The story of William Enoch Phillips...

Wow, I can't believe he is here! It has been incredible. I thought I'd quickly let you know the story of our little Liam, while he is happily sleeping in his daddy's arms.

I had been having small contractions all week but they were not very strong or regular. On the Monday night Josh and I went for a walk and I had a warm bath to try to get things moving. At 1:30 I woke up with some contractions that were about 10 minutes apart. I didn't actually think that I was in labor so I decided to try and fall back asleep. The contractions started to get closer together and more painful so I ran a bath thinking that I still had awhile until the "real labor" was going to begin. I was in the bath for about an hour when I realized that my contractions were really close and VERY painful. I called Josh into the bathroom and we timed them and realized the contractions were only a couple minutes apart. We quickly piled into the car, and drove the quick trip to the hospital. The contractions were pretty much non-stop and my water broke just as we pulled into the parking lot. I was still thinking that I was only in the first stage of labor because it had only been a couple hours since I had my first contraction so all I wanted to do was get into the hospital and get some drugs. We rushed into the room to find out I was fully dilated and ready to push! I pushed for about a half an hour and Liam was born at 4:34. He came out crying and didn't stop until he was safe in his daddy's arms. I am so thankful for the quick labor, only 3 hours from start to finish and that I didn't have to take any drugs.

While in the hospital and at home, we've been very spoiled with many visitors and gifts from family and friends.

The newlyweds Tim and Jesseca

Lillian and Madison

Alicia

The Phillips boys

Great Grandma Wolfe

Great Grandpa and Grandma Brown

My sister, mom, and grandma have been here to help since we've been home from the hospital. It's been such a blessing having them here and cook and clean my house.

Well I'll leave you with a few more photos of our little guy.

It's a BOY!!!

Liam Enoch Phillips

8 lbs 3 ounces

Born September 16 at 4:34 am

Such a cute little boy!!


First Diaper Change

Proud Mom

Proud Dad

First family picture


Proud Grandpa and Grandma Phillips

Due Date

Today is the due date....weird! I'm not sure I'll ever get to the point of my pregnancy when I just want this baby out of me. I have loved being pregnant. I am definitely getting more and more excited to meet this little guy or girl and I do hope it comes sooner than later, but I'm still ok with being pregnant. I have started to get more braxton hicks, but nothing very regular or too strong.
Today my friend Megan came over to keep me company and to keep my mind busy. We did some scrapbooking, had a lunch date...it was so wonderful. Tomorrow I have my weekly doctor's appointment so we'll see if he get's this baby moving...I'll keep you updated :)

40 WEEKS!!

No baby yet...so here's another update

I've been pretty bad at blogging lately, especially since I've been off work for the past 2 weeks :)
There is obviously no baby to report as of yet, otherwise that's what this post would be about. Instead, I'll let you know what we've been up lately. A couple weeks ago, we made a trip down to Cochrane for our good friends Simon's wedding. He was one of Josh's groomsmen and it was so nice to be able to share with Simon and Kathy on their special day. It was also great to see and catch up with friends we hadn't seen in a while.

Josh's sister Rachel had just moved to Cochrane for her first year of Seminary so we also got to visit with her and see where she is living. On Sunday, the 3 of us took a trip up to Canmore to walk around and be touristy. It was definitely a highlight of our weekend.

Then last weekend we attended Tim and Jesseca's wedding. Thankfully we didn't have to make an emergency trip to the hospital (even though Jesseca was hoping we would). The wedding was at her parent's house on the beach and it was so beautiful. And of course, Jesseca looked gorgeous!

Friends!

Greg and Meg

Lillian and Shaun

Sam and Rae Ann

Jesseca and Tim surprised their guests with a funky routine during their first dance. It was really cute!

The following day, we had some special visitors...Shelley and Jackson! It was so great to finally meet Jackson! Rachel had a chance to take some pictures for them and they turned out so good...no surprise there :) I stole this one from Rachel's blog.

Jackson got to try out his golfing skills on the Wii

Everyone enjoying a relaxful morning. As you can see, Jackson wasn't used to the colder Alberta weather:)

Isaac getting to know his cousin.

It was definitely a wonderful visit!

Well that's the update for now. I'm sure one of our next posts will be to introduce our baby to you. Only 4 more days till the due date... not that I would mind if this little guy or girl wanted to make it's appearance before then... :)