by now, i have fully embraced the fall. i am loving all the colors, itching to bake anything with pumpkin or cinnamon in it, craving football, trying to layer in hip pregnant fashion, and intentionally step on the fallen leaves just to hear them crunch.

i was fighting it for a while there in september when i just wasn't ready for the summer to end. but now, i am eating it up. i love the fall. and it's such a fleeting season... five, six, maybe seven spectacular weeks of it? and then it's over. then it becomes a mix of fall and winter. but the just fall part, the pure part, is always totally enchanting and i love it.

beth and i have played outside a lot these last few days - getting it in while the weather is still warm, playing with the leaves and walking to the park. today was 72 degrees. 72 degrees! the high on wednesday is 32 with snow. that's colorado for you. probably our last 70+ degree day this year. so we took advantage of it and spent some quality time outside. i soaked up every minute of it.