Raking leaves

Depending how the year and the weather our leaves may fall before or after Halloween. This year they started to fall a little bit into November. 

We have a huge maple tree in our front yard that I will say I love most times out of the year. In the fall it drops A LOT of leaves and in the spring we have to deal with all the annoying helicopters. As we have grown up in our house the falling leaves have actually become fun of the kids.

Like most other kids the joy of raking the leaves into a huge pile and having someone either throw you in i.e. Daddy in their case or jumping in can entertain and have a lot of fun for a long while. This year Olivia was able to join in on the fun. She is a little more of a girly girl so she was not too interested in being in the leaves. Her fun came with putting on the tutu and dancing around the pile ; )

With the boys getting older we are also starting to put them to work a little more. With this job at least we didn't have any complaining, which is a big plus in my book ; ) As they get older and the joy of the leaves become more of a chore then fun I am sure it will change. But at least for the time being it is still fun!