Why I love Fall............:)

September is coming in just a few short days, and I am incredibly excited!!! I get especially excited for falls comings, when I wake up to a dark and stormy chilly day like today.  Becca came into our room this morning and curled up onto a the mile high pile of clean clothes needing to be put away and said "This is a perfect morning". I couldn't agree more I love love LOVE a good stormy day! Nathan opens up all the windows first thing in the mornings, and today it smelled like rain......blissful! I love all seasons, I look forward to change. There is something though that is especially magical about fall........

-I love hearing about back to school time, because it makes me feel like a kid again. Wearing your new outfit, and new back pack, full of new paper, pencils, and books. While I do not wish to go back and re-live school (yuck)! I love to reflect, and think of how exciting it will be for my kids (for Becca, probably more then Rachel due to personalities:).

-I especially love to bake and cook this time of year...yummy soups, and comfort food.

-I love to bundle up by a fire all wrapped up in a blanket, and snuggle into the couch.

-I love The month of October, and the feeling of Halloween in the air! Carmel apples and fun decorations! Weekend movie with popcorn and a good spooky movie. Trick or treating, and the celebration of Becca's birthday...and what a wonderful day a birthday is, especially celebrating the birth of your child. 

-We have a LARGE tree in our back yard that I know will just dump leaves everywhere. I can't wait  for my girls to experience jumping into a pile of leaves. Isn't childhood great??? I mean you wish so badly that they could see it as clearly as you do now, but that is just part of life.

- College football games! When Nathan watches the first game of the season I get so excited because fall is near it's here its here!!!!!!

- Thanksgiving is a tradition I have come to love so much in our house because we have made it our own. We like to stay home and cook up a storm all day, enrobing the house in heavenly smells. Playing with our sweet little girls, and have our Thanksgiving evening with Nathans parents and mine in our home.

- And last but not least, I cannot wait to meet our new little bundle coming this fall!!! Ahhhhhhh..... I can't wait to see her sweet face, and kiss her to pieces, and smell that heavenly new baby smell.....:) Nathan has been renovating our basement and turning the bedroom down there into a guest suite! There is a wood burning cozy fireplace in the guest room that was covered (why we don't know) that is now exposed once again, and we are connecting and expanding the bathroom to the bedroom. It is going to be a deluxe suit if you ask me. We want it done before our little girl gets here so my parents and anyone else coming will have a nice place to stay:). I will post pics of that project in the next post.

And now a few pics that just say fall to me........