Fall is in the air!

I love this season. Fall. It is my favorite season. The changing colors of the leaves. The crisp, cool breeze. I love this season. And even though we don't have any trees on our property, we still get to rake leaves. The leaves of our neighbors trees. We are grateful for the shade our neighbors trees provide us, and usually this time of year as the leaves start to fall, I get annoyed. But not this year. This year I am actually looking forward to raking leaves. It's when we rake that I get the best smells of fall leaves. In fact, last year I did much of the raking myself since I was laid off of my job at the time. Those days gone by, I sure loved sleeping in, reading my book, and doing what I wanted when I wanted. Today is very much a typical Wisconsin Fall day. The crisp breeze blows through my hair and the smell of changing leaves whisps past my nose. Here is what our 7-day forecast looks like:

This Friday I get out of work around 2pm, and from that time on, Tom and I have a full plate. Friday morning we are getting new basement windows installed. The job will take about 8 hours. When I get home, Tom and I will get going on the baby's room again. We've got to make space in the basement for the mattress and box spring, wrapped and sealed in plastic. Then I can find places for the few misc items in the baby's room, clear it out and steam clean the carpets while Tom gets the family crib out of the garage rafters. He'll clean it down good, bring it in the house and we will attempt to put it together. I hope the directions survived through the years, or we'll be in for quite the time figuring this one out. Once we get the crib set up and in place, we will be ready to shop for a dresser, which will make it's home as the changing table as well. The plan is so the dresser will be our little boy's dresser until he moves out of Mommy & Daddy's house, so it's got to last a long time!

Saturday we will be attending our nephew, Eric Schwandt's, tackle football game. Tom went the last time and had a blast! They play football music as each little player is announced, and Eric had long carries, good drives and awesome plays last time. Tom said the funniest part is how he walks out on the field like he's "the shizzle." Anyone who knows this 9-yr old can totally picture him in the act! So I am looking forward to the event, and I even might be able to borrow my mom's new Nikon D40 with super zoom (non-technical term) lens so I can get some good shots of him. They even have the kids' last names on the back of their jerseys! Isn't that just every little boy's dream!

Sunday will be church in the morning, then at Noon we are taking a CPR class at the hospital. I don't ever want to see my baby with a blue face, so the more educated we are, the safer we will be. Tom and I both had a CPR class back in Junior High at the Brigade, but man that was A LOT of years ago! So while the Packers are attempting to play Pro Football, we will be much to busy learning survival and safety.

What kind of exciting things have you got going on this fall? Do you like raking leaves? I hope you all have a good rest of the week and a fun weekend! I'll be back to post again soon!