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It's coming soon. I can feel it and smell it.  FALL is arriving.  My most favorite time of year. There is nothing like the change of season in Bucks County, PA. Nothing!  I love the months of October and November and our annual trips here and here.

We married in October and I always, always wanted a pumpkin baby.  But things were never timed correctly and we received a winter and a summer baby. (I'm not complaining!) But never that little pumpkin baby, (unless you count the giant pumpkin shaped belly that I carried with each one).  and it was BIG.  all in front and round. I'll have to dig and scan some pregger photos.  I guess I craved a fall baby for the chance to have spooky birthday parties, or just because I can't get enough of all the colors and smell of burning leaves.  I'm really not sure, but I'm in love with it all.

Tell me, do you have any pumpkin babies? fall weddings? autumn rituals? decorating tips? I would love to hear what fall is like where you call home.

Comments

[mag duru]

lovely post esp about the babies..happy fall!

[LauraLee]

A Fall wedding (Oct. 11) . . . 12 years this year.

A Fall bday (me - Nov. 12).

A new Fall baby? Sept. 1 this year . . . unless that's too early to count as a Fall baby, but he's still so new, and Fall has definitely arrived. And I'm loving it. Big brothers are both winter babies . ..

I'm in Ohio, not too far from you, but I think I heard some folks in your neck of the woods had snow this weekend???

[Michelle]

Hi Tara! I love your blog. Autumn is beginning to be beautiful here. I do have a pumpkin baby-Oct 18. He will be 15 this year. This is my absolute favorite month of the whole year.Happy fall!

[linda]

I have two fall babies! My baby girl turns 1 two days before Halloween. We are having her party on Halloween, nothing spooky for this little one... just bursting with fall color!

[Fifi Flowers]

Oooh how I LOVE Autumn... and I'm thrilled at the moment that it actually feels lik eFAl in So Cal!!!

[Gloria]

My dear hubby and I were wed on October 7, 1978. Congratulations on your Anniversary! My oldest daughter was born on October 14, 1980. Double the pleasure for us in the Fall...:) We celebrated her birthday with cupcakes topped with Brach's candy mellocreme pumpkins brought to school for all of her classmates. She still loves the candy pumpkins!

[Julie Marie Vicknair]

Hello Tara, I didn't see a place to comment on your knitlaces post... I am wearing my Cafe Latte knitlace I bought from you last year today!!!! I get sooo many compliments on it!!! I love it! xoxo Julie Marie

[Kimber-Leigh]

hi tara! we could switch places! i always wanted to get married in october (surrounded by the gorgeous colored mountains of NC) but alas...we married in may. however, i have three little october blessings! i loved having babies born in october...made for three very snuggly fall and winters...but it's also a very busy birthday month now! (all three within 12 days of each other's birthdays!)

[Tracy Hines]

Living in New Hampshire,there is all kinds of rituals we like to do. Highland Games in the White Mountains, Prepping our goods( Crafts, Art, Flowers, Veggies, Baked Goods, Etc) to show off at the Deerfield Fair. Just got back picking up my grandmothers knitting from the fair. Big old Harvest moon lighting our way to the fair. Picking apples at the local orchard on a dead end dirt road. Pure bliss!!!!!
My husband is a pumpkin baby(Nov)and we held our wedding reception in Oct. I wanted Mums everywhere with a fire place going in the background. The actually wedding was New Years Eve. I can't imagine a better season!

[monica lee]

I wanted my son to be born on Halloween so he could be a Halloween baby so badly but that kid did just NOT want to come out. He was born several days and 39 hours of labor later (told he didn't want out) I never thought of him as a pumpkin baby until now! yeah! I have a "pumpkin baby!"

[Jan Avellana]

:) hello from hawaii!
it is perpetually summer here, and i do long for the seasons…somehow i think it would make for a richer and more 'human' life! nevertheless, i will continue to dream about your crisp and colorful autumn while i bask in today's 90 degree heat :).

blessings from honolulu,
jan

[Rene']

Tara, I live in Florida so don't really get fall here. However for one weekend every October we have our family reunion in Mississippi. Sometimes we get lucky and have fall like weather.

I wanted to congratulate you on your book. I bought it and discovered this whole new world. Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed checking out all the blogs and discovered some really amazing quilt blogs. Motivated me to start me own. So thanks. It has been so much fun.

Rene'

[Carolyne]

Hey Tara, Fall as we know it here in australia is plan old Autumn and of course because we just love being different to everyone else in the world, our Autumn runs through March-May. Normally after our hot, drought and water restriction summers - I hang out for Autumn. We are celebrating spring at the moment which we are lov'in.

[the wild raspberry]

Good Morning Tara...it's my first time here...
You and your blog are both incredibly gorgeous!

Both my fairie~girls were born in June...as was I...
we LOVE that early summer month with so many celebrations.

But I agree...there is something very magical about this time of year...

Have a wonderful weekend~
Chasity

[miranda]

hi tara!

i have a pumpkin stepson! his birthday is halloween. i met him when he was only 9 months old, so i've celebrated all his birthdays with him. it's a really fun day, because it's like the whole world is celebrating with him!

he came home from the hospital in a pumpkin costume. the pictures are so cute.

i just got your book for my birthday, and i'm loving it! thanks for all the insight into blogging. i just started mine a couple months ago and it has been so fun.

miranda

[the NEO-traditionalist]

Ohhh this makes me want a pumpkin baby! I suppose I ought to plan on our upcoming wedding first...sigh.
XX Kate

[Gloria says...]

Hi Tara,
I love your blog and photos. Very beautiful. My husband and I were married on October 7th also! This coming anniversary will be 31 years for us...:)
Our oldest daughter's birthday is on October 14th, she was born right after our second anniversary. When she was in school I made homemade cupcakes frosted with orange frosting and topped each one with a Brach's candy pumpkin to share with her classmates. She still talks about how eating those candies makes her have warm childhood memories. We love the Fall! (This might be a repeat comment possibly, the one I just posted didn't seem to take. Will try it again...crossing my fingers! :))

[Gloria says....]

Hi Tara,
Lovely blog, and photos. My Dear Hubby and I got married on October 7th (will be 31 years this month...woohoo!). Our first Daughter (we have three) was born on October 14th, right after our second anniversary. Fall has always been a very special season for our family. We have always celebrated our Daughter's birthday with orange frosted cake (or cupcakes) topped with the little Brach's pumpkin mellowcreme candies which we brought to her school classroom every year to share with everyone.

[Sandy]

Hi Tara, I absolutely love this time of year. We live in Michigan so the days are pretty crisp now. My husband and I were married on September 24, and we had our 1st child two years later on the same day! So, we love Autumn! My baby's first outting was to the cider mill in the town we now live!
Enjoy the sights and smells of Fall!

[Caren]

YES!!!! I have a fall baby girl - October 19th. It will be 24 years ago this year. I too had a pumpkin tummy!

[Caren]

YES!!!!! I have a fall baby....October 19th. It will be twenty four years ago this year. I too had a pumpkin tummy!

[Gabrielle Mader]

Love Fall!! love the colors and since we are getting cooler here i'm feelin' the decorating vibe. I even have a little fallish giveaway so come one come all.

Love the jeep..they are so fun to drive...you'll love it.

[Jennifer Probasco]

Not to brag but I do have a "pumpkin baby." My daughter's birthday is Oct 14th and Halloween is our favorite time around the house. We live in NC and autumn is gorgeous here but would love to see your neck of the woods this time of year. Here's to many beautiful Fall days!

[maggie may]

Fall in San Diego is a strange and mysterious thing...

[Mom]

Talk about pumpkin babies, I have a Oct. 11th daughter and October 12th granddaughter. Also a beautiful daughter married in October.
Mom

[Julie Marie]

Hello Tara, I left a comment yesterday but maybe it didn't go... love all of your Autumn decorating, I remember your posts well from last year and how fun it looked going to the pumpkin patch... Happy Autumn... Julie Marie

[ashley crim]

i am due with our first child...a fall baby in less than 4 weeks now! this is most certainly my favorite time of year and being from texas...currently living in pa gives a whole new appreciation of the colors that just can't be found everywhere! i am excited to have found your lovely blog!

[Jullie Marie Vicknair]

Hi Tara, please stop by my blog again and you will get a little idea of how CRAZY I go this time of year! I LOVE Autumn and Halloween is my very favorite... I remember how much I loved your posts last year about the pumpkin patch with your "ghoul friends" as I call them! We have so many Autumn rituals, and I don't ever break traditions my mama started when I was a little girl... Happy Autumn to you! Oh yes, homemade chili is my specialty this beautiful time of year too!!! Bisous... Julie Marie

[Winona]

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[shanti]

Dear Tara

Am a fan, love your blog, your bliss book (read in 1 night), you are an inspiration to many, my friend!

love & blessings*, shanti

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