Kidd's Ring

Remember our fall tradition of going to the apple orchard/potato farm/pumpkin field?  Well, today was the day for this great event!!  Sorry, we don't have many pics that we actually took.  But here are a few cute ones.  Check out 2012 and 2011 !  Hop over to my friend 's blog and see her great pictures from last year (look how small Z was!!)!

For the past few years, we've visited an Apfelhof (apple orchard) with our church family.  The first year we went, Felix and I were just dating, sadly the next year we couldn't go, last year we went as a married couple and this year we went as a family! It was a beautiful, warm day.  Zoey did a great job being outside for most of the day.  She actually slept a lot afterwards ... all that fresh air. :)  We got to pick apples, drink fresh pressed apple juice, eat potatoes from the farmer's field, and pick out a pumpkin and butternut squash (recipe ideas are welcome - I know I want to make pumpkin soup).  I love going and being out in the country and just having a day with our church family.  It was a wonderful, fun, fall day!  I love that going there has become a fall tradition for us. To see more pictures, hop over here and check out another blog post about the day.

This weekend we went to Apfel Hof with New City Wien.   It was a beautiful, crisp fall day.  It was fun being out in the country.  Bernhard, the farmer, started the day by talking about potatoes and  their origin and what all we do with them.  Then we went to his small field that he has behind his house and barn.  He got on his tractor and prepared the soil for us to harvest potatoes.  After washing the potatoes and wrapping them in foil to bake, we hopped on the wagon behind the tractor and went to the ghost keller (aka the potato cellar).  Then we headed over the apple orchard, where we got to pick a few bags of apples and pears.  We learned all about apples and potatoes all along the way.  When we got back, the men started grilling and the farmer made freshly pressed apple juice, which was SO good!!  There was also a pumpkin patch and we got to pick out some.  It was a wonderful day and we came back with bag...