FALL

FALL... my favorite time of year. Crisp fall mornings, watching the leaves change colors and fall off the trees, watching football games in "football weather", my birthday need I say more!?! Living in Houston I don't get to experience all of these anymore. These are things that I definitely took for granted growing up in NC. Lucky for me I will be able to be back in NC for a friend's wedding so that I can experience my first NC fall since 2004. Wow :) I'm super excited.

With all of these things that I miss I have learned to appreciate other things about fall during the past 4 years in Houston. I tend to lean more on smells to remind me of fall... Candles, sweets, pumpkins etc.


Today to usher in fall of 2010 I decided to make my favorite fall dessert, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! I didn't discover my love for these until I moved to Texas, and now I bake them several times each year... Here is a picture of the finished product... Ladies of GBC get excited they are coming with me on the retreat this weekend!!!
Here is Gemma trying to sneak into the kitchen to get into the baking action!