{Autumn Bucketlist // 2025}

It’s no secret that autumn is my absolute favorite season! There’s just something about when the leaves start to fall, the air turns crisp, and the evenings get a little cooler that makes my heart so happy. While the calendar marks Sept 22nd as the first day of fall... for me, fall begins the day of the very first college football game. That’s usually when I start itching to pull out my bins of fall décor, light all the pumpkin-spiced candles, pull on a cozy sweater and boots, and start checking things off our family bucket list. When does fall "officially" begin for you?

Over the years we’ve created so many fun fall traditions as a family, and now I can’t imagine autumn without them. These little seasonal rhythms...the pumpkins, the hayrides, the chili simmering on the stove...make me slow down and savor what I love most about this time of year. So here’s a look at our Autumn 2025 Bucket List... a mix of old favorites and a few new adventures we want to try.

🍂 Carve pumpkins

🍂 Have our annual Hocus Pocus night

🍂 BOO! the little nephews

🍂 Bake Halloween/fall treats

🍂 Make some fall/Halloween crafts

🍂 Go on a hayride

🍂 Run through a corn maze

🍂 Visit the pumpkin patch

🍂 Make s'mores

🍂 Stroll the local farmer's market

🍂 Go to a Fall Fesitval...maybe the new (Scarborough's Hollow)

🍂 Get a pumpkin-flavored coffee

🍂 Go somewhere that feels like "fall" 

🍂 Sit by a fire

🍂 Go to a Haunted House

🍂 Go to a Dallas Stars Game

🍂 Go to a Ranger's Game

🍂 Watch a college football game outside

🍂 Visit Spirit Halloween - pick out Mason's Halloween costume

🍂 Attend the Hallow skate at the rink

🍂 Decorate the inside of the house for fall

🍂 Have a coffee date

🍂 Make a fall charcuterie board

🍂 Make a Halloween/fall breakfast board

🍂 Go thrifting for fall 

🍂 Take a fall scenic drive

🍂 Make our Texas chili on a cool night and cozy up for a movie night

🍂 Decorate the porch for fall

🍂 Make a Gratitude List

🍂 Go Apple Picking (if I can find a place around us)

🍂 Deliver a basket of cozy/fuzzy socks to the chemo delivery room

🍂 Rewatch Gilmore Girls

🍂 Attend annual Friendsgiving

🍂 Eat copious amounts of candy corn

🍂 Get fall donuts

🍂 Go to Tennessee for Thanksgiving

But more than the pumpkins and festivals and football... my prayer is to pause, pray, and praise through it all. I want to be intentional this season... to slow down and notice the beauty God tucks into these ordinary autumn days. From cozy nights at home to family adventures, fall always reminds me what a gift this season truly is.

So tell me... what’s on your fall list this year? 🍂