Fall memories

It is finally fall and there is so much about fall I miss these days. Fall to me is wracking the leaves in our back yard and jumping in them 1000 times!!! Fall is going to the apple orchard and getting hot apple cider and picking the apples. Fall is going to the pumpkin patch and getting the best pumpkin in the patch.

Fall is getting ready for Halloween with my brothers and dad. Carving the pumpkins then roasting the pumpkin seeds to eat later. I think the pumpkin seeds are the best part about it, a little treat after all of that hard work! :-) I loved sticking my hand inside the pumpkin and taking out all of the gooey stuff! I was different than most girls, I didn't mind getting messy with pumpkin guts!! We had some pretty cool designs too!! My dad was always so creative with the pumpkins!!

Trick or Treating at our friends neighborhoods. Helping the Johnsons set up their scary Halloween exhibit. The different houses. The haunted house at the zoo, which always scared me! Halloween parties at school, even in college we had Halloween parties! The carmel apples, pumpkin pies, ect.

I still enjoy the different colors of the leaves and the crisp weather(when we have it). And it is fun watching the kids get excited about it, but they wont know what a class Halloween party is like. Dressing up, Halloween games and Halloween treats.

It used to be one of the best times of the year, but things have changed. No longer have Halloween parties at school, no longer trick or treating. I don't have time to go apple picking or pumpkin picking. But at least the memory remains the same.

Oh the joys of fall!!!