Leaves and More Leaves!

We are lucky to have a several beautiful, big, old trees in our yard like this one which is my favorite. This picture was taken in late summer.

Unfortunately, these beautiful trees have tons of leaves that fall this time of year!  Today the kids and I spent almost three hours in the front yard raking away. I think Genevieve must have known what we were doing and wanted no part of it as she took her longest nap in a long time sleeping through the entire job! It was hard work but when we were done (and after teacher conferences where we picked up some good report cards) I took the kids to the mall where we got pretzels and the kids got a little something for $5 each. My hands are a little callused but it feels so good to have it done and that we did it together!

Here are Cade, Gabrielle and Willem dumping the last load. Luckily the front loader came when we were done, scooped it all up and dumped the leaves in the burn pile.

Yeah! All done!