Easter

Easter was a great time for us! Celebration of Jesus and his sacrifice and the celebration of new life in our family. We went to the Grapevine botanical gardens to try and capture our kids personality and we did......

Started out pretty well..... Untill Riley saw what she called a fly...it was a gnat

She was done at that point, maybe two minutes into it, I love Cameron's face here

He did great

He was trying so hard at the end of the day he said "Mommy I don't want to sit by Riley EVER again"

Since we have been home

Things have been rough to say the least since we have been home. I am so lucky that Ryan has a job that 1. he enjoys and 2. he can be at home a lot and still work. He was able to take two weeks off while I recover and unfortunately it has taken me a lot longer this time. A week ago I started to run a very high fever and was admitted back into the mother baby unit. It was a very scary time for me because we didn't know what was cause the fever. My mind immediately goes to the TV show House and I begin to think the worst. They checked everything including to make sure the Dr. didn't leave gauze inside me! Everything was coming back normal so after a two day stay they concluded that I either had an infection due to the surgery or a virus. I have really been taking it easy the past few days and feel so much better, still a little sore but definitely on the mend!

The kids are doing great with the new baby and Baby Bradford is thriving in his new environment. He weights 9lbs 3oz and is now 21 inches long! Here are some pictures since we have been home.....it has been difficult to get the camera out lately because it seems like we always forget but we have managed a few.
The day I got out of the hospital Ryan's family was celebrating Ryan's Grandmother's Birthday. She got to meet her newest Great-Grandchild
Bradford's first bath.....it was not as bad as I thought

This was after Bradford's first bath he has really cool hair


Daddy and his son

Catch up time

Not much happened from Christmas till Bradford so I will start with Bradford's arival!

On Thursday February 5th I went to my doctor with every intention of trying to convince him to let me have my baby that day. Little did I know my plan would actually work! I must have looked really pathetic because he told me we could do it that day! So Riley and I headed over to the 2nd floor in the hospital to get things going. I was by myself that day and immediately called Ryan and my Mom to tell them to get here NOW! By the time they got there we were in our room and Riley had only pressed the nurse call button three times! Dr. Sims had scheduled me for around 5 so we had all day to wait. Around 4 my Mom brought the kids up and we spent a few minutes together as a family of four!

Around six they came and got us and said they were ready to go! So off we went to have our third and final Maxwell! The C-section went great.....as well as having major surgery could go. Bradford Joel Maxwell was born at 6:18pm weighing a whopping 8lbs 3oz and measuring 20 inches long. It took a while to get back to my room because I could not stop shaking from the medicine so by the time I returned to the room it was close to 8pm. We had lots of friends and family there to greet us!



The next days in the hospital were spent recovering and spending time with our new little man.