Farewell Harvest

       Before the harvest is forgotten and snow officially takes over, I wanted to share pictures of our trip to the pumpkin patch (of sorts). We wanted to take Nolan to pumpkin patch heaven, which is about 2 hours from us, but we've decided that our guy doesn't do so well on any drive over an hour so we stayed local. Our town hosted a pumpkin patch and harvest festival at the local community center and the ten minute drive suited us much better.

I really didn't want to buy our pumpkins at the grocery store, 

so we came home with two. 

There was lots of fall goodness to enjoy.

Like two boys in plaid shirts.

We ran in to so many people that we knew

(and so many people that knew Nolan- from daycare).

It made us feel old, and settled.

We have really been hitting the family photo jackpot lately. 

A friend that we ran into volunteered to take one for us.

It's a cold snowy November weekend here

and our pumpkins now have a coat of white. 

Now, holiday season anxiety is setting in. 

The other day I asked the clerk at the grocery store 

if she would kindly remove all of the Christmas goodies on the seasonal aisle. 

It makes my heart beat a little faster when 

I think of all of the things that need to get done for the holiday season.

Ready or not.