Blessings for Benton: Happy Thanksgiving! A Day of Giving Thanks

This Thanksgiving was an amazing celebration and a day to truly give thanks for our multitude of blessings. Unlike last year, this Thanksgiving wasn't a day filled with trepidation and trips to the NICU, it was a day filled with joy, food and fun with Benton at home. As it was Benton's first Thanksgiving at home it was obviously a tremendously special day. We counted our blessings and said thanks for the amazing year we have had and the fact that we were getting to spend this Thanksgiving with our beloved boy. As I looked around our Thanksgiving table, I knew we were witnessing a very special moment - our first holiday meal as a family!

Pictures from Thanksgiving Week

Our big boy!

For Thanksgiving we decided to make a massive feast in celebration and have a couple of friends over for board games, fun and food. We made turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts with cranberries, gorgonzola and pecans, chorizo cornbread stuffing, apple onion stuffing, homemade cranberry relish, popovers, deviled eggs, pumpkin custard, chocolate bourbon pecan pie and glazed pumpkin bread. Whew! With so much cooking it was fun to have Benton join us in the kitchen watching us make delicious food and hang out in the living room with his grandparents.

Enjoying Thanksgiving with Friends

And Family!

The Starters: Deviled Eggs and Bourbon Apple Cider

The Feast

And Finally Yummy Dessert

Our Friends Catie and Lucas Giving Benton a Goodbye Hug

Thanksgiving was an amazing day. A day full of blessings, fun and food and one we will never forget. Thank you to everyone who has prayed for Benton and our family this past year. We are forever thankful for those prayers because we know that Benton wouldn't be here without God's miracles and you are a part of his miracle by supporting our family and praying for our sweet boy.