Happy Fall, Y'all!

While I love summer and everything that it involves, fall also has it's perks! It's not 3000 degrees, football season starts, fall fashion is the BEST shopping...and, of course, my birthday!

I love decorating the house for fall and Pintrest had some great ideas!

And my mom got me this little guy...

how cute is he!?!

One of the other wonderful things about fall is Halloween. Over the past couple of years, we have had such a great time coming up with creative ideas

FLASHBACK!

So this year when trying to figure out the perfect outfit, we finally had enough people willing to do the Flinstones....ALL the Flinestones...and the Rubbles! The cost of the costumes was outrageous...so we decided to make them! Everyone came over to our house for a little Halloween get together!

Pebbles and Bam Bam!

Fred and Wilma!

Barney and Betty!

It was a fun night! Henry even dressed up for the occasion!

Happy fall, y'all!

Cheers to Birthdays-Jacqueline

While I'm  a day late...I wanted to wish a happy birthday to my sweet friend, Jacqueline!

Jacqueline and I met at State...in Sigma Kappa...surprise, surprise! haha! The first conversation I had with her (that I can remember) was when she casually told me about being in the Miss North Carolina pageant! WHAT!?! I'd be shouting from the rooftops if I did something that awesome! But that's Jax!

Jacqueline and I had many chances throughout college and after to attend and lead some Bible studies together. It is always nice to have a friend that you can share those times and thoughts with--and I love that about our relationship.  Jacqueline, and her entire family, have such an awesome faith that is inspiring and uplifting!

She was also one of the first of our group to get married...

and have a precious, precious baby...

MJ is just the cutest little thing!

So happy birthday to you!! Can't wait to see you soon!

Happy Birthday, Julia!

This past weekend, I made a trip to the Gold-city (minus my other half who had to study--yuck) to celebrate the 1st birthday of my cousin, Julia.

Julia was brought into our family after my aunt and uncle adopted this precious little girl.  With her huge blue eyes and infectious smile, she has been such a joy to everyone.

The party was so cute and Julia was the princess of the afternoon!

While some kids dive into their first birthday cake, Julia was a little overwhelmed by all the attention and really awesome loud singing

She eventually got it together and was able to eat some birthday cake--there was no smashing of this cake though! She kept things quite clean!

It was a great afternoon with the family and some of Julia's precious little friends!

Up until the arrival of Julia, I was the only granddaughter (on both sides--crazy)! And most of you know how near and dear Granny is to me! I loved seeing how much Julia also adores my sweet grandmother!  Warms my heart!

While I was home, my mom and I also made some pretty awesome Halloween costumes! There are 6 of us and we are going to look awesome! Yaba Daba Dooooo!!