Fall Pictures

I know that this is going to seem like a lot of pictures, but bear with me. The kids have definitely enjoyed the change of seasons, mainly because the weather has been mostly good. Of course they did enjoy the day of snow we had. They managed to get outside and play before I made it to ward council that Sunday morning. William has been asking about leaves since the change of season. He constantly talks about it being fall or autumn and he wanted to know when we were going to have enough leaves to jump into. Of course our neighbors’ trees lost their leaves weeks before we did. William even tried picking leaves off of the sidewalk and throwing them inside our fence to make a big pile of leaves. So when we went up to Grandma and Grandpa Luke’s a couple of weeks ago because Eric and Angela were visiting I told them we would attempt to get a pile big enough to jump in. We barely managed it. It wasn’t the most impressive pile but the kids enjoyed it. Caitlyn was patiently waiting her turn.
William and Caitlyn also got to meet Eric and Angela’s new dog Thunder. They were a little surprised about how big Thunder is. I know that he looks like he is going to eat Caitlyn in this picture but he really was a mellow dog. We thought that our trees would never lose their leaves; they seem to be slow to get leaves in the spring and really slow to lose leaves in the fall. But the past couple of days the leaves started to come down. The kids played in a little pile in the front one day and that night the trees decided they wanted to laugh at us and dumped a ton of leaves down. They completely covered the driveway. So Brandon raked up quite the pile in the back yard. Caitlyn demonstrated her swimming abilities in the pile, and really wanted to be buried. The only depressing point of the leaves is we have this huge pile and we feel like we have accomplished something, but then we look up. The trees aren’t even half bare. Brandon keeps trying to come up with ways to magnetize the leaves so they are easier to gather up.