This and That

This was our stunning sunrise this morning!

Sometimes life needs a bit of processed perfection, a.k.a. "white cake mix, straight from a box."

more of these pics below-Anna Ruth has tried out the jumparoo a couple of times!

Yes, she's probably too young.

Yes, she loves it :).

Yes, she is the most active, alert baby and not even four months yet. :)

A big thanks to momma and daddy for meeting us for breakfast Saturday morning! (and to momma for taking Anna Ruth in the hallway at church Sunday so I could stay in service!)

This picture sums up last week, and so far this one too. Anna has had her first stuffy nose :( She hasn't been herself at times and I just can't wait for it to go way! Poor thing, I never realized how badly I would feel for my child when they were sick.

Prayers please that she'll feel better!

Janice came over and we ate Chinese on what would have been her wedding anniversary. It was nice to have company.

Anna's favorite two fingers and her first leaf!! (This was before the stuffy nose-we usually go outside several times a day)

oops.

see mower.

see window bust, along with door.

find tiny rock.

The not so rosy moment of life, but life goes on, things get fixed, and God provides for moments like these.

:)
This week I'm excited to meet some new moms (more on that later), go see Grandma (we had to miss last week-boo), possibly start a new book, and cook some yummy meals.

Speaking of,
Menu Monday:
*Pesto Pizza with mushroom, artichokes,sun-dried tomatoes, pepperoni, and mozarella, Salad
*Chicken and Dumplings, Steamed Carrots
*Lemon Pepper Parmesan Noodles, Glazed Mushrooms
*Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos, Refried Beans, Chips and Salsa
*Burgers, beans, chips and Salsa
*Cheese Sandwiches,Tomato Soup

I've been trying to make an effort to not look the part of potential "What not to Wear" candidate :)

Menu Monday is back!

I've been capturing glimpses of our time at home lately so I can remember this sweet stage of life. Here's Anna Ruth with sleepy eyes as I'm first getting her ready for the day.

A few times a day I go in to find that Anna has woken up and rolled herself over :)

She really likes soft clapping!

A HUGE, enormous thanks to Aunt Becca for this mirror! I had been wanting to get Anna Ruth one, and she just adores this..

Here she is "talking" to herself

She has her fingers in her mouth almost all day!

She's about to get too wiggly to keep doing this, but for now she has a front row seat to mama's cooking show.

Last week I made oven-roasted basalmic brussel sprouts-They were great!

Dressed up for Grandma Capper!

We had Connect Group this weekend and went to our friend's house to watch the Razorbacks.....lose :( No, I'm not a huge fan of football (basketball is another story), but Brett is :)
Thanks to Aunt Jana for giving Anna Ruth her bottle! She and Lainey are becoming cute together!

These are peeks into our walk last night on the Torbett property around our house lot

Anna Ruth adores her daddy. We celebrate his arrival home and look forward to family of three weekends :).

Praise Report! Anna Ruth had been struggling a lot to be happy in her car seat and it was making trips very hard for me. I'm happy to report that the last few trips into Fayetteville have gone well and she's happily smacked on her hands the whole time! I pray out loud over her every time she goes in her seat. God answers prayer! I'm going to wait a week or two and then we'll try an even longer drive, maybe! :)