It's Fall!! Kinda

You guys, it's finally Fall!!  Our weather is only kinda cooperating though... We've had some very crisp Fall-ish days, and then we've had some humid Summer-ish days too with crazy rain.  Today is one of the Summer-ish humid days with tons of rain, so that is very lame.  October is riiiiight around the corner, so the Fall weather had better come back and stay for MONTHS!

But, since Fall is supposedly here, I made a Fall Bucket List!  Here it is!

The only ones I have done so far is that I've made a few pumpkin things already thanks to Trader Joes (pumpkin cinnamon rolls, pumpkin ravioli, and pumpkin soup), and I've tried 2 Oktoberfest beers (Locust Lane, which is brewery very near us, and Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest), and of course we've watched some football.  So, nothing can be crossed off quite yet!  I think I've found a good Oktoberfest for us to go to (supposedly it's one of the 10 best in the world?), and I found a new farm/orchard for us to go to for apple picking and pumpkins. So, it should be an AMAZING Fall!! 

And one thing that always signals Fall in our neighborhood is that the deer are EVERYWHERE!  They're really out-and-about with lots of little baby deer too.  I've been able to take a few pictures while I've been on walks with Guinness!

This was early morning on the weekend!  It was so foggy and chilly - I loved it. 

This was early evening after work! Soooo many deer!!  

And something that's lingering from Summer is the bugs... They are insane right now.  Mosquitos are going nuts (I feel like I always have at least a few mosquito bites...), and the spiders are insane right now.  Here's a HUGE spider I found in our basement... It was on the wall right by the washer/dryer, and it was probably the size of a golf ball.  Ewww.  I calmly went back upstairs and asked Kevin to kill this one.  I will usually kill spiders on my own, but this one was just huge.  

SO GROSS.  

And I'm not sure if you can see the spider web here, but this was while I was out on a walk with Guinness.  The spider was huge (it's right on the middle of the web), and that web was bigger than a dinner plate.

A few weeks ago Kevin and I went to see Elton John!  He's on his farewell tour, and it was seriously one of the top 3 concerts I've ever been to.  It was SO great.  Elton sounded amazing, and he sang ALL of his hits!!  It was such a fun show. 

And a few weekends ago we went to a Union soccer match with Kevin's family!  Kevin and his friend Juliff have season tickets, and it was Kevin's cousin Brendan's last night in the U.S. before he went back to Italy, so we all got together for a few hours of tailgating and to watch the Union game.  The tailgating was awesome, and Kevin grilled burgers and hot dogs for everyone!  Unfortunately the game was not very lovely... The Union ended up losing by a lot. 

This coming weekend we're heading to New York for a daytrip on Saturday, and then on Sunday I'm thinking maybe I'll decorate for Halloween since it's almost exactly one month from Halloween!  Yayy!!