Last weekend we visited college friends who live in Ohio. Mark was actually Andy’s roommate and in the same major (computer engineering). Mark’s wife Jenny didn’t go to RIT but visited NY often enough that we got to know her pretty well for the few years the boys were in school together. Gosh that seems like forever ago!

My brother and his fiance watched Ben all day Friday and my mom and Paul took him Saturday/Sunday. Part of the reason we visited OH this particular weekend was for the famous Apple Pie baking festivities. Some of Jenny’s family and girlfriends have been getting together for the past 9 years to make a ton of pies which they freeze or give as gifts. This year I think the number was 85 pies (which is apparently low, some years have gotten into the hundreds!)

It was executed so well with girls at different stations (coring, peeling, chopping, mixing, doing crust and baking). We had six different types of apples that were added to pies. There were two ovens going and a flurry of activity.

The boys so graciously took kiddo duty (go figure Andy “got rid of” his kid for the weekend but ended up helping the other guys wrangle theirs). It was definitely a fun day for the ladies though! The running joke was, your performance in pie baking this year would be reviewed by committee (the original girls that started the event) and they’d determine if you’d be invited back next year. I hope I get invited back :o) It was so much fun!