Weekend Wedding Adventure!

Over the weekend we headed out to Orcas Island, WA for Trent's brother Cayle's wedding. Its around a 6 hour drive and then an 1 1/2 hour ferry ride to the island but the trip went well. Gav loved riding the ferry or 'big toot' as he calls it, and the kids did great with the long drive. The wedding on Saturday was beautiful and great sunny weather- just a little chilly! We all stayed in these cute little cabins right on the beach and hung out in the lodge cabin most of the weekend. There was lots of good food, guitar sing-alongs, smores making, rock throwing, beach digging and visiting with family and friends. Teagan did really well with all of the people and noise and I'm so glad we ended up going! Just a month ago while we were sitting in the hospital with her I didn't think there was any way that we'd make the wedding. It was nice for Trent and I too to finally take a little trip with the kids that didn't involve going to the hospital! We've been so blessed with how quickly Teag has been able to recover from her surgeries and bounce back after everything she's endured! Here's a picture of Victorian Valley Chapel where the wedding was:

Me with the girls: Bek, Deni and Jenn
Gav with the groom- Uncle Cayle!

Gav with the bride- Aunt Loren!

The whole Maxwell gang:

Here's the main cabin where we hung out most of the weekend at Beach Haven resort:

Here's a pic of our cabin:

Makin smores around the fire! yum!

Teagan had a cardiology appt. this morning and it went really well. They did an echo and said her Glenn anatomy looks really good. She still has some tri-cuspid regurgitation but Dr. Herndon said that its to be expected and he's not really concerned. Teag's sats were in the low 80's and she was even looking a little pink! We got the ok to pull out her Ng tube for now and see how she does. I also got the ok to let her go a little longer at night now between feedings, yay!!!! No more waking up every 2 1/2 hours to feed her! Its been a long sleepless 6 1/2 months and I'm so excited to see how long she'll sleep on her own!

Fall is here!

Sorry for the lack of posts this week! All is well and we've been enjoying the official start of fall around here- pumpkin season! Trent and I took the kids out to the Country Mercantile over the weekend to pick out our first pumpkins of the season. You take a hayride out to the pumpkin patch and pick out whatever you can carry! Gav of course was more excited by the tractor pulling us then the huge field of pumpkins. We had a great time just being together as a family and enjoying the cool weather. We also made a trip up to the Allred's house for a fun visit and got Teag and Maddie together again. They're both getting so big, and sooo cute! Here are a few pics of the girls together- they're not really sitting up well yet which makes for some cute cuddling!

Gav turns 3!

We had a little party for Gavin over the weekend since we were at the hospital for his actual b-day on the 14th. I told everyone not to tell him it was his birthday while we were gone, and that we'd just have his birthday when we got back. I thought that we had been sneaky enough and he hadn't noticed that his party was 2 weeks late. But on saturday while we were out buying party supplies he told everyone,"I'm already 3, but today is my birthday!" I guess he had it all figured out the whole time!

My dad and stepmom ended up being here in town from Vegas and Trent's mom was also here for the party. It was nice to have some family around to help us celebrate because we weren't ready to have any of Gav's little buddies over just yet. After everything Teag's been through in the last few weeks I'm not about to introduce anymore germs! All Gav wanted to do for his party was have a pinata. He picked out a racecar one and it was the pullstring kind. For those of you who haven't partied with a pinata lately, the new thing is the 'pullstrings'. No more breaking it open with a bat (although they have those too) these ones have a bunch of strings hanging from the bottom and one secret string triggers the trap door for the candy. It makes it much easier for the little ones who'd probably lose interest before breaking it open! Gav had so much fun pulling one string at a time until the big candy explosion! He was in kid candy heaven when he saw it raining down on top of him! Within probably 10 seconds he had already opened and eaten like 3 pieces and had a sucker in his mouth!

We lit the candles on his cake and before we had finished singing, he'd already blown them out shouting,"lets get this party started!" ha... I'm a little embarrassed about his favorite present but proud at the same time. When we were at the RMD house for Teag's first surgery back in March Gav fell in love with this realistic kid-size vaccuum they had there and talked about it forever. Needless to say, after opening it and seeing what it was he decided he needed to vaccuum the whole house then and there and not open anymore presents! Now, when I can't find him I just listen for the faint humming of his little Hoover and it leads me right to him!

Teag is doing ok the last few days. Today marks one week that we've been home from the hospital and things are starting to feel more normal each day. She's still in alot of pain from her chest wound and its far from being healed. We had a visit from the Heartlinks nurse today and she weighed in at 13lbs 4oz, sats were 80 and HR 142. We have a family wedding coming up next weekend (uncle cayle and loren!) so we're trying to gear up and prepare for the little road trip. We've gotten the ok from cardio but its still nerve wracking to think about traveling!

We are praying tommorrow for our heart friend Lindsay who is having her Glenn up in Michigan. She is adorable and just a bit younger than Teag, her link is on the left under heart buddies!