Fall is here!!!

Fall is FINALLY here! It seems like the past couple of years have been only 3, if not 2, seasons instead of 4. Don't get me wrong I love looking at the clean white snow, but heavens it's such a mess and I absolutely HATE driving in it. Spring is pretty good and summer just becomes unbearably hot. Fall is just right. The days are cooler and sweaters can be worn, besides pumpkins and corn mazes galore. Ohhh and did I forget to the mention... The Apple Festival!!! To some in town it's considered the "World's Largest Flea Market", but to me it means my year is nearly complete. The yummy foods and different crafts, as well as getting to run into long lost friends from years past.

This year will be Luke's first Apple Festival. I would like to make it a family tradition to try and make it every year. I want our future children to have fond memories of visiting their "Mimi" every fall and to learn how to enjoy the simpler pleasures in life like high school football games and Grace United Methodist Church's VERY famous friend apple pies. I am such a nerd when it comes to tradition and making things memorable. Luke and I are both big on being God and family centered. It's very important to both of us that these are the main focuses of our lives, with work, school, etc. to follow. Although fighting the crowds, paying waaay too much for a funnel cake or hot dog, and feeling like you've been mauled by a million strollers seems a bit ridiculous, it's about the time spent together and appreciating that we are able to have such a thing as the Apple Festival.