MoseleyWorld

Saxon and Samantha’s “Gran” (my dad, Bailey Moseley), serves on the 6th Texas Court of Appeals. Gran, who loves to write, often finds ways to spice up the opinions he authors. Since they’re all published on the web, I read them every now & then, and often find humorous bits and pieces.

For example, in the case of .39 ACRES, .748 ACRES, AND .5 ACRES (WITH IMPROVEMENTS) IN THE J. JOHNSON SURVEY, MARION COUNTY, TEXAS, AND A .22 CALIBER RUGER SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL, Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee (here’s the full opinion, in case you think I’m joking), Justice Moseley wrote:

Suffice it to say that, judging from the criminal records of the patrons of the business and Doke’s renters of the place, the Dew Drop Inn was never intended to be a competitor of the Chuck E. Cheese family fun restaurants.

Well, apparently, I’m not the fan of reading appellate court opinions coming out of East Texas. Texas Lawyer recently blogged about one of Gran’s “Only in Texas” style opinions.

Click more to read the case opinion or click download the PDF here.

Some random photographs taken in the last couple of months to share with you.

samantha is seven months old now. last month, she began crawling. like her big sister, samantha completely skipped the “potted plant” (can sit up but can’t go any where) stage and is always on the go, quite frustrated that she cannot walk unassisted like the rest of us.

cutie pies

saxon with mimi

samantha  with gran

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A friend told me having two kids wasn’t double the effort, but triple the effort. I think he was being conservative in his assessment. Yes, there are a couple of reasons why the updating of MoseleyWorld has slowed - and their names are Saxon and Samantha. But without Saxon and Samantha, MoseleyWorld would be much less interesting. So, I’ll update with some posts that should have been made a couple of months ago, rather than just skipping over them like they did not exist.

Home Building - Gingerbread Style
My friends at the Rosewood Crescent Hotel hired me to photograph a party right before Christmas. The party was a gingerbread house building class for the wedding & event planners who refer business to the Crescent. As a special treat, I got to take home a ready-to-build gingerbread house along with all the "building materials." Carey, Saxon and I had a great time creating our little cottage.

A wide-eyed Saxon, in her PJ’s, ready to build the house at breakfast.

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sisters. samantha with her baby’s first christmas hat, saxon with her cinderella dress (thanks aunt christy and cousins alex & avery)

Christmas in Wichita
We traveled to Wichita to spend Christmas with Carey’s family. A very special visitor welcomed us to Kansas with open arms. A sinister virus was not simply lurking in the Edison household but aggressively seeing out its next victims with the speed and vengeance of an Ebola virus. Pops was completely missing in action for the first day, missing the big Christmas dinner, which was on Christmas Eve.

Saxon and I walked into the bathroom just in time to see Carey barfing in the trash can. Saxon asked, "Mommy, what are you drinking?" Had I not been so focused on damage control and personal self-preservation of the food I had just eaten, I would have probably laughed so hard at Saxon’s very observant question that I would have wet my pants. We went to a special dinner at one of the log-cabin style lodge houses at Flint Hills Golf Club and although Carey didn’t eat, Saxon again walked in to see mommy vomiting. Almost three months later, we’re still talking about Mommy throwing up at the "wooden house."

saxon putting a bow on her cousin mac

saxon with her cousin avery (yes, that’s a tinkerbell costume - thanks again fassnacht cousins!)

samantha taking it all in on christmas morning

dad and samantha - smiling on the way back to Dallas