This time of year for our household is a BUSY, yet lovely time!  It is HARVEST TIME!   The children and I spend our time after school tidying up the house and preparing to settle in for a cozy winter. I have been reorganizing, rearranging, dusting...well, nesting really :).  My husband spends many hours bringing in our crops AND our meat! 

Harvest time means more hours to our day.  The children stay up later so they can see daddy when he comes in from the fields.  Last night I treated the children to a trip to the playground after we brought daddy and big brother a lunch.  On our way home we stopped by to watch a bit more of the harvest activities and then went home. 

Here is my husband.  He is a goof and can make even the hardest work a blast!

Right after we arrived home we learned that everyone was moving on over to our fields around our house next!  This is a pic I took out our front window last night.

This morning the children were eager to wake early and finish school up early.  My oldest son is quite motivated to do so this time of year, as he doesn't want to miss out on working next to daddy.  After dinner he cleared his plate, looked at his daddy and said, "Well farm boy, you ready to get back to harvest?" He gets SO excited about it!  I LOVE the gleam in his eye!  

Everyone, including the baby, enjoys pitching in a little this time of year.  When my husband brought in the first load of meat this morning, our little girl was right there helping him unload it into the freezer!

Harvest time means so much to us!  We not ony thoroughly enjoy the season, but it means our time to settle in as a family has about arrived!  We love late fall and winter because things on the farm slow way down....just in time for the holidays!

Happy Harvest!!!!!