This was the first Halloween we did not have a kid go trick or treating. It was kind of nice to not have to worry about costumes. Jackson handed out our 'candy.' We've been going through out Pops and had a bunch we didn't want anymore and don't want to take the time to sell. Brad had the amazing idea of using them for Halloween. The boys ages like 7 up loved all of them. We had a good amount of girl ones, but once they ran out, the younger girls chose candy (we had backup just in case). A few boys were so excited. One kid couldn't believe it and kept saying Thank You Sir to Jackson; the kid was probably a year or 2 younger than Jacks. It was a fun idea. May have to do it again someday when we get rid of more. We gave away about 50 ish Pops.
Five days later Emery's room is ready for Christmas. We went to Hobby Lobby and got a mini tree and ornaments. It makes her room look really festive. According to her, now all she needs is holiday sheets and she's set. (I told her to get a job)
Yesterday I went down to Twin so Mom and I could can apple pie filling. It's been years since we have and we have missed having it. We ran out about a year, maybe two years ago. It's a lot of work but with Mom, Dad and I cutting the apples and working together, it wasn't too bad. We ended up with 41 jars of filling. We did not think we'd get that much from 3 bushels of apples, but we're more than happy we did.
I remember as a kid loving to cut the apples this way. We'd eat so many when we cut them up.
I didn't waist any time and have an apple crisp cooking in the oven now.
