Fall is here! Fall is here and I am so excited. Don’t get me wrong, summer will always be my favorite season, but after three months I am ready for some fall! I know in a couple weeks when it starts getting really cold, I will change my mind, but as for right now, I am so ready for fall.
Here’s a list of all the reasons I am so ready for fall:
1. Football games and baseball games.
Growing up in Kansas City, I love the Royals all summer and the Chiefs all winter, but since fall is right in-between both of those times, I get a chance to sport blue or red all the time. Plus, the parties that get thrown when football season starts up are always the best.
2. Fall clothes.
I love summer and I love being able to wear a swimsuit or shorts the majority of the time. However, when fall comes around and the fall clothes come with it, I get way too excited for: sweaters, leggings, boots, scarves, cardigans, long-sleeved dresses, and everything in between. It’s so much easier to accessorize and look amazing in the fall than it is in the summer, but I know in a couple weeks I’ll be saying I want to wear shorts again and I will want it to be summer again.
3. Halloween.
Months before Halloween gets here, I start a note on my phone of all the possibilities I could dress as. Halloween is my all time favorite holiday; I love getting to dress up and go get free candy even though everyone tells me “Harper, you’re too old for that!” or “Harper, let the little kids in front of you!” or “Harper, stop threatening that kid to give you his KitKat!” I will continue celebrating Halloween the same way I have for the past 18 years, dress up, get candy, eat too much candy, regret it, eat more the next morning.
4. Cute Instagram posts with the perfect fall background.
Even though I have never been able to successfully take a cute fall picture for Instagram, I love seeing all my friends do it. Throwing leaves in the air, or laughing while sitting in a pumpkin patch, maybe climbing a tree when all the leaves change colors, or the cutest Halloween post when you and all you friends are dressed up and laughing, it’s just so candid and I live for them every fall. I am determined to do it this year, though, no matter what it takes, I WILL get a cute, candid fall picture.
5. Crunching leaves.
Do you ever see the absolute, most perfectly crunchy leaf on the ground, and you have to go out of your way just to put all your weight on it and smash it? Oh yeah, me too. One of the all time best things about fall is when leaves fall off the trees and you get to crunch the living hell out of them.
6. Black Friday
Who doesn’t like staying up until midnight to go to a crowded store and wait in a line for hours upon hours then getting inside and getting a marked down TV that you don’t need for a decently good price? It doesn’t sound all that fun when you think about it, but you make the best memories and it really gets your adrenaline pumping when someone shoves you down for the last $3 toaster.
7. Pumpkin Spice everything.
Not trying to be the basic white girl that I am — wait, yes, I am. Anyways, Pumpkin Spice lattes from Starbucks get me so pumped for fall. I hear the words “pumpkin spice” and my debit card is out and is ready to be swiped so I can buy whatever it is.
Fall is great and I can’t wait to enjoy all my favorite parts of it. Now, I have to go to Starbucks and pick up a PSL before they run out. Happy fall, everyone!
