Brother Kevin's Birthday!

Today is my little brother Kevin's Birthday! He's 24 today- all grown. Kevin is an Assistant Golf Pro at Old Marsh Golf Club in Florida. (we're so proud...) Here's a picture of me and Kevin when we were little!

Birthday Girl!

So, I'm 26 now. Time sure does fly! It seems that birthday's just start becoming less important as I get older- I actually had to try to remember how old I was- that's sad! I had the day before my birthday off from school, so Liz and I went out to breakfast and then my mom came out and we had "high tea" at the English Tea Shoppe in Intercourse. It was really fun to have a little tea party! On my actual birthday I had class until 8pm, so that made celebrating on my birthday a bit challenging. Justin got me a little cake and sang happy birthday to me, and our friend Steve stopped by for some cake. AND- I got a whole new set of dishes for my birthday! WOOHOO!

Oh my applesauce....

Liz, Julie and Bess on the front porch turning the cooked apples into sauce- we felt like frontier women cooking outside!

Bess and Bobbi canning away....for the record, Bobbi is standing on a stool to be able to reach the bucket!

There's me with some of our mountains of apples!

So, 300 pounds of apples later, we currently have more applesauce than you could imagine- I only wish that I had gotten a picture of the mountains of apples at the beginning and the rows of jars at the end! We decided to have this great apple adventure- Julie, Beth, Liz, Bobbi and I, as well as other people that we recruited throughout the day (like Jen, Jenna, Steve, and Chris). It was a long day of mostly fun, and all in all, the apples were turned to sauce, so I'd say it was successful! Now its time to start gearing up for next year!