Apple Pickin Time

It was family fun time at the Reed's house this past weekend. We all (5 total) piled into the family truckster on our way to the Eckert's Orchard in Illinois on Saturday to do some apple pickin'!

But before I would get into the car with Ann (sister-in-law/best bud) I made her freshen up.

We had to take 2 ferries just to get there! Good thing Mrs. Reed brought along a lot of snacks....

Before a certain nasty comment was made to me by my lovely husband....

Death PUNCH!!


Anyways, we all got pretty hungry before we even made it to the farm (I know, a bunch of fat kids going on a road trip) so we stopped by Fin Inn, which is an aquarium restaurant. I once had a horrible experience there when I was pretty young. My grandmother decided to order turtle soup as we were sitting next to TURTLES!! AHHHHH!!!

Ann and I doing our signature pose

See! it is a signature pose! This was taken in Germany when Ann was living there a couple of years ago....Okay back to Fin Inn.

Almost every table has their own aquarium. Which sounds awesome at first, but fish poop. That's all I need to say.


Whew, so we all finally made it!

Fresh apple cider!!!!

what?

She got a little too excited

Ann!!! Why did you pull all those apples off???!!!!!!

James doesn't really ever need an excuse to climb a tree


Oh yeah. baseball in the apple grove. Did we get in trouble? Yes. Yes, we did.

Mushrooms? okay....

Aw....


The End.

Out With The Old and In With The New

Just sold my faithful college car last night. It was a bittersweet moment. That car got me from A to B at 39 miles to the gallon, and besides regular maintenance I had under $100 worth of repairs during the 5 years that I owned it. A nice college student just purchased it after I had placed an ad on Craigslist. I love Craigslist so much. James and I have gotten some really neat inexpensive items using it, as well as selling a lot of our junk. Why we just used it to get a really good deal on our new car we picked up last week. Whoop Whoop!

A look at The Corolla's history with Megs Megs

People try to tell me I'm wrong about Corolla's racing abilities, but I'm holding strong on my facts.

Look at those factory rims. Gangsta hot and stuff.

From old to....

New!

Wall Art

Finally got to put up two frames James and I received as a wedding gift from my old college roommate. I printed out some 5x7 of my favorite Silhouette Master Piece Theatre art, which I had blogged about earlier. We put them up on either side of our built-in dining room cabinet.

Puppy Love

Sorry guys. I couldn't resist.





Jack puffing out his chest! such a show off for the camera...

New Curtains

Gone are the apartment-like mini blinds and in its place our new 'wheat' colored drapes. We got them at Target for $20 per panel, which were a lot cheaper than purchasing fabric and making them ourselves. They are therma drapes, so our drafty 1930's home will stay nice and toasty this winter.
.

Pi

Math usually makes me bored, but recently it has made me hungry.
That's right. Math makes me hungry.
Better yet, Pi makes me hungry.

π=3.14159265358979323......boring and old news. Right?

So how about....
π=insanely delicious pizza. YAY!

Pi Pizzeria off of Delmar street is hands down amazing. Not only
do they serve award winning deep dish pizza, but they are also
a green restaurant. James and I finally made it down to this
much talked about restaurant when our plans to go to the
Balloon Glow in Forest Park got changed because of the crazy
amount of traffic. After hearing horror stories about wait times
we were relieved to find we only had a twenty minute wait
before being seated.We got garlic bread to start out, a couple
of beers, some vodka and Red Bull's
(I was a little under the weather), and made our own deep dish
with onions, mushrooms,and green peppers. Must have been
some confusion in the kitchen because our pizza got delivered
to the table next to us. After a nice apology from the manager
we got our pizza after a brief wait and they comped it! I'm not
sure if it was the alcohol or the energy I got from the
cornmeal pizza crust, but I was fueled enough to do a pretty
amazing robot impression for my husband that lasted for a
good 5 minutes and only ended when he started throwing ice
cubes at me.

Many of the items in the restaurant are donated pieces or
reused items.

Good God, I wish I had a piece now.

OHHHhhhh Scary

Nothing like that first chilly night in September to get you really excited for Halloween. In the spirit of fall, James built a great big fire the other night in our backyard. I lit torches and some bowl candles we got from Crate and Barrel that will be great to put along our front walkway on Halloween night.

Crate and Barrel bowl candles are only around during the spring/summer months so good thing we have 5 on hand ;)

My mom is really big on Halloween. She recently admitted to having over 15 full boxes of Halloween decorations. I have a feeling my need to decorate for Halloween will never be 15 boxes strong, but I did get excited when I went to MarthaStewart.com and looked at all their great images of fun and unusual ways to decorate this season with pumpkins.

S0 classy and would work great for Thanksgiving, too!

My absolute favorite grouping of pumpkins EVER

Carrot noses, which might pose a problem if they are outside with the squirrels and the birds...

Reminds me of an Indian porcelain incense burner

A great way to recycle some old tin cans