Fall Traditions

So I am a HUGE fan of holiday traditions, and as our family grows and the kids get older, I will be unleashing all of the stored up ideas that may drive them crazy for a good portion of their lives, but will one day remind them of home, sweet home!

(ahaha, if they only knew my plan...)

So now to show you the things we have accomplished since the start of fall...

First, there was the Pumpkin Patch...we tried a new one this year and though fun it is nothing like the pumpkin patches back in Illinois. I want a patch, not a pad of dirt with pre-cut pumpkins lined up in a row, but I digress. We had fun hunting for the perfect pumpkins, from the rows and rows of pumpkins, see. We even went on a hayride. -B- had to work so it was the boys and I, on our own with some friends.

The next tradition we enjoyed was some good ole' fashioned caramel apples. Now go figure, the way to get a 2 and 1/2 year old to eat an apple without having to cut or peel it, is by completely covering it with caramel and calling it an apple sucker.

He ate it down to the very last bite, core and all, and let me tell you there was no stopping him either, just short of "taking candy from a baby"!

Upon finishing his caramel apple we moved on to baking sugar cookies with -G.G.-

The cookies turned out scrumptious and we had so much fun cutting,

decorating,

and most importantly indulging in the yummy goodness of said cookies.

and last but certainly not least in preperation for Halloween, let's not forget carving pumpkins!!!

-N- helped his Dad carve -A-'s pumpkin, because -A-'s not quite big enough to get in on the fun yet, but just wait until next year!

and here are the fabulous Jack-O-Lanterns

(mine and -N-'s is on the left and -B- and -A-'s is on the right)

Happy Halloween!