Fall is in the Air...

Can you feel it?

The crispness in the evenings is starting already...

Our mild summer is quickly heading into Autumn and I for one, am not complaining.

The smell of apple-scented anything in the stores...
Joann's is completely decked out in Fall already!

My favorite season of all time is nearing and

it feels oh so good.

Photo courtesy of MarthaStewart.com

It's times like these that I wish I lived somewhere colored richly with the hues of Autumn.
Where the leaves crackle under your feet when you walk down the street,
wrapped warmly in a scarf and coat.

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Feelings of warmth and family and comfort are already slowly trickling

in and we're still about 6 weeks out to the actual 1st day of Fall.

Not to mention the return of these lovely things:

Things on my wishlist for this Fall:

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  Get inspired at Roger's Gardens
• Visit Julian, CA
• Make a homemade french apple pie
• Make our annual family trip to the Pa's Pumpkin Patch
• Mickey's Halloween Treat
• Drink apple cider and watch "The Worst Witch" with the kids like I used to do as a kid.
• Apple pickin' at Riley's Farm
• Attempt my very first turkey dinner by myself
• Bake a pumpkin cheesecake
• See Disneyland all decked out for the season
• Carve pumpkins with my littles
• Get all weepy listing all the things I'm thankful for at the Thanksgiving dinner table
• Celebrate Kate's 3rd birthday

Take a little walk down memory lane with me, won't you?

Vintage Gosselin Fall Photos

Oct. 2005

Oct. 2006 in Julian, CA

This little town reminds me a little bit of Stars Hollow.

High five to those of you who know what I'm talking about...

Eric & Charlie in Julian

Us in Julian

Oct. 2006

Sept. 2007

Oct. 2007

Kate's 1st pumpkin

Eric's pride & joy

Sept. 2008

Sept. 2008

Sept. 2008

{Oh man, the walk down memory lane is always a bittersweet one, isn't it?

Just makes me realize that we've done a really good job so far, at

helping the babies get as much as they can out of this crazy, wonderful life.)

For right now, I am itching so badly to

put this baby on my front door...

would I look like a nut if I did that in the dead of August?

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New beginnings are closing in on me and my little family. It makes me nervous.

My boy is starting Kindergarten in a few short weeks.

I had a hard time just TYPING out those words.

YIKES.

I've had all summer to prepare and still, I am not ready.

As with a lot of things in life, ready or not, here it comes.

Letting go is hard...

SIGH.

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And finally, on a more serious note:

Ella has a surgery scheduled for August 25th to remove the little

bump on the side of her head. The very thought of it makes me sick to my

stomach, thinking about her being put to sleep and cut open.

My perfect little baby shouldn't have to have surgery performed on her!

But in my heart I know that the bump would do no good to her and

could indeed be detrimental to her and so it must come out...

Please, please, please pray hard for our littlest girl...

that everything goes smoothly.

Thank you very much.