Three Things : Three Giveaways

I wouldn't know where to begin! Fall is my favourite season so I love watching nature changing over the weeks. I love the cool air and the brisk walks in the neighbourhood to pick up leaves and acorns for our collection. Love apple picking and baking apple cakes and apple crisps. Love warm apple cider, my favourite drink of the season. Love our Canadian Thanksgiving that arrives so early. I enjoy picking out Halloween costumes for each one of my children and go trick or treating...

We decorate the porch for fall with scarecrows and hay bales and pumpkin lights. We usually decorate pumpkins close to Halloween. On Halloween we drive up to the church parking lot and we line up our cars at the carnival so the kids can go "trunk or treating" in the parking lot. (we hand out candy from the trunks). I have to decide how to decide my "trunk" this year!

In our house we celebrate by decorating, baking and attempting to keep warm. Especially this year that we have late November weather in October. We also love the smell of a cake as soon as it comes out of the oven.... yummy!!!! my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Going to the pumpkin patch! Our entire family goes and all the kids have so much fun!

some of our fall celebrations (rituals) include warm socks, mulled apple cider, hot chocolate, fall decorating, pumpkin patch, evening walks.

Fall is my favorite time of year. It starts with decorating the house for Halloween and picking out just the perfect costume. Then we go to the farm to pick out a couple of pumpkin to carve up. Of course while we are there we try to get my 2 boys to sit still long enough to get a great photo.
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home decor is a huge part of our fall.....we decorate big for halloween and thanksgiving....lots of pumpkins and gourds, lots of golds and yellows and browns and images of all the things we are grateful for!!

For me, celebrating fall means gathering pumpkins, making chili and soup and curling up with the family in front of the first fires of the season in our living room.

home decor is a huge part of our fall.....we decorate big for halloween and thanksgiving....lots of pumpkins and gourds, lots of golds and yellows and browns and images of all the things we are grateful for!!

I celebrate fall with a little fall cleaning. Get rid of the junk! And then I decorate with my favorite fall items with a little bit of Christmas decor thrown in.

We celebrate the fall season by decorating the house, visiting the apple orchard, baking yummy fall treats, going on walks to collect beautiful leaves and jumping in leaf piles in the yard!

How do you celebrate such a great season? Bundling up on the couch with a nice cup of coffee in the morning sharing the warmth with loved ones.

To celebrate Fall we not only have fun decorating and figuring out what we want to be for Halloween( my two boys ages 8 and 11 are past the cute costumes, ugh!) we spend alot of time together indoors doing what most would consider old fashion, we play lots of board games, watch movies,etc., trying to keep my youngest ones asthma at bay and distracting him so he doesn't realize he is the only kid not running around outside. I always try to see the silver lining in everything good and bad and because he has such bad asthma this time of the year we get to spend more quaility time together as a family.

Going as family and picking apples and then going and getting cider & donuts. Then we usually go to my families farm for a big Halloween party.
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Fun stuff!! It seems this year I am celebrating mostly by taking my kids to parties!!
We are also having our 3rd annual pre Trick or Treat party on the 31st.

Our standard three fall things we do: go to our local pumpkin farm for picking and a hayride, create our front porch scarecrow and attend our church's Fall Fest where we pig out and play games!!! AHHH, I LOVE FALL!!!

Pumpkins, raking leaves, a trip to a local marsh to watch the Canadian geese flying in (this is AMAZING to see). New for this year is a small local music festival with folk music, artist's wares, and a homemade organic fall supper. This will become an annual event. A huge charity sale every Sept, where we buy granny toques and mitts.

I like fall and all it's beautiful colours. But I have to say I really hate that winter is so close. Like today I woke up to some flurries. REally not happy about that at all. It was pretty darn cold. I wish the fall was here to last a bit longer. Then we could have done a few more fall activities. The joys of Canada's North.
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celebrate fall..hmmm..jump in leaves, pick some pumpkins and apples, decorate for halloween, hike on pretty trails, hope for sun and a nice unseasonably warm day thrown in as a surprise.

For me it's all about chasing down Honey Crisp apples :D
For my extended family it's all about trips to the pumpkin patch, and then sending the pictures to me to scrap for them! *LOL*

I love to celebrate fall with apple cider or hot chocolate. I also LOVE getting out all of my fall decorations and sprucing up my house. I already have the decorations out but I live in Phoenix where it is still 95 degree so the apple cider and hot chocolate haven't really made their appearance yet.

We always go to a local farm to the pumpkin patch. They have inflatables (a big hit with my 5 yr old!), apple cider and hot dogs, HUGE pots of colorful mums, pony rides and a hayride to the pumpkin patch. We love it every year - there is such a comfort in traditional rituals at the holidays!

Going to the pumpkin patch this weekend to get our pumpkins and of course they sell these homemade apple pies to freeze for later...delish!

I love fall... I celebrate by partaking in all the pumpkin flavored foods... muffins, bread, concretes, beer etc. YUM YUM. As a family we always do the pumpkin patch and zoo in early fall. Oh I almost forgot we drive the great river road (along the Mississippi) when the leaves are at almost peak and usually get to see eagles also.

Fall is my favorite time of the year! We love to go apple picking, visit the pumpkin patch, play in the leaves, and bake all sorts of goodies! nothing like the smell of cinnamon and apples as you walk in the door....