It's fall, ya'll...let's rake some leaves!

The downfall of having lots of beautiful trees on our property is that lots of trees lose lots of leaves. Seriously...LOTS. Every fall we have days of raking to do to get all of the leaves to the curb for our township's leaf removal day. Usually we forget about the date until the day before, and we scurry to do a mediocre job of pushing our leaves to the road...and we're grouchy through the whole process. This year, however, we planned ahead. We gave ourselves two weekends to get the job done and decided to make it a fun, family project. In actuality, the kids only helped us for a very small amount of time, but they did a good job of entertaining themselves (and each other) while Jeff and I worked.*

*And by "worked," I mean W.O.R.K.E.D! We were SO sore for days after the task was completed...having used muscles I didn't even realize contributed to movements performed while raking. Ouch. Seriously...OUCH.

So, Avery and Noel raked...

...and played...

...and jumped.

Jeff and I jumped, too*...

*Again with the "ouch." Seriously...OUCH.

We played "fashion show" with the leaves...

And my babies were incredibly sweet and heartbreakingly beautiful...

...as usual...

...even when they were ready to go inside.

Here are a few short videos of our fun...

Here come the leaves...

Another fun game...

Whoa...look at this giant pile of leaves...

The big scare...