Ah, Autumn

How much do I love this time of year?! It's fall! Autumn! College football season! A bevy of activities! And in other parts of the world where I don't live, it's getting cooler and the leaves are changing colors. This is truly my favorite time of year... because:

Pumpkin. Pumpkin cookies. Pumpkin bread. Pumpkin pie. Pumpkin spice shakes. Pumpkin everything! Yum!

The store shelves will be filled with candy from now through April. Again...yum!

With school comes birthday parties, birthday parties pretty much every weekend, and at birthday parties they serve cake. And I love cake! You guessed it... yum!

While the temperatures here are still in the upper 90's, feeling like 110+, there is hope for cooler temperatures, and hope shall keep me alive.

College football! Any college football! Just give me a good game, a Diet Coke, a little somethin' to snack on, and a spot on the couch. I'll be set the entire day. Well, that was in a previous life, now with kids I get to watch 12 hours worth of DVRed football in three hours. But I'll take it. Can anyone say Michigan vs Notre Dame?! Eh, eh?

The onset of activities just around the corner. Rosh Hashanah kicks it off next week, and then every weekend will be booked with something fun until school is out. My kids and I have the holidays meticulously mapped out from next week to Christmas.

Good TV. Again, all of it DVRed, but good TV nonetheless.

And once falls hits, I know within the next few months I'll get to see my family and hopefully some snow, if only for a few days. And the added bonus? Sweets peanut clusters. YUM!

Now there are some downfalls to this time of year, like even though I have to wake up my kids on school days and beg and nag them to get going, on Saturdays and Sundays they're up at 6AM, in my bed, and asking every five minutes if they can watch TV yet. There's also the lack of sleep, not just from being woken up on the weekends, but by an alarm clock every weekday morning at 6AM. But it's a good tradeoff.

And now, a few random photos.

Some pictures need no explanation... cuz there is no explanation

I get this annoyed look a lot.
But it's still a cute mug.

Someone enjoys those Lowes and Home Depot
kid workshops.