Pumpkin - Oh How I Love Thee

Fall is my favorite time of the year.  I always think that until it's been winter for awhile and then come March it's spring and everything is turning green, flowers are budding and the sun is out.  Then I say spring is my favorite time of year.  I love living in a place that has 4 seasons so that just as I'm getting ready for a change of scenery, a new season comes along.

So...things I fall for in the fall: soup, warm sweater weather, and pumpkin abundance!  I think I do my very best to tire myself of pumpkin just in time to put them aside and start making Christmas goodies.

Let's start off with my very favorite fall drink - Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte.  Never mind that the nutrition facts I found online at Starbucks say my version of the drink (grande, nonfat, no whip) has 260 calories, 50 g carbs and 48 g sugars. Ouch...that just almost takes the fun out drinking it - but not quite.

Since my wallet and my hips can't afford Starbucks everyday, I get the Keurig Pumpkin spice cups for most mornings:

with a lil dash of this:

And for occasions that call for a lil more there's one of my favorite seasonal beers (Blue Moon Harvest Pumpkin Ale):

I have pumpkin candles and Debbie bought me Pumpkin Handsoap from Bath & Body Works - yummy!

I've been making pumpkin this-or-that for the past few weekends.  I'm going to make Shane sick of pumpkin if I'm not careful!  I've been turning these:

into pumpkin loaf, pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin tart and his favorite:

I am loving fall!