Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall List!

Today is the last day of summer and it's appropriately rainy and chilly. I'm not gonna let this get me down.

We had so much fun crossing things off our Summer List. Here's how we did:

1. Go to Erie
2. Go Camping
3. Play in the waterfall on the North Shore
4. Host a dinner party outside, with a fire.
5. Go to the Indiana County Fair in my hometown
6. Go hiking
7. Go to the drive ins
8. Make Lemon Blueberry cupcakes Well, we made a cake and that's close enough!
9. Go to Soergel's Farm and have ice cream
10. Make organic Banana Pudding Pops
11. Campfire bananas - (Thank you Burgh Baby!)
12. Landscape the back yard
13. Play basketball with Kurt
14. Teach Scouty to really ride her bike.
15. Get my very first pedicure.
16. 30 days of smoothies
17. Edit my book I'm getting there, slowly.
18. Take a nap
19. Go to the movies with my husband
20. Take Scouty to an outdoor movie in the park
21. Have a snow cone
22. Go to the strip on Saturday morning with Daddy and the girls
23. Go out for breakfast
24. Persuade Kurt to call off work one day and have an adventure.
25. Smell a newborn
26. Mulch the flowerbeds

28. Have an awesome giveaway
29. Bobby pin updos
30. Go to the park first thing in the morning before everybody else gets up
31. Get a hammock stand
32. Commit a completely random act of kindness
33. Iced Herbal Coffee Lattes with decadent flavored cream
34. Get rid of all the stuff we don't need
35. Lose 20 lbs
36. Swim in the ocean
37. Make Louisey's birthday cake, from scratch, all by myself
38. Play an awesome game of Kickball
39. Go to Idlewild Park
40. Picnic on Mt. Washington
41. Go to Mineral Beach Pool
42. Read a whole book on the beach
43. Make the yummiest dessert in the world and share it
44. Catch fireflies with Scouty
45. Use our free pass to Bower Hill Swim Club
46. Visit the country
47. Pick berries
48. Tomato sandwiches from the garden on homemade bread
49. Visit GG's grave
50. Bring flowers to someone

Not bad for a summer full of adventures, right?

So, now it's time for goodbye to swimming and camping and movie nights in the park, overlooking the beautiful city.

We love you, Summer!


But, don't fret, now... because here is our super duper extra fun Fall Fun List!



1. Pick Apples
2. Make Halloween Costumes
3. Hayrides
4. IUP Homecoming Parade
5. Simmons Pumpkin Festival
6. Ride the Tunnel Bike Trail
7. Visit Soergels Farm and get yummy Pumpkin Butter
8. Prepare garden beds for next year
9. Go hiking
10. Walk around IUP campus
11. Play at Anderson Playground and have lunch in Oakland
12. Get one fiction piece in a perfect state and submit to literary journals
13. Fall reading list
14. Go to a Haunted House
15. Go on a date with Kurt
16. Ride the North Shore Trail on my bike
17. Go on a Gateway Clipper Riverboat sightseeing tour
18. Pick Apples
19. Eat Pumpkin Pie
20. Ride the Incline to the top of Mt. Washington
21. Do something brave
22. See a scary movie
23. Warm Cider and a Fire
24. Kabocha Squash with Honey and Thyme
25. Go on a hayride
26. Apple Festival
27. Go to Round Hill Farm
28. Lose 20 lbs.
29. Start Xmas Shopping
30. Cut sugar (almost) completely out of my diet.
31. Dye my hair
32. Pile of leaves at the bottom of a slide!
33. Lay down landscaping fabric
34. Build a raised bed in front of the house
35. Get a replacement wheel and rollerskate
36. Get control of my diet and eat only whole, clean things.
37. Finish my manuscript
38. Write a good query letter
39. Go to the Trolley Museum
40. Bake a cinnamon swirl bread
41. Get Louisey Walking full time!
42. Cook with gratuitous amounts of pumpkin
43. Herbal Coffee Lattes
44. Buy a cool hat
45. Get back into a yoga and weights routine
46. Get a used baby bike seat
47. Drink fresh pressed apple cider
48. Decorate for Halloween
49. Go to The Strip on a weekend morning with Daddy
50. Go to a Halloween Parade


How about you? What's on your Fall Fun List?