Thursday: leaves

It was a beautiful day outside today and I knew that we needed to rake, so the first thing we did when we got home was go down to rake.  Our neighbor offered us his leaf vaccuum.  I look at those things every year, and then every year decide not to get one.  It's just one more thing and the boys really love jumping in the leaves.

They really, really loved the leaves.  They love running through them, being buried in them, having leaves fall on their heads, going in the waste bin to stomp the leaves down, and jumping in them.  How could I deny them such a simple pleasure?  And to hear them laugh was wonderful.

So while my yard still has leaves, because there are more leaves coming and I'm not going to rake every single one, it also has a lot of laughter.

  (Picture from earlier this month...but still about the same today.)