Fall Bucket List

Fall is my favorite time of year! This season, Alabama seems to have forgotten how to get cooler, because it is almost 100 degrees mid October. Each year I like to write down some trips, activities, and meals I want to do/make before Autumn is over.

While I am dreaming of cool crisp air, I thought I would share some previous Fall memories and our 2018 Family Fall Bucket List! I try to include new things and our old traditions, so there is a happy medium and we don’t get bored of doing the same ol’ thing.

Here is our 2016 bucket list! Before Emery Jane was born.

Here is our 2016 bucket list! Before Emery Jane was born.

Every year we make sure to go to Tate Farms, a local family farm that has tons of Fall activities. The girls love to choose their own pumpkins, while riding on a hay bale that is pulled by a tractor. They have giant corn cribs where you can literally swim in corn. (Funny fact: Two years ago, we learned the hard way that the corn gives me hives. LOL!) They also have 2 cotton jumping pillows, hay bale mazes, farm animal petting zoo, and a two story play barn with crazy long slides! We try to go at least twice each season, so we can enjoy all the fun!

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We also look forward to dressing up for Halloween! The girls usually have two costumes: one that they wear to church events or parties, and a second that they wear on Halloween. I know… that sounds crazy. BUT, usually the first outfit is something easy and inexpensive. ;) I just love for them to have a lot of fun and dressing up a few times, if just that…FUN! On our Bucket list we usually add a Church Fall Festival, Trick or Treating, and a Halloween party! This year our family friends are hosting a spooking party out on their land, its going to be a blast!

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We also love to have a few fires in the yard every years. We roast marshmallows and hot dogs! This is fun to do all together and just gives us time to sit around, unwind, and talk. Some years we will carve our pumpkins around the fire, but it doesn’t provide the best carving light, LOL!

Here is our Fall 2018 Bucket list:

  1. Go to Tate Farms

  2. Attend a Fall Festival

  3. Take Elliot and Emery trick-or-treating

  4. Decorate for Fall

  5. Try new Fall Candle scents

  6. Build a fire and make s’mores

  7. Take a trip to Auburn

  8. Carve pumpkins and roast pumpkin seeds

  9. Go on a hay ride

  10. Watch Hocus Pocus

  11. Take family pictures

  12. Make Thanksgiving Dinner with Family

  13. Have family game night

  14. Go see a scary movie in theaters

  15. Buy sunflowers

  16. Let the girls paint pumpkins

  17. Go to a Halloween Party

  18. Bake a homemade pumpkin and pecan pie

  19. Watch a new TV series

  20. Drink apple cider

  21. Make pinecone art with the girls

  22. Go to a farmers market

  23. Make butternut squash soup

  24. Make caramel apples

  25. Give Thanks!

If you make a Fall or Winter Bucket list, please share it! I would love to see yours!

xoxo

Melissa Adams