Fall Favorites

As I am eating yet another piece of pumpkin roll (let's not discuss the addiction today, ok), I decided to list the top 15 favorite things about Fall… in no particular order

1. Tasty treats such as a pumpkin roll, pumpkin cookies & Kettle Korn
2. When the leaves change colors
3. Beauty Spot rides when the leaves change
4. Hunting season
5. Pumpkin carving
6. Jeans and sweatshirt weather
7. Random warm days
8. The smell of the heat kicking on for the first time
9. Apple Festival
10. Football
11. Decorating for Halloween
12. Halloween
13. Changing light summer bedding back to heavy winter bedding
14. First fire in the woodstove
15. Operation Christmas Child- this is a really neat project and if you have never heard about it, you should definitely contact me. It is so much fun and a great to help children in need. It is also a great way to encourage your children to help.


Feel free to leave a comment of your favorite things about Fall

Apple Festival

I just finished my first piece of a pumpkin roll that I bought this weekend. We had our 33rd annual Apple Festival this past weekend and as usual, they had way too many things that were tasty…and of course, I had to try some of them. Like I said, I got a small pumpkin roll (no, I’m sorry but I will NOT share) and I bought some Kettle Korn (it’s my favorite), a funnel cake (Seth wanted it) and 2 homemade donuts. Let’s talk about those donuts, shall we? They were HUGE and they could be a serious competitor for Krispy Kreme. They were $2 apiece but sooo worth it. I got one for myself and one for Seth (he was in VA hunting). I ate a few bites of mine when I got home and it was still warm but we ate the rest of them this morning for breakfast. My advice; eat them when they are still warm.

Also this weekend, we parked cars at the church. We are right at the end of the Festival and we have a HUGE field in the back of the church so we have plenty of room to park cars. While we weren’t as busy as I can remember us being a few years ago, we still were able to raise about $1400 for the youth group. That’s not too bad for 2 (10-12 hour) days of parking cars. Seth and I worked on Friday afternoon/evening until about 7. At that point, not many people are still looking to park so we just went on home. Seth left for VA about 8 and I spent the evening with leftover pizza and John Cena (rawr…)

Anyway, I have decided that I HATE sleeping by myself at night (hence, the reason I LOVE 3rd shift) and I don’t know what I would do if Seth got a job where he had to work 3rd shift while I stayed at home. I would probably DIE! I think I had a mini panic attack Friday night when I woke up to strange (aren’t they always) noises. I tried to listen but all I could hear was my heart beating and a roaring sound in my ears. Also, I could hear someone (apparently myself) breathing like they had just come up from 2 minutes underwater. CRAZY! I eventually feel back asleep but not before I ran through about 87 different scenarios where I always ended up dead! Apparently my imagination activity goes into overdrive after midnight :)

Busy weekend. Long weekend. Looking forward to a boring regular week…yeah right. Seth has a birthday on Thursday so that means we will have at least 2-3 separate dinners to celebrate and then I have to sleep at some point so he and I will probably wait and celebrate on Saturday. Maybe next week…keep on dreaming Kate :)