D Day!

getting wheeled away!


one last shot

they were for real!


Ok, I said I was going to do it tomorrow but since Isaac is sleeping now I'm going to allow myself the time to post some pictures for your viewing pleasure. Many of you may know this already but I ended up giving birth via c-section due to a few complications. Thankfully it was planned and I had him one day prior to my due date. Honestly, it was such a wonderful experience in so many ways but mostly because I knew God was walking me through the whole thing. I felt Him with me. Mike was an amazing support to me that day and has been since, but especially that day! Mom and Jessica were at the hospital as well but only Mike could be in the surgery room. Enough of the gibber jabber here are some pictures.


Isaac Michael Patterson Elmer
Born: April 22, 2008 at 12:40pm
7 lbs 1 oz and 20 1/2 inches

I love the look on Mike's face here! What a pumped dad :)
How sweet is this? My first good look at him a proud "sweet mama" Aunt Jess
and then they came...

It was a long two days and there are still more pictures to come. I needed to start somewhere and I figured this was a great intro. We seriously had close to 50 people visit us in less than 48 hours. God has blessed us with an AMAZING community here. I'm still in awe of his glory. Thank you Lord for bringing this healthy, beautiful boy into this world!

And life begins...

I'm going to go ahead and admit that most of my readers are going to be disappointed that I don't blog more often. I'm not saying that in a pompous way or anything. I used to be so computer savvy and spend way too much time on the computer but I'm afraid those days are over. What's really crazy is that I have the time. Maybe I just lack the desire. Now that Isaac is here I really am going to try to make more of an effort. How does that sound?

So a lot has happened in a month. The eggs hatched and the baby birds flew away already. Not only that but a new Mama bird came in and built a new next right on top of the old one. She had two eggs as well but only one survived. It made me kind of sad to be honest with you. All that to say is that I'm a super slacker. OK, so it's not just that either. It's been 3 weeks and one day since I gave birth to my beautiful son, Isaac Michael Patterson Elmer (I'll be sending out birth announcements soon enough). I'll have to blog about that whole experience too on another blog. Tonight I'm just posting pictures of the baby birds that I'm hoping are still alive. They flew away while my Mom and sister were here and it was something I'll never forget. What I really want to say is that I've seen God's hand in such a mighty way over the last 3 weeks. Through my incredible husband, my loving mother, sister, and in-laws. God is good! I can't wait for you to meet Isaac some day! I can't even tell you how much I love being a mom. Maybe that will be tomorrows post?

truly blessed,

Mama E.