Leaf us alone!

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Maple Tree and Family,

We have recently discovered that your beautiful leaves that keep us cool in the summer and our yard with privacy have begun to fall off. We would appreciate if you can keep your leaves on your trunks and branches where they belong and not in our yard. The work that this has caused us seems unnecessary. We hope that you understand our concern.

All our Best,

Stacie and Rich

As you probably already know...our yard is SURROUNDED by beautiful maple trees. We absolutely love them...but this weekend was spent cleaning up the yard and doing round 1 of raking. As I sit here and type right now, only hours after our raking mission was complete...there are already dozens of new leaves in our yard. Yikes...what did we sign up for here?!?

Yep, I'm squishing them down...

Rich in the midst of the madness.

Scoop them up babe!

The work is done for this weekend...but we know there is more fun to come!

Although Sunday was spent "Winterizing" our yard...the rest of our weekend was fun! Rich's friend Bryan from Reno was in town all weekend and we spent time with him and his huge family. Friday Night was Paddy Coynes...fun spot. Saturday we met up and did some pre-game tailgating and went and watched the football game. (Thank God the Seahawks and Browns both won this weekend...because college football doesn't look so good)!!!

After the game on Saturday, we headed to meet up with Heather and Adam at The Ravenna Alehouse...fabulous dive bar in the midst of the U-district. We had a blast and even got to hear a few crazy stories from Adam. Have you heard this on....Two peanuts are walking down the street...one is "a salted". Ok, you laughed right? Well, neither did we!

Happy Sunday and here's to a great week!