Christmas Eve

Special "thank you" to my sister, Michelle Jenkins & Suzanne Avera, owner of Heavenly Angels Photography of Mount Airy,
for creating & designing the above Christmas Cards for my family.

UPDATE:

Dani Jo has had an awesome weekend! She is back to her old self!!! She has been stooling regular and eating very well. They finally put a colostomy bag on her instead of the gauze. We have high hopes over the next week. The doctors are planning on putting Dani Jo back on the home vent in the next few days. The heater from the hospital is too powerful for the home vent and so they have to get one that is compatible to her home vent. If all goes well over the next week, we may be getting her home soon--maybe by the first of the year! Just keep praying! They have her on "ad lib" feedings--(as she wants). She had 2oz last feeding!
She is a little piggy!

The nurses say she has a little bit of a temper when it is time to eat and they don't get it to her fast enough! Hee Hee--I don't know where she gets that from!!!

We just called to check on her and the nurse says that they have her all dolled up for Christmas--Christmas outfit, Christmas sheet & blanket, so we will definitely post some pics of her tomorrow! We can't wait to see her tomorrow. We are planning on spending Christmas morning with Jordan and Jamie and going to the hospital in the afternoon!

Thank you all again for your monetary gifts, cards, calls, food, & most of all your prayers this holiday season. You will never know how much you have touched our lives and our family! There will be many stars in your heavenly crown!! You all have shown what Christmas is truly all about! Jesus has blessed our family with such a wonderful circle of friends and family!

It may be a few weeks before Dani Jo can have visitors when she comes home, not so much because of the Hypoventilation Syndrome, but because she is a preemie and she is more prone to RSV and infections.

I would like to send an open invitation to you all to visit her as soon as she can have visitors. We are planning on keeping her site going after she comes home, so keep checking as you can for updates and when she is ready for visitors.

We love you and want each of you to be a part of her life. We want her to know each of you and the prayers that went up--not necessarily the material gifts, but to know each of you as her friend and spiritual family. We teach our girls to pray and that God answers prayer--when Jordan prays for Dani Jo she knows that God hears her, as evident of what has taken place already. I know Jordan is only 4 but she knows that God will hear our prayers and answers them
according to His will and earnestly prays for Dani Jo each day.

I know this was long, but we may not get to post for a couple of days and we just wanted to thank you all for EVERYTHING you ALL have done for us. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and New Year! We love you ALL!!!!!!!

The Hearl's
Joey, Amanda, Jordan, Jamie, & Dani Jo