The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

It's that time again folks!!! The best time of the year! Fall!

Fall is my favorite season; the comfortable weather, the beautiful colors, the food, and the anticipation of HALLOWEEN! 

I put up my fall decorations and threw together a little basket for the front porch. 

I also love the numerous decorative and functional items available this year featuring owls! I've nearly given my husband a heart attack with all my squeals of glee, "OWLS!!!!!!"

I got these salt and pepper shakers and a mug to match!

Another favorite part of fall are the festivals! We have the Fall Fest in our little village and the infamous Pumpkin Festival just up the road (It's a pretty big deal and I haven't been able to go the last couple of years, nothing short of my own death will keep me from it this year!)

We walked up to Fall Fest last night and I was constantly pulled away from everything because I had that look in my eye. Though I must say, all the craft booths featured things I have seen on Pinterest. It was like a Pinterest Festival. I really liked the wreaths. There were wreaths everywhere... almost every booth. But each was very well done and very neat.

Of course the main quest objective of visiting the little event was so I could obtain a funnel cake and some shake up lemonade. I love me some lemon everything. Lemonade, lemon cookies, lemon cake...

I made some lemonade of my own... It wasn't as good as the fair, but it was still delicious. And not $5.

If this enters our house, it immediately hears a doomsday clock ticking away the minutes until I devour it all.

Fall Fest Fun

This weekend the area was packed with festivals and celebrations. While I wanted to hit up both Chili fest, I opted to spend a girl date with Nikki and grab chili at Panera instead followed by an evening with my husband.

Friday, however, we did go to Fall Fest. This festival (previously called October fest, but is no longer held in October thus the name change) used to be crafts and a carnival.
Now it is a carnival and some crafts, but mostly things that are not nearly as enjoyable. Except for fair food. MMmmmm




For those of you who know Lissa, she is a professional eater I believe. Where it goes I don't know, because she can eat for all eternity I believe and never changes in pant size. I'm jealous. According to her, she has to fill up her entire body and not just her stomach, also, her method of exercising is sitting on the couch eating Doritos. I think I have been misinformed how this weight loss thing works.

2 Slices of Pizza, Snow cone, corn dog, milkshake and some of my funnel cake. Where does it all go?!

Lissa and I both tried our hand at darts. She won a dolphin.


I on the other hand, almost took out the carnie and Nikki with one dart after missing multiple times and opted to let Chris take over. Thanks to his mad dart throwing skills I obtained a Care Bear.



Jess and Chris were able to hang as well prior to going to a party. Nikki was also there, but every photo I took was blurry for some reason, possibly due to her dodging the camera. I believe she has more points in dodge than the average tank class...