Leaves, leaves, and more leaves!!!!

Ahhh, leaves. They are so beautiful when on the trees, give us great shade, are fun to play in when they fall, but they are no fun to rake!! We are excited that there are many mature trees in our new yard, but are learning the with the benefits come the work:). Brock and Kyle are enjoying the fruits of Mom and Dad's labor and have enjoyed jumping and playing in the leaf piles on several different days since we've moved in.

Kyle wasn't too sure about the whole situation in the beginning.

As usual, Brock jumped right in:).

Getting warmed up. "I guess I can sit in these things, but I'm still not going to touch them!!" Kyle doesn't seem to be real adventurous when it comes to getting his hands dirty. During dinner, he routinely wants us to wipe his hands off if they get dirty while he's eating (especially if it's something sticky:). He usually doesn't like to touch grass, and leaves didn't seem to be much better in the beginning.

For some reason, they always seemed to be facing the wrong direction when I took pictures:).

Rolling in the leaves.

"Okay. So maybe I can touch them just a little."

Running through the piles. "You didn't want them to stay all together in that big pile, did you??"

Jumping in the leaves.

More running through the leaves.

"Okay, so if they look this cool when I throw them up in the air, maybe it's worth getting my hands dirty!!!"

And here's a little video clip of the boys in action. The best part of this video was watching the boys' reaction when we watched it on the computer. They just giggled with delight when watching themselves and asked us to play it over and over.