Happy baby!

 This baby................ has just been easy and delightful and spunky............hilarious, determined....and unique with her ability to understand and know exactly what is happening, etc with almost everything.

She makes me smile!

STATE and end of season!

 Lily has loved this season and ended on such a great note with her time! The team is young so it will be exciting to see them next season and beyond!

No caption needed! :)

As you can see................these two do everything together! And..........I love it!

One of my favorites of her. Look at her GO!

A special celebration!

 It was really nice of the school to wish the XC team well as they headed into State!

They rocked it and Lily had a great time of 23.03!

They even got special sweatshirts to wear!

Halloween, late edition

 A little late posting about Halloween but due to so many things........well, it has just now become a time where I could post about all the action.

Alexis had three full nights of Halloween fun doing all the college things. Heard about some of the fun, saw no pictures but assume she had a great time with a ton of memories.

Lily, hands down, had the best costume theme idea of any I have seen! Her little group had the theme of 

'New York!' 

So clever and creative............and fun!

They looked so cute!

READY for all the trick or treaters!

All the food and Halloween goodies!

The pumpkin with the taxi driver!

Dad pic!

Never would have thought she would want to dress up as a taxi driver...but here she is, killing it!

Just so cute!

Have to have a picture on the porch!

Having fun!

She loves her friends!

LOVE this and their theme!

Then the boys came and they were all off to have so much fun...and get a TON of candy!

Checking out their stash.........trading candy....and eating it all! :)

State bound with Lily in lights!

 The article listed who all is heading to State for XC and so proud of Lily to see her name!

Lily's friend Halloween fun!

 Lily was SO excited to go to another haunted house. She just loves Halloween and it is so great! ha!

This crew went to eat, 'hung out', and went to the Haunted Chicken House!

She then spent the night with Kelby to top off a fun night before Halloween!

A college Halloween

 Alexis has been doing all the Halloween things. She said she had Halloween parties, etc from Thursday all the way to today (being the actual day) and she has been making all the memories!

Only picture received but love the black cat!

And wasnt it just yesterday..........................she was this little!

Sectional champs!

 The girls team ROCKED it today! It was a beautiful day for a XC meet!

And, to seal the deal, 1st place champions!

And there she is off and going!

Champions!

Excited for this group because they will be back next year together and stronger than ever!

The boys and the girls! They all enjoyed a team bonding lunch date at Moes....which entailed not going back to school so it made for a great Friday for Lily!

A flash forward sweet moment of Lily's future!

 She has been LOVING babysitting each week for these three sweet girls! I was SO happy to get a glance of her in action today and just to think of her and her future as a Mom too. She is going to be a good one, I just know it!

These three kiddos just love her!

Playing and enjoying such a beautiful afternoon!

Taking them inside so she could feed them dinner!

Our Freshman!

 I mean.......Freshman year for Lily!

She is just blooming and just doing all the Freshman things!

Her yearbook picture!

Halloween's past!

 I LOVE to see flashbacks of the girls and remember when they were dressed the way they were, what they were doing, etc.

Makes me smile!

Flashback for Alexis! She came up with this 'theme' all by herself and did it to herself too. She has always been just so creative. 

We went to our Church's Fall Festival on this evening! 

And then this Halloween.............Lily came up with this idea for herself! She wanted to be a 'dead witch'.......... and that she was! :)

She's officially an official Phi Mu!

 Initiation happened so she's officially official as a Phi Mu!

I dont know what all the secret handshakes, secret sayings, etc are..........but she does and her sisters do and it will be forever in her heart!

Nanny is 90!

 She has had a really rough couple of weeks. Lana, Pam and Mom had to cancel the original plan of her birthday celebration but it was nice to have the small get together that we did.

She felt the love and we got to enjoy a day that was pretty good for her. She was in good spirits and her mind was pretty much with us the whole time.

It was a good day

The birthday girl!

Everyone there to celebrate Nanny!

Last football game of her Freshman year

 Due to the coaches being suspended, their football season was cut short so they are not able to make it to the playoffs.

So, last game of the season was an even BIGGER one because it was also their biggest rival.........

Alexandria!

Lily said it was a 'bad' game because the boys fought some and they lost but it held true to the big rival environment!

It was 'hate' day so they all wore their Alexandria shirts with big 'X's' on them

Lily loves her friends!

Boo to Alexandria!

2nd place at County meet!

 Lily and her team came out as 2nd place this morning at the Calhoun County meet being really close behind Oxford.

It was a beautiful day to be outside and enjoy watching the team run!

They all enjoyed the team meal of pizza at CiCi's after to make the day out of school even better!

Seeing her coming up to the end is always a favorite!

Pushing!

Cheering committe!

And another one. Proud of her!

Time

 I remember these days thinking they were 'hard' and how it would be when they didnt 'need' me as much....now...

I only wish, sometimes, that I could get them back to this age. A time when they were 'hard' but OH so sweet and full of all the future to where now, it is official, they dont 'need' me as much and whew, these stages are hard. Growing up is hard. All the things life brings is hard. Me not being able to 'fix' it all and 'make it better' like when they were younger is hard, but thankful to see them both growing into the people they are going to be as adults and hope they know that even though they may think now that I dont know as much as them, that I am in their corner and want the very best for them. As does their Daddy and all of their family.

Time does not slow down. I mean, look at them!

Lily's pumpkin Saturday night

 Lily was SO excited to spend the night at Kelby's and have a fun night with her friends painting pumpkins!

She loves her sweet friends!

And really loves Kelby and was happy she hosted all of them!

Look how cute Lily's pumpkin is! So cute!

Spending time together

 Their bond is so sweet. He loves spending time with Lily and they just have the sweetest time when they are together.

Friday called for lunch and the Forgotten Island movie to finish out Fall break week for both of them!

Valley Cub Twilight meet

 They had never run this meet before because it is always during their Fall break week but since the hurricane the weekend before cancelled that meet, Cocah Anna decided to put them in it. I have to say, very interesting running in the dark. Lily said she was nervous running because she couldnt see where to step very well but she did good, overall, and it was a memory experience for them! I dont think they will run this one in the future, or at least Lily and I hope not!

This guy came to support since he is out for Fall break too! 

All the hair accessories for this one! Pearson was such a good hairstylist for both of them!

Ellie and Lily showing off their cute hair!

They are ready............to run in the dark!

She was among the pack in there somewhere!