Mom's weekend

This past weekend (9/11 - 9/13) Bruce went to Winona to go fishing with the Ihrke crew on the river, so that meant it was just the kids and I all weekend. We had a lot of fun just hanging out. We visited an apple orchard on Saturday, and went to a park on Sunday to play. The weather is very summer like right now, so that helped....although Jenna kept telling me that it was too hot. I let Jenna pick where we went to eat on Friday night and Andrew got to pick on Saturday. She of course chose 'ta-don-alds' or McDonald's as the rest of us call it. There girl toy at ours is Barbie, and boy was she excited. I wasn't even aware that she knew what Barbie was, turns out she does. Her happy meal toy was a little compact with lip gloss and sticker 'earrings'. I told her she could have it until she ate her chicken nuggets, which typically means about 2 nuggets for her. She must have really wanted it because she ate all her nugget & some of her fries! I'm not sure if I've ever seen her eat so well.

Here she is showing off her 'earrings':

Latter that night her and Andrew decided that they wanted tattoo's. Unfortunately I didn't have any girl tattoos, only boy ones, but Jenna didn't seem to mind 1 bit (she has a football helmet & lightning bolt).

Saturday we went to the apple orchard to pick up some apples, and visit the animals. The orchard we went to has the new apple SweeTango, so I bought some - they are really good, although really expensive right now! We also picked up some Zestar apples. Now it just needs to be fall weather so I feel like baking a pie or a cake w/ them....for now we'll just enjoy eating them - we don't need the cool weather to arrive any earlier than absolutely necessary! The orchard has goats, chickens, and a bunny right now, and will be getting a calf soon.

Andrew fed the goats

While Jenna stood as far away as I would allow her too....(she wasn't impressed by the goats):

Andrew enjoying his apple:

Jenna didn't want an apple for snack, and opted for cereal instead:

After heading to Chipotle (Yay Andrew! I was relieved to not have to go to McDonald's, Burger King, or Wendy's). We met up with some friends at a park to play. The kids had fun, and burned off some more energy, before we headed back to our place for root beer floats. Andrew liked the floats, while Jenna preferred the ice cream w/o the root beer.

Jenna eating her ice cream w/ a straw:

Sunday while Andrew was helping Bruce wash the boat, Jenna was inside practicing one of her new skills she's attempting - cutting! She actually does fairly well considering that she's only been testing it out for a week or so.