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May - a hindsight post....

 I couldn't print a blog book for 2021 without highlighting one of the best things to happen in 2020 -- David Kurt Hall! 


We were to have a shower for you in March -- postponed. 

We were supposed to get to come to the hospital and meet you and fall all over you -- and well, Covid. 

David came "on time" but I think early on May 2nd, 2020. We weighed in at 8lbs and was a good sized baby, but his lungs were just a smidge under developed. And, in the early heat of Covid -- there were restrictions. Lots of them. Thankfully, Trent got to be with Stef at the hospital, but once he left -- he was gone. For good. David spent about 3 days in the NICU, trying to bring those lungs up to speed -- and Trent and Stef stayed for the first two...but then were discharged from the hospital. Trent was able to take Stef back to be with David on the 3rd day -- but Trent could not go in. When they wound up discharging him that day, Trent could go back, but could not go in. BUT -- they got to go home, as a family of 3 for the first time on May 6th -- and we weren't about to not make over them!


Brent & Natasha and the kids and Matt/Sarah and us all went together and got balloons, made signs and decorated the house to welcome baby David home!







Welcome to our family, David! We may have had to shower you at 4 months old. We may have not got to come to the hospital to meet you -- but we get to love you forever, so we'll take what we get! :) 

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