The Miracle of Life

We were so fortunate to be able to have Christi Santangelo of Santangelo Photography in the delivery room to capture the miracle of life in photographs for us.

These photographs are precious to us as Christi captured the precious moments of our daughter's birth.  

These pictures preserve memories and emotions that we could have never captured on our own.  I cried like a baby viewing them for the first time.

Christi did an amazing job and we are so thankful to have these cherished memories in pictures.

*There were around 300 pictures total!! So this is just a summary of all the wonderful memories preserved!

"Every good and perfect gift is from above…"

James 1:17

Hello, Aubrey Lane! from The Mustard Seed on Vimeo.

"I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted what I asked of Him…" 

1 Samuel 1:27

I hope you enjoyed watching this video as much as I enjoy watching it... over and over again ;-)

My Redhead's Summer

With all the excitement of Aubrey Lane's much anticipated arrival, I haven't posted many pictures of Jude this summer.


Well, just so you know, Jude has had, up until this point, a very fun filled summer.  We wanted to make sure that we got some good quality time in with him before life changed for everyone.  


We've gone to the zoo, the movies, the pool, the beach, the playground (well until it got too hot- living in Louisiana means that outdoor summer activities must involve water), and so on... We even drove about 30 minutes to watch 20 minutes worth of fireworks ;-)


Jude's favorite activities have, of course, been those involving water.  Mostly the pool at his cousins' Cade and Katie's house.

Jude also got to participate in Vacation Bible School for the first time at our church this year! (while I taught nine months preggo) He had his very own shadow that helped him everywhere during the day.  He had a blast!

Although summer hasn't quite drawn to a close just yet, our activities for the next month will be somewhat limited due to my healing from delivery.  (Which is going well by the way, just a little sore and completely restricted from lifting Jude for any reason other than to save his life)  And soon Jude will start school back at LSU!  It's going to be quite a busy time for all of us, but I'm sure we are going to adjust and manage just fine!


Speaking of adjusting... Jude has not missed a beat with our newest addition.  He has been very sweet and hasn't acted out or shown any jealousy at all.  I know he doesn't fully understand who Aubrey Lane is or why she is here, but I know he's going to love her very much!  


Oh.. and I have all the birth photos from our AWESOME photographer.  Some of the photos are obviously a little too... ummm... intimate to share, but all of them are precious so I'll be sharing some more of them when I find some free time.  However, I don't know how soon that will be since I spend most of my free time catching up on my sleep!

Well, I hope everyone is having a great weekend!  We are going to get out of the house today so I'm super excited!  So I need to go get a couple kiddos ready.  ;-)

She has a name!!!

After two days of remaining nameless, our sweet baby girl now has a name chosen for her by her daddy!

Lane, Jude, and I are so excited to announce that

Aubrey Lane

is the newest member of our family and we are so in love with her already!

Not only is she named after her own father (which was my idea and I just love that I have a son and now a daughter that are both named after their daddy), but both my grandfather and my father bear the name Aubrey.

The name fits her perfectly!

For all our friends and family who would like to see more of Aubrey Lane's birth photos, our wonderful photographer has posted some more highlights on her Santangelo Photography facebook page.  You can view them by clicking here! Then click on the "births" photo album!