Saturday morning at MOA!

My friend Dotty and I try to get together for a walk with our kiddos every other weekend or so, although we've missed several weeks this fall for some reason. But this morning's walk has been on my calendar for a few weeks, so I had been looking forward to it for quite some time!

We typically go to one of the lakes when the weather is warm (or even just warm-ish), but it was 9 degrees this morning (which will never, ever qualify as "warm") so we opted for the MOA. Typically the mall isn't open when we walk, but there were special extended holiday hours this morning - thankfully it wasn't too crowded when we arrived!

We made about three laps around, stopping at all the requisite photo opportunities.

Somehow Dotty snapped this photo with no one else in it!

Rose was a rock star with completing the expedition sans stroller! (And Dotty and her boys were rock stars at tolerating our sometimes sluggish pace!) To reward us all, we got to go on some "roller coasters" before we left.

The scary thing I discovered today is that Rose is now technically tall enough to ride unaccompanied. Yikes.

Little Miss is growing up!