over the weekend....

daddy {weird that i all the sudden started calling john, daddy - like overnight - and it just rolls off the tongue....} was in austin over the weekend for a friend's wedding.  so hazel and i stayed at grandma's house for the weekend.  we are way less lonely up there when john is out of town ;)  plus, grandma needs her hazel time before we go to atlanta for eleven weeks!

hazel wore this blue dress for church.  isn't she delicious?!

and she slept through the night for the first time!  yay!

jenna and i went to the mall in search of a blessing dress for hazel.  we came home with two skirts for me and no blessing dress for hazel.  oh well.

and i had the privilege of watching one of my best friends play an amazing senior recital!  congrats laur, on graduating!  you are incredible!

joy.

lately, my heart has been so full of joy that i think it might explode.

i am so grateful to be a mother.  i am so grateful that Heavenly Father trusted us to take care of one of His precious children, and i am so grateful that our family will be together forever.

having hazel come into our lives has increased my capacity to love more than i can describe.  and, seeing that devilishly handsome man of mine rise to the occasion of fatherhood has made me fall head-over-heels for him all over again.  he is such a great dad, and i'm so proud of him.  he just landed a wonderful internship with at&t in atlanta for the summer, and we are so excited!  

life lately.

our announcement.

for those who won't be getting one in the mail, here's hazel's birth announcement.

sushi.

i've been craving raw fish since pretty much day one of pregnancy.  i know, weird.  but i made john promise that once that baby was out of me, we would get sushi to celebrate.  yesterday he made good on that promise.  hazel came with us, obvi.  and so did ryan and janessa.  the long anticipation made the food even better!

sushi from Paige Brunt on Vimeo.

our first week.

the past week has been a haze of little to no sleep, pain, worry, exhaustion, and sheer happiness.  we already love our little girl so much, and i'm pretty sure we would do just about anything for her.  she is so innocent and perfect, and i still am so grateful that heavenly father would trust us with one of his precious children to love and care for.  this first week of being a mother might very well have been the hardest week of my life - but i wouldn't trade it for anything!  here are some pics of our first few days together as a family:

hazel therese brunt

this wonderful blessing came into our lives on march 1st, 2013 @ 5:52am.  

she is the most amazing thing i have ever laid eyes on....

she has stolen our hearts so completely already.

she was 8 pounds 3 ounces of sheer awesomeness.

and we are thrilled to be her parents.