Intro

We named our blog “Raising Mustard Seeds” after the famous parable in Matthew’s Gospel. We had some mustard seeds of our own laying dormant in our hearts, and finally, the year before our marriage, we began to let those seeds grow. Our journey with Christ hasn’t always been easy, but it has bore more fruit than we could possibly imagine. And through the mustard seeds He planted in our hearts, He opened them to receive little mustard seeds of our own…

While Jesus in this parable is talking about how faith and our relationship with God should grow from something very small to something mighty and powerful, it’s applicable to our children as well. It is our hope that through prayer and proper parenting, our children will grow from small and helpless (tiny mustard seeds) to being mighty in Christ, so that they will be shining lights in the world and people will come to “dwell in the branches” of their faith.

So, this is our little space in the big internet where we will share our most likely crazy experiences as we start our family and we hope those who are close to us will enjoy laughing at us and with us, and maybe even learn something new :)

Monday, December 17, 2012

Week 34 Update and usual randomness


6 weeks to go!

I have the iPregnancy app and the weekly updates are getting pretty boring now that I’m on the home stretch. Basically every weekend it tells me I should be feeling more and more miserable (thankfully not yet) and that baby is getting fatter (hopefully). Apparently, by the end of the week Gianna could weigh as much as 6 lbs! I literally can’t fathom that, but it’s super awesome!

And here are your picture updates for Week 34. (BTW, this is the 2nd time I've typed 24 instead of 24 34...wow...3rd time...wonder what that means lol)

 And now....the silliness ensues.
 Because it's not the Rachel...
 Unless there's a ridiculous face involved.

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Chris and I watched Jim Gaffigan’s Mr. Universe stand up special recently . In the portion below, he jokes about home birth, hospitals, midwives, having 4 kids, Sarah McLachlan’s dog commercials, and bed time. FRIGGIN HILARIOUS. Watch it!!! 
I promise. It. Does. Not. Disappoint. :-)

(p.s. his “McDonald’s” bit from this special is also hilarious as well)

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We lead quite the charmed life here in Tyler, TX,  I have an egg farmer and am part of a raw milk co-op. It's pretty cool to know where your food comes from.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm farm fresh eggs fryin’ on the skillet. Deb at Jaggerbush Farms pretty much rocks.  I bought 5 dozen (at $2/dozen) my first trip (2 weeks ago) and we’ve only got 9 eggs left!


This weekend, we picked up our first gallon of raw milk from Trimble Farms ($6/gal). Bottled on Thursday, picked up on Friday, and Chris and I enjoyed 2 HUGE glasses with an impromptu homemade half batch (really I halved the recipe and only cooked half of it and refrigerated the rest…portion control LOL) of cookies this weekend! 
 Yes, that is a chocolate finger print on the label. 


 
This is Chris's "I'm a G" face. Because we have raw milk. Yes, we are that lame cool.

In the future, we definitely hopefully will not consume over ¼ gallon in one sitting, but we were so excited! This morning I used part of the gallon to make some homemade yogurt. I’m eager to see/taste the difference from my normal yogurt (which I usually have pasteurized 2% milk, this is raw whole milk) and although I won’t be able to “see” it, it will have LOTS more probiotics—yummmmmmy for my belly.

So we're just here, getting ready for Christmas with lots of DIY projects and baking, livin' the good life :-)

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