Maxwell Fraklin Hunt

This past weekend, we made the trek down to Nashville, TN to meet Maxwell Franklin Hunt.  Andrew and Emily made the trip with us.  Maxwell's parent's are John and Colleen, and good friends of ours.  Korey and I both met them in College and each were in our respective Greek Organizations.  John and Colleen are great friends with hearts of gold!

This picture was taken at Zac and Gabby's wedding this fall.  Max is very tiny in this picture :)

Their little guy Max made an early arrival into the world.  As I told John and Colleen, Mr. Max has an agenda of his own, and will always be on Max time.  Max's arrival was earlier than predicted.  He made his debut on February 12th at 27 weeks, 4 days.  As Colleen has said he was their early Valentine, and that he was anxious to meet them.  Due to Max's premature age he has been spending his days relaxing by the pool, and sipping on some cool beverages.  Well, maybe that will have to wait a few years.  He is really spending his days in the NICU growing at getting stronger at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital in Nashville, IN.  Shortly after Maxwell was born, Korey and I sent them a NICU "care package" to help them make the transition. 

The goodies for the new family

 

 What their care package included

My favorite inscription for new books for babies :)

We were lucky enough to meet Max and I snapped a few photos of the cutie.  I took way more than I can post here. Check out the link at the bottom for the rest. 

peaceful dreamer

I love the little toes!

"You woke me up for this?"

present time :)

 The beautiful butterflies in the lobby

John and Colleen were nice enough to leave Max in the careful hands of his nurses to enjoy some "adult" time.  The new parents took us to an amazing Mexican restaurant called Taco Mamacita.  The food was amazing and the sweet potato fries made the unique experience unforgettable.  After lunch Collen took the ladies to check out an awesome jewelry store.  Where we each got our own piece of FREE jewelery!  After some much needed time to catch-up, John and Colleen headed back to be with their lil' guy.  John and Colleen also gave us a tour of the Vanderbilt campus.  We took a stroll down fraternity and sorority row.  We witnessed some fraternity parties, and officially feel old.  We headed back to the hotel game to watch the Kansas/Northern Iowa game.  What a game!!  It made it even more exciting that a MVC (Missouri Valley Conference) team, beat Kansas. University of Evansville is in the MVC conference, and beat Northern Iowa this year.  Small world.  After the games, Max was kind enough to share his Mom and Dad again so we could share another meal with them.  We headed over to Boscos, a local brewery in Nashville.  Another great time!

 Lunch at Mamacita's

decor at lunch

Korey and Andrew with Elvis (Thanks for the picture Emily)

We had a fantastic weekend, and feel so lucky have met Maxwell.  Please continue to keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers.  I have made Max a "button" on the right side of the page that will take you to his blog.  Max, we cannot wait to see you again!

I took a huge amount of photos, and cannot fit them all in this post.  Check all of the photos out HERE!