I love fall

I love fall.  I love the beautiful colors that sweep across nature's canvas.  I love the weather that is not so cold that you want to hibernate  or so hot that you never want to leave the comfort of home.  Everyday seems like a good day to make warm muffins and drink in the season. 

It seems to be the only season that we actually make time to get away from the everyday and enjoy the great outdoors.  We took our annual walk around the arboretum exploring all the varieties of holly, not to mention the paw paw trees.  We've been toying with the idea of planting an orchard next year with apple trees and paw paws and maybe a pear tree or two.

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And we enjoyed this delicious apple cream cheese bundt cake.  It's our annual tradition.

 

Happy Fall!

Kid View

A couple of weeks ago, we bought pumpkins to ring in the start of fall.  The next day when the kids decorated their  pumpkins,  I snapped a few pictures of them hard at work...

Then I slipped into the kitchen to make some chocolate brownie cookies...Ahem...They were healthy chocolate brownie cookies.  Then I gave the kids the camera and asked them to line up the pumpkins on the table when they were done and snap a few pictures for the blog...

Pretty sure this is the same pumpkin... from 4 different angles...

Hmmm...not quite sure what is going on here...

Thank you kids for following my directions to the "t."...

It's Fall

I love fall. 

I love the leaves and the crisp chilly air, the smell of anything pumpkin baking in the oven. 

Fall means just around the corner is Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas!

 Each year we try to get outdoors and go for a family hike and pick pumpkins to ring in the official start of fall which happened a couple of weeks ago.  This year we went for a hike at the University of Tennessee Arboretum.

We pretty much had the whole place to ourselves.

I loved watching the kids grab a buddy or two and head out for an adventure.

I had to post 2 of these sweet kids holding hands because this is not normal behavior for them...and I wanted to make sure I captured the moment.

These 2 always make me smile.

I loved this photo of 2 leaves suspended in the air by a spiderweb.  Thanks, Bella for suggesting I take a picture of it.

These 2 are pretty close.  Meredith is usually ok when I hold a friend's baby but whenever Cardi holds another kid, she cries and cries until Cardi puts the kid down and holds her instead.

This year we bought our pumpkins from our favorite road side market, Mickeys.  We spent the rest of the day hanging out and enjoying the beautiful weather and company.