fall.

at the risk of sounding like every other girl out there: i love fall. 

not because of the beautiful leaves, the fact that i can finally walk to school without melting, halloween, or thanksgiving.....not even because of pumpkin spice (although those are definitely all contributing factors). 

if i'm being 100% honest, i mostly love fall because it gets me pumped for christmas. i check each station to see if they're playing christmas music every day on my way home from work.

but, i also don't wanna understate fall and all of our wonderful traditions. it's been a little bit sad not having my family here to celebrate with us this year, but robert and i have been thoroughly enjoying all of the fun activities that autumn has to offer.

sunday morning drives through the canyon. look at those gorgeous leaves:

finally back in my natural habitat. (leggings.)  

handsomest husband. being married is the nicest thing. <3  

checking out the witches at gardner village.  eating disappointing mediocre food truck food and a giant caramel apple that was probably more caramel than apple.

 

i'm probably the spoiled rotten one if we're being real, but he looks pretty cute sitting in front of the sign, eh?

robert isn't a big fan of treats (we're working on it).

but he does like caramel apples, so i've been encouraging that every chance i get. 

 going to see thriller is probably my very favorite october activity. my sweet little dad couldn't bear the thought of us not being able to go, so he surprised us by sending front row tickets. also 225$ worth of gas cards. 

best dad award.

  hee haws; our quest to find the perfect pumpkin. (we found it and it was only 5 dollars.)

we made it through the corn maze in record timing, but i'm pretty sure the maze didn't even have any wrong turns. we'll probably try another one next weekend, cause this one was like, 3/10. oops. 

i was mostly just in it for the pumpkin patch.

a-maze-ing.

 there it is: 2016's best pumpkin. 

pumpking.

  

feeling like champions.

also, i've started getting into hoop embroidery and it's the funnest thing. it's a good way to pass time as robert does his homework. here are a few of my favorites:

  this one is probably my #1 favorite so far:

it took about a week, but i'm pretty happy with it. 

anyway.

happy fall everyone!