Fall Favorites

So it is not officially fall yet but I am getting super excited for the cooler weather, the beautiful and colorful leaves, and warm, snuggly sweaters.  So what am I most looking forward to in the fall??

10. Pumpkin Spice Coffee from Brueggers

This stuff is amazing!  And it reminds me so much of my friend Tracy who is now living in Texas.  Tracy and I used to live together before the days of Ryan and we would go across the bridge over to St. Anthony main area and get bagels and coffee in the morning- either after a good Lifetime workout or right away and just skip the workout!  Either way, it is delicious and it reminds me of Tracy!

9. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Again a good remind of Tracy but we would make these every fall!  I actually don't love pumpkin but these cookies are amazing!  It is my mom's recipe and I could eat a whole batch of these in one sitting.  So when I make them, I have to make sure I am bringing them somewhere to share!  So yummy and perfect!

8. The leaves

I love when I'm driving around the lake and the bay is colored with red, orange, and yellow leaves.  It is the same happiness I get in the spring when the trees get all their buds and the leaves start to pop.  It is so pretty and it makes those two weeks really fun to drive around and look at all the colors!

7. Sweaters, leggings, and boots

I cannot wait to wear heavy, long sweaters (even sweater dresses), leggings, and boots.  Enough said.

6. Football Sundays

Although I have a love/hate with fantasy football- I do love Sunday afternoons when the football game is on and friends are over.  I love a relaxing afternoon with minimal obligations and some good, hearty crock-pot food.  And I love napping during the games too!

5. Mums on the front porch

If you ever come over you know I love flowers on my front porch.  And well since I have killed everything from this summer, I look forward to fresh new flowers to pot and enjoy.  I always have good intentions of keeping flowers alive, I'm just not so good at watering and feeding flowers.  But I love how full and colorful mums are and the way they dress up my front porch.

4. Scarves

If you know me, from September-May it is scarf season.  I'm naked without one and I have quite the collection going!

3. Pumpkin Patch and Apple Orchard

I don't get to it every year- and this year might not be possible either- but when I can, I like to go pick out pumpkins in the patch and then get apples from the apple orchard.  I mean who doesn't love a good hay ride?!

2. Pinterest projects

I'm guilty as charged at being a Pinterest fanatic!  I love searching the site and finding new DIY projects- holiday, home, recipe, fashion- whatever!  But the fall seems like the perfect time to sort thru my pins and decide which ones I actually want to do!

1. Upcoming holidays

 
The beginning of fall means that the holidays (I am not jumping the gun here people!) are around the corner.  Although I really do not like Halloween, it is only weeks before Thanksgiving and then Christmas- both of which I love!  So with the cool fall air, I know turkeys and mistletoe are right around the corner!

Cheers to Fall Beginning Soon,