How to Bake an American Pie

We spent our afternoon baking an apple pie together. Tomorrow the post commander will be reading the book, "How to Bake an American Pie" by Karma Wilson to our kids at a story hour put on by The Military Child Education Coalition. There is also an American Pie bake-off at story hour, so we decided to enter and the kids did the majority of the work and I supervised.

Step 1: Peel those apples!
Step 2: Cut the apples (I did most of that, so no picture).
Step 3: Squeezing some fresh lemon juice and shredding the lemon for zest.

Step 4: Measuring the yummy stuff: sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.

Step 5: Rolling out our dough that we made the day before.

Step 6: Adding the top crust.

Step 7: Adding egg to the crust.

Step 8: Bake at 425 degrees for one hour and....TAH-DAH you have and AMERICAN APPLE PIE!!!!

Busy, busy, busy!

We have been ultra busy these last few weeks and I haven't quite figured out where the month of April has gone? Let's see... we got a puppy, our household goods were delivered, we've been unpacking and some more unpacking. And just when I thought we are almost done, another shipment comes tomorrow. All of the stuff that we put into storage before we moved to Germany over 2 years ago, is being delivered tomorrow. At 10:00pm tonight, I made Charlie help me carry the Army's washer and dryer into the garage, so that the movers can move mine right in.
We got our very own Harley. She is 6 months old and supposedly a lab, husky mix. Her name was Nikita and that just wasn't cutting for us. Seeing how Beckett is still calling ALL dogs Harley (after our friends' dog in Germany), it was the most fitting name. She has been pretty good so far, although I think she needs puppy school. Aside from a couple of incidents, she has been a decent dog. I still think a newborn baby is easier, or maybe because that is what I have the most experience with!
We did manage to make it down to Denali National Park this past weekend. It was too cloudy to see Mt. McKinley, but the kids enjoyed it and they still had about 3 feet of snow on the ground to play in. We went with some new friends and we managed to snap a family photo where every member is looking at the camera. And it only took 3 PICTURES!!!! It might have to be our Christmas picture this year.