Leaves.
Monday, October 22, 2012 at 12:21PM I love fall. Love it. The boys and I have this little tradition we've been doing for years now of going for a "leaf walk" in our neighborhood. Our first documented one was in 2004, just after we'd moved here to our current house. We apparently missed 2005 (on account of having a newborn Micah, lol). But we picked back up again in 2006 and have been going strong since then. Here's a little stroll down memory lane...
2004: actually ended up in a neighbor's front yard because they just had the best tree ;)
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2006: some neighbor boys invited our boys to play in their huge backyard leaf pile
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2007: (some of my favorite leaf walk pictures!)
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2008: (lots of leaves that year)
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and in our own front yard...
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2009: (sorry! apparently I'm really behind on my scrapbooking, lol...here's a picture, though...and you can see the blog post here)
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2010: (and again...blog post here)
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2011: (blog post here...sample pictures below...this was definitely the coldest leaf walk we've done)
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And now...for 2012...here are a few of the pictures I took as we walked around our neighborhood last Tuesday...
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As you can see, Noah was a bit less cooperative this year...declaring that he's too old for jumping in piles. :) It didn't stop him from throwing leaves at his brothers or helping to bury them, lol, but it did mean that he was less than thrilled to jump for me. ;)
Yup, love my leaf walks with my boys. It's a delicate art of figuring out the best time to go...and some years the trees don't feel like cooperating. But. It always brings out smiles...
Ah. Leaves. :)
Reader Comments (1)
Such a fun tradition, Amanda! I love seeing how it evolved over the years. :)