Cafe de Valentine

fall means a lot of things to us around here. we anticipate it with much joy. *not dying of heat stroke *remembering what long sleeves look like *pumpkins! *hay rides at the pumpkin patch *beautiful leaves on the trees *mums! *scarecrows *thanksgiving with equals FOOD! *christmas shopping *pumpkin spice candles *little kids in cute costumes *red starbucks cups! *FOOTBALL! go bulldogs! *caruthers fair *pie *crisp mornings with the windows open and coffee in hand *shorter days (too bad the word day didn't get shorter with the daylight huh?) *family get togethers and this year... *baby CARSYN, our first nephew! (pending arrival on or before nov 10th) *tara's coming to visit! (she's really coming to see carsyn, but i won't let myself believe that)

today is sept 24. the first official day of fall was two days ago. i should be breaking out the long sleeves, close toed shoes, scarves, hot chocolate, blankets, sweatshirts etc. i should be snapping pictures on the side of the road of these leaves. i should be able to head to the park to gaze at the beautiful colors. instead i'm turning down the air, wearing tank tops, staying indoors so not to have heat stroke, and hydrating myself regularly. it's still hot, it's still sunny, and i'm just plain sick of it. i just can't put out my pumpkins and scarecrows and fall wreaths when i'm sweating profusely . i just can't. so until that forecast changes a bit, it's still summer here to me. regardless of what the calendar says. my seasons are dictated my the thermometer these days. we're supposed to have an " el nino " year this year which means LOTS of rain. we'll see if that happens. we sure need it. big things are happening around her...

well, fall has offically arrived as football season is well underway. while we as a couple follow NFL a bit... college football is truely the focus these days. we are the proud owner of season tickets to the Fresno State Football games and we even made the drive down to LA two weekends ago for the FSU vs. UCLA game (which we won). nothing is more thrilling than the team running from the "tunnel" to the awaiting fans cheering them on. the band playing the fight song. the cheerleaders flipping and twirling their way down the field ahead of the team. of course, our favorite part is watching the real pet bulldog puppy play with a toy football on the side lines of each game (for those of you who don't know, ry and i have always wanted an old english bulldog). this last saturday we played Hawaii in a heart breaking game which we lost in overtime by three points. as you can see the hawaii team has some BIG boys with lots of hair! they played well and while we should have beat th...