It's Fall!

Fall is here and our yard is (was) covered in leaves!! In the corner I raked up a great big pile and Anna and Jake had a great time playing in it!

Ever the gentleman...ladies first! :)

Bombs away!!!

God created leaves for more than just hanging on trees :)

Today, in November, it was probably 80 degrees! It was perfect weather for raking leaves (oh joy!). So there's an even BIGGER pile of leaves now! Anna would stomp and count to 10 (yeah, okay) then...

...dive in!

Our neighbor was out cleaning up his yard too. Except he just used his mower and bagged it! That looked a whole lot easier (and faster!!) than my way! Here's our nice little row left after he was done:)

Here's Jacob's big boy bed and the new pillowcase I made him. He LOVES IT! Of course...it's got wheels! :) When he got home, I took him and showed him his "new" bed and the pillow. He jumped right in there and laid down! :) He's finally quiet in there now...it only took a little over an hour. No, I'm not calling you a liar Dad! But seriously, how do you guys do it?! You just have the magic touch when it comes to your grandkids, right? ;) Well, thank you Papa & Binga for keeping him a whole week! I know he had so much fun, especially being Binga's little shadow! I think Anna will not be letting him out of her sight for a while now...and certainly won't allow him any more week-long visits without her! :)

Here's what the kids & Papa played after supper :)

Fun in the leaves

*lots of pictures again!*

We spent the week at Papa & Binga's house taking care (ha) of Binga. We were ALL excited
when Papa got home. :) I think Papa was just as excited as Anna!

Anna tries to push Papa into the leaves, then gives up and says "Let's play hide and seek!" :)

I'm gonna get you Papa!!

Hmmm...I think she lost that one!

Here I come Anna!!!

I see you Papa! Here I come to get you!

Papa didn't exactly hide, but you'd have never known it by the way Anna acted! She just ran over there and waited until she got right up to him to say "Pound you!!!!!" (For future reference...she says p's instead of f's)

Papa made a GREAT BIG pile of leaves! It was so much fun!!!

And then he TRUE (threw) me in it!

Over....

and over....

and over!!!

Binga even true me in!

And covered me up!

Jacob wasn't so sure about those leaves.

Binga, I'm not sure I like this. I prefer just having a few to choose from when I eat leaves!

No, no Jacob. You don't eat these...you PLAY in them!

Jacob decided he preferred the view from the sidewalk better!

We had a lot of fun that day...it was the only day all week that it didn't rain! Mom has to do chemo weekly for another 3 weeks because the swelling came back. So I think the plan is to see where it's at after this 4 weeks of weekly doses and go from there. Please pray that this will take the swelling down and that it won't be too hard on her. Again, it's not the kind of chemo they use for cancer, so it doesn't make her nauseous or her hair fall out. But it does make her ache and drain all of her energy. She also has to do some stuff with her thyroid stuff (like how much I used stuff in this sentence???) next week, which will also drain her energy and make her feel yucky. So, it'll be a fun week :( If you're new (seriously...do I have new people reading this?? ha) you can read all about this here if you want. Thanks for praying.