Annual Apple Cider Day

So this last Saturday we had our annual Apple Cider Day. Dad earlier in the week had gone east to get a trailer and a truck load of apples. I believe the grand total was 2,700 lbs of apples. Then the Vances, the Farrars, the Tennels, the Greens, and of course us got together at the Farrar's house and made apple cider. Now this is an all day event, We clean them (we had a 3 bath system going), then we put them through the apple press, then we put the cider into containers and coolers and what have you. I'm not sure what the grand gallon amount of Juice we made. In the middle of it we stopped and had a potluck lunch and then during that time the Elders from the Alderwood 1st ward came to help the Farrar's move some beams, and then they ended up helping.


This is such a fun family tradition that I've remembered ever since I was a baby, (in fact there is a picture of of me as a baby in the truck bed full of apples looking at the apple I was holding) so I'm glad that we always have fresh, delicious apple cider around.

Over 2,000 lbs of Apples

Unloading the trailer full of apples to wash

I ♥ these girls

Girls with their bucket full of apples

Lilly, Adrian, Isabella, & Hannah

Apparently Evan couldn't wait!! =)

The guys turning apples into.....

This...delicious Apple Cider

See I wasn't taking pictures the entire time, I worked too

I love this goofy girl...she cracks me up

Lilly, Adrian, & Kyler putting the Cider into containers

Washing the apples in their 3 baths.

Even the missionaries stopped by to help out.

The kids

Green's- Samantha, Rachel, Luke, & Sarah

Vance's- Tanner, Caden, Kyler, and Ayla

Hartup's- LillyAna, Adrian, Isabella, & Hannah

Another one of the kids

The finished product after boiling and canning the cider....and this isn't even 1/4 of how much Apple Cider we made!!