Truly Thankful....

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Hope everyone is enjoying time with their family this Thanksgiving.  We are having a houseful starting later today.  It is so great to be able to be home and healthy with our family rather than in the hospital.  I know, however, that as I type this, there are those families that are spending this Thanksgiving in the hospital.  We have some great friends, the Nelson family, whom we met in California, that are giving back this year and delivering meals to families whose kids are in the hospital this year at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital where we go for Reagan's heart surgeries. If  you feel like contributing to this great cause, simply click on the Nelson family above and it will lead you to their blog where you can find out more.
We are also thankful Rod is home this year for Thanksgiving.  However, know there are soldiers separated from their families this year.  Please remember to be in prayer for these soldiers and their families as well as the families spending Thanksgiving in the hospital.
As far as Reagan goes, we had a little setback in early October.  She was jumping on the trampoline with her brother one afternoon when she fractured her tibia.

Fractured tibia
She had to wear a full leg cast for the next 5 weeks until it healed.  

Thankfully, she is now out of her cast, and back to trying to keep up with her brother.  We are thankful this was a "normal" medical issue to deal with for a change.  How awesome that Reagan has been out of the hospital since May of this year.  Other than her night's stay after her heart cath in July, we have remained hospital-free to which we offer many thanks for!!
After Reagan's hospital stay back in May for a respiratory illness, we received the home vest machine to do at home with her breathing treatments.  We are praying this will be helpful in keeping her from being hospitalized this winter with any respiratory infections.  Winter always seems to be a "booger"! (pun intended :)
As we approach this Thanksgiving, we are thankful for our little miracle God gave us.  She is such an inspiration to us daily....always happy, always trying, never gives up!!  We are also thankful that we were able to be home in Temple, Tx the first five years of her life around family and friends that have supported us unconditionally along this journey.  We are saddened as we host Thanksgiving that this will be our last year to do so for awhile.  Rod will be leaving in early January to head up to Virginia and report for duty at Ft. Belvoir.  The kids and I will follow in June upon completion of the school year.  It will be a huge change for us but know God will be with us all the way.  Please pray for Rod as he will be away from his family once more until we come later in the year.  Also, for Reagan & I as we leave for Reagan's next heart cath in California on Jan 20.  We pray her arteries, especially her coronary arteries, have grown and not narrowed so that this cath will be uneventful.
I know I have used the word "thankful" many times in this post, but as it says in 1 Thessalonians 5:18, "In EVERYTHING give thanks".  I am just saddened that I am using Thanksgiving as my outlet to do so, as I should do it daily!
Blessings to you & yours this Thanksgiving!!  Thanks for stopping in.