lucy is 7!! apple picking at valley orchard

it's true!  today is lucy's birthday.  and she's SEVEN YEARS OLD!!!  i can't believe it!!  and i can't believe how smart, funny, adorable, and amazing she is!!!


every year, we always try to do something different and special for her birthday with close family.  This year we did something that the kids have never done, and something i haven't done since i was too young to remember having done it!  we went apple picking at an apple orchard near our house.








it's apple picking time!!!  i passed out bags from the orchard.  i gave everyone a bag big enough for a peck of apples (roughly 10 lbs/20 apples).


lucy quickly hitched a ride from adam's brother.  they became a mega-apple-picking-tron!


see!


lucy was very proud of this one!  it's a perfectly picked apple!







lucy was jumping for apples!!!  it was so cute!!




hauling back her peck of apples!


in all, we probably picked about 2 bushels of apples!


love, love, love!!!


elliot's turn to hitch a ride!






after a long day of picking apples, it's time to open presents!!!  and i gotta say this is the BEST BACKDROP EVER to open presents!!!!!!


a little punch-your-uncle break before the big reveal...


we got her a nintendo dsi!!  a hot pink one, no less!!  she was so excited!!


so was elliot!  we kept the dsi a secret from him, because he has a BIG MOUTH!!  he would have told her instantly.


family birthday parties are my favorite!!


i can't wait to use all the apples we picked, and can some apple sauce, apple jelly, and apple butter!!!

and because she can see my blog on her new dsi...

HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUCY!!

I LOVE YOU A BUSHEL AND A PECK!!!!!

YOU ARE THE BESTEST GIRL IN THE UNIVERSE, AND I'M SO LUCKY TO HAVE YOU AS MY LUCY!!!!

LOVE,
MOMMY

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