It's Autumn Time

Don't you love fall? All those beautiful leaves, pumpkin n' spice recipes, and the excitement of the approaching winter. We have been as busy as bees doing the normal autumnal things: going to the pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins, making caramel apples, unpacking the coats and mittens, and gathering costumes for Halloween.

Emma, Ty, Grandma Go-Go, and Laura on a hayride.

We were so distracted by the cool looking gourds that we didn't come home with any pumpkins. Fortunately, Grandpa let us pick some from his garden. Phew!

Here we are making caramel apples. It was fun but VERY sticky. I am still picking goo out of Tyler's hair. It was worth it because they sure were tasty.

Okay Rance, this next part is for you. I am only doing it to whim the love-of-my-life. I just want you to know that I know that you only tagged me because you know I hate filling these things out. With a small "grrrr," I will oblige.

Julie's Great Eight

8 favorite places to eat:

1. Anywhere that I didn't have to do the cooking,
2. Costa Vida
3. Asian Fusion
4. Cheesecake Factory
5. Einstein's Bagels
6. That Pancake House in McCall
7. Mini Doughnuts at the Farmer's Market
8. Tucanos

8 things I did yesterday:
1. Danced the Chicken Dance (with my preschoolers)
2. Got up at 5:30am
3. laundry, dishes, various and sundry chores
4. helped Laura with spelling
5. ate homemade ice cream with Karen and Jared (YUM)
6. froze my pants off at recess
7. talked on the phone to Rance

8 things I look forward to:
1. Rance coming home for the weekend
2. Halloween (or whichever holiday is next)
3. chips and salsa snack at preschool (my favorite)
4. sleeping in on the weekends
5. any impending social activities (enrichment, parties, movies, friend's houses, outings, cooking club, etc.)
6. reading a really good book
7. going to see a play, ballet, or opera
8. trips or vacations

8 things I love about fall:
1. baking fall food

2. the leaves changing color
3. Halloween and Thanksgiving
4. yard work is done for the year
5. harvesting my garden
6. canning
7. I can use my fireplace again.

8 things on my wish list:
1. Rance living in the same state as me
2. A little more sleep
3. chocolate covered cinnamon bears or peanut butter m&ms (Heck, anything with chocolate will do.)
4. a really good book
5. a vacation to somewhere I have never been before
6. music lessons for my kids
7. gates for my fence
8. to be completely out of debt

8 favorite tv shows:
(I put this one last because it reveals how completely lame-o I am. We don't really get many stations and I am too cheap to pay for tv, not to mention ethically opposed to television. That being said, here is my nerdy list:)
1. (I can't believe I am revealing this) Masterpiece Theatre on PBS
2. Globe Trekker
3. Chuck
4. Just about any cooking show
5. Seinfeld

6. old Britcoms
7. Sometimes when I visit my sister we like to watch What Not to Wear
8. my netflix movies or a book (I can't even think of an eighth one)

Wow. I hope you will all still be my friend after that. At least my family members have to continue to hang out with me. Ha