Apple Picking

Shortly after we moved into our house we ordered some trees from the Arbor Foundation.  At the end of the driveway we planted 2 flowering crab trees.  They have really grown over the years and finally 2 years ago my mom noticed that there were apples on them. So we kind of just left them on the trees the past 2 years because we weren't really sure what to do with them, and Brendon ate a few last year.  We have planted other apple trees like Red Delicious and Granny Smith because we like those kinds of apples.  Well this year we have tons of crab apples.  Brendon found out that you can eat them.  Finally today Brendon decided to pick the trees.  I brought out Olivia to "help" pick apples.  She had no interest in pulling them off the tree.  What she did enjoy is putting the apples from one container to another.  She was quite entertained with that.  Brendon decided to stop picking once the bees started trying to attack him.  It seemed the higher he picked the worse the bees got and would chase him around the yard...literally.  Now we have a bunch for apple sauce which we are going to try to make tomorrow. 

Checking out the apples

Brendon trying to convince Olivia to pick them off the tree

I like these apples

What Brendon picked today...and yes there are still more on the tree!