Knockin' Em' Off My Fall List

Hey there + Happy Tuesday.

And Welcome,   f  a  l  l    .  

Today is the first official day of Fall after all, right?

Well, technically I think it became Fall at like 9:00 pm last night, so that makes today the first FULL official day of Fall.

Regardless, it's here and the whole "I Love Fall"  thing hasn't worn off for me yet, not even close...

We've {hopefully} got a ways to go and I couldn't be happier about it.

I mean, the alternative is Winter... and I am still mentally scarred from last Winter and we are just gonna love on Fall and
not let go... because... I just can't deal.

So we got to work on our Fall List this weekend and it was seriously the perfect weekend to do so.
Notice how those of us that have to deal with a lot of crappy weather over the course of a year get so excited about these
perfect-weather days?
We know they are numbered.
#9 - We hit the Apple Orchard on Sunday.
And if the weather wasn't truly awesome,  it would've still been awesome because...
fresh apple donuts, apple cider slushies + lots of fresh apples.
Duh.

Fall List   ///////

1. Make Pumpkin Bars
2. Read a really good scary book or a mystery
3. Visit the Pumpkin Patch
4. Make a pie { Apple? Pumpkin? }
5. Watch ::  You've Got Mail
6. Make  a Fall wreath
7. Take a solo photo drive when the leaves are changing colors
8. Have coffee on the front porch early in the morning as much as possible
9. Visit the Apple Orchard
10. Have fires in the fire pit when we can
11. Find a new pair of super cute(but not super expensive) BOOTS

And then #5... and I have no pictures so you'll just have to trust me on this one, I watched You've Got Mail.

Sigh.

The brownstones, the book store.... all of it.

It doesn't matter how many times I have seen it, afterwards I fantasize about owning my own 

book store/coffee shop for days.

Days.

Next up on my list is a big one for me.

When you leave the apple orchard with a basket full of apples... it's time to finally try and make your very first apple pie.

I am doing it this week you guys.

I am.

And honestly, I am so intimated by it,  but I am doing it anyway.

I'll letcha know how it goes. Wish me luck! 

Happy Tuesday + Hope you have a great week!

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{will beg for peaches}

Oh, peaches.

I want peaches.

I have been craving and dreaming of my grandma's peach pie.

Today I am really wishing that I would have had the foresight to have her teach me how to
 make it along with her famous pie crust years ago.

But I didn't.  

I really hate that since it is too late now.

One of my aunt's makes a wonderful peach pie too and I'm thinking
of maybe asking her to teach me.

Anyway, in search of peaches we headed to an apple orchard about a half hour
away today that also sells peaches.

And they were gone.
Blah.

I called another aunt that has peach trees but their's are already gone, too.

A day late and a dollar short.

She did say she could spare enough frozen peaches for me to make a pie though.

So all was not lost because it was a beautiful day for  a drive through 

the country and a morning at the orchard.

It is still just a couple more weeks until the apples are ready to pick so in the mean
 time we had to pick up a jar of apple butter and apple donuts.

They said we could pick a few apples so we did and Charlotte picked some that had
 already fallen off the trees, too.
Next trip we will get enough for pies, muffins and all that good stuff.

And next time we go I hope to be wearing a little sweater and boots and to be drinking apple cider.
Okay, that might be pushing it but a girl can dream.

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I'm hoping to attempt my peach pie next week after I get the peaches.

Wish me luck.

Pie making does not come natural to me by any means but I figure
 I've got to start somewhere...

Right? 

A Little mOnday Love...

I love Mondays. I really do. I haven't always loved Mondays, but I do now. There is no work on Monday, no preschool and nothing going on for us regularly, it's a"free day". We can do whatever we want and today we visited the Apple Orchard near us. It is a gorgeous day here, the weather in the upper-60's...we got to pick apples, play on the playground, jump on the hay fort, try to catch monarch butterflies and eat apple donuts. Oh and it is Bench Monday so we got to take pictures, too. A great day so far! Hope you are having a Happy Monday!