Pumpkin picking with Mommy...

This was the best "group" shot of us taken by a kind stranger in the shadows. We finally went to Rock Creek Farms with the sole intent of buying a pumpkin this time.

Gavin found a giant pile of pumpkins that he thought was fun to hide and roll around in.

This is the one that we eventually decided upon, and it really made a nice jack-o-lantern later. The boys had fun sitting on top of a random hay bale outside of the pumpkin patch.

This was the photo we took of ourselves on our pumpkin selection adventure (we really had a lot of fun), and Gage's only contribution was his index finger touching my cheek. Don't miss that. I was glad that we had come only to hunt for pumpkins that day, that we weren't in any hurry to do it and that we could enjoy our time together while the sun was setting. I remember feeling like I knew I should capture every sunbeam and smile of my children and happy memory in my heart in those very moments. They are fleeting...and it's so easy to get caught up with discipline and to-dos and everything that blocks us from these joys. God, please help me to experience joy even in the mundane and, especially, when searching for pumpkins at sunset with my precious children.