I Love Fall!

My favorite time of the year is fall - pumpkins, beautiful trees, cooler weather and footballElla picking out her pumpkins - she was a little startled by the rooster and hen that were protecting the pumpkins, but got over enough to start picking out a few that she liked.



Ella loved painting her pumpkin, her mom, her chair but especially herself! It's my favorite pumpkin of all! It even has glitter to give it a touch of class.

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We went home to Champaign for the Illinois-Penn State football game over conference weekend. It's the first time I've been home since Brooke was 18 months, so, 20 years. We didnt' have a lot of time to drive around, but I did enjoy seeing how things have changed since we were there last. The game was miserable - cold (38), rainy, and the wind was howling. Thankfully we were sitting under the upper deck so we were dry, but it turns into wind alley under there. To top it off, we were sitting in the Penn State section. How did that happen?




The highlight of the trip was a trip to Moline for a tour of the John Deere seeding factory. If we hadn't had to hustle to Chicago to catch our plane, we might still be there while he asked a gazillion questions.



Ken's dream tractor - he should be sitting in it and driving it away instead of me standing in front of it.