Arkansas Game

The Arkansas game was our last home game, thus being our last tailgate. We had so much fun tailgating this year! Morgan really enjoyed it too. We have such great friends who we tailgate with that really make it fun! And this year I was able to be at every game and really do our tailgate justice. We are sad our football season in Starkville has come to an end... but we are ready to go bowling!

Family Pic

So sweet with her Daddy

The Sig Ep boys

Morgan and Michelle (yay Michelle for passing comps!)

Me and Carrie

Kristin, Me and Lauren

Go Racers Go!

Last Wednesday combined many of my favorite things: hanging out with my family, cheering on the Racer basketball team and cheering against Ole Miss. Murray State played in Oxford and my dad came down (along with many of the Murray faithful) to watch the game. So of course, we all came too! Sadly, mom couldn't come- boo. But as much as we tried, the Racers couldn't pull out a win. But we had fun none the less!

Dad, Morgan and Carrie

Carrie and Morgan

Me and Morgan

Jeff and Morgan

Trick or Treat

With all the commotion of the birthday party, Halloween kinda became an afterthought in our house. But Morgan was ready to celebrate none the less!

Let me tell you about my kid. She can now climb her way up on the couch all by herself. She then would lean over the back of the couch to get to the candy bowl on the table behind it. She then digs through the bowl until she picks out what she wants to chew on. The funny thing is, she digs until she finds Milky Ways! I kid you not, she will throw all the other options away until she finds that shiny gold wrapper! She will chew on it until she can make a hole and suck it out!

Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

And for the record, that is the same tututhat she wore last year at 4 days old!

Sweet girl

Party Time!

Morgan's birthday party was the following Saturday. Poor thing, she was born during football season so I see many celebrations at the tailgate for years to come! So we thought we would start the tradition off right! The day could not have been more perfect if I had special ordered it. It was a crisp fall day with nothing but sunshine! With kickoff at 6:00 we had the whole day to celebrate. And celebrate we did!


Jeff and I are very blessed to have such wonderful family and friends. And now Morgan knows how special that is. We had a crowd come to Starkville! We were there to eat cake and party with the birthday girl, but we also cheered our Dawgs on to a win over Kentucky! (What? We are 7-2?) The day was picture perfect and Morgan even snuck in a little nap. Thank you so much to everyone who made the trip and truly made Morgan's day so special! We love you all so much!

These cakes were as yummy as they were beautiful! Thanks so

much to Rose at Creative Cakes for the wonderful present to Morgan!

We're still working on blowing those candles out ourselves. Do you see the super cute tutu that mom and dad made for her high chair? Love it!!

Yummy!

Loves ringing that cowbell!

Proud parents

The damage

So happy with RoRo and Grandma!

Loving on her GG. And kudos to my Grandma for going neutral and not wearing blue! I know that was tough for that wildcat fan!

Carrie and Lauren. Lauren wins the award for longest trip... all the way from New York! Boy, was mom and dad surprised!

How cute is this kid? RoRo made a perfect jumper dress for her! It even had paw prints on the back!!

Meagan O'Nan and me

James, Kathryn and Morgan. We were so happy they were there!

Stacey and me

Morgan and Claudia. How cute is that owl?

Elle and Morgan stealing food

Susan and Mom. We were so proud the Williams came all the way from Murray to be there with us!

Drew and Carrie. Thanks so much Drew for getting our balloons. They completed our party!

Me, Kristen and Michelle

Holly and Me

Morgan found herself a bulldog!

Happy Birthday To You...

No, I can't believe my sweet baby girl is now 1 year old! Where has this year gone? It was too fast and now my baby is a big girl. But I have to say it was the best year of my life. I can't even begin to count the blessings I witness everyday with Morgan. She is wonderful and has brought such love and joy to both me and Jeff. Our family truly was not complete until she came.

This past year is a blur of smiles, laughs, hugs and kisses (especially wet ones from Morgan!). Our girl is growing so fast. She is 24 pounds 6 ounces and is almost 32" tall! But funny enough, she has the smallest feet for such a big girl! She is only wearing a size 4! Where did those feet come from?

Morgan babbles all day long. She says mama, dada and something that most times sounds like kitty. Other than that, I swear she speaks Chinese! Here babble is perfect mandarin! Her laugh is infectious and forces you to smile back, even through tears. She is a carbon copy of Jeff, but when she smiles big she looks just like her Aunt Carrie. Both of these things warm my heart.

She is a mover and a shaker too! She can crawl so fast that she is gone as soon as I turn around. She will chase our cat, Josie, all around the house just laughing all the way! Josie is a good sport and lets her catch her every now and then. She is getting close to taking her first steps and I know my life will change when she does!

Morgan loves music and dancing more than anything! She will press buttons on her toys to make them sing and she starts dancing immediately. But her favorite song is the theme song to the Office! No matter what she is doing she will stop and dance as soon as she hears it! Crazy!

But her two most important things in this world are her fingers and her blanket. As long as she has those two things, all the worlds problems are solved.

Jeff and I love her so much and can't wait to see what God has in store for her in the next years!

Happy Birthday!

Ready to party

Jeff brought her a cupcake home on her actual birthday

It was yummy!

Morgan's birthday wreath