Fall is here!

To celebrate the fall being here, Lyndsay and I went with our friends Jake and Diane to pick out pumpkins! In Tennessee, pumpkins are a big deal. In SC and AL, you just went to the grocery store, grabbed a pumpkin, and went home. Not the case here. As soon as it starts to look like fall, every piece of land around middle Tennessee pops up a pumpkin patch. I'm not even kidding.

We decided not to play around with any second rate pumpkin patch...so we went to "Walden Farm," apparently the who's who of pumpkin patches. We drove out to see what all the hooplah was about and let me tell you, there was some serious hooplah. Pumpkins everywhere. Everywhere. and farm animals. and a corn maze (something else I've discovered since moving to TN). and a crafts store where you can make/buy pumpkin crafts. Yeah. That much stuff.

We had a great time, and we got a pumpkin with the high hopes of carving it out before Halloween. ...we ended up leaving it on our doorstep to decorate, and throwing it away a week ago when it started to smell funny when we'd walk outside.

So that was fall. Fall is my (Scott's) favorite season. We had a pretty good one this year. Great colors, good weather...overall, much better than the last two. Now it's time for winter. Lyndsay informed me that actually before winter starts, another season is upon us...Christmas. On Lyndsay's calendar, Christmas season runs from November 1 to January 15...meaning that we are already well into Christmas season. So what have we done to celebrate? Well, so far we've watched "Elf" and strung lights around a fake ficus plant. But that's only the beginning. There is plenty more to come, I'm sure.

In other news, we leave tomorrow for our 1 year anniversary CRUISE! We had to delay the anniversary celebration a bit until I could get off work long enough to celebrate. ...but the time has arrived. Let the celebration begin! We're driving to Mobile tomorrow to board the Carnival "Holiday." We'll tell you all about it when we return!