HEART

I have such a heavy heart tonight. God is truly speaking to me telling me to be thankful for the life I have before me and everything that is in it.

....Today at lunch my blogger girlfriends were telling me about a blog where the mother had passed away who had just had a baby. It wasn't until I got home and saw another friend that had posted about it, and my friend Kelly, that I actually opened it up and read about it. I have been sitting here crying my eyes out.

Ya'll... God is so good. I just think about the most SIMPLE things that I have going on in my life that seem HUGE to me. Like a baby that wakes up ONCE and wears me out. I am so blessed compared to what these people just went through. This girl just passed away from breast cancer and had a precious baby that is BEAUTIFUL.. and now the father is raising it alone. I just can't imagine. As I went into our bedroom tonight to check on Avery, and Chad was asleep... I just thought for a brief second of how I was so lucky to have this life. And how someone out there is hurting with their baby beside them- without their soul mate.

Brings me to my Woman's Bible Study this past week on how to find obedience in God during a tragedy or devastation in life. I have been blessed to not have to experience that kind of thing in my life but my eyes are beginning to open & see how precious life truly is and God is really showing me to not take a DAY for granted.

I hope you too will find peace in your life and read about this precious family and find faith in the Lord through any struggles you to may have...

Please pray for this family, you can read more HERE.

Lunch and SPIT BUBBLES!

Today we went to lunch with some of our NWA blogger friends! We like to plan lunches a few weeks in advance and I look forward to the day it is finally here because us girls just have such a great time laughing together and catching up about life! Today's lunch was at Abuelos! I just love these girls, we all have so much fun together. Group shot to come, someone else took that on their camera! Jenn with Kyah Danielle with Avery Lane with Sterling (and baby Judson in the belly) Suzette with baby Kyah Kyah smiling I thought I would also share this sweet picture of Daddy giving Avery a bath last night. She loves bath time! Finally, Avery is doing lots of spit bubbles! Not sure if she is starting to teethe a little right now or what but we have lots of drool in our house! She's not sleeping really well so mommy is super tired! Ignore my bed that isn't made... haven't gotten to that yet today!

Avery- 16 weeks!

Avery is 16 weeks today, can you believe it!? I have always thought that it's weird that 16 weeks is really 4 months but she isn't officially "4 months" until October 3rd! Im going to wait and post what we have been up to the past few weeks until October 3rd. She has changed SO much that I have a LIST!

For now, here are a few cute pics of my diva girl. She is my best friend... my everything!!!!

Tuesday Random's

This morning I had my Woman's Bible Study at the church. It was SO good as always. It's crazy how on days you have something to attend at the church, something always goes wrong or you are EXHAUSTED! I had to get up at 6:30 and could barely role my booty out of bed. Im doing it again tomorrow, because I am attending a MOPS group at our church campus in Springdale. I am doing it with my friend Kate! I am super excited and LOVE getting involved! That is my favorite thing about me not having a job and it just being me and Ave, we can committ to things and go as we please!

We are SO busy this week preparing for my friends wedding shower. It's Saturday at my house and is going to be too cute, so stay tuned for fun pictures! Thursday I have Kitchen Queens and it's our 2 year anniversary so I am stoked about seeing all the girls for that. Crazy week!

It's rainy here today & I am in my PJ's resting from my 2 hours night rest. Avery is still conjested and not wanting to sleep all that much, so our days have been inside for the past week or more! She is still happy as can be though! We are loving this weather because we are loving dressing up in fun fall clothes.. I have a BAD sickness when it comes to my daughter and dressing her up... BAD!!! I made her cute bow to match. I can't wait to show you here cute leggings, another day....
With this rainy chilly weather, it's getting me in the mood for fall, so time to online shop, here are a few cute things that are a must for me this fall:

Pumpkin Patch, HOGS, & Friends!

My what a weekend we had! We have been getting over a cold. Avery has been stopped up for several days not feeling the best and keeping this momma up all night. Literally, I think I have had 2 hours of STRAIGHT sleep in the past several nights. It's been tough. But, it's my job & I love every second!!! Zombie and all . . .

Friday night we ventured out to our favorite pumpkin patch. We have been going to this place for several years because we love fall and love pumpkins! To bring Avery for the first time was a dream because I had always talked about when one day we had a baby we would bring them to the patch and pick out pumpkins together! Avery had a blast! We dressed her up in a cute little pumpkin onesie & leggings and drove around in the wagon and picked out some fun stuff! Here are a few pictures of her having a ball!

First ride in a wagon, 15 weeks old:

Ready to get her first pumpkin:

My best gal!

Precious girl riding through the patch:

This man scared her, haha!

First pumpkin!

She liked the white one's too!

Her 2 pumpkins she picked out:

She loves her daddy!

Saturday we were busy getting up and around for the Razorback game. We went to the game and saw several of our friends and visited and then watched us get beat against the bulldogs! Defense... well, another story but it was a good game in the beginning anyway. Looking forward to the next home game so we can do some more tailgating... My favorite thing to do!

My handsome hubbs!

Me & my friend Kate!

Sunday we rested. Since Avery hasn't been feeling 100% and we have been exhausted, we just chilled. We had our good friends Chad & Melissa over for dinner and to play cards. Can I just tell you how greatly God has blessed us with them as friends? I have mentioned this before in a post but we met them through my father & now they go to our church. I have known them for less than 6 months and Melissa treats me as if she has known me for a lifetime. She has been there for me during the end stages of my pregnancy and then now with Avery. Her and Chad have been a huge part of our new life with Avery and we are so thankful to God for them. They are great friends and we appreciate their love and support in all that we do. We enjoyed grilling, laughing, cards, and fun with them tonight.. never a dull moment!

Avery in the front yard waiting on Melissa:

Melissa & Avery:

Playing cards, our favorite thing!

Melissa is winning... she ended up winning!

Chad, you can't win them all!

Us girls!

Calling ALL THOSE HOGS!!!!

I don't know about ya'll, but I am all about some Razorbacks! Chad and I have season tickets and are going to the first home game tomorrow! We look forward to tailgating with friends and having a good time together watching them play!

So who all is a Razorback fan like us? I want to hear you call those HOGS!!!!

3 things that made me smile today

Has anyone ever been SO tired that they can't see straight? Well that is me today. SLEEPY AS CAN BE! My little one decided not to sleep, AT ALL last night. It's really hard when you are so use to a 12 hour sleeper, to having her up every hour on the hour. She has had a very runny nose today and sneezing a lot. So I am going to say it's that.. however I had a good friend call out to me that she could be going through a growth spurt or even at the beginning stages of teething! She hits 4 months old soon and has started all kinds of movements like pulling her legs up and trying to roll. I was supposed to have lunch with one of my girlfriends who I adore today, Melissa. I am SO disappointed that we weren't able to make it but it's just too tough! We are having her and her hubbs over Sunday night so I am so excited! It will be easier when I have a little more help that night! I could barely roll myself out of bed at 11:00, & that is so not like me.

My 1st and most important thing to smile about today:
2nd smile...I immediately jumped in the car, bed head and all, and went to Starbucks to consume a VENTI Pumpkin Spice Latte as fast as I possibly could. I nursed before I went so I could down it and hopefully have it out before my next nursing. Boy, was it good. Just what I needed to get me going a little today... although I am not taking a shower, not getting dressed, and not going anywhere else! The 3rd thing that made me smile today was this lovely amazing gift I received in the mail from my friend Kim's mother. She is so super talented and thinking about starting a side business. She wanted to make something sweet for Avery and it was a total surprise! I just died and even had tears because I thought it was so cute, and again something I needed on a day like today! I called her and thanked her and told her I was ready to make some orders!!! When she gets her business going, I will send out her info on a blog when she approves. She is so talented and very classy! I love how she added little personalized note on the tag that told me how to wash it for "Avery" and had her name on it, it was so cute and professional!

And this tag she made for Avery's diaper bag:

So, has anyone else had a Starbucks kind of day?!?!?!? Please tell me Im not the only one!!!

Lovin' me some lunch dates

Ladies, I am all about lunch dates and spending time with my friends! It's so nice being blessed to be a stay at home mom and be able to go and do things with my other stay at home mom friends. Today I went to lunch with my good friends Rachel and Amy. We ventured out to my newest fav place to eat, "Cruisines to Go"... They actually catered at a church event one night and I have been hooked since. They serve GREAT lunches!

I love spending time with these girls! They always make me laugh! We just sat and talked about our kids, planned fun parties, and talked about upcoming ones! We are the type of gals that are free spirited and like to have fun! Any excuse to dress up and have a get together is what we are all about! And shop of course! I held Rachels new baby who is almost a month old. Bree is just a joy, and beautiful at that! I love her. She was rockin' the crown onesie (which you know I adore that)... and some ADORABLE jeans! And of course the hairbow with the head full of hair. She is just a dollface! Amy's kiddo's were at mothers day out and I hated it because I wanted to squeeze her boys.. Cruz and Maddox are just the sweetest little boys! Check out her blog, she's always got something hilarious going on with them!

Avery is 15 weeks old today... can you believe it??? She is doing all kinds of things but the newest is her giggle that she does on and off. It's just the funniest thing! I can't wait til her 4 month, I will have some awfully cute pictures and major updates on what she is up to.. miss priss!

We are busy bee's the next few weeks... from planning wedding showers, to bachelorette parties, to hog games, (which is this weekend, GO PIGS), Kitchen Queens, Weddings, Girl get togethers, luncheons, Bible Study... this month is looking to be CRAZY for us! Stay tuned for our month full of FUN!