Patterson's!

 

Yay for Patterson's Day! We had beautiful weather which meant a very crowded Patterson's! But we focused in and the lines went quickly! We got our apples for pie and our pastries for snacking in the car and then headed back to Mentor. We played games, made and ate pie and ate pizza too and had so much fun!!

Patterson's Fruit Farm

Pictures from our annual fall trip to Patterson's Fruit Farm! Also known as Apple Pie Day! Pie pictures will be up tomorrow!

Plethora of pumpkins

Hardy Mums. Get it?

Pictures from 2008 -We went to Mapleside Farms last year to accomodate Owen's naptime but figured he was old enough to make the drive to Patterson's and last the day.

Patterson's!

This might be the first time ever that we didn't make it to Patterson's before Halloween! We had to reschedule a few times before we landed on November 4th and I'm so glad we did. It was a beautiful day! And there were no crowds! We took our time, ate our doughnuts and fritters outside at a picnic table instead of the car and had a chance to walk around. I hope every year is just like this!

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Patterson's!

Our annual Patterson's happened a little earlier than usual this year but we still didn't manage to avoid the rain! The weather was terrible so we got inside as quick as we could and wandered around gathering our fritters (cookie for Paige), apples, kettle corn and some cider for the kids. 

We ate our treats on the car ride back to my parents and by the time I was ready to start making the pies most of the apples had been peeled, sliced and cut up by Paige, Laney and my mom! We got them in the oven and relaxed while we waited for our pizza order to be ready. I was exhausted and probably could have fallen asleep, I think the kids felt the same way because they had sleepovers the night before. The pies were delicious (of course!)! 

Waiting for everyone to finish

I guess it stopped raining long enough for this picture

and this one! 

Pat drove separately so I had to take his picture before he got in his car

Owen had a fritter

Paige had a cookie

Getting the apples ready

I was there too!

 

Pattersons!

I love going to Patterson's every year! We had some extra passengers because we picked up Laney and Zsaz on the way. Patterson's was crowded, like usual, and the weather wasn't great but definitely not the worst we've dealt with there. After lots of pictures and some cider, we grabbed all of our purchases and started to head back to Mentor. We ate our treats in the car and I'm happy to say the fritters have improved since last year! Everyone got in on the pie making a little bit this year. We had lots of help especially with using the apple peeler/slicer. The rest of the day was filled with baking, eating, football watching and games!

 

Patterson's!

It's Fall! It's October! It's Patterson's (or insert apple orchard of your choice) time! Hooray! Here are the exciting things we encountered there! (There was also pie and other delectable treats. All shall be revealed in my next blog post. Also, don't be confused about there not being any apples in the pictures of our visit to the apple orchard. We got a lot of apples...we just took all of these pictures before that happened.)

(If this wasn't enough for you, there are also pictures from our visits in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011)



Pumpkins!




Surprise guests!




Impromptu geocaching!




Mini pumpkins!




Large pumpkins!



And much, much more!!!

Patterson's!

It's pretty much Fall so that means it's time to go to Patterson's! We lucked out and got a beautiful day for it. Not hot, not very cold either and the sun was shining. That's why this post has so many pictures! We hung out by the pumpkins first and even though we weren't planning on getting one that day, Paige found the "perfect" one so we decided it would be ok to change our minds. By that time, the kettle corn aroma was reaching us and we bought some to tide us over until we could get our doughnuts/fritters from inside. The kids spent some time on the playground and we checked out the beautiful view as well. Then we went inside and carefully picked out our apple varieties and got some pastries (fritter for me, apple cider doughnut for Pat, Oreo doughnut for Owen and sprinkle doughnut for Paige).
We went home and immediately set to work on making the pies! Mom had premade the crust from a new recipe and the kids were eager to help with the fun apple gadget so the apple pies did not take very long to make! They were very liquidy for some reason but still tasted great!