higher ones...
Three in one grab!!!
These were our pickins. I think it came out to almost 4lbs. I planned to make some applesauce, canned cinnamon apples and apple butter but I will have to supplement with some grocery store buys to make that much!
Are these two darlings not the most gorgeous 5yr olds around???
Then is was time to eat lunch and load up to the go to the produce farm about 6 miles away. We could see the orange from the pumpkin fields from the road...the squealing started all over again!!! We have been to a pumpkin farm before but never had the opportunity to actually cut our own pumpkin...that was very cool.
We boarded the hay ride to make our way out to the field of pumpkins!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!!
Double LOVE!!!!
Seek and ye shall find...a pumpkin that is!!!
We cut two pumpkins...with a few weeks left until Halloween I just hope they make it to be able to carve. If not the memories with worth it regardless!
Then on to the produce stand...smelled so fresh!
At the very end we walked out to the sunflower field to cut our own bunch of flowers. The bees freaked the kids out a bit and I assured them they were more interested in the sunflowers than stinging them but they didn't buy it. We did have a nice conversation about the job of bees and seeing it in action was neat to the kids. I appreciated their indulgence of cutting the flowers because that was all for me. I LOVE sunflowers!
And this was then end of our time in Willcox. They all thanked me over and over again for taking them, asked to go next year!! Next time, I think we will camp near by and take Daddy. It was a great day and they did great considering they spent just over 6hrs total in the car and about 5hrs between the two farms. Now, on to making some yummy, yummy Fall treats!!!
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