Pumpkin Harvest

Today was the first sunny day in a really really long time.
Or so it seems, the sunny days seem to always fall during work days.

We decided to go to the farm and pick out our carving pumpkin.
Here is Harland inspecting our pumpkin and some scenes from the farm.

This is the pumpkin we picked out...


There were some wild flowers blooming as well...

Here is a pretty shot of the farm...

And did you know Goats like to eat pumpkins?


We also went over to the vineyard. It wasn't open the last time we went, so this was Harland's first time. It was a beautiful view.

I also had time to make an apple pie (Here is the recipe). I used my usual butter crust - which is fabulous with this recipe, it makes the top lattice part taste like cookies almost. Harland was impressed and he is the apple pie expert in this house.

And I made some Chinese dumplings from scratch (well I bought the dough circles, but the rest I made using H's mom's recipe).

I'm back!!

Hi Everyone, I was taking a small blogging hiatus to get connected back with Harland... but since it is back to his real job tomorrow this is a good time to spend some time blogging!

We did a lot of things when he was home on break. We visited his family, went to the farm, spent time in DC and other local places.

This past weekend we went to Baltimore to see my cousin Bob and his lovely wife (who I am really enjoying getting to know... they just had their 1st wedding anniversary this month).

Before Harland left to go to Iraq he bought us a new camera so he could use the other one. It has an aquarium setting and I was excited to see how awesome these shots came out!!

So now I'll let you see what I saw (The Baltimore aquarium is my favorite!!).