Monday, October 13, 2008

Apples Picking and Family Time

This is a bit of a lat update but I could not let time go by without posting a blog about our trip to Detroit a few weeks ago. We headed over to the east side after Andrew got off of work at 11:30 pm and arrived at my parents around 2 am. After a short night's sleep, we got up and spent a great day with my family. We spent the morning hanging out with Dad, Kyle, and Mom. Then we headed over to Kevin and Angela's house. Once there, we got to meet our niece Elizabeth for the first time! She is a beautiful little girl, just a month and half old (when we were there). She has already grown so much in such a short amount of time. Andrew and I loved getting to play with her and spend the morning with Angela and Kevin. Kevin helped us make a DVD about our trip to Bethesda; it turned out really nice.

In the afternoon, Mom, Dad, Kyle, Angela, Kevin, Elizabeth, and the Dodds went apple picking. The Schneider kids grew up going apple picking every year when we were little. And it was the fourth year Andrew and I went together. We are hoping to make it a Dodd family tradition as well :). We picked a whole bushel of apples...which is translated into 6 pies...6 quart size cans of apple sauce...apple crisp...chipmunk pie...and many apples in our lunches....it was A LOT of apples for just the two of us! Afterward, we got some cider and doughnuts and carmel apples...yumm!

In the evening, we celebrated Mom and Dad's anniversary, Kyle's birthday, and Mom's birthday with ice cream cake and pizza and presents and G...its not a party without G! It was a great time for our family to get together and we were so glad to be able to visit!





4 comments:

Rob and Jen said...

You are absolutely right that it is never a party without G!!! I can't wait to be up next month to be able to have some party time with her. I'm glad you had a lot of fun apple picking and meeting Elizabeth. Miss you!!

Anonymous said...

always fun to have ya both here.. miss ya

doddyj said...

sooo...is G your Grandma? The other side of the family is a little confused. :)
SO glad to hear you are already suiting up in scrubs! How exciting! Does that mean you might deliver one of our babies one day?

Andrew and Kate said...

yeah G is my Grandma...not sure how we ended up shortening her name to that but that is what we all called her now. I would LOVE to deliver one of your babies that would be such a privilege and so fun. We miss you guys!