PHOTOS: Sept. 2010 · October 15, 2010
September was still quite warm, so we did a lot of outdoors things. We went apple picking early this year, we helped mommy make a couple of batches of spaghetti sauce from her garden tomatoes and we ran in the Little Fritter Run again!
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It was a warm day when we went to Lyman Orchards to get our apples.
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Jonna and Joelle are nearly as tall as the sunflower.
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Joelle was a two-fisted apple eater!
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Jonna loves the Jonagold apples. I wonder if it's the taste or the name?
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We had a bumper crop of tomatoes this year (25 plants will do that to you!) so the girls helped me make sauce.
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We blanched the tomatoes and then peeled them. What a mess.
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Jonna and Joelle helped to peel.
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Next step - squeeze 'em to death to get the juice and seeds out.
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Amber Kaldy, Jonna and Joelle enjoy hot cocoa before the start of the Little Fritter Run in Southington.
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The girls check out the map with the vendors.
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Hanging out at the statue waiting for the grown up runners to finish.
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Joelle and Alyssa McKee finish the race!
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Medal winners!
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Here come the kids with Coach Chris and Coach Bridget leading the way.
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Jonna and Coach Bridget cross the finish line of their first race.
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Jonna, Amber and Amanda ran two races (and got double the medals) while Joelle and Alyssa just ate fritters after the run.
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