we're having such a nice, relaxing fall week around here. jon returned home from a work trip last night & we were all more grateful than ever to have him home! the weather is finally cool & we're looking forward to the weekend with him, as next weekend the girls & i are visiting my gramma in the blue ridge mountains of virginia with meme, auntie amy & cousins. i'll be 23 weeks pregnant & flying solo with both my girls. where's the wine when you need it? we have a layover in atlanta, followed by a 2 hour drive from charlotte. we'll meet my mom & amy in charlotte for the caravan. prayers, prayers & more prayers for this mama please! 

monday the girls & i headed back to the farmstead for their annual pumpkin hollow. it was such fun! we're excited to hit up another pumpkin patch with daddy on sunday :) 

first we made a pit-stop at the lee ann britain center to donate the books lucy's birthday guests donated at her party- a pretty proud 3 year old!

hayride adventures-

finding our way through the corn maze-

we swung by the pony station on the way out & lucy rode cowboy :)

playdate at the park with the green girls on tuesday. eloise is becoming fearless on the BIG slides!

& some afternoon quiet time while sissy naps-

library fun after storytime-

& we went home & made a salt dough pumpkin with impressions of lucy's hand & eloise's little foot. i'll look forward to displaying this each halloween :)

today is laundry day, although it was all done, put away & beds re-made by 11am! i'm becoming pretty darn efficient :) & thanks to the olsen twins, it's been a festive, uneventful morning-

lucy starts gymnastics class in a couple weeks. we're both so excited for this new little adventure! i'd love for her to have some basic tumbling skills in case she wants to do dance team or cheerleading. it's a toss up given my sister was a nationally ranked competitive gymnast & it took me 6 months to learn how to do a basic cartwheel :) 

while the girls & i are in virginia, we're updating our staircase with iron spindles- i think it'll make a big difference in our entryway! maybe it'll be a nice distraction from the constant coat of glitter our entire house is covered in thanks to these little girls running around :) & i'm starting to clear out the guest bedroom this weekend to make way for lucy. i cannot believe it's already october & i'm due just 4 months from today! 

eloise turned 16 months & her newest word is "tiara", she continues to surpass lucy in daily food consumption & lucy's decided that she wants to be a doctor when she grows up, as documented this morning- [i'm thinking this is prompted by eloise's new obsession with the book corduroy goes to the doctor- she's been carrying it with her everywhere & insists on sleeping with it]

a big highlight for the girls this week was our next door neighbor, ms jane, harvesting her cherry tomatoes. the girls eat them like grapes & get SO excited when she shows up on our front porch with a basket filled with tomatoes for us :)

naptime over here. i have my typical decaf pumpkin coffee & lucy's found a new place for quiet time where she's reading a princess book & says she's finding caterpillars & grasshoppers <3 i'm the luckiest!

happy fall, y'all!

-ivy