Fantastic Fall :)

Fall ---I love love love it. It is my very most favorite time of year. The weather is so perfect and so the air has just a bit of a bite. The colors are so rich and restful. It is also the time I feel most nostalgic for "home." Lucky for me Burke's family made a quick trip down to see us over General Conference weekend. It was really good for me to see them. Here are just a few other ways we have been enjoying the fall:

We went to the pumpkin patch! This is such a fun tradition :) We went just before dusk on a beautiful evening. The kids hurriedly chose their pumpkins and then Preston declared his desire to go through the corn maze. It was quite comical. He kept asking to see the map (which was pretty useless to me, but Burke thought it worked) and Burke got them to navigate a loop so we didn't have to do the whole thing! (Good work!) It was fun to hear the kiddos laughing and running ahead clearly weighing their options each time they came to a fork in their path. "Hmmm. Which one?" It was so cute. Then they wanted to do the Hay Bale Maze. Also hilarious. Rebekah got "lost" a few times and just decided to crawl over the hay barriers. Too funny. All in all the kids were so thrilled they got to visit the pumpkin patch.

We also took a Saturday this month to go and see the fall colors. Burke suggested we take a drive over the Grand Mesa. It was so beautiful. It was like comfort food for my heart. There was snow on the very top, but none at the ski resort (not set to open for a few months anyway). It was a great relaxing drive (Even though Preston STILL hasn't figured out how to puke in a container when he is carsick. Oh well.)