Hogan's Heroes

This has been the weekend for shoots with miracle kids. Let me introduce you to two more. Melissa and Jeremy became proud parent's to Hestan five years ago. Shortly after birth, he was diagnosed with several severe heart anomalies. He has now had 4 open heart surgeries. One at 2 days old..2 months old..5 months old and the last one being successfully done on April 6, 2007 at the age of 3 years old. Looking at him, you would never know. He is an active, full of life child, who is all boy. Melissa and Jeremy wanted to have another child and after talking with specialists, they were given odds of less than 2% to have another child with heart problems. Shortly after becoming pregnant, she found out she was having a girl and she too had heart anomalies. Brynlee was born in July of 2007. Brynlee has now had 2 open heart surgeries..one at 9 days old and the 2nd at 4 months old in November of 2007. Melissa and Jeremy have a strong faith that they were given these children for a reason. For Melissa, being a mom is her priority in life. She cherishes every smile, hug, kiss, laugh and temper tantrum with these kids. She and Jeremy are an inspiration...which leads to this shoot. They have been asked to speak again this year at Cook's Children's Hospital Heart Ball. They are going to do a slide show and some advertisement for the event and they needed some new photos of the kids. Hestan and Brynlee have a strong dislike for the camera, so I had to catch them on the run. I wanted to put so many up...but here are a few. By the way, thanks Pam (Grammy) for the rockin' hair and being the dancing monkey.
You can read more about the Hogan's HERE.