THE 2ND BIRTHDAY OF JAYDEN ALEXANDER GLAZEK-PHASE II

Love those wide open spaces

HITTIN" THE ROAD AT CRANE'S ORCHARD

The second weekend after Jayden's birthday (9/18/2007), we took him to Crane's Orchard and Pie Pantry. If you are not familiar with Crane's, go to my sidebar, i likes it, i likes it a lot, and click on the links to both places. Believe it or not, I have lived in West MI for 11 years and had never gone to Crane's to pick apples or to eat at the restaurant. I did go there once a few years back for the haunted corn maze they put together every year. It was dark then and definately nothing like what I encountered this day....Crane's is an annual pilgrimage and tradition for many families in this area. From this year forward, it will be one of our family traditions as well!
Here's the hayride for tiny tots....Jayden's cow is named Peach Pit!


We visited with a delightful family from Holland who has a gorgeous daughter Tyler's age-named Emily-and her smart, talented and beautiful working dog who helps her with whatever she needs since she was paralyzed in a traffic accident a number of years ago. Emily is a graduate student working towards becoming a special education teacher. Emily attends Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
We had a fabulous lunch at the pie pantry.
Then down to the real business of the trip-picking apples!


Afterwards, we ended the day at Crane's by going on a stroll through the corn maze.


Delightful! You can view Jayden's entire birthday album by clicking on the Picasa Web album link on the sidebar of this blog .