Starring: Tillman Brantley

Our favorite form of entertainment:

Well, here she is, our cutest and most favorite form of entertainment:
With Tillman being so mobile now there is literally never a dull moment in our lives. She is constantly on the go which keeps us busy. She is getting braver and braver everyday with her pulling up, standing unassisted, and taking a few steps here and there without holding on to anything. Of course, she's still got a ways to go, but we are noticing milestones ever so quickly!

Cheering on Daddy and the Liberty Falcons at their first home game of the season.

This is what church and shopping downtown Clemson will do to a baby. This is her highchair, not her carseat. She didn't budge from the car to the highchair. I had to wake her up to eat.

She loves walking with this lion. It won't be long now until we won't need the lion's help.

She loves her over-sized teddy bear from KC and Joe Joe. She was sooo funny with it tonight. She kept hugging it, jumping on it, biting it, etc. It was hilarious.

I love my toys!!



What A Wonderful Weekend

What a wonderful weekend! My parents came into town this past week/weekend to spend some time with Tillman (and us, even though we don't really count anymore) on their way to VA and NC. We had a great time together, but as usual, there just wasn't enough time to do everything we had hoped to do. Mom and Dad got in on Thursday. We hung out, had dinner at the house, and played with Tillman. Josh had an away football game, so he didn't get in until later in the night.  

Cute new pajamas

So in love with her!

Friday my parents kept Tillman while Josh and I went to work. Dad went running in Greenville, Mom made multiple batches of homemade cookies, we froze some cookie dough too so it will be a quick and easy way to make cookies in the future. I'm not so sure that was a good idea now though, because I keep sneaking out to the garage freezer and eating the cookie dough. :) 

I LOVE yogurt! (& my Grandpa)

PRECIOUS

When Josh and I got home from work Friday we hung out for a little bit, then we went out to dinner at a new local Mexican restaurant, El Jimador. It was really good and Tillman added to the night's entertainment when she, innocently enough, reached out and grabbed the waiter's crotch. We all got a great big laugh out of that, and needless to say, he didn't stand at that end of the table again for the rest of the night. After dinner, Mom and I put Tillman to bed and caught up on our girl talk while Josh and Dad went to the Liberty High School Homecoming game. As Josh had guessed, Ariel won Homecoming Queen and Liberty won the game! They are now 4-0! :) Go Liberty! Oh, and then Shaun got to our house around 2:00 AM for the Clemson/Auburn game the next day. I definitely did not wait up for him - bad hostess award.

Saturday Josh and Shaun left for the game at 6:30.  When the rest of us woke up we decided to dress Tillman in Virginia Tech Hokie gear because the next time we see my parents she will be sure to be decked out in all Clemson gear! In two weeks we are all heading up to Blacksburg for the Clemson/Virginia Tech game & we are all sooo excited!! Tony and Danica will be there too. Yay! 

Go Hokies!

Grandpa loves the wardrobe! :)

She looks good in orange, even VT orange.

Such a sweetie

Anyways, Dad went running again Saturday morning, but stayed local and ran the streets of downtown Easley. Mom, Tillman, and I went to Hobby Lobby where Mom bought a beautiful cast iron wall display. After that we went to Chic Fil A to see McKinley on her first day of work!! We are so excited she got a job at Chic Fil A! :) Yummy

A tired little girl

Hanging out with Grandma & Grandpa watching the Clemson/Auburn game

Notice all the orange.

Sporting a new outfit, compliments of Grandma & Grandpa :)

She loves to stand up!

Practicing walking 

Thank you, Emslee for the lion toy.

She loves the phone, and of course, talking

Love this face

Playing around with some new ponytail holders I got for her hair.

After the game, Mom and Dad left and headed to VA to see my Grandpa, Tillman's Great Grandpa. When Josh and Shaun got home from the game we went out to dinner at a great BBQ place, Smokehouse. We all really liked what we ordered and agreed we would eat here again.

Tillman liked it too. She had a little bit of everything off my plate.

Happy baby

Leaving church this morning. It was youth Sunday. The teens did a great job at LFB.

Another new outfit from Grandma & Grandpa. She's bound to be the cutest baby on the block.

She's so good at playing by herself

With the phone again

Just want to kiss her!

Don't know what she is thinking, but I love this expression.

There should be some more good blogs coming soon. October & November are packed months for us! Bring on the memories. :)

10 months - A Rough Day

Tillman at the Liberty High School football game last Friday night. The outfit in its entirety was actually really cute. She had on bright red Elmo socks to go with her LHS red, white, and black. Liberty is having a great season. They are 3-0!

Distracted by the crowd

Somebody looks tired.



Here are some of Tillman's 10 month pictures. This was a hard photo session for many reasons: the more mobile Tillman gets, the more difficult it is to get her to sit still for pictures, she is teething and has a runny nose and doesn't feel very well, she had just had a pretty nice temper tantrum during this photo shoot, hence the puffy eyes and tired look. Anyways, we still love her and think she is absolutely adorable!! :) Rest assured, today has been a MUCH better day and Josh and I got a picture text at work from Tillman's babysitter of her playing with the biggest, cutest, happiest smile on her face.

standing up, always into everything

playing with a Clemson football she got at the Tiger Cub's "pawty"

She loves turning pages to books!

breathing through her mouth since her nose is stuffy & runny

loving those books

after her crying spell

and...still on the move - she actually looks like she's trying to climb up on the changing table

her new favorite toy - a toothbrush

she loved it

like, wouldn't put it down, loved it

always standing!

Happy 10 months, Tillman!