Heart happy

My heart is happy. 

My annual leaf picture tradition is intact. :) Unfortunately, the timing of October's earlier cold snap means that all of the leaves just went ugly and fell to the ground for the most part. But. Not to be deterred, I decided yesterday that the scant leaf display in our front yard would suffice and convinced Noah to join us and let me take some pictures...

I couldn't convince the other boys to do any jumping pictures as we've had in past years, but I think Micah's enthusiasm makes up for it. :) Plus, we managed a group shot...

We were trying to get the pile of leaves behind us in the picture but didn't quite succeed, lol. Micah's face is because Noah was tickling him. :)

And at least we had a pile of leaves...

Since we were home and not walking about the neighborhood, we also had a leaf blower, lol...which made gathering all the leaves easier.

And then the boys lost interest and declared their duty done and went inside. ;) But. I got my pictures.

(And Nathan and I took advantage of the weather and time to trim back plants and clear gutters and get the yard mowed and leaves all collected...which was also good. Happy fall!)