Thankful day 17: Fall

Fall is one of my most favorite times of year.

I love the colors.

I love the cooler temperatures.

I love that I get to break out my awesome boots and scarves.

A few weeks ago, Monkey had an assignment to bring to school a various assortment of fall items.

5 different kinds of leaves, twigs, pine cones, acorns, and a gourd.

We took the opportunity to use that as an "excuse" to drive up Big Cottonwood Canyon.

We usually drive up to see the colors every year around the first of October, but this year we just hadn't gotten to it yet.

Now it was almost the end of October, and I'm so glad we waited!

Fall was late coming this year, and if we'd gone earlier, we'd have missed what we found!

It was so stunning up there!

 When we reached the top, Princess refused to have her picture taken with her dad and brother, so she took a pic of me with them instead.

Poor Monkey lost his head in a couple of the shots.

Brighton actually had a bit of snow...on the ground, to the right.

You can't see it in this shot, but it is there.

*sobs*

On the way down we stopped at one of our favorite campgrounds to see if they had anything we needed.

We found the ground covered in leaves.

Since it was closed for the season, we decided to have a good time throwing leaves at each other.

I just wish it wasn't over so quickly.

Fall only lasts about a month, sometimes less.

I guess we should feel lucky it lasted over 6 weeks.

I just wish the snow wasn't coming close behind it!

It's been a long time....Mama Kat's Writers Workshop

So I haven't updated my blog in FOR.EV.ER. {think Sandlot}

And well, it's time that I start making my blog work for me! I plan on doing many things this winter that will help out my family. I may have a blog name change. I may not. I am GOING to open an Etsy store. I probably won't sell on eBay though.

What does this have to do with you or today's post? Not much. I'm just chattering. :) Thanks for reading my chatter.

Now, onto the more important part of my post, I'm doing Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop today. {are you?!}

The point? Choose a prompt and write. Sweet! I can do that!

The prompt I have chosen is: The perfect fall photo…share a picture that defines fall for you in your neck of the woods.

In Utah we don't really have Fall, per say. I mean, there's a 2 week blurp in there after Summer where the leaves start to turn and the weather gets cooler, but it USUALLY dumps snow on us around Halloween.

This year was different. We got a light snow in October, and some horrendous rain, but really, Fall hung out for about 2 1/2 months this year. It was A-MAZING! This is the second year we went up Little Cottonwood Canyon to see the colors. Last year we did it on October 2nd, and there was already snow up there. This year we went up October 16th and there was no snow yet, but it was chilly, but not freezing!

Here is up at the top of Snowbird. Behind us is the Salt Lake Valley. It was beautiful!

We only got our first real snow storm this week. If this became the pattern in Utah, I'll take it. I love Fall in Utah!

You should play along this week with Mama Kat!