Surprises This Thanksgiving....

Thanksgiving this year was such a beautiful day.

Dw and the kids came up early so we could watch the parade together {just like we do at home} and then we watched Green Bay {Graham's long time favorite team}.  

Dw had gotten a new puzzle for all of us to work on

 since we are great puzzle lovers!

Just hanging around as a family and loving being together....

About a week ago a woman who works here at the hospital asked what we were going to do for Thanksgiving.  I told her I had no clue, especially since home is in Colorado.

She said she knew of a synagogue that made meals for people on Thanksgiving and delivered them.  She wondered if we would be interested.  We were humbled to tears that a group of people, 

who had never met us, would care enough to make a boatload of meals and deliver them to our gang.

W.O.W.

Here's the sweet and generous folks who delivered 9 {delicious!} Thanksgiving meals to us at the hospital.  Secretly, I had been longing for cranberry sauce {my fav part of the meal}...I even prayed that they would have some...and not only did they have some - it was my very favoritest kind - chunky!  

{My mouth waters as I type about it.  Such a blessing from the Lord!} 

We were excited to actually meet them and spend some time together visiting in Ruby's room.  Wonderful people {now turned friends} - whose kindness and sacrificial love added a beautiful blessing to our Thanksgiving day. 

Thank you all so very, very much!

You guys rock! 

Before long our close friends came to spend some special Thanksgiving time with us.

Dane and Laura were part of our church leadership until they relocated to Phoenix in August.

{You who were stopping by our Place Called Simplicity when Tyler and Sarah got married two and a half years ago will remember Dane and Laura's generosity in opening their home for Tyler and Sarah to get married in it.}

 Dane and Laura 

After Dane, Laura, Sam and Luke went on, Dw took the meals down to be microwaved in the visiting room down the hall.  

While we were eating Autumn and Karl 

Skyped in from Bob and Vicki's where they were 

enjoying Thanksgiving day together.....

{so fun to see Bob, Vicki and Derek too}

After dinner more sweet friends came to visit....

Steve, Kathy and Claire

And then Justin, April, Ben and Josh came for a sweet visit.

Seriously! 

 Such fun to have three of our dearest family friends come to see us in the hospital on such a beautiful Thanksgiving Day!

A beautiful Thanksgiving enriched by precious people who came to make our day extra special at Phoenix Children's....

We are so abundantly blessed....

Thank you all who made Ruby Grace's first Thanksgiving 

such a special day!

We are so blessed!