New Baby Time!!!

Introducing Braxton James Petersen born August 3.

He weighed 7lbs 110z and was 22 inches long. We are so excited to welcome this sweet boy into our family. It feels like we have been waiting forever for him to get here.

Laura was scheduled to be induced on Tuesday, August 2 at 5am but at 3am we received a call informing us that they were too busy and that we needed to wait. They told us they would call when they were ready, So we sat around the house all day not knowing what was going to happen. The hospital only had our home phone number so we felt confined to our home. Since we were given no details about when or what was going to happen we just sat around watching TV and movies anxiously awaiting for them to call. Luckily Laura's good Friend Jessica called and wanted to come over cause she was just as anxious. Laura's sister Lindsay then came by with lunch which was really nice. This helped to pass the time. Just as we were losing all hope we got THE CALL!!

So at 3pm on the 2nd we came in. We got right in to a labor and delivery room and Laura got all hooked up to the IV and all the machines and they started the induction. The nurse noted that Laura had all ready began to have some contractions before the drugs were started, she was very optimistic that the baby would come soon. WELL SHE WAS WRONG! It took forever. Each nurse would come in being very optimistic telling us that Laura was making good progress and would probably deliver soon then their shift would end and still no baby. We went through three nurses. Then finally at about 12:15 the Dr came in and broke her water. This helped to speed things up and we were off to the races. The baby was born about an hour later with Laura only having to push for about 15 to 20 min.

It has been an awesome and truly humbling experience. There is nothing on this earth that makes you feel closer to your Heavenly Father then to witness one of his choice spirits enter this earth life.

Braxton is adorable and so cute we are so blessed to have such a sweet baby boy.

Laura did fantastic and is doing great and recovering well. We have had so much support and thank all of those who have been there for us and have supported us throughout his whole process. We especially want to thank all of you who have helped us with Kaden namely Jake's parents and Laura's parents. They have been so good with Kaden and have had so much fun with him that he has not really even missed us at all.

The pictures are just before we went in you can tell by the look on her face that she is so happy to finally have receive the call.

Kaden has really surprised us and is doing really well with Braxton. I am not sure if he understands entirely what is going on yet and if he realizes that his reign as only child and king of the house is quickly coming to a close. It has been so fun to see Kaden interact with Braxton and get so excited to be a big brother.

We have had some great nurses since we have been here, but our nurse yesterday was so good with Kaden. She let Kaden be included in helping to given Braxton a bath and to comb his hair and change is diaper and then swaddle him up. She went and got a stool for Kaden so that he could participate in all of this, it was so fun to seem him so engaged and having fun helping to take care of his baby brother.

Many of you know that my brother Brett and his wife had there first about 2 months ago. So Braxton and Pennie got to meet again for the first time since Pennie left heaven, we know they were best friends up there. We are excited to have cousins so close together.

Braxton thanks everyone for the payers in his behalf. We are excited for this new chapter in our lives and are excited to continuing to share our lives with you, we love you all so much!!