TRICK-OR-TREAT!

LYLA'S FIRST HALLOWEEN!Just a couple of pumpkins!

A little family time at Sonny's BBQ
Lyla, me, and Ly's Uncle Jesse!
Look who we ran in to at the Fall Festival...Charleigh the Sunflower!
Lyla and Charleigh, ready for Halloween!
My little Auburn Tiger!

GRRRR! We're fierce and growling!

Opa and Lyla Grace the cute little tiger

My family. I love them!

Auntie Melissa, Lyla, and I...we just stopped by to say hi and Trick-or-Treat!

Whelp, that's about it! It's been a fantastic and fun Halloween! Halloween is my absolute favorite time of the year and the fact that I got to spend it with my family doing fun things made it even better. I told Rhett on the way home from Trick-Or-Treating, while our little Tiger slept, that we have several more years of Trick-Or-Treating left and that was definitely an exciting thought to me! It's awesome being a mom! To see and experience things from your child's perspective, there's nothing better than that. And I know that it will only get better and more fun and exciting from here as she begins to understand the traditions behind Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, etc... Anywho, I LOVE MY FAMILY! Okay, that's all! HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! :)

**More pics I couldn't post on here:**

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2073148&id=50101047&l=a9be329ce9

Trip to SC and My 7 Month Old Girl!

What a busy busy week/weekend! Lyla and I took a little trip to South Carolina to visit my mom and Charlie and Lyla turned 7 whole months on Saturday! Friday morning Lyla and I flew to SC. Now, I was incredibly nervous about flying alone with Lyla. However, I was pleasantly surprised when she was so very good on the way up there. She stayed awake and played one flight and slept through the other flight. I, however, was exhausted from hauling her little butt and all our carry on stuff from terminal to terminal. But we made it! We were so excited to see my mom waiting on us at the airport and she was so excited to see us too! Especially little Lyla. My mom and Charlie are just in love with her. We had a fabulous week of fun. We shopped, went out to dinner, cooked out, taught Lyla to wave, took walks around the neighborhood, went to a pumpkin patch, and just basically played at home mostly! The week went by so fast, as it always does when we visit. Now, the flights home were a different story. Actually, I believe I had a different Lyla with me then the one that was on the flights to SC. Lord have mercy did that child scream and cry and make a scene. I vowed I would NEVER fly alone with her again. I know, I know...never say never, I almost cried. That's how bad it was. But, again, we made it home and we were both so so so happy to see our Rhett!! We both missed him incredibly!
Mimi was so excited to feed Lyla her baby food...

A very cool Pumpkin Patch in Conway, SC!

Lyla and Mimi and the Fall setup

My little Ghost on a pumpkin...

Waving!! Mimi taught Lyla to wave!!

Mimi, Lyla, and Mommy!

Mimi playing with Lyla. Mimi realized that it really is hard to try and keep up with that little munchin... :)

Mimi, Pop Pop, and Lyla Grace before going out to dinner at the fabulous Rivertown Bistro! Rhett was so sad that he missed it, it's one of his favorite restaurants ever!

My cutie...

So very sad to say goodbye...

Lyla and I on the plane ride home....before she went all exorcist on me.

My little Lyla is 7 whole months old!!! I cannot even believe it! Time surely does fly when you have a little one crawling all over the place. She really is the love and light of our lives. We truly are blessed and so appreciative to have her.

Her "football" pose... Daddy's idea. Obviously.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! We're so excited to go Trick-0r-Treating!!!

BOO!!!

I could not fit all the pics on here, as usual, so here's a link to the rest of the pics:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2072888&id=50101047&l=7ed1c43ce6

What a beautiful day!

It was such a gorgeous day today!! A little windy, but still gorgeous! We decided to take little Lyla on a walk around the beautiful parts of Downtown Pensacola and we also wanted take some pictures too!! We saw 3 weddings taking place around Seville Square!! THREE! Holy cow!! That's a lot of weddings within a short distance of each other. Anywho, one of the weddings we saw the attendants were wearing brown suits with LIME GREEN ties! Look, I'm not a wedding expert snob, but GROSS! I suppose I should've taken a picture of it.... Nonetheless, we were very entertained by all the weddings going on! =)
Lyla and a few of the many beautiful flowers! Fall is so fabulous! Is it not?! My cute little Pumpkin with her pumpkin hat (that I got for $1 at Target)!

We tried to find purple flowers to go with her purple outfit...however, these are kind of looking blue now. I swear I'm not colorblind!

Obviously I loved the foliage. This looked very Fallish to me...

Lyla, Mommy, and the wind!!!!

Lyla and her Daddy! Look at that smile! She is a Daddy's girl!

Just a pretty little girl on the steps of a pretty blue house. =)

I LOVE...

FALL!!!
and Lyla
and Rhett
and Aubbie
and Libby
and Mimi
and...well, the list goes on and on.

Duh, you knew that already. We've had a lot of fun this past week visiting friends and pumpkin patches! Fall is definitely my absolute favorite time of the year! Now, if only the weather would get the memo that it's Fall I'd be set!

Lyla picking out a pumpkin....she did a good job. Rhett made a homeade pumpkin pie with a real pumpkin! Not out of a can! I was impressed!

Cayden, one of Lyla's many boyfriends! She has three in fact...Cayden, my Preacher's Grandson (they play in the nursery together), and of course Brant (who has yet to be born yet). She's already a man eater! Watch out boys, she'll chew you up. He he. Just had to add that.

See! See! Hand on the leg, hand on the leg! Rhett and I need to have a discussion with her I'm sure. =)

"Mommy, I don't understand boys".....Ohhh, Lyla. Neither do I!

Cute little babies!

We're ready for Fall and Halloween! She's sporting the Fall and I'm sporting the Halloween.

Ooooo.....HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! Lyla's playing the frightened role pretty well...

Family time!

Rhett/Daddy's ready for Halloween too?! YAYYYYY!

Let's see. I'm super excited about this weekend. Rhett has an off week in football which means there's no Tate football game Friday night so he's going to have a little Father-Daughter time with Lyla while I go out with the girls! I am long overdue for some girl time so it should be fun! And then....next Friday Ly and I fly to SC!!! I can hardly contain myself! Rhett has already said that he's going to miss us so very much. I bet it will be hard for him not to see Ly for 5 whole days! Poor BR!

Concerns

Right this very minute, I'm sitting on my back porch enjoying a nice breeze and the company of my kitties. I choose to be out here because my husband is inside watching the Auburn vs. Arkansas game and well, things are not looking good for Auburn. Anywho, as the title of the post states, I have a couple concerns on my mind here lately.
(1) Definitely my biggest worry, and as stupid as it may be, is whether or not Lyla should get the H1N1 vaccine at her next doctor's visit (Oct. 30th). I am just so undecided! I have heard positive and negative views about the shot and I just don't know. I'll bet you're thinking, "Why don't you ask your doctor"? Well, I have and she's all for it, but I'd like to know the pros and cons of something before I have it injected into my baby's thigh. So, all you mommies out there (or heck, anyone who knows anything or has an opinion)...what do you think? Is anyone else concerned or am I just being dumb?
(2) In an earlier post I said that Lyla and I are flying to see my Mom and Charlie here in a couple Fridays, which I am so so so excited about! However, I will admit that I am a little scared to fly with Lyla all by myself! Rhett has football and of course can not go. So it'll just be me and little Lyla. I know if she goes ballistic on the plane there's nothing I can do and everyone else on the plane will just have to get over it, but I'd like to prevent that going ballistic part from happening...
Anywho, these are just a couple of my many worries...oh to be a mother! :)

It's Party Time!

Ha ha! Okay, well not really. But it sure felt like all we did this week/weekend was go to party after party! First, we celebrated Rhett's birthday at Atlas with his parents. We were going to go to The Fish House, but it was lady's night and very packed so to Atlas we went! We had never been to Atlas and we all loved our meals! We were very impressed!
Family of three! Rhett's 28! I cannot believe it! Lyla and the Birthday Boy!

Lyla and I! And no Jo, she is not doing "the chop"! HA HA! However, I have no idea what she is doing! She's my little goofball.

Rhett's amazing Birthday dinner! He was a happy boy!

Lyla crawling away at Rhett's coworker's housewarming party! I love Rhett's coworkers! They are all so funny!

A very proud daddy!

Next up, Jo Jo's Baby Shower! Lyla loved playing with all the fun stuff!

Lyla and her pregnant Aunt Jo!

Jo, Me, Lyla, and Baby Brant in Jo's belly! Jo sooooo has the pregnancy glow!

Let's see...things we did this weekend that I did not mention or have a picture of:

Friday night was of course the Tate vs. Catholic game in which Tate kicked some major boo-tay! They won 49-14! Jo was there too, so it made it that much better! Whoo hoo! They play Pine Forest (who's #1 around these parts!) this week so we're nervous! =) Saturday morning Lyla and I met my dad for breakfast at Crackerbarrel! It was yummy and I always love spending time with my dad. I am so glad that recently I have been able to do more of that.

And finally, 2 amazing occurrences/soon-to-be occurrences.... (1) Charlie is so awesome and bought me a plane ticket so that Lyla and I could come and visit!! We leave Oct. 23 and fly back the 28th! We cannot wait to see Lyla's Mimi and Pop-Pop!! (2) I got word that Kristi might, probably, hopefully (WHATEVER!) will be coming home for a visit this Christmas!!! I am so excited to see my little BFF!