Lynn's Fruit Farm, 2011

Friday after work, we made our annual trip out to Pataskala to the apple orchard.  It is one of our favorite fall activities!  My children are ridiculously good eaters.  I am not real sure how that happened; my only explanation is that it must be some sort of deficiency they are making up for from their time in utero where I craved fried foods and icecream! We go through fruit/veggies like it's nobody's business in our house.  In fact, if you ask my kids what they want for breakfast, lunch or dinner....it is fruit.  If we get fast food, Kenzie orders the garden salad and whatever fruit they have....seriously!  So....going to Lynn's fruit farm for our family, is the equivalent of getting fair food for most families! 

Last year I carried Caleb in the Baby Bjorn, see here, so this was his first time to frolick through the maze of apples.  He LOVED it!  I'm sure in his opinion, all food should be so readily available, and he loved that he could pull apples from the branches and take a bite all on his own.  Mackenzie was in heaven, as apples are probably her favorite fruit.  She was serious business about finding the absolute, perfect apples.  I'm pretty confident that she ate 3-4 apples down to the core during the picking process.

On the way home, she was already listing the things we will be making with the $50 worth of apples we bought...yeah, we kinda got a lot.  We Buzzard's tend to buy, or in this case, pick in bulk.  I cannot wait to make our traditional favorites:  homeade apple crisps, apple pies and cinnamon apples, along with the other 43 things Kenzie is adamant about making. 

And of course, you can't go to the apple orchard without stopping by their market.  I won't even tell you what we spent there.... here is a picture of our purchases....however, I forgot to include the dozen fresh peaches and candied cashews that we also brought home.