Training Hearts at Home: Apple Orchard

About Me

Hello, and welcome to my little corner of the world! I'm Christy and I am so blessed to be the wife of a wonderful, God-fearing man as well as the mom of four great children.

In our family, learning is not about 'filling a bucket', but it's about 'lighting a fire'! We sincerely desire for our children to love to learn, and that's why we homeschool.

Book knowledge will only take our children so far. But if their hearts are trained toward the things of the Lord, then they will be ok no matter what life may bring them.

I'm glad you're here. Grab a warm mug of hot chocolate, sit back, and read about the many different things that I think throughout the day... "Hey, that would make a good blog entry!"

Our Children

*Baby Girl- age 17
Because she was our long-awaited, much-anticipated, prayed-and-hoped-for first baby and will always be our baby girl.

*Handsome- age 14

Because when he was younger he thought his little brother was cuter than he was, so mommy started calling him her little handsome guy.

*Reece Cup- age 13

Because his middle name is Reece and when he was little he was the sweetest little thing and I called him my little Reece Cup because I could have just eaten him up!

*Princess- age 12

Because she was our baby princess and was treated as such by everyone in our home right from the moment she was born.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Apple Orchard

A couple weeks ago our local homeschool group took a trip to Haney's Appledale Farm and Bear Wallow Farm (pumpkin patch). Here are some pictures from the apple orchard (I'll post pictures from the pumpkin patch in the next post)...

What a great bunch of kids, listening so well to Mr. Haney.

Brrrr! This cooler where the apples are stored stays at 35 degrees.

We got to watch the apple-washing/sorting machine at work.

Princess with her apple. Because of a hard freeze back in the spring, Haney's lost most of their crop for this year. We were allowed to pick an apple off the ground and eat it, but not off the trees like usual. So what did Princess do first thing? Yep, plucked that little baby right off the first tree she came to! Sigh... guess she wasn't listening as well as I thought she was.

Don't these boys look like trouble? Actually, they are a very good bunch of boys.

Baby Girl with one of the biggest apples we've ever seen!