Three Things : Three Giveaways

We just went to the Pumpkin patch took a bunch of photos and each kid bought a pumpkin. We plan on carving this weekend before heading out Trick o treating. My mind is already planning Thanksgiving and starting my Christmas shopping. Budgeting is the key this year for me. Thanks for the fun giveaway.

We celebrate fall by going to the pumpkin patch. The kids love trying to find the biggest pumpkin.

How do we celebrate fall? Wow, I am a mom that lives for starting new traditions and keeping the ones of my childhood that still mean so much to me. Some of our favorite ways to celebrate fall is the "cleaning of our yard", we all go out and rake, fill up our compost with all the goodies we cleaned up in the yard, then we sit out by a fire drinking hot cocoa to celebrate our hard work.

For us, we pull out the fall & Halloween decorations, start making our favorite cool weather recipes, carve pumpkins, and get a family photo for our Christmas cards. We LOVE Autumn!

My son comes home from school one afternoon in October to find his room has been transformed into a "spooky room" with spider webs and other fun decorations (my daughter still prefers the "cute" decorations, so she gets the pumpkins and cats). Other traditions are pumpkin patch, carving jack-o-lanterns, costumes, fall festivals & leaf-pile jumping!

Fall is the season I love most! My Aniversary and Birthday are both in the fall, so my heart is its fullest in the fall. Our fall traditions are all about family and anticipating the cool weather (and absence of mosquitos! - since we are from the south). We love going to the Air Show, Rennaisance Festival, and of course seeing all the children enjoying the Fall Festival at our church.

Our family celebrates Fall with a walk at the Outlet Trail in PenYann NY. It is an old flour mill trail on a river between two of the Finger Lakes. Rusted railroad tracks grown over with tumbling down mill stacks. It is beautiful with a backdrop of gorgeous leaves.

We all love fall here in Illinois, apple picking, going to the pumpkin patch, walks in the woods to find leaves to press, and of course Halloween.
This is the one time of year I pretend I can sew and make the kids Halloween costumes. This year I am making an Evel Knievel jumpsuit complete with cape and stars and stripes!

We celebrate fall by playing in the leaves and decorating for Halloween. We usually go to pumpkin patch.

we love to make fires in our chiminea, go to the cider mill, and I of course am knitting up a storm!

We went to the pumpkin patch this past weekend. I also picked up a ton of apples. Cooking with apples is a great way to welcome in fall. So far I've made apple crisp and applesauce.

i love to celebrate fall by decorating the house and going on walks to take pictures of the leaves. We often visit a little picturesque town about an hour away to shop and have a hearty meal at the inn.
i heart fall...

We celebrate Fall (or autumn as we call it here in the UK) by going to a firework display when we celebrate Guy Fawkes Night on 5th November!!!

Fall= homemade chili and homemade cinnamon rolls. Throw in crisp air, beautiful leaves, and hall-o-ween and it all adds up to a wonderful season!

Every year I take a picture of my son, walking away from me as he clomps through the colorful leaves - kicking them up, running through them...It is so fun now to go back and see how much he changes from fall to fall! Makes me love and appreciate fall so much more than I used to!

How don't we celebrate fall? We make at least 2 trips to local farms/pumpkin patches, we pick apples at the same orchard every year, the kids dress up for Halloween and go trick-or-treating. We always seem to have a few Halloween parties to attend. We carve jack-o-lanterns and put up decorations inside the house and out.
Thanks for the chance to win!

How we celebrate fall: pumpkins for halloween, hot chocolate, starting the wood stove for the cool weather, raking leaves, bringing wood in. This fall is special because we are celebrating our daughter's first birthday. Love the kits.

Well fall is harvest season for my husband and I, so we are usually super busy. At some point in November I get the bug to make a batch of mulled wine and we'll have friends over for dinner, wine, and a bonfire. We're a few weeks away before we'll be able to do that activity though. I'm looking forward to it!
Cheers,
Katie

We take lots of walks in the woods behind our house (with camera of course) The leaves are at peak, there are tons of geese on the lake and all the surrounding farm fields have just been cut and tilled.

My husband and I celebrate our anniversary in the fall by going to a cabin in the mountains. This year -- our 10th, we our taking our boys with us.