Apple Recipes Anyone?

We have just been blessed with a lot of apples and we need some recipes to use them up. So... we were wondering if any of you have any really good apple recipes that we could try?

Pics. At Last!

Here are some pics. from a friend of ours. This is of when we had our church out.

Sorry guys our camera is broken so there's no pics. for right now! We'll try to find a way to get some. The corn maze is going well. We are hopeing that with Fall coming more people will want to come. Our good friends in MN are opening their Corn Maze this weekend so if you could keep them in your prayers for a good first weekend turn out!

Oh! And there's a new poll to the right 'What is your favorite thing about Fall?'

Pray you all have a great weekend!

Chicks

Here's a movie from when our chicks where little! So for those of you who have never had the experience of loud, messy chicks in your house, here's a little of what it's like! :)

And there's a new poll to the right! (Jenny I took your advice.)

And hello Danny! I will try to get some pics. up for you as soon as I can! Our camera is acting funny right now so I'll see if I can get it working.

Here's Pics. At Last!

Well, this was about the fullest our parking lot got this first open weekend. But our freinds in MN said that their first weekend was slow too so that encouraged us. It was a lot of fun though!!!

We barely got everything done! Here is the kids straw maze. The kids seem to REALLY enjoy it!

Here is the water balloon sling shot area.

Here's our porta potty! Isn't it cute!!! ;D

Here we are hurrying to finish the concession stand. We had SOOOOO many AWSOME friends that have helped us through this whole thing!

The Mikesels, McCannes, Comstocks, Lucas, McCormicks, Whitesides, Gills, Rogers, and many more. Thanks everyone! We couldn't have done it without ya'll!!!

And the roof goes on!!!!! :D

There's a great veiw from way up there!

Mr. Mikesell let us borrow his tractor! It was sooooooo much fun to drive!

Here's a movie of how the rope maze works in case any of you are wondering! Enjoy your evening! Thanks for your prayers!

Our First Days

Hey all! Thanks for your prayers! We had a slow weekend but that was ok, God knows what He's doing. We had a video production guy out at the maze on Fri. and he created a REALLY neat video while a family went through the maze!

Here's the link to the video! Hope you enjoy!

http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x522014793/Maze-in-a-field-of-maize-near-Lincoln

Opening Day!

Well today is opening day for the maze!

We had our church over last night to kinda get us ready for today and things went great!

Please keep us in your prayers though if you think about us!

We still have a lot of last minute things before 4:00 today!

Hopefully will post LOTS of pics. later!

Thanks for all your prayers and support!

More Corn Maze Stuff...

Well, we've made good progress so far this week!

Here we have most of the animal pens done.

And this morning we finished setting up the rope maze!!!

I think this will be a big attraction. We haven't been able to try it out yet (we are so busy building fun things for others that we don't have time to enjoy them ourselves! :D ) but it looks like a lot of fun!!!!

Ben thinks it looks a little complicated! ;D

Ben took this pic. from the top of the concession stand, which is almost completed, and you can see the layout of things. The entrance to the corn maze, the rope maze, then the craft area and water balloon slingshot, after that the little kids hay maze (not done with it yet), and last the animals.

Caleb and Ben in between the outside stuff have been painting signs.

Hope we are not totally boring you all out!

Drum Roll Please........

Well... here is the pic. of the maze from the air!

We are so excited and pleasantly surprised at how it turned out!

Hope you all can come to it!

We open July 23rd.

What We've Been Up To....

Sorry I haven't posted lately! The corn maze opens in two weeks and we are swamped so this won't be a wordy post just mainly a quick over view of what we've been up to...

The maze is totally cut and the paths are GREAT! Us kids are having a blst going through.

Here is the concession stand which has been taking up most of our time and energy the last two weeks.

We are almost done and hope to finish this weekend!

We are all getting a good work education.

We have so many AWSOME friends that have given of their time and energy to help us. Thanks guys!

This is our road side signs that arrived yesterday.

We are going to have a sort of petting zoo at the maze so we brought my sheep down from my grandpa's. Sarah and Jenny came over to help me shear them.

We have also purchased some chicks...

and some piglets!

Ok, for pigs, I think they are pretty cute. Their names are Sausage and Floyd.

Earlier this week Caleb, Jenny and I got to go up in an air plane to take the arial photo! It was so fun and the maze looks just like it's supposed to!!!! YEA!!!!

Jenny took the pis. cause she has a nice camera. ;)

This is a pic. I took so it's not the nicest, we'll probably post the edited one later on.

This is how flat IL really is!!!

Please keep us in your prayers!

Watermelons & Pamplets...

Here is a corn maze update with pics.! (I know.. finally!) ;)

Last week we passed out pamphlets about the corn maze at our county wide Rt. 66 garage sale! The pamphlet also has a $1 off coupon in it so hopefully a lot of people will come and use them!!!!

Here mom and the boys are folding them.

And last night at 8:00 we went out and planted watermelons in the you pick sweet corn, watermelon, pumpkin patch!

It was pretty fun though, out in the middle of a corn field at dusk planting watermelons. Not something you see everyday! ;)

Mom dug the hole.

Ben stuck in the plant.

I covered it with dirt.

And James watered. ;D

Oh! And for those of you who so sacrificially gave of your time and energy to help plant those 3,000 pumpkin seeds the other day... they are coming up and looking great! Thanks for your help!