Grape Juice!

Derrick's grandpa has a big garden and lots of fruit trees and every year the family gets together to make grape juice and whoever help gets to take some home.  Due to our crazy school and work schedules, we have never been able to go since we got married.  So this year we got to go!  It was my first time ever doing this and I must say it was much easier than I expected it to be.  We started out with picking the grapes.  Aaron ate this up.  He loved helping and was pretty good at it.  The grapes were then boiled to break the skin and put in a machine that squooshes them and the juice just came out in a bucket.  Later that day the grape juice was then boiled and bottled.  That's it!

Trae hung out in the pack n play while we picked grapes

Aaron helping out

Aaron was great for getting the grapes that dropped below the vine

LOTS of grapes

Washing and boiling the grapes

Aaron picked an apple with Grandma

And he hung onto that thing the rest of the time

Juice coming from the boiled grapes

My camera died at this point so I didn't get a picutre of when Aaron actually drank the juice, but he liked it.  It was really yummy and oddly really good warm.  I've never had fresh or warm grape juice before.  And maybe it was just that much better because it was cold.

Grape juice all bottled and ready to go!

After grapes were done, Derrick's grandpa pulled out his 1924 (I think that's the year...) Model T Ford.  I had no idea the thing ran, but it did!  We cruised around the neighborhood a few times in it.  It was pretty fun.  It died right before it was put away and the boys were pretty determined to crank start it back up again. (It has been  pulled by a tractor to start before.)