Winter Leaves

Every year during the week between Christmas and New Year, all the leaves fall off the large maple tree in our front yard. The up side is we only have to rake the yard once because all the leaves fall at the same time. The down side is we have an ENTIRE tree of dead leaves to rake up all at once. This year we got lucky because Travis' step-dad Rich was so bored out of his mind one day during his visit that he raked and bagged all the leaves for us. WOW, right? I was thankful. Bagging leaves is a pain in the arse!

I made a request that Rich leave one pile of leaves so we could have a photo shoot with Aiden. A few days after New Year's I finally found free time when it was not raining to take Aiden out in the frigid air. He was sporting his Christmas sweater and the hat Gramma Carol made for him. Oh and his little turtle shoes. =D

I messed around in Photoshop for a minute on this one...

That leaf pile is still sitting in the front lawn, killing the grass underneath. We'll get to that later...