Moms

Cooking competitions, highly anticipated art exhibits and story time classics are enticing locals with a variety of scrapbook-worthy fun. Spend the weekend of Nov. 8 to Nov. 10 making family-filled memories.

Friday

10th Annual Chandler Chuck Wagon Cook-off at Tumbleweed Ranch

Spend Friday night indulging in historic cuisine. From 6 to 10 p.m., Tumbleweed Ranch will host chuck wagons as cooks whip up food using methods popular to the Western trails of...

The weekend of Oct. 25 to Oct. 27 is offering families a variety of October celebrations, ranging from domestic violence awareness events to Halloween fun!

Friday

Teed Off at a Domestic Violence Top Golf Event

From 1 to 4 p.m., help A New Leaf can domestic violence (DV). Top Golf’s Scottsdale location will host an afternoon of golf accompanied by DV awareness. Spectator

Accessorizing for fall is often neglected in the desert, especially when “winter” seems to last a mere month. There is always that awkward period of time, around late September to mid-November, when Arizonians can dress for summer heat waves one day, and for a full-blown winter monsoon the next. Shopping becomes a drag as you constantly ask yourself, “Is it still too early to buy this winter coat?” or “Will this scarf remain stylish when temperatures eventually decide to drop?” I have picked up many style skills while growing up in Arizona and dressing for its confusing weather patterns. Luckily, us desert dwellers can still...

I love October. It’s my favorite month. Everyone is over the summer heat, and the warmth of fall fills store shelves. I like orange. And gold. And anything that has to do with pumpkins. And I like that it’s the start of- to me- the best time of the year: the season of gratitude.

Doing the whole pumpkin patch thing with my boys is always a big deal. Like most families, I tend to make an event out of it, and strive for those perfect insta-pics with cliché captions such as: my little pumpkins. It’s...