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Halloween Time at Disneyland: A Festive Fall Event!

One of my favorite childhood memories was of one Sunday morning years ago when I was probably 10 or 11. With no warning, my parents surprised us and told us we were going to Disneyland that day.  It was one of the best days ever.

So when my family was invited to experience Halloween Time at Disneyland for a special family media day last weekend, because of this fond memory, we thought it would be fun to surprise our girls.

Click here to see their expressions when I said, “We’re going to Disneyland!”

I love fall in Orange County. I love fall period.

My birthday is in the fall, my anniversary is in the fall, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, I just love everything about this season.

When we walked into Main Street U.S.A last Saturday, with the slightly cooler temperatures and fall decor, I was transported to my happy place.

Thousands of pumpkins and beautiful fall decor everywhere – fall had arrived and this festive fall event is one not to be missed!

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A Family-Friendly OC Oktoberfest!

My husband’s father (Siegfried!) is from Germany, his mother is from Switzerland and I have some German in me too through mother’s side, so a love of Oktoberfest runs in our family!

Those are my two little German girls pictured above. My youngest is wearing her aunt’s authentic dirndl from Germany which is over 40 years old!  I just LOVE it when I get to put one of them in this get up come October, which has now been passed down from big sister.

Over the years we have tested out many OC Oktoberfest celebrations and have found The Phoenix Club in Anaheim to be home of our very favorite family-friendly event. 

Whether you are German or not, this Oktoberfest is SO MUCH FUN, you will want to get your Chicken Dance on and shake your tail feathers like you are!

Open every weekend now through October 28th, every Sunday is family day opening at 11am….

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OC Pumpkin Patches

Along with Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte…this is one of my favorite Fall traditions!  Here is a list of some local Orange County pumpkin patches for the 2012 pumpkin season. Please comment below if you have any other OC pumpkin patches to share!  Happy pumpkin hunting…

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Whole Foods Market Newport Beach: A Shopping Wonderland

Jen and I just spent an entire morning perusing the new Whole Foods Market Newport Beach wonderland (the word market just doesn’t seem to do it justice) and WHOLEY MOLY, if it weren’t for a looming preschool pick-up, both of us could have spent the whole day there!

Upon entering the store we were greeted by an inviting rainbow of colorful, perfectly ripened produce, stands and stands of it.  This might sound silly but it felt like happy food: Heirloom tomatoes, Bartlett pears, Honeycrisp apples, golden beets, turnips, endive, swiss chard, cabbage.

The care they put into their produce was subliminally saying: Eat these beautiful whole foods and you will feel happy.

It was a little bit of sensory overload because we wanted to take it all in and enjoy but we weren’t sure where to begin (in a good way).

We worked our way through the produce and noticed some…

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