{Autumn Bucketlist 2025 // an update}

This fall looked a little different than years past... but honestly, it was exactly what our hearts needed. We didn’t check off nearly as many “bucket list” activities as we usually do...no jam-packed weekends, no rushing from one event to the next...but instead, we soaked up something far more meaningful: time together. The kind of slow, simple days that remind you what really matters.

Even though I love a good tradition (and y’all know I do!), I’m learning to find peace in letting go of the pressure to do all the things. There’s a special kind of beauty in just embracing the season you’re in...not the perfectly curated one, but the real, lived-in one. This fall was quieter, cozier, more intentional... filled with laughter at home, slow evenings, and those small, sacred moments that tend to linger longest. And truthfully? That’s more than enough for me. 

🍂 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" - we will get to do this in a couple of weekends when we head SE for our annual Polar Express weekend

🍂 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 - (we ordered on Amazon this year)

🍂 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 - I'll be doing this the whole month of November for Thankful Thursday

🍂 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 - (no time, maybe soon)

🍂 Attend annual Friendsgiving - not sure if we can pull it off this year

🍂 Eat copious amounts of candy corn ✔

🍂 Get fall donuts

🍂 Go to Tennessee for Thanksgiving - can't wait