Fall Outings

Me and Ashley get super excited for Fall. Because we always get to go and do fun things together. Ryan feels like the leaves and trees are dying and that it's just the precursor for the wretched Winter. But not me... I love it. And I love all the holidays that come along with it. That being said, we're starting to feel extra "Crafty" lately too, which if you REALLY knew me- you'd know that I appreciate it, but don't do it very often and don't really feel like I have a knack for it. I have to say I'm pretty excited though because we're going to attempt to make some countdown blocks this weekend for Christmas. They have ones for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas- if you're interested in buying a kit you can check them out HERE. I think they'll be SUPER cute. This weekend, the men are going to see a manly movie together and us ladies are going to be crafty. And really, I just love Christmas decor. I have the last few days of Nov off and am TOTALLY going to decorate the house! Isn't it weird that Thanksgiving is almost a month away? And that Halloween is already next weekend? Whoa. Oh and I ordered Ben's Halloween costume today. I am SO excited... but it's a surprise!

The last three years we've been to Burt's Pumpkin patch to get pumpkins with the Terry's and Clint and others that join us. The last 2 years we've added in the Apple Festival and it's quite fun. We got to go do that this weekend and it was FREEZING cold! Which is quite the opposite of how it was last year, we were dying of heat last year. But we appreciated the cold because it made it feel like it should've- like FALL! The leaves were gorgeous and where we go to do all of this in the North GA mountains really is beautiful. While at the Apple Festival, the Terry's got some apples and me and Martha purchased honey raised from bees in GA. The Davidson's bought some other things and we all had our share of friend fair food. There were fried Oreo's (yes, and apparently they were delicious), Funnel Cake that was to die for, fried chicken and fries, and I had roasted corn. YUM! Poor little Ben's fingers froze, but he refused to wear my gloves for longer than 2 mins. And he had a little bit of a break down at the Apple Festival, which he really never does. I could probably count on one hand how many times he's freaked out like that- he's very easy going. But he's teething and he wanted his binky and was cold and we didn't have it and he didn't understand and just kept crying "na, na! na, na!" People were giving us the "you are horrible parents" stare... so we left everyone behind and climbed (almost literally) the hill back to the car. The shuttle bus line was OUTRAGEOUS. We got him to the car and within 5 mins on the road to the Pumpkin Patch- he was OUT. Poor kid. Other than that- he was a trooper. The pumpkin patch was PACKED! There were SO many people there! It was still cold and muddy and crowded but SO FUN and we got ourselves a couple pumpkins and some squash and all that good stuff and now it's time for us to carve! We love going with our friends to things like that and hope to carry on the tradition!