Hello my special Blogland Friends! I was SO happy to wake up this morning and see so many pretty new decorations in our house!! I asked Mommie what it could all mean? She said we are celebrating the season of Autumn, or "Fall", when the air starts getting cooler and the leaves turn pretty colors begin to "fall" from the trees outside! She said we will be watching for those changes when we take our walks in the coming days and weeks, because here in Florida, where we live, it takes a bit longer to really feel and look like Autumn. We don't have as many pretty trees that get colored leaves like they do up north, and the weather tends to stay pretty warm until later next month.
But Mommie said we don't have to wait for the leaves to change and the air to get cooler outside to get ready for autumn inside! And so, when I must have been sleeping, Mommie asked my big brother Scotty to bring in the boxes of fall decorations from the shed so she could start decorating. I was so excited to see all these pretty things! You see, I wasn't living here last year when autumn came here, so I never saw any of this before! It really is quite exciting!
I asked Mommie what all those things meant on that sign:
"Hay Rides, Apple Picking, Bonfires, Raking Leaves, Corn Maze, and Pumpkin Patch".
She said those are kinds of fun things that people love to do during the fall season. Sadly, we don't have any apple orchards here in Florida, so we can't do that. But if we look hard enough, we might be able to find some of the other places to do those things. We can make a bonfire right here in our own back yard too. And we will have some leaves to rake eventually!
Mommie said that autumn is also the season when we have Thanksgiving, and we will have a big gathering of family and friends to celebrate and eat turkey and give thanks to God for all our many blessings. Of course, we give thanks to God everyday for all our blessings. We don't have to wait for Thanksgiving to do that! But Thanksgiving is very very special. I can't wait to eat my first Thanksgiving dinner with all our family!
Mommie said most all we want to be "grateful" for all that God has done for us.
I noticed something else. This pretty teacup as pretty purple flowers on it, and inside the cup it says "September".
Mommie really likes that cup because September is her birth month! She said later this month we will celebrate her birthday! Oh goodie! I can't wait!!! I love birthday parties...as you will see in a few minutes...
But first, we had to visit the "Scarecrow Crossing". I asked Mommie, "what's a scarecrow?" And she said it was a funny man made of straw and old clothes on a post in the garden to scare away the crows from the garden! She said the crows would think it was a real person standing there, so they wouldn't want to come near that garden.
I think he's cute, don't you? He wouldn't scare me! I would just like to make friends with him!
I found a funny owl! Mommie said this owl is really like a little candle, to add some light to our darker nights in the fall. The sun goes down earlier in the autumn, so Mommie likes to burn candles and lanterns and stuff to make pretty lights. Maybe we will have to take some more pictures later when the candles are lit.
And I jumped when I saw this thing! What is this, Mommie? She said this is called a "Jack-o-Lantern", and even though this pumpkin is made out of ceramic, usually in the fall Mommie likes to get a real pumpkin and take all the seeds and stuff out of the inside, and cut a funny face in it like this, and put a candle inside and put it outside on a special day called "Halloween". Mommie said we will talk more about that later, but that Halloween comes in October, and it is also lots of fun. She said some people try to make it really scary, but we just like to have fun on Halloween. But she said we'll talk about that more next month!
But NOW to the SPECIAL PARTY! Last night we celebrated my big brother Benton's 50th birthday!! Can you imagine that????
He must be OLD!
Oops, when I said that, he did this to me! Mommie said that wasn't nice. Even my sweet big sister "Auntie Rose" didn't think that was nice, can you tell?
Anyway, we had a really special meal of lasagne and salad and garlic toast and the birthday cake for dessert! Wow! I was sure stuffed after that meal!
Here's the rest of the family enjoying that dinner!!!
And then we celebrated Benton's birthday with cake and ice cream!
Here we are all singing Happy Birthday to him! It was such a happy time.
Especially happy because my big brother Benton and my sweet Sister Auntie Rose were both SO sick on his real birthday a few weeks ago, and so we had to postpone his party. We are SO happy that they are all better now. Mommie said Jesus really worked a miracle to help them get well, and we are very very thankful.
So when we get to that special Thanksgiving day later in the fall, we will definitely add THAT blessing to the list of things to be thankful for!
So, that's all my latest news! How about YOU?
Do you decorate your house for autumn too? Do you celebrate birthdays and do special things with your family when you can? Mommie said that life is short and we need to celebrate whenever we can!
Okay, friends, I have to go now.
So bye bye and remember, Jesus Loves You, and I do too!
Love,
Lily Grace
xoxoxoxxo
