apple day

I am feeling fall today.

Watching the rain.

Drinking a hot cuppa coffee.

Baking apple struesel muffins.

Using locally grown apples and a recipe from this book that Grandma gave me, to make the muffins. This book is great - you use the basic recipe and then add various ingredients to make over 100 kinds of muffins. And the kiddies and I love to make muffins...

Enjoying these photos from the past weekend at an apple orchard...

Christine invited Lee Anne, Jillian, Jen and I, together with our families to celebrate fall with a trip to the apple orchard. So after R's hockey, we met to pick some apples... go for a hay ride and play in the muck...

Then the mommies all gathered in Christine's kitchen to bake our apples into pies, crisps and bread puddings. And drink wine. And make a big mess. {I made an apple crisp using a recipe from Martha. It was a good thing}.

And when we were finished with that, the dads and kiddies {all 11 of them, so we were a group of 21...yikes!} joined us for a wonderful pot luck turkey dinner with all the fixings. And many, many kinds of yummy apple desserts to choose from.

Happy Fall!