Fall is here?!

My absolute favorite time of year is September through December! I love summer too, but I love decorating our house for fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, making holiday recipes, and watching college football. It is so awesome to have 3 big holiday months in a row, with September being the start of the football season. So...I'm excited it's September.

I have to say though that when I turned my calendar Monday I was a little shocked. It's September already?! WHERE did summer go? Even looking back through my Outlook calendar to see what all happened over the last 3 months I can't figure it out. We even went on a great vacation to the caribbean in June, but that seems like eons ago! It's really mind boggling to think it was all a blur...and that it was our last summer before kids. Next summer we can take our babies to the pool! I'm really bummed that we only went camping once (Memorial Day, and it snowed) and didn't even manage to go backpacking because there were so many other things going on. But then again, if I were pregnant, we couldn't have done it, so I have to look at it that way - the first stage of having kids. :)

So, the last couple of days I sort of felt sad looking back at a summer I can hardly remember, but now I'm excited for it to turn fall in a couple of weeks...because that is the season Nathan and Sara will probably come! I have to bust out my decorative pumpkins all over the house soon. Last year, the cable guy came over in October and I had all my Halloween decor up. He was like, "oh, you must have kids!" LOL "No, I just like cutesy holiday decorations on my own". :) If you check out http://www.terrysvillage.com/ you'll see the kind of stuff I mean! Like, how cute are ceramic ghosts?! http://www.terrysvillage.com/ui/browse/processRequest.do?demandPrefix=12&sku=93/201&prodCatId=163292&mode=Browsing&erec=13&Ne=90000&sp=true&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&N=163292&tabId=HolidayDecor&requestURI=processProductsCatalog&sd=Ghosts+with+Pumpkins
I have two sets of those and put one set on my desk every year for October!

I know, it's a bit hoaky, but I just love this stuff. :) I am going to go crazy for Christmas since we'll hopefully be bringing the babies home by then and I want to make it feel like our own little winter wonderland! (Of course B, being the practical person he is, warned me not to go too crazy because I won't feel like taking stuff down when there are 2 newborns and we'll have Christmas up still in March. OK, OK, good point, but I'll deal with that later, for now, CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS!)