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....