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Dear fall

 

Dear fall,

I love you. I’m so glad you’re finally here.

Andrew built the rest of our window screens last week just so we could enjoy you more.

Thank you for giving me a reason to break out my cardigans and rain boots.

Thank you for making apples and almond butter taste [...]

Autumn tradition: Corn maze

One of my favorite newer Autumn traditions has been visiting a corn maze!!

This is something neither Andrew nor I did growing up, but when we lived in Arizona, Michelle introduced us to the wonder and glory of navigating a corn maze after dark …

Last year (2010) Tucson corn maze (2007) Tucson corn [...]

Schubert Eats: homemade spiced cider

I have loved hot apple cider FOREVER.

When I was growing up, we used to get little apple cider powder packets in bulk from Costco.

And then when Andrew and I started dating, we would hang out drinking apple cider every night after work.

We even included apple cider as part [...]

10 things I love about Autumn

 (in no particular order)

hot apple cider, with carmel, cinnamon and whipped cream cooler weather, turning off the AC and needing an quilt pumpkin patches and nighttime corn mazes apples and peanut butter baked potatoes and homemade soup scarves and cardigans Scary October hoodie sweatshirts candy corn Harry Potter and Band [...]

Team Schubert Autumn minibook

This fall I will be maintaining a little mini-scrapbook to help us remember the details of the season.

Autumn is so special to Andrew and me – we fell in love 10 years ago this fall … We got married 6 years ago this fall… We have [...]

Feels like Fall

Fall has been in SoCal for a few weeks now …. all of a sudden, it was a Sunday afternoon and I needed socks and a sweater to go outside! Just out of nowhere …. it was heaven.

There are not a lot of trees on our street, so I can’t judge the season [...]

Finally the weather is cooling down.  Finally at night it’s chilly in our apartment.  I love the fall (I think I posted about Fall last year as well).  Amy and I have a tradition of watching scary/sci-fi/thriller/cheesy spooky comedies starting in October….well, this is our second year.  But we don’t watch spooky movies all [...]