It's official...

...I stink at trying to "catch up". And, while I am not willing to admit defeat, I am willing to move along for now and hope, for the sake of record keeping, that keeping up with a more current moment in our life will be more motivating.

Fall is absolutely my favorite time of year. For as long as I can remember that has been the true, and living on the East Coast for the past  8 years (Yikes!) has only solidified its top spot. Living in a more rural area sure helps too. Every drive out of our neighborhood is a scenic one. With an intro like that you'd think I'd have some lovely pictures of some of the beautiful Autumn foliage that abounds, but I never seem to have my camera at the right moment. I did, however, have my camera on our recent trip to a nearby farm and corn maze. What says fall more than a corn maze, and, as beautiful as fall can be, my children are always my favorite subjects for photos.

Gaver's Farm is a true farm, but first and foremost it's a "fun farm". The gigantic jumping pillow was a definite highlight for all of my kids.

Rubber duck races were also a favorite. Although playing beside constantly running water for too long did not bode well for my recently potty trained Ruby.

The super slide.

 I have no idea what straw jumping is, but this is what my boys decided it was.

The 5 acre corn maze was the big event of the outing, but it was also the part I was actually dreading. This was my first corn maze experience...not from lack of opportunity, but lack of any desire whatsoever. Being claustrophobic and without a great sense of direction corn mazes fall pretty low on my list of things I would ever choose to do. At least we had a map.

 Ruby's exuberance at the start of the maze told me that she clearly had no idea what a corn maze was all about.

Her continued exuberance as we traversed the maze however told me instead that she had not inherited any of my corn maze loathing qualities.

 I told Sam to take my picture, because I was sure this would be my one and only corn maze trip.

 In the end the corn maze wasn't as bad I anticipated. Doing something the kids are super excited about is always fun. Hurray for fall and hurray for hopes of not being a slacker anymore!