Sat-Mon July 2-4, 2011

This was by far the BEST 4th of July!! Not only did we spend the whole weekend with great people/family celebrating the 4th, we were also celebrating Blake having his port removed!! (It no longer worked) The unfortunate part of this was NO SWIMMING-due to fresh stitches!! However, it was just a small price to pay! It was seriously the best 4th of July we have had!! The previous 2 years we have spent the 4th away from home. 2009 we were inpatient at Children's Mercy, last year we were in Houston without Phil receiving Proton Therapy (radiation). A friend of a friend, heard that Blake hadn't been able to really celebrate for the past 2 years and so this very generous family donated a LOT of fireworks to us. I wish I had taken a picture before they were actually set off. Oops! I think you will get a good idea by looking at all the pictures. We started off our holiday weekend in Rich Hill, MO (my bff's mom's house). We ate delicious food, enjoyed great company and went swimming-Blake sat on a huge turtle raft and stayed dry! It was a great start. The next day we headed to Nevada, MO (bff's dad's) to enjoy a bbq, more great family and a firework show. We set off about half of the fireworks, our final one for the night was especailly given to us for Phil. A 16,000 Black Cat firecracker. It sounded and looked like a bomb went off. lol It was SO loud that Blake actually tried to use righty to cover his ears. lol I actually got a picture of it. I was pretty proud of him. After a great night we headed to Pomme de Terre Lake (Phils parents live there). We took his parents boat out, then had a bbq and more fireworks. It was great to be by the water and see all the fireworks going off around the lake. Blake truly had a BLAST!! Finally on Mon (the 4th) we headed back to Rich Hill. Phil had to head home since he had to work that night, so Blake, Christian(bff), and I stayed to celebrate with her mom in Rich Hill. We enjoyed her huge 4th party with more delicious food, swimming, and then went to the town fair and watched fireworks. It was the PERFECT holiday weekend. We feel so lucky to have such amazing family and friends. Here is a slide show of our weekend!! Enjoy!!

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