Keeping Up With the Kocubinskis: An Awesome Autumn

I love the fall. I mean, I love, love, LOVE, the fall. I love the colors, the brisk air, kicking leaf piles, pulling out my warm sweaters, drinking hot cider, anything that is made with pumpkin, seeing kids so excited to trick-or-treat on Halloween, and the growing excitement of holidays to come. My favorite month of the year is October (well, it's tied for first with December). It has become even more special to me since it's the month of my anniversary and the birth month of my FAVORITE little girl in the world. This year was certainly no exception. Now that my mom is retired, she was able to spend two weeks with us as the end of the month. Other than my wedding day, this was the only time in 14 years that I was actually able to spend time with my mom in October and I loved every minute of it. Come to think of it, I've really lucked out in the mom department for the last couple of years. Last year, Matt's mom was able to spend two weeks with us to help out with Max during those last extremely uncomfortable weeks I was pregnant with Evelyn, for which I will always be so grateful.

Anyway, this year we were able to to two pumpkin patches with the kids. The first was with Max's play group, and the second was just Matt, my mom, the kids and I. In addition to visiting the pumpkin patches, I ran my fist 5k with the kids, Matt ran his second marathon, we got a visit from my dear friend Jodi and her husband JJ, and we took both kiddos trick-or-treating. This was especially fun since Max actually kind of understood what was going on and loved dressing up as Superman and going door-to-door requesting candy. We decided to dress Evelyn as an angel to be ironic. Ha! Ha! It really was a perfect month. Here are some pictures of the good times we had.