Baking some apple pie

We were given a lot of apples from another lady in our ward.  About a third of them were a little too bruised to want to just eat, but not so bruised to just throw away, so we decided to make something with them - good old American apple pie.  Neither Will nor I have ever made apple pie before, so this was a fun little adventure for our family last Saturday.

Rachel inspects some apples for us; apparently, this one was good and we could use it for our pie.

My job was the filling.  So I spent awhile peeling and cutting a lot of apples.  I am not really sure what kind of apples we were given, but my guess is golden delicious. 

Will and Whitney were in charge of the dough.  Will was thoughtful and did it on the floor so Whitney could reach the bowl without having to stand on a chair.  Here Whitney dumps in some flour.

You have to add water to the dough a little bit at a time.  Whitney did a good job dumping in one tablespoon at a time and letting Will mix it in.

Then the dough was divided in two for the top and bottom crust.  Whitney got to play with her dough for a little bit.

Then the two of them rolled it out. Whitney loves using the rolling pin.

And then Whitney licked the rolling pin clean - kind of gross, but I decided a little flour wouldn't hurt her.  And there were no slivers on the tongue, so that was good.

Meanwhile, Rachel gets a turn helping me stir the apple pie filling.  It was just apples, sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice, and a little bit of flour.

Then we dumped the filling into the pie.  Such a strong girl you have become Whitney - holding the apple bowl the whole time while I spooned it out.  Rachel looks a little sad in the background; I guess she wasn't done stirring.

I am not super creative or artsy, so I didn't do anything too exciting for the top of the pie crust.  I just knew it needed a few holes to help air it our during cooking.

Here it is in all its cooked glory.  The smiley face I made stayed pretty intact.  We had a piece and watched a movie that evening. 
It was super fun cooking together.  And the apple pie turned out pretty good.  maybe I will be brave and try some other kind of pie later.