apple hill with my everly mae

with school starting earlier and earlier, I find myself back in the classroom right around august first.  which means, by the first weekend in october, I am beyond ready for a long weekend.  everly and I took advantage of our friday off by heading up the hill to apple hill.  she hadn't been since she was two and we had taken our family portraits with sarah!  the reason - this place is INSANE on the weekends, and I am not about any of that.  we started our day early and beat most of the crowds.  yes, there were people everywhere, but we also found parking and never had any traffic, it was a win for sure.

we started off our day by immediately getting apple donuts at high hill ranch.

and the second was face paint.  she always gets so excited when I let her get her face painted because I only let her once at disneyland, because disneyland prices are insane!  however, it seems to make her really LOVE me when I say yes anywhere else ;)  her 'face painting' face is always the same -  she's always the best customer

and this was the weekend when this tooth just wouldn't come out, so, this was the smile she was rocking for about two weeks.  it came out exactly one week after this photo!

and of course a giant suspended apple makes for the perfect photo opportunity

we also visited abel's apple acres and ended our time at the larsen apple barn where we finally picked up a giant box of yummy apples to get us through fall!

and even though I had the best intentions of getting some pumpkins while at an apple hill location, we ended up stocking up with an entire cart of pumpkins at the save mart just a few minutes south of apple hill.  their prices were insanely good, and they had all the good ones!

here's our mini-film of our day:

make sure to listen to the little bits of everly talking, she is most likely going to follow in my footsteps with her love of videography.  I always wish I could add more audio in our films, but there are always SO many crazy conversations happening around us in the real world, laying a nice song over the audio just makes sense...

 

Apple hill from Lyndsay Lewis on Vimeo.

shot on our gopro hero7 black 
edited on my ipad, because I was lazy and wanted to lay on my sofa while doing it
music: Coraline Soundtrack - Exploration [it is one of our favorites, and it just feels like fall magic to me]

swimming our way through summer break [mini-film]

I'm officially in stay-at-home summer mom mode, and it feels good.  with some exciting trips on the horizon this summer, I finally decided it was time to add another camera to our little family of tech.  a gopro hero7 black!

I remember as a kid the disposable underwater cameras we would get for our trips to hawaii.  there is just something extra magical about taking photos where you are pretty sure you aren't supposed to be taking photos.  being the photo/video junkies that we are around here, I couldn't wait to get ahold of a camera that would let us bring that magic to reality.



I'm still learning my way around this little camera, but for now, I'm pretty much in love.

here's a little peek into our first time in the water...for the record, I was too lazy to put the video clips on my computer, so I edited the entire thing on my phone.  that still amazes me what these little devices can do.

happy summer!

gopro details here music: Portugal the Man, Live in the Moment