Merry Christmas at the Stimpson Home

Santa brought us a new dishwasher and God brought us a baby girl!

Our Little Christmas Present

We got up early Tuesday morning to head out to the hospital. Even though Lee plowed the snow out of our driveway the day before, it needed it again. Luckily one of the mechanics was already up and plowing and cleared the way for us. We spent Lee's birthday in the hospital, hoping that anytime Charity would be born. We watched the time pass by slowly and watched midnight approach. Five minutes before midnight the doctor sad we were good to start delivering. We pushed only for 20 minutes and at 12:15 AM on the morning of Christmas Eve Charity was born.
She is as cute as can be and is such a good baby. She slept well though the night and the next day.
For more pictures of Charity, click the link to her blog (Baby Stimpson).

The waiting game is nearly done!

Today, we are doing all of our last minute errands and chores around house and town. We're trying to get everything set. Tomorrow we get to go into the hospital and have our baby girl, Charity, be born! And on Christmas day, weather permitting, we get to bring her home.
It's a great time to celebrate! Tomorrow is also Lee's birthday, so from now on Daddy and Daughter will get to share their special day.

Charity's Quilt

Grandpa & Grandma McCain stepped in and are helping with Charity's quilt that we had started but never finished. They are almost done. This is a picture of the front of the quilt. Grandma says it reminds her of a candy store. You can easily tell which one block I did compared to all of the other blocks Grandpa and Grandma put together.

Thank you, Grandpa & Grandma McCain!

Still Waiting - 38 Weeks

Waiting Time

Lee and I are in our last week of school. We are just working on finals and last minute touches to the nursery, as we wait wondering when Charity will decide to be born. Our little family is about to grow really soon, as Lee and I become parents to a tiny little girl. We're hanging in there as best as we can and simply waiting.

Blanket's for Charity

1st block for Charity's baby quilt.

We finished one of Charity's blankets.  

Lusk family

Scarlett: "Grandma, you can't go home yet. We've still got to take family pictures!"
Grandma: "Well, no one told me about it! I'm going home."
Scarlett: "But Grandma, all these people are your fault."

Lee counted 67 heads in this picture. (I tried to count, but had to start over so many times that I gave up.)
# Family members missing in this picture: 4.
# of Unborn babies in this picture: al least 5.

This picture was taken September 29, 2008 at the funeral of Paul Lusk.

Getting Ready for Baby

Now that we know for (mostly) sure that our little bundle of joy is a girl, we have already started preparing her nursery.  Lee has painted the walls of the spare room and has set up a new crib.  Danielle has been working on two baby blankets (one crocheted and one quilted).  Our little girl already started building her wardrobe.  Who can resist getting the cute baby girl clothes?!  

You can view pictures of her via the Baby Stimpson blog.  Simply click the link on the right.  We hope to soon have a short video of her ultrasound.  

Lee & Danielle

Lee and Danielle Stimpson

We wanted one blog that would guide our family and friends to all of the many blogs we have created. So this is it!

We have blogs for our wedding, our expected baby, random blogs of pictures we like to share, and more, so just view the lists on the side and enjoy!

Danielle & Lee