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Fall Bucket List Update #1

Ahhh fall! My favorite season of the year. I really missed it when we lived in California! Now I get to enjoy all the fall fun! Progress 3/25

  1. Visit two pumpkin patches (1/2)

    • Vala’s - Obviously!

  2. Carve pumpkins

  3. Read 10 spooky books (not kids) (3/10)

    • Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

    • The Tower Formerly Known as Sears by Lisa M. Lilly

    • Life Among the Dead by Daniel Cotton

  4. Read 20 spooky kids books (6/20)

    • Five Silly Ghosts by Hilli Kushnir

    • The Pout-pout Fish Halloween Faces by Deborah Diesen

    • Happy Halloween Mittens by Lola Schaefer

    • The Halloween Kid by Rhode Montijo

    • Pumpkin Party by Maudie Powell-Tuck

    • Mouse’s First Halloween by Lauren Thompson

  5. Make 5 pumpkin recipes (1/5)

    • Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins - a staple this time of year!

  6. Go on a hayride ✓

  7. Take pictures of boys in a pile of leaves

  8. Find a new Halloween activity

  9. Create a fall signature cocktail

  10. Bake a pie

  11. Watch 20 Fall/spooky movies (10/20)

    • Idle Hands (1999)

    • Dracula (1931)

    • The Black Cat (1934)

    • The Mummy (1932)

    • Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)

    • The Mummy (1999)

    • Beetlejuice (1988)

    • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

    • A Cabin in the Woods (2012)

    • Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

  12. Navigate a corn maze ✓

  13. Buy Halloween pajamas

  14. Buy a new nail color for fall

  15. Make a leaf craft

  16. Buy a new pair of boots

  17. Buy and complete a new puzzle

  18. Decorate the front porch

  19. Make a scarecrow

  20. Go trick-or-treating

  21. Fill 25 more reading challenge slots (11/25)

  22. Find a Halloween door hanger ✓ - We have a cute hanging “BOO” for the front door.

  23. Dye my hair something suitably fall

  24. Watch It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

  25. Eat at 3 new-to-me restaurants

Next up on the TBR pile: