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Tomorrow is Christmas and for several days now I have been thinking about this Christmas season and what it's like with a new baby boy in our lives. My mind has come back to Mary over and over again over the last several weeks. I look at my son and in some ways I feel like I know what she was thinking as she stared at her brand new baby boy, but then obviously there are so many things about her thoughts and experiences that I will never fully understand and cannot fathom experiencing myself. The joy that it brings me to look at my son is incredible. When I hold him and he stares up at me with his beautiful blue eyes and flashes me a little grin because he's really starting to know  me it is a feeling I could have never expected. I imagine Mary felt much the same way as she held her little boy and watched his face light up as he smiled up at her. I can not imagine, however, how it felt knowing that the purpose of his coming was eventually to die to save the world. To know her

What a whirlwind week. Oliver arrived 10 days early and the last 4 days have been the beginning of a lifelong journey that Matt and I have been looking forward to for the last 9 months. Parenting our sweet boy. It has been incredible. I just nursed him and he is sleeping soundly and as I watch him I am in awe. In awe that God formed him, knows him, is pursuing him even now, and finally entrusted him to us. Just...wow.  [pause. the sweet one I was just talking about has just filled his diaper and this mama has a job to do...5 minutes and one dirty diaper later, we're back.] Let the sap continue...... He's perfect! Trust me, I know he's not really  perfect, but I understand that love a parent has for a child now and for just a little while I want to revel in the illusion that he's perfect. I think that's all I'll write for now. I do have pictures to share from our first few days. Oliver Graeme Turley 9/22/13 at 12:57 am first family photo

We so enjoyed having the same photographer from our wedding take pictures of Matt and I and my not-so-little belly. It was a beautiful Saturday morning with my favorite person, Matt, and a wonderfully talented photographer, Dallas . Here are the results of the day...