Of All The Holidays In All The Towns In All The World, You Celebrated Mine

October 15, 2014

Holidays are a funny thing. They're something you schedule, take time off of work for, see family for, buy things for, eat massive pounds of food for--you do so much on a Holiday. Yet, the holiday season is also known for being the hardest, saddest, and most stressful time of the year. Maybe it's because you have to schedule, buy, cook, see family... We love and hate it all for the same reasons (although Jason and I are lucky--both sides of our family are wonderful).

There is one day though. One day out of the whole year that's special. A holiday that everyone lets slip right by from under their nose without a second thought. Of course, our wedding day is excluded from being called a holiday--it's its own amazing day, too beautiful to be called a holiday. This amazing day is Fall Day.

Fall Day is the holiday of Autumn leaves, fresh picked pumpkins, crispy apples, tomato soup and grilled cheese. It's the first real day of Fall. Sure, we've had a few days where there were some leaves falling; a few yellow or brown. It's been a little cooler but not really chilly. You haven't been able to pull out that warm, knit sweater or have that hot cup of cider. There have only been small glimpses in the window of fall. But today... today it happened. Fall Day hit. Suddenly it was cold. You longed to grab the sweater, cider, and it just felt right to buy that pumpkin.

Jason and I went to work thinking it might just be a normal day. Just a regular Wednesday. But then, we went outside. The leaves were different colors--not a ton for it is Georgia. There was a fast breeze of cold air and the urge to bundle up in blankets followed immediately. Today had to be Fall Day. Jason and I chatted each other at work and declared today to be the first real day of Fall.

Immediately when I got home, I made our house look as fall-like as possible. I cleaned, opened up all the windows, and placed our fresh apples from a Kentucky farm in a large bowl. 

When Jason got home from work, we quickly ran to the store and purchased the necessary items for the day. When arriving home, Jason and I began to cook. Jason was in charge of the soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, I the cookies. Once cookies and dinner were almost done, we let the soup stew while decorating the house a little with our newly bought pumpkins. We also took our annual Fall-Day picture:

 Oh Fred!

 We kept laughing because Jason had such a hard time getting the camera to take the picture with the remote.

After the picture, I took pictures of Jason for fun:

 What a suave-looking man :^)

After taking pictures, we finished up dinner and put it on our coffee table with the candlesticks from our honeymoon. We eat in the living room so we can watch our Fall Day movie, Arsenic and Old Lace. Best fall movie ever! We also usually watch Charlie Brown (It's the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown!), but we ran out of time today. We will watch it soon though! Believe you me!

Below are pictures of the evening:

 Fred must think it's Halloween because clearly he is posing as a cute, adorable bunny!

There is no one in the world I'd rather spend Fall Day with than with Jason!