A rare moment of really nice playing between A and N.

Anna and Elsa dresses still going strong, even as Elena gets taller and the dress gets shorter. Shockingly some of the three foot train is actually still intact.

I finally discovered a great trick for capturing changing leaves as a background – plant kids on a fence in order to get them higher to the leaves! Our leaf changing season seems unseasonably short this year and none of our surrounding foliage changed at the same time.

Five seconds of leaping before she collapsed in an unhappy “it’s too HOT” heap.

He wanted to try on his entire Halloween costume the second we had all the pieces.

Mid-October began a steady descent into pure chaos. Here’s about how that left me feeling.

Binging on the leftover soccer chips that lived briefly in our trunk.

Mopey because I won’t stop everything I’m doing to print her out a coloring page.

Three years earlier we came to this pumpkin patch and it was the ideal fall day: chilly and overcast with stunning mountain views. This year we all stumbled along in the hot sun half blinded, wondering why we didn’t bring water bottles, and how oh how was the sun still beaming down so brightly at…

The shade inside the corn maze meant nobody cared how long they were long inside it.