Welcome Fall!

Ok, so I really hate when summer leaves, but Oregon fall is so beautiful that it's hard to complain sometimes. The leaves haven't started changing much yet but the air is crisper and it's time for fall food! YUM! 

We decided to start off fall with cleaning our carpets. We don't wear shoes in the house so I don't know how it gets so dirty but it does I guess. We had Matt come over and help us move all of our furniture out of our living room into the kitchen which surprisingly enough is actually possible. They look A LOT better.

While Erik cleaned the carpets I decided I was hungry and went in the kitchen (climbing over living room furniture) and made macaroni and cheese. Obviously I really wanted it to climb over everything to make it. Haha. I had a picture of me doing that but it won't upload for some reason. 

Time for fall deliciousness which means pumpkin in a lot of different things right? Our go to fall treat is pumpkin chocolate chip cookies which come this time of year we are craving so badly because we haven't had them since last year. These were so delicious, there is just something about a really good spice cookie. Our friend Krista also made us ginger snaps last night so we are totally in fall cookie mode. 

Erik's buddy at work went Clamming a few days ago and brought Erik back a whole bunch of beautiful fresh clams. Erik promised that if he brought him some he would make "Cram"-chowder for his lab at work. He made it the night before and OBVIOUSLY we had to taste it to make sure it didn't kill anyone right? It was SO delicious. Everyone at the lab loved it it was a HUGE hit. Erik knows what he's doing with this soup he has the recipe down pat. This is a frequent meal at our house in the fall/winter. That and "Cram" of Broccoli soup. (That was Erik's play on words, not mine, but I liked it so I had to share) 

I think over this next week I'm going to work on decorating our house for Halloween! A couple years ago we decorated WAY too early and by the time Halloween was here we were sick of it but I think the beginning of October isn't too quick is it? This year is going by so fast I swear it was just Christmas and now it's Halloween again! I will post pictures of our cute decorations.