Introducing: Brett Wells Riches

THE BOYS!



Justin and Jake were so cute with Brett! They always wanted to "hold baby!"

He's so little!

Poor baby needs some chapstick!

Brett being held by Daddy.

Right after his bath in the hospital.

He's Here! He's Here! He's Here!

We are so thrilled to welcome this new little addition to the team!

Brett Wells Riches was born on July 3, 2008 at 1:28pm weighing in at 7lbs 12 oz and 20 inches long. We love this little boy! He had a little trouble breathing consistently at first, but his first bath in the hospital solved that problem quickly! He hated it! The boys love their new little brother so much! It's really cute. I have to protect him from Justin and Jake at times, but we are all really enjoying this little man. He is such a blessing to our family.

It was fun having him on July 3rd. I was in the hospital until the 5th, which meant that we watched the 4th of July fireworks from my hospital room window! It was actually a memorable experience. Just our little family enjoying ourselves together. We've always been close to family when we've had our babies, which was wonderful and such a blessing, but we've never had time together like this after a baby is born. It was new for us, and we missed everyone, but at the same time, it was really special for us. We really enjoyed the quiet (and sometimes not so quiet) moments of "just us." It was something that we won't soon forget.

Seriously about to POP!

This is me three days before I had our new little Brett! I had to get this picture because:
1-This is by far the biggest I've ever been when I am pregnant
2- This was the first day in weeks that I had done both my hair AND makeup on the same day! I figured, if we are going to get a picture of me pregnant, today's the day! Looking at it now (post baby) it makes the skin on my stomach hurt. I was in so much pain and agony at the end of this pregnancy...I know blah blah blah, but seriously...owe!

Kamron loves taking pictures like this. He loves to "document" things. We are the worlds WORST people at organizing our pictures. Hence my gratitude to those who introduced me to blogging. :) But Kamron is always snapping pictures of things he thinks we need to remember.

A little side note on Kamron. I know there might be some women out there who feel that they would like their man to experience pregnancy in order for them to truly understand. I don't feel this way about Kamron. He's the type of husband who is fully sympathetic, will certainly help me out when I need, and interested in any and all gory detail. He's the type of person who would volunteer himself to wear a pregnancy suite for nine months just out of curiosity. He's bummed out when he isn't allowed to watch me get an epidural, super interested in every step of the way, and asks any and all questions that come to mind DURING the procedure. He's really funny about pregnancy...but he doesn't try to be. I think that's the funniest part! He's just super interested. I'm sure after reading this, he will insist that I remove this paragraph, so those of you who are reading this, you should feel lucky....this won't be up for long I'm sure!

Yummy Jakey

It is SO HOT here in Colorado! It's in the 90's almost every day! Way too hot for me. (I know you folks in AZ or anywhere humid are rolling your eyes, but I'm from San Diego....that's hot to me!) So I decided that we needed some cool treats to help us all beat the heat. The kids wanted fudge-cicles (is that how you spell it?) and awesomely enough, they were buy one get one free! YES! When we got home we tore into them and, well, this was the result. Completely blog worthy I thought. Our sweet little Jake. I could just eat him up! HA!