Keeping up with the Sell's: 2011

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Mercier Orchards

Last year, after traveling home from a friend's wedding, we discovered Mercier Orchards. We literally just past right by it, and decided to stop. It's a huge orchard in Blue Ridge, and they grow different fruits during the seasons and have u-pick, where you can go out in the fields and pick your own fruit. They also have a country store that includes tons of homemade fried pies-my favorite, cakes, bread, fudge, all kinds of jellies, jams, apple cider, and lots of other goodies.

Right now it is apple season, so we decided to go back up this year with Kayden. Last year we didn't have time to pick ourselves and just picked up some apples in their country store.

So it was nice to be able to get the full experience and pick this year and also take Kayden. We rode a tractor out in the fields where it dropped us off, and you were free to pick whatever apples were there. It was nice because they told you to try any apples while you were out in the field, for free. So we were able to try several different kinds we had not heard of, and also see which we liked best, to take home. Hopefully we will go back next year and make this a yearly tradition.

Tractor Ride

Headed to the fields

Mom and Kayden out in the fields

Happy girl

Kayden picking apples and ready to eat one with all of those teeth

Kayden and Daddy picking apples

family shot

Beautiful view of the orchard

back after way too long

So, I have been telling myself to update the blog for months now, but life is busy.

But I have decided to try and blog once a day, to get caught up on the last 10 months :), and at least cover the main stuff that happened.

I'm gonna start with some recent stuff and go back and fill in older post. Not sure if anyone even reads this since I stopped for so long, but it will be a good journal for me to look back and see what all we were doing.

so, bear with me while i catch up....

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Zoo Atlanta

Kayden and I went with our playgroup to the Atlanta Zoo. We had been to the Birmingham Zoo, but not the one here. I have only been once myself and it was years ago. There was a Groupon a couple of months back for half off tickets, so we bought a few, and turns out the group had planned an outing to go. We got to see the baby giraffe, but the baby panda and new tiger cubs were not out, so hopefully next time. It was nice because it was not crowded at all, so plenty of room to stroll through the exhibits.

Matt, Kayden and I will go back with the other tickets, sometime in the next couple of months before it gets cold, and have a family day.