#8 & #9 and why I think we live in our own orchard

Oops I have already gotten behind by a day...don't worry it will happen again :).

On day #8, we had a great day with Take a Trip Thursday...now that we are back on our summer schedule!  The rain hampered our original plans to go to the park so instead we headed to Crown Center to see the new free Curious George exhibit with friends...apparently all of KC also had the same idea, as it was VERY busy!

{The only decent picture I got with all 3 kiddos in it together since they were going 3 different directions!}

{You can't come to Crown Center without lunch at Fritz's}

{We also headed over to Union Station to see some trains too!}

Then on day #9, on Fresh & Fun Friday the superheroes and princess chose to go to the library this morning.  I thought it was a great idea on such a rainy, yucky morning so after the gym we headed to get some books...and movies because my kiddos can't leave there without their movies!

{Avery takes the job of picking out books he can read himself VERY seriously...it takes quite a while in the Easy Reader section.  Although it is the "easy reader" section they aren't all easy...I wish they would order them from EASIEST easy reader to the CHALLENGING easy reader!!!}

{E & E reading their books they picked out in under 2 seconds :) while they wait on Avery}

{Although we have a library bag they always insist on carrying their own things out...maybe they need to each bring their own bag!}

Okay on to an unrelated topic :)...I think we live in our own orchard...

Yes, we love trips to other orchards and loved our recent trip to the strawberry patch, but I think our backyard is starting to resemble our own orchard/farm.  I won't name names :), but someone here seems to think the more fruit trees we can fit in our small suburban backyard the better.  So let's count how many fruit bearing trees we have shall we....

#1

{Apple Tree.  This isn't technically in our yard, but it leans over it and we claim it all as ours especially since no one lives in the house it belongs to anyways.}

#2

{Cherry Tree.  Apparently it is supposed to produce 3 different types of cherries on it.}

#3

{Plum Tree.}

#4

{Lemon Tree.  We have had this tree for a year now and it has to come inside with us during the winter.  It has gotten some green lemons on it now just waiting for them to turn yellow.......but it is so slow.......}

#5

{#2 lemon tree.  I guess you can't have enough lemon trees????}

#6

{Clementine Tree.  Another brand new addition.}

Quite a few, right?!  Don't worry we don't just have fruit bearing trees we also have...

Some raspberry bushes.

And a few strawberry plants.

BUT wait we didn't forget our veggies!  Here's our garden that tripled in size of the weekend we were gone...

So don't be surprised if we open our own "u pick" orchard in our own backyard in a couple of years :)...