Well summer is officially over, and as the nights (and days) get chillier, I’m getting excited for the next season. Fall has an awesome line-up of holidays and traditions. This year more than ever I’m so excited to continue those traditions with our little family. Sunday will actually be able to participate in the holidays, even if she doesn’t understand why we’re doing things we are. It’s also so exciting to envision our first Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas in our own little home. I had fun making a summer bucket list a few months ago, I figured I’d make one for fall. Not everything got done on our summer list, but I liked that it pushed me to try and do things we might not otherwise have thought to do and it gave me ideas of things I could do with Sunday to make ordinary days a little more fun. Anyways, here’s my seasonal list- I can’t wait for all things holiday in the next three months!

As a family:

1. Go to a pumpkin patch [October 14]
2. Trick or treat with Sunday [October 31]
3. Get firewood for our fireplace
4. Go to a corn maze
5. Bonfire at the beach
6. Go on a hike [October 7]
7. Have a movie night [October 21…we actually tried to have a legit movie night the night before, but Sunday didn’t feel like sitting through a movie. However, the next morning she got up super early, and we put on a movie and watched it as a family…and even though Tanner and I had our eyes closed for most of it, we’re counting that haha]
8. Have a General Conference party [October 1-2]
9. Go on a scenic drive [November 11]
10. Go on a picnic
11. Host/Attend a Halloween party [October 28- ward trunk or treating]
12. Go to the indoor pool [November 27]
13. Take our family Christmas photo [November 25]
14. Carve pumpkins [October 23] 
    

    
15. Go to Davidson Orchards and buy apple juice
16. Create a family Halloween costume  (thanks Tanner for going along with my ideas..)
17. Burn the first fire in our fireplace
18. Pass out candy to trick-or-treaters [October 31]
19. Go geocaching
20. Skype aunts and uncles that live far away

As a couple:

1. Host a potluck [November 19]
2. Do a month of gratitude with Tanner
3. Go bowling
4. Try a new restaurant [November 11]
5. Learn a new card game
6. Watch a halloween movie [October 28-31st…we’re going to count binging on Stranger Things 2]
7. Create and organize our ‘home office’ nook
8. Get Christmas gifts for the girls
9. Get our yard ready for winter
10. Go on a double date with another couple

With Sunday & Quinn:

1. Rake leaves and jump in the pile [October 22]
2. Build a fort
3. Make cookies [November 29]
4. Fall photo shoot with the girls
5. Jump in puddles
6. Make a bird feeder
7. Feed the ducks at the park
8. Get a matching fall outfit and take pictures [November 19]
9. Send Auntie Jenna package [October 3]
10. Paint pumpkins [October 31]
11. Make homemade play dough
12. Go to a library story time
13. Do a fall craft
14. Get books at the library [October 17]

Just me:

1. Decorate mantle
2. Decorate for Halloween [October 23]
3. Make a front door wreath
4. Burn some fall smelling candles [October 24]
5. Paint chalkboard wall for Sunday
6. Hang up pictures in our house
7. Get banana hot chocolate with Kaila
8. Make mom’s chilli [November 19]
9. Make something with apples in it
10. Bake pumpkin bread
11. Make homemade pizza [October 20]
12. Make cookies for our neighbours
13. Make felt dolls for Sunday
14. Start the girls’ photobooks for this year
15. Make homemade bread