Three Things : Three Giveaways

I celebrate fall by getting out my flannel footie pajamas and having a pj day on a gray Saturday.

I like to celebrate fall by driving around and looking at all the pumpkin fields and of course we take out our halloween decorations very early and we plant bulbs.

Being an Aussie November is the last month of Spring so it's lots of outdoor time for our family. It is also the month of my birthday.

I teach high school so fall is all about back to school, getting to know my new classes, and homecoming games and spirit week, grading stacks of English essays and showing up at work at 630am with a cup of McDonald's coffee. It's about walking my dog through the fallen leaves and coming home and putting on the red fuzzy slippers.
Diane

pumpkins
spiced chai lattes
leaves (jumping in them)
long walks with my hubby (it's finally cool outside for him to be there more then thirty seconds without dying of a heat stroke :) )

I love Stacy's kit, would love to win that!
Happy October!

I celebrate fall by going to the local orchard (my eighth grade teacher owns it) to get apples and then making apple sauce and apple butter.

My favorite part of fall in Florida is going to football games! I grew up in South Florida, so we get left out of the chilly nights and the changing of the leaves - in fact, my teachers would give us extra credit if we could bring in leaves that had changed color, just to "prove" it happened. I was fortunate in that my parents did have a place in NC, so we would go up for a week to see some leaves, go to a country fair, and participate in the annual Wooly Worm festival in Banner Elk, NC (http://www.woollyworm.com/), so I did get to taste fall at least.

OH! OH! PICK ME! PICK ME! (visualize me wiggling in my seat and raising my hand in your face...like when you were in school)
We celebrate fall lots of ways. Decorating the house for starters and my kids, 10 and 13 years old STILL ask to go to the pumpkin patch/cider mill. I documented it here on my blog.

i celebrate fall by lining my porch with pumpkins and mums! it is such a beautiful display of fall! and i really get in the mood of the season when starbucks starts selling their pumpkin spice lattes! :)

we take the kids to the pumpkin patch--in matching fall outfits for some pictures. And we make countless batches of my grandmother's pumpkin muffins!

I celebrate the beginning of fall by pulling out all of my scarves and enjoying the feel of them, especially the hand crocheted ones. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on my mood, we haven't had fall begin yet here in California.

This is the first fall for my husband and I as home owners, so we are trying to start some new traditions this year. We just bought the most pumpkins ever-8! Some of them were chosen at a local pumpkin patch, which we hope to visit going forward. And we are enjoying finding things to decorate for Halloween outside. Every season has been fun so far in our new house! (Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!)

Fall is one of the best times at our house. We live in southern cali so there isn't to much of a season change here so we go looking for one .. we drive out the the mountains to visit a pumpkin patch that grows giant pumpkins, then head over the the apple orchards in Julian for some apple cider and apple pie. anything with in a reasonable drive we are there to celebrate the season. and watch out for fires :) and of course take lots of pictures

This is my first Fall as an empty nester and I am counting the days until Thanksgiving when all the kids come home to celebrate all the traditions that made them who they are.

We go to a local apple orchard to have donuts and then to another pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins. We rake leaves and jump in them. Carve pumpkins and decorate the house and burn pumpkin spice smelling candles. We also started this year doing a "Boo!" your neighbor tradition.

Fall for me means, reinvigorating all my routines that have slipped and slided into slapdash-get-it-done-ness! I love fall :)

I love the fall because it draws our family closer somehow. Apple picking, pie making with granddaughters, walks through the woods trying to catch a falling leaf and on and on...!

This is my first Fall as an empty nester and I am counting the days until Thanksgiving when all the kids come home to celebrate all the traditions that made them who they are.

I celebrate the fall by splurging with some pumkin ice cream (my favorite)!! I go to all of the OSU football games-each year I love the early games with the beautiful crisp weather!! Can't wait to scrapbook this seasons pictures!

Beyond all the little things that I love...apples, Russian tea, pumpkins and gourds, pumpkin spice candles and LATTEs, every year I do a pumpkin craft WITH my kids. Some years it has been covering a paper pumpkin with tissue papers, then it was gluing tissue paper in crumbled balls and now the boys are finally old enough to do the "twist the tissue paper on the pencil" project. I don't do a craft for every season, and I really should but, every year I have done this. I love lingering with them... to me that's what fall is about lingering in the crisp air, savoring the smells and tastes, reveling in the beauty of the changing leaves.

Fall is my very favorite time of the year. I love to appreciate it with apple cider and relaxing days. What could be better then shuffling through the leaves on a cool, crisp Fall day?!

making Caramel Apples with the fresh apples that we've picked with my daughters! Also taking lots of fall pictures outside in the orchards and among the great leaf barren trees.......

Hey Ali-
Halloween is HUGE at our house. We decorate to the hilt and even host a halloween party for both our kids classes. The local news has even done the evening news from our front yard.
Would love to win my first blog drawing!

Favorite thing is jumping in a big pile of leaves!