It's Fall, Ya'll!

I'm not like your typical basic white girl who loves the fall. I don't like wearing boots and scarves, and I'm not pumpkin's biggest fan. However, it wasn't until I moved to Rexburg a couple years ago that I saw the leaves change for the first time, and that is beautiful. 

I don't love fall because it means that Rexburg is going to get really cold, but I do love that it means the holiday season is coming quickly, and holidays mean family and the pure love of Christ. I love that, so I don't hate fall all that much.

To celebrate the month of October, we decorated our home with some Halloween decorations, but nothing too fancy since I finally decorated our house to begin with. Ethan and I decided that we needed to bring some Halloween traditions into our lives starting with attending the pumpkin patch and carving pumpkins! 

My family went to the pumpkin patch every year growing up with all of our extended family, but Ethan hasn't been for like 15 years. We decided it would be best celebrated with some of our favorite people, the Nystroms!

We went to this cute little pumpkin patch about 15 minutes outside of town. They had a hayride, a fairytale forest, a corn kernel filled sand box, a pumpkin cannon, and a ton of pumpkins! It was fun, but the place was just built, so we are excited to see its potential in the upcoming years while we are still in Rexburg. Their pumpkins were too expensive for poor college kids, but we did go to the local grocery store and buy one there.

                    

The boys did most of the carving, and we roasted the pumpkin seeds. Katelynn and Erik carved theirs to look like a Volkswagen Bus, I should get a picture of it because it was so well done. Ethan and I couldn't decide what to carve because I only ever carve smiley faces, Ethan put together this cool design that is a "W" for Watson in a pumpkin-like shape. 

Then, we stayed at the Nystrom's house until late into the night talking and laughing and telling real-life scary stories. I'm so grateful that we have people so close to us who we love and enjoy spending time with. 

 

Ethan and I are always looking for new traditions to make.

What are your favorite fall traditions?