Raking Leaves - Boy Time

Just had to share some cute fall pictures of Daddy and Jackson "working" together to rake up some more of our leaves. :)

 

Leaves - Fall 2013

As always, the kids were able to enjoy the couple of leaves that fall in our yard each fall... One of my favorite features of our yard are all the incredible trees we have. I even love all the fall colors and having the leaves to jump in. At least for the first week or two... :) We do love the trees, but it is a tremendous amount of work to rake and keep up with all these fabulous leaves!

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 I couldn't capture a picture of all four kids together, but I thought both of these group shots were still pretty sweet. :)

 Full speed ahead!

 The kids are getting big enough to work with us, which is a tremendous help! Between jumping sessions they can help fill the bags Tim and I have raked into piles. They especially enjoy packing down the leaves by getting inside the bags. :)

 Daddy and his girls, even the littlest one, who enjoyed riding back and forth in the wagon as we hauled bags of leaves to the street.

We need to keep track of our total number of bags filled for the year, but our first haul was over 30 bags as well as the large Yard Waste container. Can't believe we'll be doing this again before very long, where has the summer gone? :)

Fall 2013 Visit from Aunt Arla and Uncle Scott

The primary reason Aunt Arla and Uncle Scott came to visit us last fall was for the girl's violin recital. Reagan and Kennedy did a great job and I think this is such a nice picture of them with their violin teacher, Ms. Bethany Watt. Thank you to Grammy for accompanying both girls on their recital pieces.

 Reagan (6 1/2 yrs old), Fall Violin Recital, "The Two Grenadiers" by R. Schumann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmgCFcCmz6g

   Kennedy (almost 5 years old), 2013 Fall Violin Recital, "Allegro" by Suzuki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tiUf0dMi9E

 Reagan and Aunt Arla before the violin recital

 Grammy, Kennedy, Reagan and Uncle Scott hard at work making bird seed ornaments for Great Grandma's seasonal Christmas tree.

 Aunt Arla and Uncle Scott gave Kennedy a very special Pandora bracelet with turtle charm for her 5th birthday. Thank you so much! :)

 Everyone LOVEs Luci! :)

We also enjoy and appreciate all the Packer gear Aunt Arla and Uncle Scott gave us for pre-Christmas celebration with them.

 One day we visited the Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) Planetarium with Aunt Arla and one of our homeschool co-ops. It was so much fun and we will definitely be headed back there again! 

 We also enjoyed a little leaf jumping with Aunt Arla :)

Thank you for coming to visit! We had a fabulous time and appreciate your coming to see us so much! We can't wait until your next visit! :)