This year I decided that we should celebrate the Autumn Equinox. It’s the first day of Fall where day and night are equal. I thought that it would be a fun way to kick off the beginning of the holiday season. Unfortunately it is still hot here in Texas but we are getting slight reprieves in the morning and evening hours.

I knew that I wanted to have the dinner outside. I didn’t have any holiday decorations out yet so I ran to Hannah’s work and picked up a few things.

I am usually the use what you have kind of person, but the most expensive item was the owl and it was only $3.99. The candles were 50 cents to a dollar.

For the menu I wanted comfort food so I made chicken and dumplings (flat dumplings not the weird puffy ones), baked bread, made a salad and baked an apple pie. I also ran by Braum’s to pick up some vanilla ice cream in case anyone wanted it a la mode.

I didn’t take any pictures of the food but it was all so good. We had a small group, just our family and Olivia but it was so fun eating outside and not sweating to death.

We will definitely be keeping this as a tradition.