Got leaves?

Tall, leafy trees seemed like such a good idea when we moved into our house in July.  They would provide shade and look nice and give some character to our yard.  Now, the same trees are providing millions of leaves that are covering every square inch of our lawn and patio and roof.  Good thing that Grandma the Raking Machine is coming back on Sunday and we can get some work done!

Since this might be the only time that we live somewhere with a real autumn (well, North Carolina had four seasons but we didn't have any trees that lost their leaves), we had some friends over to play in the leaves yesterday.  Meredith's husband is also a Marine and they moved here from Hawaii for the same school that Zach's in.  She has two boys and a girl: Bennett, John Oliver, and Martha Grace.  The boys all loved jumping in big piles of leaves, getting buried in leaves, and throwing leaves on each other.  Martha Grace liked sitting in the leaves and getting her picture taken.  We had a great time and Dan and Ben can't wait for their buddies to come back over!

My new favorite picture of Dan!