Halloween at Nana and Pop's & Josh's Parade!

Every year Nana and Pop's neighborhood hosts a little Halloween parade and then everyone goes trick or treating.  They do this before Halloween and we look forward to every year!  The McGuire and Nolan kids decided to do a theme this year!  They were all Wizard of Oz characters!  We had The Wicked Witch of the West (Madelyn), Glenda the Good Witch (Cora), Dorothy (Ellie), The Cowardly Lion (Josh), and a Flying Monkey (Holden).  The kids had a GREAT time!  Pop was out of town for work but Nana did a great job hosting!
Today Josh had his Halloween parade at The Gingerbread Cottage.  He was the cutest Cowardly Lion and kept waving to me the whole time.  Cora had been in this parade for the past three years, and now it was Josh's turn!  I always love watching them! 

Sweet cousins

Nana and her grandchildren!

More sweetness

These girls really do love each other

I couldn't resist taking pictures of their sweetness!

The witches!

The group pictures!

My beautiful Glenda

Here they go!

So happy and excited!

Near the end but still happy!

My Cowardly Lion!

Some of his little class

So sweet

Such a happy little guy!

Fall Fun!

This past week we have done lots of fun fall activities!  We have been walking around Echo Lake enjoying the beautiful fall leaves.  Cora got to wear her Hokie Jersey for Jersey Day at school and she loved it!  I took a Friday off and got to go to her class for their Fall Activity and help out.  I love visiting her classroom and enjoy helping out.  We also got to go to Echo Lake's pumpkin palozza!  The kids got to dress up and they had a great time!  There was food, dancing, games, and much more!  We have been staying busy and loving fall!

Loving Echo Lake!

My fall babies!

Jersey Day!

Fall Activity!

My little Hokie

Cora and Lillian's class made a bee for the pumpkin contest!

Ready for the palozza!

Having fun with Lillian!

We also went to a pumpkin palozza in Innsbrook.
Posing with the VCU Ram!

These girls are too much!

Chiles Peach Orchard!

Every fall we go apple picking and we absolutely love it.  The mountains are so beautiful this time of year and the kids have a blast!  This year we decided to try something new.  Carter Mountain is usually so crowded so we went to a smaller version of Carter Mountain.  It was great!!  The peach trees were gorgeous and they even had a pumpkin patch!  And of course we had our apple donuts.  After we picked apples we headed to Pippin Hill Vineyard.  It was a beautiful winery and we just relaxed and had a glass of wine while watching the kids play on the hills.  It was a perfect fall day with our family!

Running under the peach trees!

My babies and I

Eli, Luca, and Michael joined us

We love apple donuts

These 4!

All of my babies (only missing Holden!)

Loved running!

All ready to go!

Pop and his boy

Busy picking

More picking

There's my sweet girl in the tree!

Uncle Bill helping Josh out

Good apple!

My sweet girl!

Beautiful pumpkin patch!

The girls picking out their favorite pumpkin

Cora loved it!

Pop in charge of the wagon

They all wanted to help!

Chiles Peach Farm (our new favorite place!)

Running the hills of Pippin Winery!

My man!

Random pic of Josh and Cora making pumpkin muffins:)

Tom and Vera's Wedding!

This past weekend we went up to NJ/NY for Tom and Vera's wedding!  We stayed in North Bergen NJ, a town that overlooks the New York City's skyline.  One word for the weekend...amazing!  We had such an awesome time at the welcome dinner, wedding, and brunch.  It was nice to visit with the McGuire's who we love to hang out with!  Before the wedding, Sam, my dad, and I went into NYC. We had a fabulous time walking around and enjoying the sights.  Sam and I had a kid free weekend!  Auntie Lindz and her boyfriend Tony kept them Saturday.  And Grammy and Papa kept them Sunday/Monday.  We missed them very much but it was nice to have a weekend to ourselves!  I would love to take the kids to NY one day.  I know they would love it.  Congrats to Tom and Vera...what an incredible wedding weekend!

Kelly celebrated her 37th birthday on Monday!
What little cuties we were!

These guys grabbed a picture with me!

Beautiful lunch overlooking the Hudson river

Enjoying our weekend to ourselves!

Statue of Liberty!

Holden at the Welcome dinner

On the water ferry to the city

My new friends!

What a view

Times Square

Sam with his new hat!

The Freedom Tower

Still enjoying our nice lunch!

Beautiful

The happy couple!

At the reception

Love this pic of my dad and I

Cora and Josh eating the chocolate covered pretzels
from the wedding (bride and groom)!