This evening has been the most autumnal Monday evening ever in terms of celebrating. Here is our family fall bucket list.
1. Go to a pumpkin patch.
2. Roast pumpkin seeds.
3. Carve pumpkins.
4. Rake leaves.
5. Cut out thankful cards.
6. Bake apple cake. I baked our apple cake last weekend before to use up some apples from Mom and Dad's tree.
7. Go to a corn maze.
8. Eat caramel apples. Apparently I'm the only one who likes caramel apples in my house. So I bought one for myself and ate it over the sink, per tradition.
9. Read Harry Potter:
Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows.
We started on September 1, the first day of school at Hogwarts.
10. Cider. I made myself a cider cocktail with the apple bourbon from Wigle.
11. S'mores.
12. Decorate for Halloween. Tim did this one. We went to Hallmark tonight and he found a new Halloween thing. It is a salt and pepper set of a jack-o-lantern and black cat. He said, "We don't have any black cats!!"
13. Decorate for Thanksgiving.
14. Make chili.
15. Make thankfulness garland.
16. Donate to Harvesters.
17. Go hiking.
18. Take a daytrip.
19. Watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
20. Go camping.
21. Have a picnic.
22. Geocache.
23. Coffee shop. I had a pumpkinhead at Headrush last weekend.
24. Buy the best fall candle. We went to Yankee Candle tonight and I got to pick! I got Apple Spice and Ginger Pumpkin.
25. Bake a pumpkin treat.
26. Mulled wine.
27. Go to library event.
28. Go to a fall festival.
29. Celebrate Lily's birthday.
30. Take a Roasterie tour.
31. Visit a historic site.
32. Go to the Nelson.
33. Go rollerskating.
34. Take a drive.
35. Take pictures.
36. Watch the Great Pumpkin.
37. Watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
38. Go to planetarium.
39. Give someone fall flowers.
40. Go to the park.
41. Have a sampler pack of pumpkin beer. I bought it last weekend and finished tonight. I had a Blue Moon Harvest Pumpkin Ale, a New Holland Ichabod Pumpkin Ale, a Shipyard Pumpkinhead, a Shock Top Pumpkin Wheat, a Schlafly Pumpkin Ale, and a Traveler Pumpkin Shandy.
42. Go to trunk-or-treat.
43. Make our Halloween gingerbread house.