Three Things : Three Giveaways

We celebrate fall by bringing out a new "comfort food" menu in our house... the food that just seems too heavy for summer fun but just right in the fall...soups, grilled cheese, pies,casseroles and crusty bread!!

Wow, I can't believe how many entries there are! In the fall, I love playing in the leaves! And making apple pie. =)

Fall is my favorite season. We pick pumpkins ever year at a pumpkin patch and my husband is a professional photographer and we go out and take pictures of the changing leaves. My dogs (I have no children) get dressed up for halloween as well.

I love to celebrate by lighting my favorite candle and baking...anything pumpkin!
Thanks!
Monica

...celebrating fall is mostly through food for us: with apples, nuts, pumkins and wine...;-) And family gatherings, of course!

We celebrate by taking an "Autumn Walk" at the Seattle Arboretum. It's the most beautiful place in the world in the fall. Then I make my kid's their own "Fall Fun" mini albums with those photos and pictures from their class field trips to the pumpkin patch. I'm head over heels for fall. (-;

Every weekend we go for a walk in the woods. That's a celebration! Love to see all the colors and the changes and our son having fun running through the fallen leaves. Pure joy to me!

I bake a lot of birthday cakes; three of the four in our family have birthdays in October and November!

*favorite fall sweater (new cotton one with a belt tie this year I'm diggin')
*more coffee!!!
*lots of leaf photos
*neighborhoodwalks with my camera (for more leaf photos)
*chicken pot pies (Mmmmm)
*fireplace (sleeping in front of it with my kids some for special treats)

Soccer, soccer, and more soccer. Oh, and this week I'm doing my darnedest to hang in there while trying to document a week in my life. My 8 yo son said yesterday, "Is this because you're so busy? Are you trying to show dad all the things you do?" HA! I assured him it was not to try to prove anything to anyone, but rather that he might be able to look back one day and remember what our lives were like when he was 8. Thanks, Ali!

Food, family gatherings, pumpkins, fall cleaning -not so much a celebration until your finished, sweaters, thoughts of winter scrapbooking and quilting. :)
thanks ali!
anna

Fall kicks off the holiday season. We go to the pumpkin patch, we work on Halloween costumes, and enjoy cocoa with lots of marshmellows (similar to yours).

I love fall (although it comes a little more quicly where I live) and my favourite thing to do is rake leaves with the kids and jump right in the middle of the pile. Then hot chocolate and banana or pumpkin muffins.

Fall is beautiful in VA. The mountains are full of beautiful changing leaves. My family hops in the car and drives on the blueridge parkway! We go to pumpkin patches and apple orchards too. I love fall!!! Finally sweater weather. Happy Day!

A trip to the pumpkim patch, carving pumpkins (this year we have a record six to do), pumpkin pie, fall art projects from school to display, four family birthdays, and my husband and I spent some time this last weekend going for a 30 mile bike ride and an early morning hike to shoot photos of fog and all the leaves that have just turned color, while the boys had a sleepover and made cookies with grandma. Beautiful!

Here with us,fall isn't a season as celebrated as it is in the US... mostly because Halloween and Thanksgiving are not national holidays... thanksgiving doesn't exist here and Halloween has only been adopted recently and mostly for commecial reasons. But I for one love the changing colors of fall and even more the soft light on sunny fall days. Nothing better than to potter about in the garden with the todlers..

We celebrate fall with a few trips to the pumpkin patch, decorating around the house, making lots of soup, homemade chicken & noodles and chili, pumpkin dip, pumpkin pie and mini caramel apples! We also love being able to turn off the A/C, open up all the windows and put on a sweatshirt and snuggle up together!

We have not made a fall family tradition yet, but next week may be the start of one. I am taking my 2 year old to the local pumpkin patch to pick out her very own pumpkin and to do several other fun things; hayride, corn maze, petting zoo, etc. and I hope that this will become a very fun tradition for us and some other friends of ours to enjoy together. Thanks for asking otherwise I might not have thought about it! :)

We celebrate fall by decorating the house with pumpkins, making pumpkin bread and drinking Starbucks Caramel Apple Spice (yum!). Charlene

Every year our church goes on a hayride to Cades Cove, TN in October. It is usually right around when the leaves start turning and it starts getting colder here. We went last weekend and it was so beautiful! I always look forward to taking pics!