Fall Fun

Fall has to be my favorite season of the year. I love to see the leaves change colors, I love the brisk mornings and evenings, and I love that it is not too hot during the day to be outside. Fall also brings a lot of events and activities. This weekend was packed full of fun.

We started the weekend with an event called Rock the John. This is Clemson's attempt at midnight madness although it is not at midnight, not mad, and actually a week after the office start of basketball season. I enjoy it because it is the publics first introduction to the year's basketball team. We decided to take Drake this year, even though it was a late night for him, and he did great. I'm hoping this will be a good sign for basketball season and that the constant activity, music, and timeouts will keep his attention.

Saturday morning I had to meet golf recruits before the football game, so we decided to Take him to his first football game of the season. Going into it, I knew that we were not going to stay at the game long; noon games just don't work for a 20 month old that needs to nap! In the end, we stayed one quarter and Drake fell asleep in the car on the 3 minute drive home.

It was such a beautiful day that we decided to have a fire in the fire pit and cook dinner outside. This helped us clean some of the falling limbs from the woods around us while spending time outside. Drake knows that the fire was hot and stayed away, although he did want to try and throw some wood in as well. Our neighbors joined us toward the end of the evening for some s'mores.

After an afternoon of yard work on Sunday, we headed to Greenville to go to Boo in the Zoo. I know, it is early to start Halloween celebrations but, the event started this weekend and we already have two Halloween events to attend next weekend, so we decided to stretch it out some. I think it was a good decision because Drake was not too into the whole thing yet and, I imagine, the crowds were thinner this weekend. Next year, we will play to go a little earlier in the evening (we went at 6:45) in hopes that more of the animals will still be outside/awake. Our little cow did moo...