On the First Weekend of October...

We had a really great family weekend the first weekend of October! We went full swing into fall mode and (by tradition) went to the Ilderton Fair and went apple picking with my sister, brother in law and niece.

We have gone to the Ilderton fair a couple times now and really wanted to go again this year. We had our first fair family outing on Staurday the 3rd. It was freezing! Well not actually.. it was about 10 degrees but it felt so cold with the wind and rain. I felt bad for Logan who had a winter sack, warm blanket and was covered by the stroller cover for wind... my crazy Mom side needed to get him home to the warm ASAP. So it was a shorter trip to the fair!

Here's Aleksy and Logan in front of the tent that shows off the best vegetable displays! We love looking at all the competition entries! It's always such a shame to look at the delicious baking entries that have a tiny sliver taken from it and the rest gone to waste...









We've gone to the Ilderton fair a couple times before and the first time we got some awesome smoked turkey legs, and the second time they were all sold out. So luckily this year, since there were not as many people at the fair because of the rain and wind we got a couple of our delicious, meaty turkey legs! Contrary to the turkey legs we got at Disney for over $20, these were $6. We took our traditional turkey leg picture (its the third of its kind):

We had to make lots of indoor stops when we were at the fair so we could warm up! They had lots of animals to check out, and also a bunch of kiosks selling things... one of which was selling homemade butter tarts so we got a couple for dessert (for after the turkey legs... our wholesome lunch). Because we left after a short while, we ended up bringing them home with us, and when we got home we paired them with the amazing apple cider that we also got from the fair! It just tastes like fall...

And Saturday evening was a pretty special evening... I had my first drink since January 6th!!! Why yes, I do know the date exactly... I even know that it was a Tuesday and I had a glass of white wine while watching the bachelor.

On Saturday, Aleksy and I popped the bottle of champagne that Nikki and Jon Jon got us to celebrate our new baby! I had to take it easy since it went to my head quickly... I could only do a couple glasses!
I also had a beer the next day... it was just delicious. Like a delicacy.

And on Sunday, we went apple picking with my adorable niece. She was a pretty popular girl on the weekend and squeezed in the apple picking to her busy weekend schedule of 2 birthday parties. Logan thought apple picking was pretty boring and slept the whole time. I guess Logan thinks a lot of the activities we do are boring... he hits the car seat and zonks out!

Here's Logan with cousin Rachel who picked out a Logan sized pumpkin for him from the patch.

Last year, we went to Appleland for apple picking (we actually went twice last year... once with my sister and brother in law and once with our friends Al and Steph!). We learned our lesson last year that Appleland is ridiculously expensive so we found another orchard to pick our own in London! Appleland charges $6 per person admission plus apples. We went to Dwarf tree orchard in Byron and picked our own apples and pumpkins and didn't have to pay admission! We just paid $16 for a massive bag of apples! We win!

Our apple picking family pic :) (we are very excited to have our own little family)

And with all the apples, there will be lots of apple baking in the next couple weeks! I made this delicious apple bread with the apples and it was amazing! I was looking to try baking something new with the apples (Pinterest is very helpful for that!). But I will def be making apple crisp too!