P-U-M-P-K-I-N, my favorite orange tradition

Do you know what I think of when I think of the color orange? Traditions. I am a *sucker* for traditions. Anything I can do to celebrate a tradition, I will.

So there's an obvious tradition centered around fall (which happens to be my favorite season) and that is pumpkin farms, pumpkin carving, pumpkin treats, pumpkin PUMPKIN PUMPKIN. Pumpkins until you start to look at that word and think what the hell kind of word is that.

We have some awesome pumpkin farms here in Texas, I know that not many people are so lucky to be able to go to something like a pumpkin farm. We have been doing it since before we even had kids!

Picture above from 2011 to prove it. I went ahead and dug out some favorites from the past years, and at the end are a few of my all time favorites because it is of MY childhood.

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2013

1988, me with my sisters and dad (I'm the cute one in the middle)

1988 me with my sisters

1989 me with my sisters and dad

1990 me with my sisters and dad. I was very grumpy I couldn't wear my shirt. And of course thank you MOM for always taking the pictures ;) If it looks to you like my mom wasn't there because she isn't in the photos this is a great reminder to get IN the photos with your traditions as well. This is one of the reasons I am always preaching about documentary style photography. I hold these old photos so so so dear to my heart. And there are a bunch where my mom is in them, but to look at the only ones I have of my favorite pumpkin traditions and not see her makes my heart sad! Maybe there are some still in her old photo books (ehem, mom) but I don't have them. Find a way to be in them. Set up your timer, ask somebody else to take the photo, hire a documentary photographer (yes, we would LOVE to photograph you all picking out and carving your pumpkins!)

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