Apple picking time!

You know the only thing i don't like about blogger is it's hard to move the pictures around! lol I uploaded them in the right order and it never puts them the same way :( These are pictures of us going to Ill. yesterday to go apple picking. The kids had a blast. We had a gift card for things from the eckerts store so i called to find out if we could use it picking apples and they said sure! So it only cost us a couple bucks to get to Belleville to do this. These are pictures of going there and a couple of the kids. I didn't get any of the orchard or the buildings around Eckerts (i was to busy wrangling 3 excited kids.

This place here has a spectacular christmas light display we go to every year. They also have a petting zoo which is free (unless you feed them) and camel rides. This year hopefully we have money to do the camel rides they aren't expensive and the light display is free. They take donations so we usually give a few bucks to them. It's a wonderful family place to take your children to that gives the true meaning of the holiday anyway.

This was me being silly with the camera. It's just the road leading to eckerts lol.

See an out of order picture! lol To lazy to try to move it though. That's Katie, she wouldn't look at me and told me i was being stupid.

Got more mom put that camera away from Emelina as well. She couldn't get them off the tree it was funny! I finally told her twist them they'll come off easier and she did.

They kept going towards the green ones! On the other side was red delicious (yummy) But Hailey was having fun and she could SEE the apples lol

Just a view from the JB Bridge of the Mississippi when you drive over. This was going home actually. Katie asked me on the way home what lake is that? I said Katie, you know the river that is and she really didn't! When I told her it was the Mississippi she freaked omg mom it's huge. Now we've gone over this bridge countless times lol

Emelina being silly on the way there :) But Hailey thinks it's funny cause i'm facing forward and i just put the camera back there and clicked. Katie is doing homework since she played hookie yesterday. She did go back today with all her work done. I told her homework done BEFORE we get to Eckerts or you'll sit in the car with dad. It was done and correct! lol

Don't mind the car dealership. I was trying to get the arch. You can kind of see it back there. You can see it from the east side pretty well sometimes. It's just the trees are full and tall at the moment.

here is a better view of the arch and some of the surrounding buildings in downtown St Louis. We talked about maybe their next day off (not till november) we will go up in the arch. That gives us sometime to get some money saved. I'll def. take pictures up there.

Well that was our trip. Now i have a fridge full of apples. We gave a few to the neighbor next door for their little girl she loves them. We gave a few to Mary, Jose's girlfriend. And so now i have to figure out what to do with the rest. Thank God we didn't have a whole lot of money because he'd have gotten more! So anyone want an apple?