Pendleton Jacket (On sale!) / AG Jeans (On sale! Also love this pair and this pair, also part of the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale.) / Converse Sneakers (This pair is on sale! And I’m such a fan of the Seacoasts.) / Striped Tee (Also in red.) / Replacement Sunglasses
These photos were taken yesterday morning, when it was legitimately cold here in Chicago. Temps were in the 50s, which was crazy, considering the heat wave we’d previously experienced. For our morning walk, I bundled up in my favorite jeans from the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale (also love this pair and this pair) and this adorable red jacket from the sale. It almost felt like fall.
Tomorrow is the last day of the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, and today is the last day to enter my $200 e-gift card giveaway. To enter, all you need to do is answer Mitch’s question of the day in the comment section below.
Before we get to that, though, can we quickly talk about how stunning this jacket is?! I’ve long been a fan of Pendleton, and when I saw that this all-weather jacket was included in the sale, I pounced. I love the color, the plaid flannel lining, the cozy knit storm cuffs, the detachable hood, and the slightly oversized fit–perfect for layering. (Btw: I’m wearing the XS here, which is what I usually wear in jackets. For sizing purposes, I’m 5’5 and somewhere between 105 and 110 pounds.) I chose the red because I’d been looking for a great red fall jacket, but I LOVE it in yellow, too!
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Mitch’s question of the day
What’s the first happy fall memory that comes to mind?
Kelly: I was a kid, and we were living in Princeton Junction. My mom bought a bunch of those leaf bags made to look like pumpkins. My brothers and I raked the leaves for hours with the intention of filling the bags, but just jumped in the piles every time instead. So much fun!
Mitch: Driving up to the North Shore with Kelly and Emma. Emma was only a couple of months old, and we brought her to the beach for the first time. Actually, here are photos from that day! That drive is probably my favorite fall tradition.
…besides eating nachos while watching football.
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Pendleton Jacket (On sale!) / AG Jeans (On sale! Also love this pair and this pair, also part of the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale.) / Converse Sneakers (This pair is on sale! And I’m such a fan of the Seacoasts.) / Striped Tee (Also in red.) / Replacement Sunglasses
Mine would probably be when my mom makes her homemade apple cider. It signifies that fall and cooler weather are finally upon us and it makes you feel all warm and cozy!
My memory would be when the weather and leaves change and the festivals start.
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I think of a local farm fall festival in NH that I went to as a kid. There was a pumpkin patch and a little store where we bought donuts and apple cider – yum! And of course amazing colors as the leaves change! Fall in New England is my absolute favorite.
LOVE the Pendleton coat, Kelly!
My Grandparents would take us for a long car ride in the fall to tour all the leaves (I grew up in Western New York). It was simple and beautiful and memorable.
The first time I ever raked leaves for my son to jump in. We had moved to Alaska in February and my husband deployed in March. Summer came and bam it was Fall by mid August. Everything falls off the trees so fast here it’s crazy, so every pile was huge. It was pure joy to play in them with my son, even if I had to rake 10 more times.
When I was about 3 or 4 I used to rake leaves with my tiny rake while my parents did the real work!
My first happy memory was helping my mom cook pumpkins from the garden and making yummy muffins and bread!
It would be about food! My memory of having my first pumpkin bagel and now when fall comes around we have friends over for a brunch with the star being those pumpkin bagels.
Definitely Halloween as a kid and trick or treating around the neighborhood with a wagon! Yesterday’s weather was nice but not ready to lose summer yet!
My favorite memories are when the leaves would start changing, the air would get cooler and my mom would start making things like chili and pot roast.
In undergrad, my best friend and I were both out-of-staters (Massachusetts and Kentucky) – both places that are a bit more seasonally diverse than Texas. One of my favorite memories from that time is trying to find a pumpkin patch together in central Texas (clue: there aren’t any really). We ended up at the local grocer and bought mums and pumpkins to fall-scape our rooms instead. :]
Favorite fall memory: As a kid…getting pumpkin ice cream at Baskin Robbins. Beautiful red coat Kelly and SOOOOO JEALOUS of your cooler temps!
The first fall memory that warms my heart is the annual trip to the pumpkin patch with my children! What a special time!
My favorite fall memory is going to the Topsfield Fair in MA. Every year for as long as I can remember my family will go to the fair Columbus Day weekend and we walk around and eat all the totally bad for you fair food, look at the animals and play the games. It doesn’t feel like fall until we do that.
My favorite memory was the first cool fall morning we sat outside on our screened in porch with coffee and a pumpkin spice candle burning!
Grabbing that first PSL of the season!
Football season! Go Illini! My husband and I met at U of I and we love going back for one game a season! This year, we will be bringing our 7 month daughter along- hopefully she is the good luck charm we need! We cannot wait to show her where mommy and daddy met!
First memory that comes to mind is my wedding. My grandparents were married for almost 70 years but, unfortunately, they both passed away before I met my husband. So to share something special with them we got married on their wedding anniversary in late October…even though the date fell on a Thursday :)
Mine is going to pick out pumpkins and playing in the leaves.
Going to Princeton University Football games as a teenager. We would all wear Wool sweaters with the yolk design from Landau’s on Nassau Street, Cords & LLBean mocks. It was the preppy uniform of the 80s. All the HS kids would sit in the same section- we never cared about the game- we were on campus in the fall with our friends…wearing our favorite outfits!
How funny! I have the same memory but doing it for the past few years. I guess Princeton football never changes.
My favorite fall memory has to be spending time in New York City with my mom and sister. I am from Austin, TX and we don’t really get fall weather here, so when we visited NYC all together in the fall, it really felt like fall.
Jumping off my front steps into a big pile of leaves and smell of fresh cut grass!
We used to rake the leaves into roads and houses where we, my siblings and I, would create our own village. Good times!
So years ago, my sister bought a t-shirt from Goodwill one day that had a sailboat on it and the words “Petoskey, MI.” While my dad was away on business, my sister, my mom and I decided that we were going to take a girls’ trip during our fall break and follow the t-shirt! Upon arriving in the beautiful Petoskey, MI, my dad had actually left his business trip early to surprise us there! And it has become our favorite annual fall tradition ever since.
Wandering through farmer’s markets, finding hidden apple orchards, driving through the tunnels of the brightly colored trees, and even stopping at a few wineries along the way. The trip has truly become the highlight of our year, and my all-time favorite fall tradition. And all because of a silly t-shirt from Goodwill!
Happy Fall!
Mine would definitely be carving pickings with my little three year old daughter. Even thought she tried to eat a few of the seeds it was so adorable to see her get too on her hands!
My favorite fall memory was my first year living in Virginia (after moving from Florida) so there was a huge difference and I really felt like I got to enjoy the season for the first time!! Plus, I just love pumpkin-everything and football!
Mine would be building a scarecrow at my grandmas house. They lived on a farm with all types of animals. All my siblings and I would build scarecrows to put in the grass. I love doing it!!
My family would all go camping at Land between the lakes every weekend…riding 4-wheelers all day and roasting hot dogs and marshmallows over the fire at night. We had SO much fun!
Probably going to football games with my Dad would be my favorite fall memory.
Mine would be with my parents. My family loves falls and the little things such as the leaves changing. We live in Virginia so we would go on drives through Williamsburg and then in norhwern Virginia to see all the colors of nature. It has been a great tradition.
Mine is actually my first year teaching in a pre school. I honestly never appreciated the seasons changing till I became a teacher and through my young students eyes, I was able to really notice how the season changes. I remember taking my stufents out to play in Central Park and one of them mentioned to me, “look at this leaf, it is turning brown! Hey it’s turning brown everybody and it was green before! It’s like magic!” The awe in their face was priceless! :)
Going to the pumpkin patch is the best part of fall!
Carving pumpkins on our kitchen floor when I was a kid comes to mind. I remember that my brothers used to dread getting out the seeds, but I loved everything about it. I still love fall. I don’t want to wish away summer, but the chill in the Chicago air yesterday had me dreaming of fall days.
Picking apples with my sister!
Bringing my little ones to the pumpkin patch every year is the highlight of Fall for me. We have moved several times and each place we live we go on a search for the best one!
Getting married on September 17, moving into our first apartment near the Biograph Theater, then shopping for furniture at an estate sale in Evanston. on a perfect fall Saturday.
Fall baseball! My birthday is in September, and I have always loved going to a Brewers game to celebrate ⚾️
When my dad would make piles of raked leaves and then we would run and jump in them!
My favorite fall memory is pumpkin carving with my loved ones :)
The first happy fall memory I have is, being that I am from West Texas, waking up and hearing the local high school band practicing during their two-a-days. It is always the fondest indication that it is football season, and that fall is here!
Experiencing the color changes of the leaves in a real fall season (they don’t exist in Florida)! Driving past bunches of trees all different colors was a sight to behold! This jacket is beautiful!! Wish it was still available in the red color!
My first and favorite fall memories are when my elementary school would have Halloween parades at school – all of the parents would come watch. So happy and fun with great autumn trees in the background!
I love fall! My favorite season! I have the best memories of college football games in the fall. Crisp air, good tailgating food and lots of celebrations. Chapel Hill, NC is gorgeous that time of year. Now, every time Starbucks comes back with pumpkin spice lattes I do a little happy dance!
Watching “The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” :)
Carving my first pumpkin with my husband! We carved Simba into the pumpkin! It was really cool! We had our first cute little trick-or-treaters and everyone commented on our pumpkin!!!! After my daughter was born…that tradition continued…but we carved Barney into the pumpkin!
I love watching the leaves change color, eating pumpkin bread, drinking pumpkin spice lattes and wearing sweaters!
Mine would be taking my kids to Windmill Farms for a hayride out to the fields to pick pumpkins! Love October weather in Ohio. <3
My mom making my Halloween costumes.
My first year of teaching! My students were wonderful, the weather was beautiful, and every day I’m grateful for how lucky I am to be where I am!
Mine was going apple picking a couple years ago for the first time. Mind you that I was 25 years old at the time, but I’m from Brazil and we don’t have fall there, so that was a whole new experience for me, and now it’s one my favorite things to do every fall.
Oktoberfest season! :)
Going to pick apples and then having apple cider donuts and drinking apple cider!
My favorite fall memory is just like yours! We had a huge backyard growing up and my parents would rake the leaves into neat little piles before stuffing bags. My brother and I couldn’t resist jumping in the crispy leaves and running our dog back and forth through the piles!
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My first happy fall memory is apple picking! It’s a family tradition that I started with my own children, and have missed since we moved down south last year.
I love going to the apple orchard! Picking apples, getting the perfect pumpkins, drinking hot apple cider, and eating a caramel apple or fresh donut don’t hurt either!
Taking my kids to the pumpkin patch! I love all things fall!
Playing in the leaves after Mom and Dad spent all day taking them up!!!!
Hiking on New England trails!
Talking walks around the lake while kicking up leaves with our boots! Then coming home and making hot drinks and drinking them on the deck in our shorts and hoodies.
When the leaves start to change and then slowing being falling, like an early snow.
Mine is probably jumping in the leaves with my siblings when I was younger! It was so much fun!
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Pumpkin spice lattes!
It’s not a specific memory, but I always love that first crisp fall morning when you finally get to pull out that favorite cozy sweater.
This wasn’t my first happy fall memory, but it’s my most special one! My favorite fall memory occured last September, when my husband (then fiancé) and I attended a football game at the University of Notre Dame. ND is our alma mater, where we met, and where we were about to get married in October of that year. That football game weekend was our final visit to campus from our home in Chicago prior to our upcoming wedding, and it was so special and exciting to know that the next time we’d be in South Bend, we’d be getting married! I have very vivid and fond memories of giddily walking around together through the many trees & changing leaves. Love this question of the day!
My favorite fall memory would be going to the State Fair every October. We’ve gone every year since I was a little girl – when I used to miss a day of school to go with my grandparents! We look at pumpkins, milk a cow, and eat tons of fried fair food!
The first fall memory that comes to mind is always gearing up for the fall football tailgates. I can hear it now, friends arriving from out of town, the Rudy soundtrack playing (Go ND!), the colors changing on the trees. It’s my favorite time of year. Fond memories of campus and friends.
I remember a crafts project in early grade school that involved colorful fall leaves.
My first fall memory is of my family’s annual trip to Eckert’s Farm (Southern Illinois). We would start the day with apple picking, then their train ride, go to the petting zoo and end with large lunch my mom made and have a cup of the farms apple cider. This aways brings back warm and fuzzy feelings of fall. Probably one the greatest fall memories that I’ll continue when I start a family.
Taking my family to Abbey Farms, and enjoying their apple cider donuts, pumpkin ale at the beer tent, picking out a pumpkin, and enjoying the farm grounds and activities for kids!
My favorite fall memory is knowing it is fall, because of the nip n the air and walking into the Starbucks on Lincoln and seeing all collegiate sweatshirts for college football! And, of course, pumpkin spice lattes at SB!
First off my favorite season is fall! I love weather, fashion, and food! But my favorite memory would be going for walks with my dog and mom and smelling the fresh crisp fall air and hearing the leaves crunch.
I just stumbled upon your blog and I LOVE your style. I’ve always loved the preppy. My favorite memory is going to college football games as a kid where they would buy me nachos, hot chocolate, and coming home to a yummy smelling candle and MORE hot chocolate.
My first happy fall memory would have to be jumping in a pile of leaves when I was probably 3 or 4. My dad and brother would rake up the leaves for me to jump in. Cheap form of entertainment for a child. ☺☺
Our town has an annual fall festival and I remember going each year as a kid.
I remember making a trip to Powers farm market every fall. My sister and I gobbled maple sugar candies, fed deer, and loved going through the massuve teepees filled from top to bottom with jack o’lanterns.
Going to the pumpkin patch down the road with my parents and brothers. They had the best cider donuts, petting zoo, and hay ride. We’d go several times each fall. It’s no longer there anymore but the memories have stayed (:
My best memory is getting to rake the leaves in our yard with my dad and then him throwing us in the pile. The leaves of fall and the crisp air never get old!
My wedding! This Sept will be our 9th anniversary. Thanks for the chance to win!
Apple picking w/ my family.
Going to the pumpkin patch and going on a hay rack ride!
Mine is of when we moved to the States when I was 10 and I saw Fall leaves for the first time. It really is the most beautiful season! I never even complained about raking!
Apple picking & football for sure
Apple picking!
It’s kinda odd, but in the fall where I grew up, we would always have fog in the mornings but it would burn off and be warm. My parents house was above the fog, so I was always dressed perfectly for the weather because I could tell if it was cloudy or foggy before the fog burned off. I felt like a weather man at age 10.
Going to the apple orchard to get fresh apples, cider, and pumpkins! My grandma took us every year as kids, and we still go today!
As a kid I loved fall because it meant the start of school.
My favorite memory is playing the game ghost in the graveyard with the neighbor kids hiding behind all the halloween decorations. (Ghost in the graveyard does not really take place a grave yard and now that I think about it, don’t know where it got that name from haha), but it always followed a trip to Bengston’s pumpkin patch where we watched pigs race while eating apple cider donuts!
Pumpkin spice lattes and apple picking. My favorite falll things!
Halloween! always a fall favorite, haha.
College football and my wedding day!!!!
Definitely jumping into the giant leaf piles my parents would rake up as a kid! This was definitely the best, that crunching of leaves is still a sound of such satisfaction. We would always have homemade hot apple cider after. Those were the best of days for sure!
Fall traditions like apple picking with my girls and making apple butter to can for Christmas.
My favorite fall memory is taking drives with my sister and mom through the countryside to find the most idyllic fall view. We usually end up at the same little pond but the anticipation of the drive and time together is what brings me the most joy.
My memory would be playing in the leaves outside at my childhood home and coming inside to my mom with Apple Cider…YUMMO!!!
Bringing joseph pumpkin picking for the first time. His reaction was priceless!
Family pumpkin carving – newspapers spread across the kitchen floor, drawing designs ahead of time, saving seeds to roast afterward, and lighting candles and enjoying our masterpieces in the dark! A tradition I vow to carry on with my little ones!
My wedding was in the fall and my husband and I always take the day off and spend our anniversary together.
Watching the leaves change colors in the hill across from our house
Mine is carving pumpkins with my family and then having apple cider by the fire!
First happy fall memory: although I have many, my favorite of “firsts” was when my husband and I first started dating. We went to a local pumpkin patch, each picked out a pumpkin and loaded up on Apple cider and pumpkin whoopie pies followed by a night of pigging out and carving! So fun!
I remember getting to stay up “late” as a little kid to watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”. Now I get to watch it with my two little boys, who were both born in October!
Mine would be when my mom taught my sisters and I how to make homemade applesauce!
My favorite Fall memory is from college in Connecticut. On my walk to class I would see the most picturesque, gorgeous fall foliage around campus. New England truly has the most scenic Autumns. I love that period of fall just before the weather gets too cold – all you need is a comfy, warm sweater. Other favorite Fall moments include drinking warm hot cider, eating pumpkin pie, and bringing out the Barbour after a hot summer!
My favorite Fall memory is from college in Connecticut. On my way to class I would see the most picturesque, gorgeous foliage around campus. I love the period of fall right before it starts getting cold and all you need is a comfy sweater. Another favorite fall moment is breaking out the Barbour after a hot summer!
Mine would have to be making a giant leaf pile in the front yard with my sisters then jumping into it!
Drinking chai tea lattes and watching Gilmore girls because I wish I lived in Stars Hollow in the fall!!
The first Fall memory that comes to mind is when our entire family would get together at our house in NJ and drive up to Masker’s in Warwick, NY to go apple picking! We’d spend the day out in the orchard picking apples and letting the kids run around the fields. Once everyone was wiped out we’d drive back to my house and mom would heat up dinner (she cooked it up early in the morning that day) and then bake an apple pie with the apples we picked that day! This is Fall for our family!
Mine would be cozying up to a movie with warm apple cider with my mum!!
Taking our son, Gavin, to the pumpkin patch for the first time….four years ago.
Drinking hot cocoa at my high school’s soccer games, in Vermont. Best fall colors anywhere. Makes me homesick!
Shopping for school supplies and creating bouquets of sharpened pencils
Fall in the UK is perfect! We spent so many wonderful fall days exploring the country when we lived there. A favorite tradition was our annual expat Thanksgiving meal. We lived in university towns and would gather our close American expat friends together for a big meal with turkey and all the trimmings. It was fun to learn about different Thanksgiving traditions from friends from all over the US. This southern girl didn’t know that some people have mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving?!?!
When we would tour all of the local pumpkin patches with friends – going through corn mazes, hayrides, stocking up on pumpkins and mums, getting our faces painted, and loading up on apple cider.
Having to rake the leaves but getting to jump in them afterwards!
First happy memory…..4 or 5 years old….arriving at my parent’s tiny beach house on th coast of Maine every summer the day after school ended and staying until Labor Day. My mom and dad were teachers so all 5 of us (2 younger brothers, too) spent the whole summer together in our 700 square foot cottage. The smell of low tide, all day long on the beach with no sunscreen, digging for crabs and clams, diving for lobsters, ice cream cones, and eating dinner at the picnic table in our backyard every night because our kitchen was so tiny…..total childhood joy!
First happy FALL memory…..the first day of school…the smell of sharpened pencils, the glossy shine on my new Trapper Keeper (80s child here), and picking out the first day of school outfit, of course!
Heading over to Princeton University and watching my boyfriend play football all through the fall! There were some pretty crazy games and weather. My favorite was sitting through a hurricane my freshman year just to watch the Tigers take on Columbia! Fall and football always go together.
Going to the corn maze. Something I’ve wanted to do since they first started in my area and no one would go with me. I decided to go by myself and it was so much fun.
Of course when my baby was born. That breeze and sound of the leaves on The floor as i enter the hospital. Everything paused , i took a look at everything aroubd me and saw the beauty of every color. Excited yet very nervous. Yet I looked outside and told my husband this will now be my favorite time of the year.
One of my favorite Fall memories is the great candy swap, conducted every year of my childhood after trick-or-treat. Each year, all of the neighborhood kids gathered to trade Snickers for Skittles or Butterfingers for Baby Ruths, perfecting our treat bags and making memories all the while. Thank you for hosting this giveaway, Kelly!
Our anniversary is in October so our wedding is my best fall memory!
Picking apples in an orchard with my family. My favorite part was picking one apple and eating it right there in the orchard.
**second giveaway** Mine is thinking of the fall fair. Every year our small town of 1,000 people hosts a very large fair in New Hampshire. This was always such a great reason to get together with family and friends. The particular memory that I’m thinking of is when my ski team made fresh pressed cider to sell to the fair-goers. Not only was the event the epitome of fall but was a fantastic way to bond with my fellow teammates!
Spending afternoons with my dad raking leaves and jumping in the piles. Some of the best times!
Bonfires and football games in college!
I remember carving jack-o-lanterns with my father when I was really little, like 4 years old. I think my only job was to help pull out the guts!