Happy Fall

Who knew it could be so easy to entertain two high-energy boys with just a pile of raked up leaves?  

We have a TON of trees in our yard, which Lee has a love/hate relationship with.  He loves that there are trees for his boys to climb and shade in the summer and trees mature enough to hang a hammock from.  But, he doesn't love the raking that goes along with all those trees in the fall.  This year, though, we learned 2 things:  1. Jack is an amazing leaf raker and will work for hours putting leaves in piles and bagging them up and 2.  these boys will entertain themselves for HOURS with a few piles of raked up leaves.

These are just a small sample of the pictures I took a few weeks ago after Jack and Lee raked the leaves.  They jumped and rolled around and threw leaves up in the air and at each other and at me.  

This was mostly what I saw of Jacob - if his body wasn't buried under the leaves, he was running right at me with an armful of leaves. And, of course, they ended up right in my face, hair, jacket.