Apple Jack Festival 2010

NE is the home of Arbor Day and this weekend NE City has a celebration called the Apple Jack Festival.  The day was filled with apple slushes, apple picking, face painting, trail walks, the Discovery Adventure, a tractor ride and lots of apple eating.  Here are a few of my favorite pictures from today.  More to follow...

The beginning...apple slushes and "cold"(56 degrees) rainy weather...

JONATHAN! (the name of the apple that is...)

She held AMAZINGLY still for this.  I think it helps that she wants to use all of 

Grandma Kathy's make-up.  Today was the day it was ok and she was the cutest pink kitty ever!

WATER!  He LOVES water!

The more splashing the better!

Eli growling...our mischievous boy!

Tiny Dancer with Big Shoes to fill?

All smiles...(pre-hair cut)

New dress...

Big shoes...

Kitchen 360...

Finally..."mostly" done is what he says...  New floor, countertops, backsplash and paint...

No single sink over there anymore!  Waiting for an outlet behind the coffee-maker =)

Chocolate wall #1 and my STAINLESS STEEL BUILT-IN sink!

Open up to the livingroom...with a couple of lights....

Phonebook shelf and baby-pull up shelf returned!

Chocolate wall #2.  Need some pictures up there.  

China cabinet above the microwave with some space for cookbooks too.

11 months!

"I am 11 months old today!  Hear me ROAR" - 'cause I do! (the guy in red - not the bearded man)

The real deal...wacky bro and sis...

"I'm on top of the world" - my eyes sparkle when I am excited - whether it be for good for being mischevious...

Our baby E - growing up so fast!

Apple Pickin'

Granny Smiths and Jonathans were our apples of choice for Labor Day.  Can't tell that Hannah is a bit excited to be picking apples for the second time in 4 days.  

A couple of folks checkin' the apples out.  Vercapnik's Family Apple Orchard was all ours on Monday afternoon.  What a beautiful orchard.  Humidity was a bit warm, but a great day nonetheless.

Hannah showing Grandma how to pick the apples.

What is that cat doing in that tree??  I am pickin' apples!!

Tah-dah!

Jayhawk Apple Pickers!

"The Biggest Bento Box Ever!"

So excited about her "Bento Box" just like Oliva the pig and her friend Francine (it is a book).  I obviously lost the wardrobe battle.

First Sack Lunch

September 3, 2008 was right around the time my blood pressure started rising in anticipation of my baby girl.  Now it is rising again with the anticipation of her first sack lunch and field trip.  She gets to go to the apple orchard (NE is the home of Arbor Day) and pick apples with 4 of her best friends - Blake, Jordyn, Elijah, and Gavin.  Of course Miss Becky - her most favorite teacher ever - is taking them!  

Such an exciting time for our little girl.  Hope she will wear jeans and tennis shoes even though she is in the phase where she tells me what she is wearing (not sure this phase will go away) and it is always a dress because she is "a princess and princesses wear dresses so they can dance."

Hope she enjoys this lunch.  I made the sandwich with raspberry preserves and butter just like my Grandma Bowen used to make...she put butter on every sandwich she ever made for me I think - even in college.  I also put the note - just like mom would - hope Miss Becky reads it to Hannah because I think the only things she will recognize are her name and the 'H' on Hope.  Everybody knows that any word that begins with 'H' is Hannah =).  If she eats her fish, there are surprise chocolate chips at the bottom.  Hope she starts with the sandwich...