Did you miss it?

Yesterday, I mean. It was the first official day of fall. Although here the weather started cooling off on September 1st!! Ok, it was 78 degrees today, that's still pretty awesome. In fact, it is TOTALLY awesome. I love fall. It is my favorite season of them all.

Here is what we did to celebrate...

Fall leaves to adorn our window

WARNING: This activity may take all day long if 1) you let your four year old pour the glue on the "leaves" because you have to wait all day for it to dry, and 2) you let your two year old pour on the glitter because you will spend the rest of the day cleaning up the mess.

Some butternut squash for dinner (honestly, this should have been the dessert)

squash, raisins, cashews, butter, and brown sugar (I was going to use crushed pineapple instead of butter/sugar but the can went mysteriously missing)

And some raspberry picking!!!! Is that a fall activity? Well, it's a late summer/early fall activity at least - and we just happened to plan it for yesterday so it became our welcome fall activity. I definitely want to do this next year, maybe every year, maybe next week, too.

McBride's Briar Patch - raspberries and blackberries $3 a pound

J: Mom, there's an animal over there. M: well, what's it doing? J: it's looking at us! M: uh.. just don't touch it, you'll be ok. (can you see the "animal")

Here's a better view - actually lots of "animals" The white one lying in the ditch is Bambi's papa, just FYI

After 6 pounds of raspberries and one very tired and unhappy little boy, we decided it was time to pack up and head home.

So good. No jam this year, just fresh raspberries for as long as 6 pounds will last, which at the rate we're going, wont be very long.