YAY!!!! FALL is here!!

Fall is by far our families favorite time of year!  We love to be outside with the crisp air and falling leaves!  So to start off this awesome time of year and enjoy the bueatiful weather we have been having we took a trip to the Richmond Metro Zoo with our friends on Friday and then went to Maymont as a family on Saturday morning.  The weather was awesome for both!!  Not to hot and not to chilly just perfect for Liam to run around and let out some of his pent up energy!! 

Lets start with the Zoo!!  We went with 5 of my mommy friends and their children... We looked like a stroller brigade there were so many of us!   Can you imagine how much fun we had with 8 kids 3 and under running around the Zoo!  I'm sure people thought they should live there but they had a blast!

Liam's favorite part was of course getting to feed the giraffes,seeing and feeding the Alpacas. He loved the petting zoo they have too.  He hugged the donkey and got to feed the goats--even though he got angry at the goat for trying to steal the donkeys food!  It was fun to watch them because they could not stay at one thing for more than a minute tops before having to run to the next animal.

  Of Course I was sad because I really wanted to bring home the chocolate/black Alpaca baby!  I wanted to name her Dolly... (Dolly LLAMA hahaha) 

After about 2 hours of running around the zoo we called it a day, but of course you can't leave without looking around the gift shop!  Liam ended up getting a rubber squeaking BAT!  If you know Liam at all you know he is in love with all things SPOOKY, so a BAT is what he wanted! 


On Saturday we headed to Maymont Park!  Its an all time FAVE around here!  DH and I started going there when we were dating way back 10 years ago, and have always had a special place in our hearts for it!  So its pretty awesome that we can share that with Liam.  He loves running around out there!  We always start at the Barn and see all the goats, chickens, potbelly pigs, donkey, and horses and then head down to see all the foxes and our fave the Bears!  They have 2 little bears there and it was our lucky day because they were really close and were having a good ole time fighting and romping where we could watch!  They were super cute and Liam told them " Bears you stop fighting that's not nice!"  "Stop biting each other"  It was really funny.

Liam also was super excited when a train came down the tracks and he got to watch it drive by.  He loves trains and from that point on kept listening for more of them to come.  We then heading into the Japanese Gardens and crossed the bridge and walked up the stone steps to the waterfall! 

We have had an awesome weekend so far and I can't wait to see what tomorrow holds!  Hoping the Redskins decide to come to play tomorrow!  We will all be gearing up in our Skins jerseys!