Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Down to the last leaf!

I must say...while these things make such a mess of our yard....I do love to see them fall and change colors!! So soon there will be just one left....and we will miss this!! Tan and Jace loved running through them as I was blowing them into a pile!
And of course Tanner had to get inside the pile and cover himself~
So after the fun...we picked up a ton and filled our recycling can FULL...then the rest went out to the street. The city comes by with their big truck and sucks them all up!
And Tanner got to get in the can and smash them all down so we could fit more in..such a BOY!
They were acutally quite helpful....it helped to make a game of it and play for a while. I remember a time when the older kids had no choice but to rake up the leaves. Those were some complaining and whinny days I tell ya!! Now we have a riding lawnmower and a leaf blower which makes it Sooo much easier to pick up leaves with! Plus with an extra 60 plus trees across the street, we get our share of leaves in our yard and on our driveway!!
But...indeed I do love this time or year!!

3 comments:

Kaylee said...

The nice thing about living in apartments...no raking leaves!! Haha. Way cute pictures though!

Shaylin + Cody said...

haha once again, i agree with Kay!! I love not having to do that! But I also miss not being able to just play in them whenever I want!! Of course.. I could always go to the parks.. haha love you! And I LOVE LOVE LOVE that shot of the single leaf!!

April Bishop said...

Great pictures. I'm glad I stumbled into your blog... How are you doing? It's been a long time... I can't believe how old your kids are. We haven't aged a day, how have they? :)