Back to School!

Seriously???? Already???
I can't belive the summer has just flown by and the kids are back to school already!
There is truth to saying that as you get older time just goes by faster and faster!
This year we have James in his last year of high school, Casi going into gr 10 and Brittany into gr 8. Hard to believe James and Brittany are both seniors in their schools. It will be a big gulp in the spring preparing both of them for graduation!

Got down to going some baking yesterday for lunches. We had attempted to make apple crisp the day before...actually the making was fine but in the cooling process Bella decided that the apple crisp was better than her dog food and ate pretty much ALL of the 2 apple crisps we had made.
She has been a little opportunistic lately....so this is something we have to work on ;(

This was Casi's baking...an apple bar it was called.
Chocolate Zucchinni Cake...man this is REALLY good!

Apple Crisp...attempt #2!! Most of our apple trees are ripe so we had picked 2 crate fulls last week.

We got the apple bar recipe and the chocolate zucchinni cake recipe from THIS site. This blog is amazing (thanks for tip Shawna)!

It is a mennonite recipe site and with recipes like the chocolate zucchinni cake, I can't believe they are not 300 lbs!

I am trying their cucumber relish today, will let you know how it turns out! I may try to find an applesauce recipe too to use up the rest of the apples we picked.

We actually have mennonite neighbors. They are great neighbors to have. I admire their way of life. That being said however, I don't think I could do without the internet!!