Three Things : Three Giveaways

The first thing I do is put out my fall wreath... Then we celebrate with baked goods and cider!

Hi Ali!
We celebrate fall by decorating our house together! This year my 16 year old son got up on a ladder to build a "spider web" with orange lights in the window above our front door. The neighbors love it! We also attend a family pumpkin carving party with over 50 people carving pumpkins together. What fun!

We pick apples and make applesauce at the orchard just down the road a bit... We hit the famous Pumpkin Show in our area-just went on Friday! There's always the making of the Halloween costumes and lastly we start breaking out the soup and chili for cozy meals!

Every year on the first Sunday in Nov. my husbands family gets together for Wintergarden...they have a family picnic and walk in the woods and gather berries, moss etc to make "winter gardens". Usually around 60 family members attend. Great food and fun for all ages.

Living in the Northeast in the fall is a real treat. The leaves are so gorgeous, and the crisp chill in the morning air is bracing (in a good way!). We like to leave our leaves on the ground as long as possible, then have one afternoon of leaf raking that involves lots of jumping in leaf piles, throwing handfuls of them at one another, then a big mug of hot apple cider or chocolate to finish it up.

Hope I can answer we are in Spring here at the moment, but the best way to celebrate fall is rolling around in the all the leaves dropped from the trees. Love this.
Thanks for your chance of give aways again.

Lots of fall activities for us. This weekend is the annual campfire/hayride at my bil's house. For Halloween at our house we serve grilled hot dogs and warm apple cider to the trick-or-treaters. Thanksgiving is also big for us. On Thanksgiving day we have a touch football game before dinner and after dinner is games and perusing the Black Friday ads and planning our strategy. Fall is my absolute favorite season!!

Fall is my favorite season. I got married in the fall and we just celebrated 20 years. I guess we don;t do anything specific to 'celebrate' the season, just the little changes in our surroundings like the glas pumpkin (kept full of candy corn), the lighted pumpkin and other Halloween decorations, the blankets and sweaters, the fireplace warming us, the falling leaves. Love fall!!

Every fall, we go to the orchard across the street and pick apples, pick pumpkins, and go through the corn maze. We go back many times throughout the season to buy apple donuts and caramel apples. yum!

Visiting a local pumpkin farm so I can take 300+ photos of my 3 girls posed in front of various pumpkins, cornstalks, changing leaves,etc.... And I love every single, solitary moment :)
-Jody

We always visit the pumpkin patch. It has a petting zoo, hayride, corn maze, and lots of HUGE pumpkins you can sit on and take your picture. Afterwards, we always get some apple cider to enjoy.

Living in southern Arizona doesn't allow you to experience much of a Fall season. With the ever-so-slight change in weather comes the anticipation of cooler days and time spent with family and friends.

We do an annual fall "photo shoot". This year we took pictures of my son in his rolled up overalls playing on an old fashioned board swing that hangs from a beautiful old oak. The leaves were scattered on the ground all around, and hints of gold and red showed up in the background. I'm already scrappin' these and thinking of using them in our Christmas cards! Oh, yeah, I start baking again...Pumpkin Spice muffins!!!

Ohhh.. I love fall! We got to the pumpkin patch, make sure we eat freshly made doughnuts with apple cider. We also take wonderful fall pictures of us together to mark a new "year" for us. We also rake leaves together and jump in them. Oh! And hot chocolate. All the normal things, but they're just so special when it's with your family and friends. :-)

What a great giveaway, Ali!
Fall is my MOST favorite time of the year. We celebrate it by going on our annual pumpkin patch trip, baking banana bread lots and having it make the whole house smell wonderful and taking a family walk around the neighborhood after dinner each night. I LOVE this time of the year! Thank you, Ali! :)

We do lots of trips to local farms to purchase food to preserve. I think it is important for the kids to learn where our food comes from and we are trying to eat more seasonally and locally.
Personally, I get back into scrapbooking every fall also. Summer is a busy time for us with longer days, more time outside (we live in northern Canada and don't spend much time out of doors in the winter months) and less time for scrapbooking. Fall is a time for me to revisit all of my supplies and start a few projects that I have been saving up over the summer.
Jen

Of course we do the pumpkin thing but a new tradition this year i want to start with my oldest (2 years old) is going out to collect some leaves and twigs and make an art project with them. It will be something awesome for the scrapbook!

we celebrate the fall season (which is my favorite) by harvesting corn and soybeans!!

Fall, it's by far our favorite time of the year! We were married October 22, and we try and go on a fall color tour every year on our anniversary....I love seeing all the bright yellows, oranges, and reds mixed in with the evergreens! Then, there is always hot cocoa, and tea, cider and cozy fires in the fire place! It's beautiful here in Michigan right now, and I wouldn't trade it for any other season!

Summer is my favorite season, but fall is next in line. Love the crisp air and the fall colours. We celebrate fall by going and picking up our pumpkins to carve for Halloween and we always take Fall photos. Haven't done it yet, but hopefully in the next couple of weeks.
Tara