Its no secret that my favorite season is fall. I love changing colors and when there's a slight breeze in the air, but mostly I love the pumpkin patch! I grew up having my parents take me every year to the pumpkin patch. We would spend hours looking for the perfect round pumpkin or finding our way through the corn mazes and enjoying the hayrides around the farm. When it comes to the holiday seasons, my inner kid comes alive. While boozy Halloween parties in cemeteries maybe the thing to do in Los Angeles, what I love most is to put on Casper or Hocus Pocus and carve a pumpkin!

Underwoods Family Farms Pumpkin Patch

This year I went to my favorite pumpkin patch in Los Angeles, The Underwood Family Farms located in Moorpark. It is quite a well known pumpkin festival in which there is hayrides, a petting zoo, a corn cannon, food, and live performers. It brings me back to when I was a kid.

The Petting Zoo

Speaking of kids! I had the great pleasure of bottle feeding these baby goats. I love goats, they are my spirit animal and for only $4 I was not going to miss out on this festive activity!

The Corn Maze

The corn maze will always be near and dear to my heart. As a kid, my parents always took us through the mazes but they were never as big as the one at Underwoods. As an adult, I feel like we often lose that unashamed enthusiasm quality kids have. We see the world often times through jaded lens. This is not the case for me when I enter a corn maze, I'm in there running with the kids, following the clues and looking for the end. :)

Finding the perfect pumpkin

Finding the perfect pumpkin has always been a work of art. I always determine my perfect pumpkin depending on what I want to carve. Last year My pumpkin art was skull (white pumpkin) inside a busting out head (my orange pumpkin) I searched high and low for two pumpkins of the same shape, where the white pumpkin would find snugly inside the carved out orange pumpkin. This year, with no real idea on what I wanted to carve, I was simply looking for a large, oval pumpkin with a fairly flat side in which to carve a design. I ended up with 4 pumpkins, 1 to carve, and 3 of varying size and colors to decorate my porch with (my mothers influence). It was a successful haul. Pumpkin Patch

Pumpkin Carving

This year, with no real design in mind, what I did have was a pumpkin drill. I was so proud of my carved out masterpiece last year that I was not sure which route I wanted to take this year. While my boyfriend carved the iconic scared face of the kid from Home Alone, I poured over picture after picture looking for inspiration. Did I want to settle for Pinterest designs or classic spooky images. I came across this spooky tree masterpiece and while I did not think I was ready for this ambitious feat, I did like this idea of the spooky tree. I had several obstacles to overcome during my own carving (accidental trees being sawed off) but in the end I like how mine came out. pumpkin carving designs Carved Pumpkins on the porch Too bad by Halloween, this is how my pumpkin looked. Funny how the other pumpkin looks shocked by the dying pumpkin next to him :) Oh well. I still love everything about the experience.What are some of your favorite fall activities and what was your pumpkin carving design this year?