5 minutes of Fall
Can I just tell you how much I love my sister? Whenever we're together it's nothing but high squeaky energetic voices and face rubs. She is one of my favorite people in the whole entire world and I was so excited for the chance to spend time with her and let our boys run wild. We had many adventures planned for the few days we were there, and the first was the pursuit of Fall. They live in El Paso so she shares my woes for missing Fall. They have some mountains a few hours away so we loaded up the kids in the party bus and headed out for a day trip to Cloudcroft, New Mexico. We found some changing leaves and enough chill in the air that after a brisk breeze blew through our picnic I declared that 5 minutes of Fall was enough for me. The boys had the best time playing on an old timber rail line. It was most likely full of splinters and they should probably get a tetanus shot afterwards, but it was the stuff that makes little boy's imaginations run wild. They had this whole pretend scenario and dialogue going on, it was fun to watch. Janessa and I were cracking up when Maddox came running up saying, "guys, there's a drug bar under here!". We asked him what he was talking about and where he heard about drugs. He responded, "from the movies you make us watch, like the The Greatest Showman". Ha! I must have missed the scene with the drug bar.
The problem when we get together is that we both love taking pictures. And being together amplifies the problem times two. Usually we have our husbands to keep us reigned it, but without them around we were completely unleashed. Our apologies kids. We drove all over searching for small patches of aspens mixed in with the evergreens. We made them get out and frolic in nature all in the name of Fall photos. By the end they were good with only 5 minutes of Fall as well.
And to top off our big Fall adventure we just had to stop at the cute and charming Apple Barn for caramel apples and salt water taffy. Such a fun day!
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