What a difference two days make...

You know how I love leaf pictures given posts of the last couple years but this year has been difficult. Once the leaves here in Longmont really started to change Connor and I got sick, then it snowed, and rained, and before we knew it it was October 26th. There's no real significance to that date other than we watched the news and realized that the weather forecast was calling for a foot of snow! So we quickly loaded up the kids and drove to our favorite trees, hoping that enough of their leaves had fallen to make it worthwhile and that those leaves hadn't been destroyed by a lawn mower or blown away by the wind! I think we got some cute shots.

The first picture I took - Logan was sliding in to lay next to Connor :)


Our little monkeys swinging in the trees




What a goofy look on his face!


Brothers


Connor up in a tree


Logan hugging a tree :)


And then, 48 hours later, SNOW! Lots and lots of snow! I think there's probably 8 to 10 inches so far but it's hard to tell since it's also been pretty windy. All surrounding school districts were closed today except for ours (of course) so when Connor got home we built a snowman!


They did cancel school for tomorrow, though, so we're hoping to have pancakes for breakfast, carve pumpkins, maybe even make cookies!

Update

I'm not sure why blogging is always the first to fall off the to do list but it does...

Connor and I were both sick over my birthday which pretty much sucked. My argument now is that if I didn't celebrate it, I didn't get a year older. Yeah, that's what I'm going with because it makes me feel somehow better for not leaving my bed that day. I still have a lingering cough but Connor bounced right back :)

Here are some pictures from a couple of fun trips to some pumpkin patches over the last few weeks.


Logan on the barrel train ride - he tells us every day that he wants to do that again!




Pumpkins!


Logan making a funny face and Hannah (Kristina's daughter) with her beautiful painted face!


Logan, Connor and Connor's friend Noah walking hand in hand


We should have made a break for it while they were locked up!


Connor loves this cow - it's his favorite part of this pumpkin patch!


Jeremy and Logan breaking the rules in the corn maze by leaving the trail :)


At our other favorite pumpkin patch


Mom! It's too bright to look at the camera! :)




Brothers, pumpkins...what more do you need? :)


We're busily trying to get the boys' Halloween costumes finished this week. Losing a week due to illness was not in the schedule! :) Connor is doing great in Kindergarten and amazes us with his reading progress every day. Logan is doing well too!