Pumpkin Season is Coming

If you know me, then you know Fall is my favorite season of the year. You also know pumpkin flavored anything is life. Here in August, I’m already getting excited by all of the upcoming pumpkin products being advertised!

Dunkin Donuts

I am seriously in love with Dunkin’s advertising this year. I love coffee, lattes AND donuts, and will most certainly be making stops to get my morning pumpkin fix in.

 

Beer

Yes, I am a sucker for pumpkin beer as well. My favorites: Big Muddy’s Pumpkin Smasher and O’Fallon’s Pumpkin Beer. I will never turn down a pumpkin beer though, so any challengers are welcome to try me to see if they can give either of those two a run for their money.

 

M&Ms

I know some people make a face when they see these. So far everything I’ve heard about the new candy is positive, so I’m honestly hopeful for M&M’s White Pumpkin Pie.

 

Cheerios

Because Pumpkin Spice is obviously a breakfast thing. Or late night snack thing. Chris found a box of these for me last year and they disappeared pretty quick. Cheerios hit the flavor on the head, so I’ll be keeping an eye out for these.

 

Recipes

 

I’ve been pinning crazy amounts of pumpkin recipes I’ve been wanting to try… Cookies, bars, and yes, even delicious waffles like the ones shown here by Nora from Savory Nothings. My marathon long runs are going to be fueled by delicious flavor.

 

Pie

Can’t forget about the amazing gem that started it all. Pumpkin Pie > all other pie


Bring it on, Fall.

What’s Your Element?

You know those quizzes you can take on Facebook? The “What Is Your Element” quiz where you either get something like Light, Fire, Electricity, Heart, etc?

Well, I know all of those quiz results lie to me. I know my element.

Autumn Trees

It’s Autumn.

Don’t know what it is. The pumpkin spice everything, the changing of colors, the cooling temperatures or the fact that fall clothing looks 100 times better than all of the other apparel out there.

Pumpkin Patch: Trip 1

From the spoken words of my friends, I am the queen of Fall. If you need to get into the autumn spirit, talk to me. I have already been to two pumpkin patches this year. Two. And I know that will not be the end of it.

Pumpkin Patch Trip: 2

Corn mazes, apple cider slushies, picking pumpkins for harvesting later… Honestly what could be a better way to spend your afternoon?

Not only is there pumpkin everything, the weather becomes cooler.

Cool weather = better running.

The humid, early morning runs are gone, and the cool, racing fall days are here. This Sunday I am running my fourth marathon and the forecasted high is 71° F with sunny skies.

It makes those, humid early mornings worth it. (You have no idea how hard it was to type that.)

And after that, it will be a perfect time to binge watch fall TV. Flash, The Walking Dead, Agents of Shield, Arrow, iZombie, Star Wars: Rebels…

Fall TV Series

And we haven’t even gotten to Halloween yet.

What are you most excited for with Fall?