Eventful Thankful November!

Normally, I have more pictures than this for the month of November. However, this was not a "normal" month in my household. My niece was getting married in Atlanta, so I took 2 days off to attend the wedding. One of my daughters is a nurse, and she was able to set her work schedule so that she could go with us. Since the trip was SO long, we decided to break it up into 2 days of driving. We stopped in Birmingham to spend the night. Here is my sweet hubby, Mark, getting our room.

After eating dinner, Mark became ill with intense stomach pains. He was up all night and even made a midnight run to a Walgreens to ask a pharmacist what he could take to alleviate the symptoms. When nothing worked, my daughter decided he needed to see a doctor.  I'm thankful we had a nurse along with us!   Afraid that he might possibly be hospitalized in Birmingham and not know any of the doctors, he decided he wanted us to drive him back to Oklahoma. So that's what we did! 

 It was pretty miserable for him!  Kara and I took turns driving. We didn't arrive home until around 10:00 p.m.  He was feeling a little better, so he decided to wait until morning to see a doc. We went to the walk-in clinic on Memorial because it was a Saturday. He had a fever of 102 and the doc was pretty sure it was appendicitis, so we had to go to an ER. Of course, I had to let my daughter know. She insisted we go to Integris because she knows the doctors there. I'm so glad we did. The doctors and nurses were wonderful. He DID need an appendectomy. Poor guy! 

 He's never had surgery before!  They stopped to let us pray with him before he went back. My sweet son-in-law, who is a medical student, led the prayer. He also was very proud of the fact that he was able to correctly diagnose an appendicitis  before the doctors did!  He will be a great doctor someday! 

After the surgery, Mark's fever kept spiking to 102 and he didn't feel well. I stayed home with him to take care of him. I called the doctor and he determined that there was probably an infection and antibiotics were needed.  Our dogs - Gracie and Rumble - were worried about him. Look how sweet they are! 

They kept his spot safe and secure if he left it!

After a couple of days of antibiotics, he felt much better!   Our children's minister from church brought us dinner and a card that the kids at church made for him!  So sweet!  We are so blessed to have such an awesome church family at New Hope!

So, because of all of that, I didn't have a ton of pics of my firsties for November. Here are their cute turkeys hanging in the hall!  I have a LOT to be thankful this Thanksgiving. We all do!  Thank you, God, for your daily blessings!  You never stop amazing me! 

The kids did a STEM project and created a boat for the pilgrims to come over to America in. Their boat had to be able to hold 102 pennies. Here are pics from that.