Joan Ellen Cornell

My mom came to visit last week for 5 days and it was heaven :)

I hate living so far away, but it makes the time we do have together all the better!

Saturday, we went to a pumpkin farm in Parker, CO.

There were sooo many things for the kiddos to do, it was awesome!

Sorry for the overload of pictures, it was so hard to choose just a handful...

I love October. I'm pretty sure it's my favorite month of them all. But it's so different here (in CO) than it was in the midwest...at least that's how I feel. There aren't as many trees here (that aren't Evergreens anyways) so the leaves don't look as pretty. There is a tree at the end of my parent's street, in front of the country club, that literally looks like a rainbow. During the right week or two, that tree has every single color at the same exact time. It's amazing. Anyways, here there are Aspen trees that change, and do look really pretty, but it's usually just bright yellows. 

Also, Illinois is filled with cornfields and farms and there are SO many different pumpkin farms with awesome hayrides with hot apple cider through the woods and haunted mazes until midnight. Here- not so much. Now i'm not saying there's nothing here of the sort, because there is, but it just doesn't FEEL the same. I don't know...can't explain it. 

Anyways, we went to a pumpkin farm today and it was really a good time :) We took Porter and his cousin Lily and they loved it.

Don't mind these dang iPhone photos...I brought my camera, only to realize after the first picture I had 3% battery left. Damn it.