I'm sitting here at work...with my foot heater on! I guess I need to put up my open toed sandals---and start wearing fall stuff! Whenever my toes get cold, my whole body gets cold...so hopefully my toes will be nice and toasty in a few minutes!
I am LOVING the fall crisp air. I actually got up this morning and packed Joe and I a picnic for lunch today. Don't start thinking I am super-mom or anything of the nature. It's just PB&J and a bag of doritoes...and we'll have to get cokes from the breakroom. I meant to grab a blanket, but forgot---so we'll just have to sit on the park bench to eat it. He commented the other day...with the nice weather, how we could run through the drive-thru & take it to the park---but we didn't do it.
Abbey had to be at school at 7:00 this morning for her chorus practice. We do so much better, when we get up 30 minutes earlier & leave the house on time. I am usually still "hollering" at her to brush her teeth @ 7:00!
Fall weather has me giddy for a few reason---1. photography wise...it will be so nice to do photoshoots WITHOUT dripping in sweat! I have one to do this afternoon & I think it will be the perfect afternoon for pictures! 2. Fall is the perfect weather for softball! The girls, even though they still get hot/sweaty/stinky (believe me about this. We had to ride with the windows down on the way to hotel on Saturday night!!! Sunday she wore an extra dosage of deodorant!!!!!)---they don't have the summer sun blazing down on them. It is also nice to have a gentle breeze blowing while you are watching the games. 3. ALABAMA Football---need I say anymore?! 4. The foliage change is one of the highlights of the season. The girls have VERY fond memories of us flying to Montana and New Hampshire for "leaf peeping"---Kayla will tell you that our trip to NH a couple of years ago, was her favorite vacation EVER. Growing up, South Alabama and Northwest Florida wasn't the perfect place to experience any color changes. You had green and you had brown. I don't remember seeing any vibrant red, yellow or orange. Now living at the foot of Oak Mountain---we still all these colors. Sunday afternoon driving is at its best when the leaves are changing. Joe and I know exactly where to go---what back roads to take & truly enjoy it. 5. Halloween. Ok---Abbey and I seriously LOVE Halloween...and we LOVE to decorate! Several years ago, I found a 4 foot cackling witch. Then I found some ghost lights...and we decided to turn one of my small Christmas trees into a ghost tree. After Halloween, that ghost tree becomes a turkey tree...and then it is finally decorated for its original intent. Abbey LOVES to try and scare Kayla. One year she found the glow-in-the-dark mice at the Dollar Tree...she spread them all around Kayla's bedroom to try and scare her. Last year she found a cheap mask. Lookout Kayla---she's already starting the plans now to SCARE YOU! 6. Thanksgiving will be here before we know it too. We do a "just the 4 of us" thing. I cook a turkey and enough fixings for 10 families though! But the day after Thanksgiving...all the artifical trees will go up---all the decorations except for the main/live tree...and of course we will go out for some shopping with the masses! 7. I know I already mentioned Alabama football...but there is also the Alabama v. Auburn game that deserves a place to itself! This year, the game will be in Tuscaloosa...and we will be there!
Ok---back to work for me.
Oh and if you get the Shelby County Reporter. Check out the back page of the Sport's section.
Roll Tide!!!!! It is cooler here and I so love fall...it is my favorite time of year.
Posted by: wendy | September 25, 2008 at 12:55 PM