Bright blue skies and cool temperatures warmed by the warm sunshine.
They are perfect days to play outside and enjoy the weather before winter comes.
Our neighbors, who sadly will be moving in March due to his job in the Air Force, have a wonderful tree house and trampoline. Our kids all love to play in their backyard!
(and when I say sadly, I mean very sadly...)
Time outside with friends...
Imagining, playing, pretending, singing, climbing and jumping
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Every year, we go out to a farm and enjoy a time of fall fun.
Tractors, cows, dogs, cats, bonfire, marshmallows, hayride, falling leaves, pumpkins and even a zip line.
A zip line constructed of a John Deere tractor, a wire, a chain and a really big tree.
It doesn't get better than that...
My girls had a blast on the zip line.
They LOVED the cows, especially Abby... and the cows seemed to like her too.
They pretended to be farmers with hay in their teeth.
And, we all ate lots of chili... 17 crock pots of chili!
You see, we have a chili contest. Remember last year?
Well, this year, he had to do something even crazier...
He and Elayna went squirrel hunting a few weeks ago. Elayna had her special apprentice hunting license which made her Daddy so proud. They spent the night in the woods, shot some squirrels and had a good ole time.
My husband hates to waste anything.
Even squirrel meat.
So what did he do?
You see where this is going?
Yeah. You guessed it.
He made squirrel chili. No joke.
Neither of his chilis won the contest this year, but a few people did really like his squirrel chili.
Jeremy sure liked it.
Here he is eating a bowl of his 3 Meat Chili and grinning that big Goodwin grin that I love so much.
We went on a hayride and the girls got to pick pumpkins. I now have 3 amazing pumpkins sitting on my front porch.
I truly love them all. That's what growing up in a full four seasons state will do to you.
I love snow and Christmas and candy canes.
I love flowers and green buds on the trees and birds chirping.
I love the beach and sunshine and picnics.
But...
since fall is here.
I will share my loves of the season I am in right now.
My love of fall...
1} Cool, crisp mornings
2} Bright reds, yellows, and oranges all around
3} Golden corn fields
4} Falling leaves
5} Sitting outside with coffee
6} Pumpkin decorations and recipes
7} Apple Cider
8} Jeans and sweaters
9} A time of thanks
10} Blustery days outside while I sit with a blanket and a book inside
What is your favorite thing about the season of fall?
And for something fun, I have a great book for a blustery fall day to give away to one of you.
The author herself sent me this autographed book through a twitter contest. I fell so in love with it that I had to have the whole trilogy on my laptop kindle.
I'm sharing the love by giving away my printed book!
Just leave a comment to enter... I'll pick a winner on Thursday.
