More Leaves

For a little while the weather has been really cold.  So cold the high of the day was right around freezing.  It had been windy and it even has snowed a little bit off and on.  But the last couple of days the weather has been pretty nice.  When it was cold and windy it made most of our leaves come off our trees and created lots of leaves in our front yard (and in our neighbors yards too I'm sure). 

Today Tony got off work early and the boys didn't have school so they were all just hanging out inside the house when I decided to send them all out to rake up the leaves.
It is kind of sad how much fun the kids have "working" outside.  They helped rake up the leaves and put them into bags with Tony.  I am sure that they were probably more of a hindrance then a help, but they really did try.

We have a large rake and a small rake and I recently bought a medium sized (but still kid sizes) rake to add our collection.  The kids all love having a rake to use.  I guess I need to buy another smaller one so they don't have to fight over the little ones.  I thought of that after I had already left the store.

I am sure that it will be windy again soon and then the rest of the leave with blow off of the tree and we will need to rake all over again, but as of right now it looks pretty darn good.  After they were done raking the kids got out their bikes and scooters and had fun riding around the yard.  It was nice being outside again and getting some things done.  That is the good thing about when it gets really cold, it makes you appreciate the warmer days that much more.