Leaf jumping

First, for those of you who don't live around "live oak" trees, you may be wondering why I'm just getting to raking leaves. Live oaks keep their leaves through the winter, then shed them in the spring, then again later in the year. They don't give in the peer pressure and keep their leaves when all the others are dropping theirs.

So, yesterday we spent a couple of hours blowing and raking all the leaves that had fallen in our yard from our neighbor's tree (grrrr.) Isabella has been wanting to jump in a leaf pile ever since she watched Charlie Brown, so yesterday we finally made one she could jump in. She was SO excited and so was Zach. You can see that she was thinking "safety first" and decided to put on her helmet. Probably a good idea in light of our recent accident prone household...


The would run and jump, climb out and do it again. Over and over. Every once in a while I'd stop them and rake them back in to a big pile. This set below is a fun one, showing them as they land on the pile. This is what I call pure joy.