Apple Cider Making

Saturday morning, Daniel's family got together to make Apple Cider. It was a cold, windy day, but with several layers on and rice warmers in my coat, I survived. :) I had a pretty easy job... going through the apples to make sure there were no bad spots or rotten ones. 

Gabe & Mary

Dad L & Daniel

 The little boys had fun playing in the leaves.

I'm not sure what the total count of gallons we ended up with... but just us alone took 6 gallons of cider to take home for two of us! Enough to share with others, and enough to put in the freezer! It was a fun thing to do... if it would've been warmer outside it would've been even better! :)

We got home in pretty good time Saturday afternoon from making cider because Daniel had studying to do. I did my housewife duties... laundry, cleaning, and making food. Friday night I went to my mom's and made a whole bunch of food for the freezer. I am so excited about this... I can come home from work and already have dinner made! We did most of it on Friday night, but I wanted to make a few more things, which I did on Saturday night. Since we got an extra hour of sleep that night, after all my duties were done, I was able to relax before going to bed. It felt good to get so much done though. I LOVE my Saturday's at home...catching up before I start another work week!

Sunday my parents served lunch... what a perfect weekend for that! It didn't even feel early. :) I felt like I talked to people more than I helped.. sorry Mom! There was a lot of extra people there because of baptisms, so I couldn't stop talking. :) 

Hannah, Marisa, and Evan & Elisabeth came over after church since they were there for baptisms. Hannah took some pictures of us for our Christmas card. Our trees down our lane are gorgeous right now... but I guess you'll have to wait to see those pictures until you get our Christmas card. :) Zach came over later, and we all went out to eat at Red Robin. They're known for their burgers... but since I am eating gluten free now, I was assuming I would eat a healthy salad. But when I saw that they have gluten free buns... I couldn't resist, I got a burger. And it was delicious. 

It was all Daniel's Knapp cousins his age + Hannah :)

Evan & Elisabeth and Marisa came over afterwards... we played an interesting game of Scattegories. I love that game... I got to see how creative Daniel is...it was hilarious. I've never seen that side of him. Oh, and we were reminded that Elisabeth & Daniel are siblings... so funny. Some things never change. It was a busy, but good weekend as always.