Hi everyone. Our 88 day journey has ended. Helaina is home and enjoying her house. I will keep updates and pictures coming but she is hone with mom and dad. Thx again to everyones support during this time.

Hi everyone. I went live with my website today. The address is www.mikecornettphoto.com. Please check it out and tell me what u think about it.

Hi everyone. Helaina is doing very well. She was just seen by the dr and they progressed her feeds to three a shift. She is one feed away from full feeds. The dr said that her feeding is the only thing holding her back from going home. We will see how fast she progresses with the feeds. We are hoping we get her home by the first of the year if nit sooner.

We are here with helaina today. She is doing well. She is taking a bottle good and is on a low flow canula now at room air. We are hoping she will continue to progress and will come home around the first of the year. Thx again to everyone who for their love and support.

Hi everyone. We went and saw helaina today. She is doing so wonderful. I had the pleasure of giving her a bottle today. She took the entire bottle in 20 minutes and had almost no spillage. She was moved down on the flow to 2 1/2 liters and is still on room air. She is doing well and not desating at all. It is so great to elder her doing so good. We hope to have her home by the new year. We will see. We will keep everyone posted. Thx. Mike and heather.

Hi everyone. We got the results if helainas eye exam today. The veins in her eyes are now growing normally again and she seems to be on the right track. They will check her again but as if now she doesn't need any surgerys at all. This is he best news ever and we r so happy. Thx to everyone for their prayers and well wishes.

Update on Helaina

Hi everyone. I know I have been lacking over the last week or so and have not put an update on the blog about Helaina. She is still doing well in the NICU of UCI. She has been going up on her feeds and she is at 44cc right now. She is taking every third feed by nipple (bottle) and is doing well with her bottle. I actually got to feed her the last two bottle's she took. She has gained a lot of weight. She is about 5 pounds 4 ounces now; we call her our little heffer. She is looking very cute and making lots of noise now. I even got to give her a bath about a week ago. This was a lot of fun for me. The only set back she might have is her eyes. She has ROP, which is a disease where the blood vessels in the eyes that run from the retina to the front of her eyes aren't growing correctly. She has another eye exam this week to see if they started growing correctly or if they are getting worse. If they are getting worse than she might require a surgery to stop them from growing. This will help keep her retina entacted, but it will cause the parts of her eyes that don't have veins to not be able to see. We are hoping and praying this doesn't happen. We would appreciate all of the prayers from around the world so maybe her eyes could get better. I will keep everyone updated on this and post a little later on in the week. Thanks again for all of the love and support and I hope you like the pictures that are attached from the past two weeks.

Tracy & Family

So this weekend I got to shoot a wonderful mother and her three children. Tracy and her three children wanted to update their pictures with me so we went to a park close by in the Inland Empire area. It was a gloomy and cold day but the sky made for some awesome pictures, as you can see from the following few. It was an honor and a pleasure shooting such a beautiful family.

Chris, Barabar & the Kids

On Sunday I had the pleasure of shooting some good friends of mine family pictures. Chris, Barbara and their three children were so happy during the shoot. It was a joy and an honor to take these family pictures for them. Here are just a few of the wonderful images taken.