Thanksgiving: always more fun spent in the Hospital!

Love Thanksgiving..Emergency Appendix surgery 
makes it even MORE fun!

We had planned on joining up with the rest of the immediate family in the area for Thanksgiving day. Full of football..eating..kids running everywhere..but our plans changed slightly.

Ben had lower 'stomach' pain all day wednesday..and by midnight there were tears..no no i take that back...as he says..he sneezed and his eyes were watery..haha. but sophia was sleeping and ben being the macho man he was decided to drive himself to the hospital to see what it was. by 3 am he was diagnosed as having pendicitis and was scheduled for emergency appendix surgery at 6:45 am. I slept about an hour that night..i was up on the phone with him..or cleaning the house because i couldn't sleep until i knew what was going on. my mother-in-law who was visiting at the other house full of family here drove over and took me and sophia to the hospital at 5. i got to see him before surgery..he was in a lot of pain.

The surgery felt long but it is a standard surgery i guess and the surgeon came out and said it went great! he also said ben was cracking up the nurses..they thought he was just the funniest thing. he kept saying it's from the medicine and i was like no he is just like that. hehe. Not wanting sophia to get germs in the hospital..some awesome friends watched her for the day. i took her once to see daddy because he missed her. this family was so amazing and i can't thank them enough..they even served me up a plate of their thanksgiving dinner! ben hates turkey..i'm pretty sure he made this happen just so he could avoid eating it! ;) but no this family was such a blessing. sophia loves them so it made it easier for me to know that she was happy while i was at the hospital with ben.

the babysitters during the craziness. they asked me to take some family shots for them a while back..these are two of them.

after surgery, as soon as he got back to his room where i was waiting, he mooned me. yeah. nice huh? he was funny..he learned all the nurses names..inviting them to our young adult group at church that we started up.. he asked them while i was out of the room if he was allowed to cuddle with me in his bed..glad i wasn't in the room for that one! haha..

but overall it was a thanksgiving to remember. he finally came home today! It made me so thankful for all of the amazing family and friends we have close to us..and thankful for the great staff at the hospital. but most of all i'm thankful to have ben home and recovering.  this will be a thanksgiving we won't forget. we took a family photo though with his i-phone just to make sure we never do. :)

she wanted to go "nigh-nigh" like daddy. holding her chex mix.

I hope all of you had a wonderful thanksgiving!..and that everyone stayed safe and healthy! :)