Farmers Market

Austin Farmers Market, that is. Nathan and I decided to go check it out this morning, and it was the bomb! We did one lap around to check everything out, then did a second lap to make some purchases. We got green and red peppers, watermelon, peaches (which were amaaaazing), eggs, sourdough bread, goat cheese, and some italian peppers. The goat cheese is for me, since Im staying away from cow milk products these days, for Calebs sake. And I decided to be adventurous with the italian peppers. Theyre supposed to be sweet, so we'll see! I think I may make some tonight with dinner! We'll be having lots of veggies this week, for sure! Here are a few pics.




Caleb is also smiling up a storm these days, so I thought Id do a quick video of him-

my love

he had a blast in the comforter yesterday. is he adorable or what?!

brotherly love

i know, 3 posts in one day, i just had to share this...

we set this up for caleb, and owen decided he loved it-



but we put his little brother in it, and this is what happened...








yikes! jealous, much?

Partaaay

Nathan and i both had wonderful weekends and a crazy week, so i thought I'd sum them up...

I flew to Florida on Thursday for the fabulous surprise birthday party for my mom. It turned out to be so great! She says she has no idea... But who knows :) my sister and April and i spent lots of time working on the scrapbook, getting pics for the slideshow, etc. April made incredible cupcakes and dad order barbecue for the meal. We had it at my uncle stans house, which is on the beach and goooorgeous. April decorated the tables. She's good, real good. People flew in from everywhere to see her... Georgia, alabama, Texas, even California! Caleb and i surprised her, along with her best friends from high school, and lots of her texas buddies. It was a total success! Here are a few more pics of the event.







Nathan went to denton for the weekend to hang with his fam, and Owen went with him. He got to go to rangers game and got to hang with his buddy Andrew. The car broke down on nathans way to Denton, in the middle of fort worth traffic, in the pouring rain! Owen did ok though. $600 later our car is fixed. Dangit!

When we both got back home, owen got super sick. His temp was almost 104. Not good. We took himto urgent care and he has a throat virus. He was miserable, and there aren't antibiotics for this virus, so he had to tough it out. He did great. Caleb is good but still tends to get fussy in the evenings. I'm gonna stop dairy for a few weeks to see if that helps.

Everything else is dandy. Still trying to eat a semi-organic diet. Nathan is starting to work a lot more and the ministry is rolling. Life is good in Austin!
Here are a few pics for your viewing pleasure.

Be jealous, you should be

Of my garden, that is. And if you're not jealous, then I'll give you a home-grown pepper in a few months, and you will be! Nathan and i have wanted a garden since we lived in Louisville. When we moved into our house in Austin, we found giant beds lining every inch of the yard out back. And since nathans good friend from High school is an organic farmer and gave us seed, we planted our own garden! It was a ton of work. We planted once and dang hurricane Alex drowned everything but our tomatoes and a few squash. So, ive been planting again. The tomatoes, peppers, and squash are done, and tomorrow i plan on finishing the cantaloupe and watermelon. Here are a few pics of before and after. And a few of my little seedlings starting to sprout.

ps- i cant get the pictures to work right, so the "before" pictures are actually after the "after" ones, but i think you get the point!








Babys waking up, I'll blog more later!

Food for thought

Ok, nathan and I are going to start eating better. Don't get me wrong, we aren't going crazy strict organic (yet...?), but we have decided to really start thinking about what we are putting into our bodies. This entire thought process was started when we had dinner with our farmer friends, neysa and Travis. After leaving their jobs/schooling in Boston for the life of farming, they have come to know quite a bit about food and the food industry! Neysa recommended a book, in defense of food by Michael pollan, that i just started reading a few days ago. It has completely changed the way i see food and our common grocery stores. Again, we aren't going crazy strict organic, but after learning how the food industry works, I'm just not super confident about what's in lots of the "food product" that i normally purchase. We don't plan on being food snobs and will enjoy our brownie sundaes, but as for our daily meals, I'm going to attempt to make organic, whole food meals. I may have to look up some new recipes, but I'll enjoy it! We made our first trip to our organic grocery store today, and we had a lot of fun! It should be an adventure, but at least we'll fit in better with all of the local hippies, right?

Yikes

I've been out of the blogging loop for far too long. But i guess having a baby is a good excuse. And now that he is six weeks old and I'm released to do whatever I want again, i guess the blogging can resume. So much has happened in the last six weeks, please forgive me for skimming over the details in order to fit everything in. In fact, i may write a few blogs, in order to spare the blogging world of serious boredom. And since our laptop is at best buy being repaired, I'm using the iPad to write... Which means there will be no pictures or videos. Just plain old words. Super boring!

Caleb is an outstanding baby. I truly cant believe how great he is. I was so uptight when Owen was born, constantly trying to get him on schedule, always wondering if he was ok. I haven't even thought about a schedule with caleb, because he is sleeping so well at night! Eventually i will work out naps and all, but its incredible how great he is at night, which allows me to be more lax about his schedule during the day. Owen is a wonderful big brother. He kisses caleb and helps me a lot. He has his moments, thats for sure. But overall, things are outstanding!

Nathan and i moved to Austin on June thirteenth and have been getting situated since then. We love our home, our neighborhood, and the city of Austin. We are also moving forward with the church plant, which is the real reason we are here. Nathan has weekly staff meetings, we had a big church gathering last week, and things continue to progress. We will start having Sunday morning worship soon, which is so exciting! We are being challenged to live more missionally in our daily lives, to really grasp and understand the gospel. And we get to work with some pretty awesome people too! I'm actually going to start a blog soon for our ministry, but want to wait until i can upload pictures. I'll be sure to let everyone know what it is!

Not much else going on around here. We are continuing to figure out life with two baby boys, getting used to the new house, and still raising support. Oh also, we have decided to eat better! Hmm, I'll start a new blog for that.