Fall in Love

Thank goodness it's fall. That's basically the point of this whole post. So if you just read that one sentence and look at the pictures, you will have understood most of what I have to say this week. 

One of my favorite things about fall is the food. Specifically food harvested from your own garden. After two weeks away from the garden, we came back to quite the bounty. Our random planting of watermelon seeds has yielded a few small ones. The package said they were Sugar Baby watermelons, the small little round ones. So we picked the largest one to see if it was ripe, and it was! It was very sweet, and VERY seedy. Although it tasted good, it was kind of hard to eat because of all the seeds. I think if the next one looks the same, we may just strain it and make a delicious sorbet out of it. 

We also had a ton of tomatoes, huge green peppers, and we finally pulled the rest of our carrots. So we made delicious pizza. I'm not usually a fan of home made pizza, it rarely seems worth the effort. But we found a delicious whole grain pizza crust at the grocery store and some good sauce. I used the mozzarella veggie shreds on mine, and Joe and Lily used real mozzarella. Lily really liked putting her pizza together, it's the one on the very bottom. She put on a lot of cheese and one of each kind of vegetable. Then she gobbled the whole thing up over the evening. 

Another of my favorite things about fall is the fashion. Here Lily picked out her outfit. It's a little overall jean skirt, knitted sweater jacket, and purple suede fringy boots. She is definitely a fan of the layered look. 

And another thing, the weather. Oh my goodness the weather. I love 60's during the day and colder at night. It's perfect. Perfect for being inside and snuggly in the mornings and evenings. Perfect for being outside during the day. Perfect for sitting in Wrigley Field and watching the Cubs lose with my favorite guy. 

And perfect for kite flying. 

Fall is probably my favorite time of the year to go the beach as well. Sure, summer has it's charms because you can actually get in the water, but since Lily isn't really into that (the waves freak her out a little bit) fall is much better. The sand is still warm on your toes, it's sunny, the wind is blowing so you can fly kites, the water's not too cold to build sand castles, and it's just lovely. 

And on top of everything else, I love love love pumpkin spice flavored goodies. Yummy lattes, tasty cookies, everything pumpkin spice flavored. We'll be making some pumpkin pancakes (from a mix I got at Costco) and I can't wait to get my hands on a bottle of fall flavored non-dairy creamer. 

And Lily just woke up and won't settle for Joe. Happy fall everyone!