10 on the Tenth

10 Favorite Things about Fall:
1. Cooler weather...eventually. It was 91 Thursday, 51 today!
2. Getting out fall decorations--apples, pumpkins, and scarecrows!
3. College football--Razorbacks, Aggies, and, um, KirkHerbstreetonESPN!
4. Candy corn and apples dipped in caramel and apple cake and apple pancakes and hot chocolate and...
5. Cuddling to keep warm
6. Fall colors--dark green, browns, golds, rusts
7. Fall textures--sweaters, corduroy, wool
8. Wood smoke--mmmm
9. Raking leaves, jumping in leaves, crunching leaves underfoot
10. Trips to the pumpkin patch!

The girls with my great-niece Gabby

And here's Gabby's brother, my great-nephew Garrett

My nephew Thomas with his wife Stacy, my brother Mark with his wife Sally, and Garrett, trying to keep warm