Corn Maze

I believe this is the last of the unpublished October pictures... our corn maze adventure.

This particular day was ridiculously sunny.  I decided to finally try a polarized filter...  I had read that these filters could be tricky, as you need to alter your camera settings to compensate for the "sunglasses" covering your lens.  Once I got the hang of it, it wasn't too bad.

You know how the sky always looks pale blue or white in photos, when in reality, it's a beautifully rich blue?  Look at the difference between the contrails and the sky above.  The polarized filter is the only thing making the sky so blue (no editing involved).  I think I'll definitely be using this filter a lot next summer.

Lucas insisted on leading the way... we got lost... for a long time.  Jack somehow stayed asleep in my Mei Tai wrap the entire time!

Lucas got his first experience peeing outdoors... I mean, we were really lost... who knew how long it would take us to find our way back to the barn?

We finally found a lookout tower that gave us a cheater's vantage point.  Okay, not really.  We were still lost.

We made it out!  ...after an hour and a half of walking in circles, we treated ourselves to the biggest roundest pumpkin we could find :)

Outdoor Mini Playscape

The weather here has been beautiful lately.  I had to get Lucas playing outside.

Have you ever looked at your normal, run-of-the-mill, I-change-diapers-therefore-I-don't-have-energy-to-weed side yard and seen new little worlds full of imagination?  I remember seeing them when I was younger.  I sort of lost my imagination, but I'm slowly gaining it back as my boys get a little bit older.

Lucas was so excited when I told him we were going to take his dinosaurs outside.  After smiling, giggling, and jumping up and down... he very quietly says, "Mommy?  But my dinosaurs need a place with water to play in..."

Hehe!  We were so on the same page!  I grabbed a round cake pan, put it on the edge of our gravel driveway, built rocks up around it, decorated the area with a few small fake trees... and Voila! Instant magical small world!

Busy day at the watering hole :)

Linking up to... Raising Bean

Autumn Leaves

Sunday afternoon, we went to a 40th Wedding Anniversary celebration for Jason's great Aunt and Uncle.  Those of you who have small children may understand when I say that keeping them quiet and non-destructive indoors for very long is near impossible... unless they're sleeping.  The Lion's Club building where the celebration was held was on beautiful land.  Tall orange-, yellow-, and red-leafed trees; leaves covering the ground; freshly-painted, bright-white picnic tables; sunny fields in the distance; late afternoon/early evening light shining through the trees.  I couldn't have asked for better pictures!

In case you wonder... no.  I did nothing to enhance his eyes.  God gave him those!

Silly boy refuses to look at the camera :)

Most of the Wright, Hewitt, Hopkins guys in attendance

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Fun Outside (before it got too hot...)

 Run, Run, Run, As fast as you can! You can't catch me! I'm the gingerbread man!

Whenever Lucas has a large quantity of toys (magnets, cars, pens), he always lines them up in a row before playing with them :)