Fall = LEAVES

Any one who has followed this blog, knows that I love fall, but I don’t love leaves..and the raking of them 🙂 ( So pretty much, I chose the wrong house)

So last year, being pregnant and sick, I did not participate very much in our leaf raking process. But this year, I had no such excuse.

We spend so many days raking, and bagging and then my nice neighbor (thanks Jame) let us fill her truck with leaves to take to the green waste dump, and then we raked some more…

So this may seem like a million pictures, and it is alot, but honestly I think over the 3 weeks or so of raking, I took nearly 200 pictures. (At Least).

We really rake daily for awhile, so naturally there’s going to be alot of pictures.

Tucker enjoyed being buried in them,

Truman enjoyed swinging through them,

And Elliot enjoyed eating them. I can’t even tell you how many leaves I pulled out of his mouth.

This year, I feel as if a tender mercy was granted in my behalf.

Usually once the leaves drop, there is a big storm before I can get them all up, leaving us with wet yucky leaves.

Miraculously enough there was no such storm this year.

The leaves were crunchy, and loose, and not slimey!

There were a few really nice, even warm days, not frigidly cold weather.

Which honestly was a huge blessing for me, crunchy leaves are so much easier to clean up than slimey wet yucky leaves.

As you can see the boys loved the leaves, and playing in them together, and of course with the chicken too.

If only fall could be as wonderful as this every year…

If so, I just might not mind the leaves.