This morning the kids and I tackled the first 5% of our yearly yard raking. Probably 95% of the leaves are still on our three giant trees, but even so, the yard was covered! While Paul used his awesome muscle power to help a friend from church move,
my three cuties and I had breakfast
made a pretty impressive block tower,
and then headed outside for some fun (and work!) in the leaves while Larkyn had her morning nap.
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Summer was seriously an AWESOME helper and not only raked, but also helped me bag a lot of the leaves. |
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Colton enjoyed raking...though sometimes he raked the leaves OUT of the pile ;) |
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Once we got a big enough pile to jump in the kids lost interest in the raking and had much more fun sliding into the leaves, |
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burying each other, |
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and having leaf fights (seriously their giggling was contagious as this next video shows) |
They also loved jumping in the piles...I lost count how many times they jumped in they had so much fun!
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haha - love this action shot of Colton chasing Summer to throw leaves at her... |
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After Larkyn woke up and we filled her tummy, she was ready to come out too! |
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Larkyn sat in the carsseat and we moved her from leaf pile to leaf pile as Summer and I bagged up our piles. |
Just for fun, here is a picture of Larkyn and Summer - both sitting in the same bumbo in a pile of leaves - both 3 months - both with their puppy Tucker :) ...
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Larkyn - 3 months |
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Summer - 3 months |
2 comments:
Aw, happy children! Looks like a wonderful day!
Looks like so much fun!!! I bet my kids would love jump around in the leaves with yours!
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