Corn & Pumpkins

Now that we're a month into fall (or "autumn", if you're the sophisticated kind) and it's actually starting to feel fall-ish outside, I'm going to welcome the season with a little text and a lot of pictures.

My family and I have actually done a decent job celebrating the harvest this year.  For example, Daniel and I joined Scott and Stacey (my siblings-in-law) on a corn maze mission.  It was actually more fun than I expected.  One, because they have lengthened and elaborated the maze a lot since over the last six years.  Two, because my group was drunk, so it was easy to sneak away from them and do some scaring of my own.  And three, because we were closely followed by an amusing black couple that were frightened by EVERYTHING.

Corn faces... mine fails.

Better?

This is exactly what it looks like.

Waiting to jump out and scare those inebriated.

A few days later, the boys and I went visited Tate Farms -- a local pumpkin farm that has lots of fun things for the kiddos slash the young-at-heart this time of year.  Dylan had a blast, packing in as much as he could the two hours we were there.  Daniel had a blast trying to keep up with him.  And I had a blast taking over 100 pictures... most of which ended up featuring Dylan's back.

Thanks to McDonald's ridiculously slow internet, it took 45 minutes to upload those last fourteen pictures, and now I don't even have time to add captions.  Actually, I technically do, but I like my family too much to spend much more time in this fried food haven... and I still want to upload my most recent belly photos.  SO I'M SPENT.  Ta ta.