My personal trainer

Penelope has decided that she wants to help mommy get back in shape. She loves all types of motion and with it being such a beautiful day she kept mommy and daddy moving all day long.

Penelope shows her guns to inspire us.
All ready for our morning walk (don't you love the bunny booties?! The toes rattle...much more exciting than my sneakers)
Daddy and Penny enjoying the walk by the river
All the girls enjoying the fall colors...well, one enjoying the fall colors. Cece is hunting squirrels and Penelope is snoozing away like usual.

Two weeks ago when my dad was here he raked 4 lawn bags of leaves. You'd never know it because our yard was filled with leaves again just a few days after he left. We have an enormous oak tree in our backyard. It is beautiful, but I was disappointed at how little sun we got all summer. None of my vegetable plants were able to grow and our grass was pretty brown from all the shade. Now that it has lost about half of its leaves we've got green grass and I have 2 small bell peppers finally growing. Too bad we are forecasted to get frost this week.

Here is the culprit to all the leaves. It is hard to show how big it is in a picture. You can see we still expect to do a lot more raking.
Cece enjoying the nice day among all of my hard work. Chris tackles the alley Me and Penelope hard at work. Whenever I tried to take a break she'd wake up and cry. Quite the drill sargent that one! We've found she loves all types of white noise (dishwasher, noisy refrigerator, static on the radio and now raking leaves)
Stopped for one second to pose for this picture
A true Mr. Magoo face


And of course we needed to exercise our mind! Chris put up Penelope's mobile yesterday and she is really interested in it. She also loves looking at all the Dr. Seuss characters on the wall. She's definitly noticed Sam I am above the changing table and spends most of the diaper changes looking at him. I swear I saw her smile at the wall...now if she'd only smile at mommy and daddy...