Fall Pins

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With fall starting up there has been an influx of great fall décor ideas and with that come yummy fall food. That would be mostly desserts. And a lovely article on MSNBC covered the top 10 fall foods that will add to your waistline. A few of them being pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, creamy soups and lasagna. Stuff that gets eaten A LOT over the course of the fall and even into winter.  Here are a few of the things that have caught my eye for me to do this fall.

 Fall Dessert

(clockwise from top left- Pumpkin Layer Cake, Apple Pie Bread, Pumpkin Bread with Salted Caramel Drizzle, Apple Cider Caramel Cookies, Apple Brie Melts, Spiced Spice Kisses, Baked Apple with Cinnamon Streusel)

Harvest Pumpkin Soup

Leap Painting, Acorn Center pieces, Acorn Wreath

 

Things to do with the Family.

Apple Picking take 1 and take 2

Take 1- 9/17/11

So we decided to go apple picking because its such a beautiful weekend. Really the perfect weekend for it. We pick a time. Coordinate with friends on when to go. Meet up. Get to the orchard and say, "Hey. Isn't there usually a line of cars into the orchard?" we drive down the beaten path, literally a dirt road/path. get there and see the gate closed and a sign with the hours that pick your own ends at 4pm. Oops. so we headed over to the farm stand store instead. Here are a few shots from that.

Not a fan of the pumpkins.

Sitting pretty in the flowers.

TAKE 2- 9/18/2011
So I was really bummed about not going apple picking yesterday. Rebecca was already in for her morning nap and Aiden was outside riding his car and all I can think about is how much I really want to go apple picking because of how beautiful it is. Yes I feel like a spoiled rotten brat for throwing my inner tantrum, but damn it I wanted to go apple picking. I asked Aiden if he wanted to go apple picking. Yeah. Ok! It's just you and me buddy. What about Daddy? Daddy is doing some work right now because Rebecca is sleeping, but he will come with us in two weeks when we go again. Ok. We go potty and out the door we go. I will say that I almost forgot how easy it was to be with just one child. The one child that can communicate back to you and uses the toilet too. Soooo easy!! Rebecca will get her apple picking time in two weeks as well. Plus with only having one child with me I was able to get some great shots of Aiden having fun.

Lets go this way.

Mommy you start this for me (as in take the first bite)

How about this one.

It was a great day for picking!!! And since we have a freezer in the basement I plan to slice the apples and freeze then for pies and crisps through out the winter instead of having to go buy apples.

Fall? Really? Why yes!

Did you go outside this morning? You did!!!! So did I!! And what did you find outside? Of course the sun was out, but what did you say? You found crisp fall air? You found cool fall temps? Yup I found that too!!! Sooo excited for the fall weather to be here and this weekend is only suppose to be in the low 60s. Perfect weather for apple picking. And that also means that we will be opening the windows up more to get that cool fresh air into the house. It also means that this is the beginning of the craziness. The craziness that makes the rest of the year fly by and you look back and wonder, "what just happened? How is it January already?" The next 2 months are already jammed packed for us. This is just a sample

Sept 17- apple picking
Sept 18 Raynham Fair
Sept 24- possible playdate for the kids
Sept 25- birthday brunch for Seth
Sept 30- Rosh Hashanah
Oct 2- two birthday parties
Oct 8- Yom Kippur
Oct 16- 1 probably 2 birthday parties
Oct 29- Halloween Hayride at Smith Farm.

Honestly November and December are looking pretty mellow right now. Which is a good thing, but I am still looking forward to them this year since it's Rebecca's first.