LOVE the Fall in Virginia!

Two Saturdays ago, we woke up to the PERFECT Virginia fall day. It was a little cool in the house, THIS was my view from bed (after I ran downstairs and got the camera...).

REALLY! THAT IS MY VIEW. EVERY DAY. I LOVE IT.

Actually, THIS if my view from bed. The above shot is when I got closer to the window and turned off the flash. Whatever.


Since our kids are AMAZING and sleep until after 8am on the weekends, Adam and I got up, enjoyed our coffee on the back deck (don't judge me, ok? no makeup yet and it was my first cup of the morning!). It was glorious.

We decided to take a little family hike for the morning at a local park- another joy of living so close to mountains- we drove about 3 miles and had access to GREAT hiking trails heading up a good-sized foothill of the Blue Ridge Mtns. We couldn't do THAT in Ohio, Florida, or South Carolina...
We probably hiked a total of 2.5 miles (?ish). Mitchell was in the jogging stroller for part of it, Ainsley's little legs got so tired and I was piggy-backing her by the end, but they all did GREAT overall!


Ainsley found a cute little walking stick that she loved, although she never actually used it correctly, she looked good with it! Agreed?

Elise (NOT surprising to anyone, of course!) was a total adventurist! She kept running ahead and exploring for us.

We kept following markers for the "Old Giant Oak Trail" or something like that... figuring it gave us something to look forward to, right? take some cool pics by a huge Oak tree. I'd read somewhere that it's a record of some type? largest in the Region? Oldest in VA? something special...



Well, 30 minutes of doing that and we found the OLD GIANT OAK... laying (lying!?) on it's side where it's, apparently, been for YEARS. awesome. I guess it never said, "Old Giant ALIVE Oak" tree.

It was great to climb onto it and play some, though. At least for me. I've always had a thing for climbing around in the woods... Elise loved it, Ainsley was ok with it for about 35 seconds... just long enough for Adam to snap one cute picture of the Moseley Girls. =)

Happy.

Dance Party...

I think this pic was from the same night as one in the last post, so I'll throw it on here quickly...

We love dance parties. I often have music playing in the background while we're getting everyone ready in the morning or as I'm cooking dinner at night. If something fun comes on, we can quickly have 2 or 3 little 'dancers' on the kitchen floor. That is one reason I'm hesitant to get a kitchen island...where would we dance!? anyway.... The girls ESPECIALLY love to dance with Adam, which of course makes me cry thinking about my dad and all, but i can usually hold it together enough to make it through the Rave session. =)

Caught one cute shot of Ainsley and Adam that night... she INSISTS on the crown of flowers and the slippery/dangerous high heels. it's unreal cute.


Then she gets silly, runs away, Adam chases and it ends up like this...


and then she'll run away more, someone will get knocked over, stepped on, tripped, there will be tears from a 2,3, and/or 5 year old, mommy will scream for everyone to get out of the kitchen, and the dance party will be over.... how's that for reality?

Still wouldn't trade it for the world, though... =)

where did a MONTH go?

slacker, slacker, slacker. I've been trying to think of a fun blog lately and.... I got nothin'. Really. We've had a great month, we're settled into school-routines, gymnastic classes, etc... but nothing that's even a little exciting for other people to catch up on... so, here are a few pictures to appease all 5 of you that may look at this.

Nana visited for a quick weekend mid-September. Always fun to have her around...the kids loved it, of course! Mitchell calls her "Ninny" which is funny and adorable, too.


Mitchell and I get 3 mornings a week to hang out alone and we LOVE it. We get laundry/cleaning done, run some errands, build LOTS of towers with blocks, and he's often in jammies until 11am. I'm fine with that. He also, like all toddlers, (right?) constantly wants to put on everyone else's shoes... my tall rain boots were quite an attempt.


They were a little tall for him...

But he giggled the whole way down and then tried it 4 or 5 more times!

We had some chilly weather last week, so were forced to stay inside. So the dress-up box came out and the girls tried on outfits that may be Halloween costumes. And then they kept them on all afternoon.

Although they have moments of 'sister grumpiness', they really do get along well most of the time and I'm so thankful for that!!!