Or, should I say, my world has been rocked? This blog has had some serious radio silence recently, and well, it’s because we had our baby! I’d like to introduce Ms. Thea Cori Hurst to everyone. She was born at 2:35 PM on April 7th. To make a very, very long story short, I was two weeks overdue and Thea did NOT want to be born, so my obstetrician said I needed to be induced. We drove to the hospital around 7PM on April 6th, and the induction started around midnight that night. After a long and sleepless night, Thea was born at 2:35 PM on Wednesday, April 7th. But due to a few small concerns the doctors had during the delivery, Thea had to spend a full week in the NICU. It was the hardest week of my life being discharged while my baby was still in the hospital. I camped out in the NICU and hospital lobby for the week, feeding my baby, changing her, and just waiting for the ok from the doctors that we could bring her home. It was just so hard having to say goodbye to my baby every night. But now she is home, happy and quite healthy. And it’s been six weeks already. Six weeks!? I still don’t know how time is going so fast, but she is growing and doing new things every single day. We even get smiled at now and it instantly melts mine and Kyle’s hearts. I never thought being a parent would change my world so completely, but I have found out how deep love can go and how truly blessed a person can feel.

Also, I shot my first two weddings for this 2010 season already!! The first one was exactly two weeks and three days after I gave birth too! It was tough, but the wedding was fabulous and I feel so energized and excited about my 2010 weddings to come! Images from Ryan and Vanessa’s wedding and Amanda and Matt’s will pop up on the blog soon enough. But I really DO have a TON of other images to blog about first. Sadly, there are gorgeous images I shot back in 2009 (I told you I was behind on blogging) the still need to be shared!!! But all will be revealed in due time.

In the meantime, here are just a very few images we have taken since Thea has been born.

Here is my very overdue pregnant belly!
And Thea at just 11 days old and finally home from the hospital.
A late night jam session with her Dad.
One of her first happy days!  We also used this image for her birth announcement.
A detail of her eyelashes.  I’ve kissed them a thousand times,  I am sure of it.
I will be taking her photo each month until her first birthday!
She LOVES her bath time!