Raking the Leaves

We decided it was time to rake the lawn, Alec has been pretty good with keeping up with the leaves by using the lawn mower, but they have begun to take over our yard. So it was time to actually rake them up!

We have so many trees in the 'woods' behind our house, so we definitely have our fair share of leaves. Thankfully Milwaukee has curb side pick up, so all we have to do is get them to the curb. It was fun enjoying the nice fall day though, even though it is a lot of work!

We have a ton of trees in the 'woods' behind our house, which gives us plenty of leaves to deal with :)

Alec's job was to rake them on the tarp, mine was to stand on the corner, I think I got the better end of the deal!

These are the fall decorations we got at the pumpkin patch a few weeks ago

Retreat/Poker Night

I have determined the month of October/early November is a bad time to be a student. It is just that point in the semeseter where you have something big due or a test constantly. But I am pushing through and doing just fine. My grades are great and spirits are still high!

This past weekend I went on a women's retreat for church. It was an excellent time, I went with a group of six girls from church and we all shared a room together. The them was Spa for the Soul. We heard some excellent speakers and just had a great time bonding together. We stayed at a nice resort center, which was on a beautiful lake!

We have masks on our face :)

While we did that, all the guys came over to our house for a poker night. They had a lot of fun! No body went home too broke and I think they all determined they wanted to kick their wives out so that they can do that again sometime.

We have a few busy weekends coming up which we are very excited for. We plan to go to chicago with some friends from church for halloween. Then we are looking forward to Alec's brother's wedding November 7, which Alec is the best man. Then the following weekend my parents are coming here to visit!