Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Brown Family at the HOT Fair 2013

 

In the beginning of this month, we took a family trip to the H.O.T (Heart of Texas) Fair and Rodeo with some friends and had a great time!  LittleBear was especially excited to ride some of the rides and even tackled the big ferris wheel with Daddy and his good friend, M.  I was so proud of him (that's about as daring as my boy gets)!! He rode a few others, but mostly, we just walked around and had fun with our friends. 

 Ferris wheel!!!!!
Hi Daddy!!

LadyBear seemed to really enjoy the animals in the barnyard tent & petting zoo and repeatedly motioned that she wanted to ride the carousel, so we did that as the last thing of the night.  She also enjoyed watching all the people and lights there!

 LadyBear Loving the Goat


We skipped the rodeo part this year, but maybe next year we'll watch a bit of that...we'll see :)
 Our Little Buckaroo!


 
 Lots and Lots to look at...
 
 LittleBear is already asking if we can go to the fair next year :)  We had fun with our two kiddos and friends!!!!



Friday, October 18, 2013

Makin' Applesauce with LittleBear

I am so behind on blog posts right now, it is not even funny, but rest assured...I will catch up.  For now, I bring you something new AND current!



We have been studying apples this week using My Father's World Kindergarten here at Crestwood Oaks Academy and one of the things it suggests is to make applesauce.  Well, we LOVE applesauce in this house, so I thought that was a great idea and what better way to make it with kids than IN THE CROCKPOT (I love my crockpot as much as the kids love applesauce)!  So, I found this recipe and LittleBear and I got to work.

First, we peeled the apples...

Then Mommy cut them up and put them in the crockpot...


Then he mixed in all the ingredients...


And stirred it up and we both poured the mixture over the apples...


Then we moved the crock into the pot...


Put on the lid and let it go!!!


It's still cooking, so no verdict yet on taste (look for that on twitter), but we had a lot of fun making it!!

Here is a video of LittleBear and I trying to get the apple peeler to work.  I found this at the Historic Waco Foundation Attic Treasures sale for $1.50 with the box and everything and hadn't taken the time to try it out before today...he had fun with it!  Methinks this is not the last time we make applesauce around here...