Oma and Opa

Oma and Opa made it for their annual fall trip. They helped get Gerrit off to school each morning and picked him up. Emmit hung out with them and skipped going to Hug a Bear. Both boys enjoyed their visit and attention they received. 

When Gerrit and I had a few days off, we went to an apple orchard nearby. The boys dressed themselves - Gerrit in his traditional shorts and Emmit in his new football pants (thanks to Oma's sewing) and his soccer cleats!

I've given up on trying to get them to dress according to the weather and to match!

 

We picked a few apples. Emmit loved jumping to get ones rather than the ones Oma pointed out for him to get that were easy to grab:

Gerrit didn't want to pick apples, but as you can see, he's all smiles. We ended up with more apples than we needed but it was too fun:

Inspecting the fresh picked apples:

A quick photo with Oma and Opa:

The boys also picked out pumpkins. Oma said the only rule was they had to be able to carry it! Gerrit found a large one that was a wee bit too heavy:

Even the one he chose was pretty heavy but he was able to carry it so he got it!

Both boys trying to pull the wagon to the check out:

One last ride on the tractors before going home:

Emmit loved it - it was just his size!

Another fun week with Oma and Opa has come and gone. Yard work, sewing, and shopping were among the things that kept us busy - that and visiting friends! We look forward to this spring when they come back again!