Sunday, September 20, 2015

Apple Season

Its apple time again in the mountains.  As our tradition dictates, we went to Grandad's Apples in Hendersonville.  It was even better this year with a few new additions for the kids.  We bought apple slushies, apple donuts, apple fritters oh and of course apples.


The enormous bear was a new feature.



The bear works well with the much loved giant gorilla.



They had a new contraption to feed the goats


As always, the kids measured themselves.  


I love looking back at our old photos here.  The kids are growing like crazy


Emma wasn't interested in getting measured


Or taking a picture


The spider web was awesome


We even grabbed some peaches


How to terrify your toddler.....


put her in a cow train....

Let the cow train slowly drive away into a corn field.  Emma cried like a maniac.  



Meanwhile, the boys played on a giant bouncing pillow.




The cow train arrived back to the station.  When Emma got off she looked at us with a very nasty face and said, "I no like that"!!

We met my friend, Emily and her family at the farm.  Emily's daughter is the same age as Emma.  They had a blast playing together.


Emma and Hayden



We have this same photo from the last three years.



Spartan Race

Last month, Josh and I ran a Spartan Race.  I've been wanting to do one for a long time and lucky for us, Black Mountain hosted one.  We were able to drive 5 mins from our house and join the 8 thousand folks other folks competing.  Josh and I asked our friends, Lindsay and her sister, Jennifer to run with us on our team.  We raced 8.5 miles through farmland and up to the rock quarry.  We competed 29 obstacles such as scaling walls, carrying heavy loads, climbing ropes and splashing through mud pits.  This sounds crazy but it was SO much fun!  We have signed up for another one in April.  


Josh, preparing for the race....


A before photo.  Look how clean we were.


This was one of the last obstacles in the race.


Just crawling under barbed wire....no big deal.


Lindsay looks much tougher.


You had to fill a five gallon bucket with gravel and carry it.


Here I come....


One of the climbing walls complete with mud pit


Jennifer and Lindsay with buckets


More mud....



To compete the race, you had to jump over a fire pit




Finishers!!


We can't wait for the next race.