I tried hard to come up with some pun-like title using leaf and leaves, but I couldn’t concentrate. A week or two ago, the weather was pretty nice and the leaves had really started to fall [from the one tree in our yard that loses them in the fall]. The boys wanted to be outside and decided to rake some leaves up.

Remembering how much I loved jumping in piles of leaves as a kid, I grabbed my camera and suggested they make a pile and jump in them.  They were so excited! Of course, it took them forever to just move a few, so I took the rake and control.  Soon we had a small pile and they jumped on in.  They buried themselves, buried each other, threw armfuls into the air and generally had a blast playing.  I couldn’t help but jump in and throw some leaves on them myself!

Unfortunately, I was fighting with the focus on my camera that day, so most of the shots weren’t as good as I had hoped, but I got a few good pictures and the memories are perfectly clear.

Just a couple of new pictures from last weekend I love.

{obligatory}

First, the trip to the pumpkin patch…the boys wanted to buy a hundred pumpkins. In their defense, there were a LOT of really good ones this year! We settled on one for each of us, plus some little ones.

Then, of course, we carved them!  Matt actually carved most of his own this year – he was so proud of himself! {me too}

Playing with the camera a lot lately…

Backyard wild flowers

The Veggie Garden!

Daisy Doodle Schmoodle

The boy knows how to relax

Waiting

Heading home

Watching