Fall fun!

 One of the things I dread every year, is raking up all the leaves we get.  Luckily our tree looses its leaves early so we can do all the raking when it is still warm out. 

So to make it easier on me and more fun for the kids, I put them all to work.  They don't mind raking the leaves and even enjoy it....

But of course after they rake them they do have to play for a bit.

 Even peanut seemed to enjoy it!

So we were finally able to get all the leaves raked up, so until next year.....the rakes are put away!!!!

Parish picnic!

 This year the parish picnic was a little harder to go to.  Chris always talked about how much he loved the parish picnic when he was growing up and it was a favorite thing for him to do with the kids ever year.  I really didn't want to go, but I knew I couldn't do that to the kids.  So I sucked it up, put on my big girl pants and headed out to the picnic.  It was actually a really good thing for us because we were surrounded by people who love and care about us so much!

And of course the kids had a blast playing games and riding rides.

 Adriana was able to meet up with some of her friends.  Yes, these girls are all the same age.  My little girl is just very tall and beautiful :) hehehe!

 I really am glad we went and the kids had such a wonderful time and we stayed late into the night!

Adriana and Andrew's first race!

 Back in Oct. was our parish picnic and the kids decided to do their first race which was a 1 mile fun run.  The kids were very excited to do the race and both did great!  They were both able to finish in the mile...Adriana ran it in 9:30 and Andrew was 10:30.  Not too bad for a 5 and 8 year old!  Here is a few pictures of my runners.....