Winter in Cali.

I know that none of our East coast/Midwest friends and family want to see these photos right now, but….it is my blog and I want to put them up here anyways. So, try not to get too discouraged and remember that we have plenty of room out here. You are all invited to come soak up some sunshine with us – any time!

This is the pile, rather the SECOND pile, of leaves from our ash tree last week. Two FULL bins of leaves were recycled on Sunday, and on Monday Daddy raked again. As he was raking it was literally “raining” leaves.

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Jumping in leaves provided nearly two hours of extreme joy for the girls and our neighbor friends.

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Daddy kept raking, Mommy kept snapping photos. My favorite of Emma for the day.

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And of Ad.

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Although this Sweet Sassy Mol-Addie pose is more of what we’ve been seeing around these parts lately.

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After we had thoroughly jumped the heck out of the leaves, we bundled them up into FOUR bins and recycled them off.

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(The leaves, not the children.)
The sad thing is that our entire lawn is covered once again and it doesn’t look like we’ve raked a day in our life. And the ash tree has probably only dropped 60% of its leaves.

Still. I’d take leaves any day over snow.

3 thoughts on “Winter in Cali.

  1. This is our first full winter in CA and we are loving it. I love not having to shovel snow, but we are able to travel one hour to the mountains if I need a snow fix. I love the shot of all the kids in the leaves covered up to their heads. That’s a classic shot!

  2. Brilliant photos. LOVE that one of Em. This reminds me of the oaks at the back of my mum and dad’s place in the UK. Except as soon as the leaves fall it rains and they go all slimy…not the same thing at ALL!

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