Weekend Fun

I spent all day Friday freezer cooking.  Which basically means that I spent all day cooking and filling my freezer as full as possible with meals for the next month.  Even though the one cooking day ended up being Thursday evening, all day Friday and part of Saturday I'm very excited to have all of the meals prepped and ready to pull out and heat up. 

Saturday was Lucas' birthday.  I've been wanting him to open up his presents all month but he wouldn't.  The suspense was killing me and it wasn't even my birthday!  So Amelia and I woke him up early so he could open his presents.  I got him a magazine subscription, a couple of Twins hats and Amelia got him a license plate with her picture on it.

Later that morning we went apple picking at Emma Krumbee's.  What was going to be apple and strawberry picking turned out to include raspberry picking too.  We can home with a ton of tasty fruit so I got to work preserving all of that goodness.  So far I froze most of the berries so that later next week I can make some syrup with them.  I'm also planning on turning a bunch of the apples into pie fillings, applesauce, apple jelly and apple butter.  So I still have a lot of kitchen work ahead of me but I'll really enjoy all of my hard work later this winter when these fresh goodies aren't so cheap and easily available. 

Amelia really enjoyed herself and was very interested and observant about the whole thing.  She got very tired partway through so I flipped her around in the Moby and tucked her head in so she could nap and we just kept picking.  Have I mentioned how much I love the Moby? 

When we got home she was still tired and had to snuggle Daddy for awhile before actually taking a nap in her crib. 

Today we went up to Matt and Mary Beth's for our annual fantasy football draft party. 

Amelia was able to wear her football attire and loved all of the attention from her Aunties. 

Then she had to have her picture taken with uncle Jeremy because his shirt says "I'm not your kid's role model."