O Holy Night

In this family we celebrate Christmas with such joy and gratitude in our hearts, for it is the birth of our Lord and Savior. We are so thankful that the Lord sent his son to earth so he could live and die for our sins. Sam and I are looking forward to Liam getting older and teaching him about why we celebrate Christmas and how truly wonderful a day it is. It is such a magical time of year, especially for children and we also are dying to see our little boy's face light up when he see's glimpses of the Christmas magic ( Christmas lights, Santa Clause, and presents under the tree). We have a few years until then so for now we relish in our newborn baby, the greatest gift we could have received this year.
We spent our Christmas Eve attending Church and relaxing at home watching Christmas movies, and thanking God for a quiet baby!
Christmas we woke up and Sam and I exchanged gifts while Liam slept through the morning. I got my husband a handful of gifts which he will be returning, and my husband got me Tupperware. haha
Liam woke up put his Santa Suit on and visited over the web through Skype with his Memere :) It was wonderful that we got to see and visit with her on Christmas. We later went over to my parents house and had dinner and visited with the family. It was a wonderful day and one we will remember forever, after all it was our first Christmas with our Son :)
We hope you all had a wonderful day filled with Family and the Lord's love.

O Christmas Tree...

O' Christmas Tree O' Christmas Tree how Lovely are Thine Branches.....
How fun it was to have a new renewed reason to get excited about Christmas. Obviously Liam is way to young to ever remember this year or the next few, but his mommy and daddy will and that is what makes this so exciting. This week we headed out as a family and picked out a perfect Christmas Tree. It smells delicious now sitting in our living room. We wanted you all to share in this with us because most of you are so far away and will not be with us this Christmas so here is our journey.....

Liam's 1 month photo's.

There are so many interests of mine that I would like to learn however most require schooling and
I do not have the time or the money at this point to go get myself a new career. Photography has always been something that I am interested in and I have this "idea" that maybe after years of self teaching I will be good enough to actually do this for my job. I know that it would benefit me to be a trained photographer but this will have to do for now.
So for my birthday Sam surprised me with a really nice camera to take such photos. I was so surprised and really excited to start playing around with it. So far it has been fun for me and Sam to experiment with pictures and now editing. I never thought it would be something we would do together but it is, and we both have a new hobby.
Liam is not the easiest subject to take pictures of but this is what we got...

One month

Oh my, it has been a month? So crazy! It seems like Liam will be crawling soon at this rate! Every day has been such a blessing and a learning lesson. I feel like things are slowly getting more "normal". We are learning Liam every day, the way he cry's differently for different things, how he likes to be held, what he likes to look at. He is such a joy. Absolutely. Right now he resembles his father in every way. He has Sam's hairline, his lips, his chin, even his toes. His precious little toes look like exact miniature version's of Sam's bigger (hairier) toes. :) I think right now he might just possibly have my ear lobes. Ha. He has a dimple in his left cheek and I think as he starts to smile and move his face more it will become more apparent. It is one of my favorite things about him. Liam seems to love being talked to, tummy time, being sung to, bath time, car rides and going on walks in his stroller, and especially being held. He seems to dislike diaper changes, the lack of promptness of food when he wakes up, getting dressed, and being laid down for bed time before he is good and asleep. Last night he only woke up to eat every 4 hours. Which is the longest he has ever went. And I feel like a new person with my collective bundle of hours I was able to sleep. We both miss Sam at night when he is at work. Maybe Liam does not know he misses him, but he does. Sam and I are so blessed and so in love with our family.

Thanks day

This year our new little family spent Thanksgiving at my brother Tim and his wife Cindy's house. It was a great day of delicious food (by far the best meal of the year in my opinion) and visiting with family. Liam got to spend lots of time being held by his cousins Jillian and Lauren. They are so excited every time they see him and seem to really adore him. All I wanted was a family picture of the three of us, but our son decided to cry most of the day so some how it never worked out to get one.



Here is my mom Patricia making the yummy Turkey Gravy. Honestly I could eat this meal every Thursday. Those Indians really knew how to welcome the Pilgrims with good food. Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone it makes me sad to say good bye to Autumn. It is my favorite time of year, the weather, the foliage the sweaters that get to come out for the season. And it is time to celebrate my birthday and our wedding anniversary. This year it was an extra special season because it was the welcoming of Liam into this world. There is so much fun to be had during this season and now I will have to wait till next year to go through it again but until then bring on winter the second best season of all.

Our quick list of 10 things we are thankful for.
Lindsey ~ 1.My husband, 2 my healthy baby boy Liam, 3. My family, 4. sour candy, 5. Sunday's, 6. the smile Liam makes when he has gas, 7. beautiful photography, 8. those moments that make you stop and say "I love this moment", 9. God's forgiveness, 10. my sweet puppies.

Sam~ 1. my wife, 2. my baby Liam, 3. such wonderful family, 4. my job, 5. our home, 6. Jesus as my savior, 7. panda express, 8. my baby's cry, 9. the Wright Brothers, 10. God's Grace.

The strands

When I was a little girl one of my favorite thoughts was the fact that God knew how many strands of hair were on my head. Now as a mother I am brought back to that comforting thought. In fact it does not stop there, I could (and do) cry in awe about how our God will never learn anything about Liam. He already knows every detail of my son. This is so remarkable to me, that God not only knows how many little strands of hair are on his head but also that God knows what his first word will be and the date he will learn to walk. God knows this little boys future dreams, his fears, the first time he will tell a girl he loves them and the first time he will have his heart broken. The Lord knew the day he would enter this world before we even tried to have a child, and the Lord knows when he will take Liam home to him. What comfort to know that every detail of Liam's life is carefully watched and guided by our God. How truly awesome he is.

Liam

This Halloween instead of Trick or Treating, carving pumpkins, or putting on silly costumes, Sam and I headed off to the hospital and spent the day anxiously awaiting our own little Treat. Turns out that the 31st ended in a Trick and the Treat was to be had early the next morning...

Sam and I welcomed our first child Liam Xander Henry Daigle into the world on November 1, 2009. He was born at 1:39 in the morning. Really it was 2:39 but because of the time change they discredited a full hour of my pushing! Our son weighed 6 pounds 12 ounces, and was 18 3/4 inches long. It was a full 24 hours of labor and 4 hours of pushing. Sam and I met perfection that early November morning! We are so in love with Liam and are overwhelmed already with how fast his very short life has gone by. One week went by so quickly I ache to think about how quick it will be before our little baby boy has grown into a young man.

Here he is one day old! So completely precious and irresistible already. I think he is going to look just like his daddy :) We are completely delighted to be this little boy's parents. We can not wait for everyone to meet him.

This Man......

One of the biggest deciding factors in why I chose to marry Sam was how great a father I believed he would be. In a blink of an eye our baby will be here and I will get to see Sam actually be a father. Sam is one incredible man. I have had the privilege of seeing Sam grow as a man of God in the past 5 1/2 years that I have known him. Sam not only believes IN God, but he believes God. He believes God daily. Sometimes having more faith in God than I ever imagined he would. Sam and I tried to have a child for ten months, every day learning that our time is not God's timing. Sam was the rock for the two of us. He held me while I cried and prayed louder and longer than I ever could. It was the most joyous day for both of us March 2, when we found God's timing. And for the past 38 weeks God has been creating a miracle using my womb. MY WOMB! Unbelievable!

Sam is a better man than I ever dreamed I would meet in my lifetime, let alone Marry! He defines what it is to be a "partner". Our marriage has been relatively easy and stress free, well for me anyways, because Sam lives his life taking such Joy in everything he does for me and for us. He is always "doing" for us. And he reminds me daily of how I should be as a person, he teaches me patience, kindness, love, and selflessness.

My mother says a silly saying about how you can tell how good a man is based on how he treats his dogs. And I can tell you no dog is treated better than ours!

This man I love for so many different reasons.
This man is my best friend and permanent partner in life.
This man is the Father of our Child.

Three wonderful years....

Today Sam and I celebrate three years of marriage. It has gone by incredibly fast, and at the same time so filled with events and love there is no way it really flew by that quickly. Three years of marriage has seen us through buying our first home, our first (and second) puppy, Sam's baptism, and now just two weeks shy of our due date with our first child. It's funny to think that our conversation's have grown from, Escrow's and mortgages, to paint colors for walls, which tree types and sod for landscaping, dog breeds we liked, the best dog food, to baby names, breast pumps, diapers, and butt creams. And I am so proud that I am married to a man who will openly talk about the last four items on that list!~My Beloved is mine, and I am his ~ Song of Solomon 2:16 ~
Three years ago we began our walk together as husband and wife making promises to each other and to God that we would honor and cherish one another. At the end of our personal written vows Sam and I both closed with these words. "I am yours. You are mine. Of this we are certain. You are lodged in my heart. The small key is lost. You must stay there forever."

~Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Who delights greatly in His commandments. His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed. ~ Psalms 112:1-2 ~
Now three years later, as we begin our walk as Father and Mother we make a whole new promise to each other, God, and our child. Sam and I both could come up with silly dream's that we hope our child will fulfill, but instead of planning on these..we pray only for our child to know the Lord as we do.
~ Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. ~ Proverbs 22:6 ~

Thank you all for being apart of our first three years together....