Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Don't Rat Us Out, Please ...

Last Saturday, as Bert was heading out the door for work, he gave the kids some instructions. He told them to have all the leaves raked up before he got home from work. There was a slightly giddy response to his assignment, not the usual response to chore announcements. I tried to quickly cover their smiles and smirks and let Bert know that I would make sure they got all that hard work done today, even though Aunt Debbie was coming over with a few of our new cousins.

And Bert was out the door.

A few hours later Debbie arrived with the girls and soon we found ourselves outside getting to "work".


















So, the "work" got done and dad came home from work to find  big pile of leaves waiting for the street sweeper (tax money very well spent in my book). Bert was very impressed with all of our hard "work" - let's keep it that way!

And just because that's how we are, we might just stroll on over to the neighbor's and get her leaves into the gutter also!

9 comments:

Chanelle said...

LOVE IT! Wonderful post. And great job ;)

NadineC said...

Ohhhhh...those are some of the most beautiful pictures I've seen in a long, long time. Made me smile - grin from ear to ear, actually :-) Thanks so much for sharing....

Kim said...

Awesome pictures! You really are telented with that camera. What kind do you have?

Kim & Campbell said...

That looks like so much fun! I especially love the handsome picture of your little guy and the leaf blower, which could have been interchanged with a guitar! Rock On!

Tabitha Blue said...

Ha!! I love that kind of work... looks like a blast!!! :) Great job mama!

~Tabitha

Doran & Jody said...

Oh I love these pictures.

What kind of camera caught these?

susette said...

Everybody looks like they are having a blast. I love the photos of your little guy holding the blower and looking like he's going to blast somebody with it :)

Tim ♥ Del said...

Those are GREAT pictures, you really captured the fun!

cfernelius said...

Love these pictures!