Filles de Fleurs

We had visitors from the outside world over the weekend ("outside world" meaning the non-suburban world of no kids). Chris' cousin Matt and his fiancee Andrea came up for a visit bringing news of upcoming events and adult conversation. We took them apple picking.

It was the very last apple picking weekend of the season and they only had Pink Ladies left.
Luckily Pink Ladies are my personal favorites.

Matt (aka "The Big Guy") was exceptional at reaching the high up apples.

Some of us thought they were delicious right off the vine.

Zoe is our shy little bunny, but she really took a shine to Matt this weekend. She held his hand and snuggled with him and it is very rare when a Zoe attaches herself to you.
(Don't be jealous Uncle Stu!)

Andrea got some practice holding a tremendously large baby.

Awwww. They are so in love.

The Dude apparently thought persimmons made great baseballs

or were good for whacking The Big Guy on the head.

My pretty pensive girl on the hayride back to the farm.

Once we were back at the farm we could not drag the kids away from the corn pit.

Even with a promise of a petting zoo on the way out.

All that fresh air and fun made the kids exhausted so we gave them an early dinner and got them to bed by 7:45, leaving the grown ups to have a leisurely late dinner with wine and candles.

The reason for the trip was so Matt and Andrea could ask the girls to be flower girls at their wedding next August!!! They happily agreed, of course! With Stephanie's wedding next October, they're going to be doing double Filles de Fleurs duty next year.

And Athena is already practicing.