4th of July

In spite of all the things that have been happening with my family, we decided to go ahead and go to Show Low for the 4th, and are we really glad that we did. We had a lot of fun with all of our friends and are so excited for the time we will be able to go back and hopefully live there again. We weren't expecting it, but the weekend turned out to be a little more hectic than we bargained for. As we were pulling into town, we got a phone call saying that Nate's mom was in the hospital. Apparently, she had some attacks a day or two before and was in need of some immediate surgery. We went to the hospital right away and learned all the news. She had a asthma attack while she was at a doctor's appointment and so they took her to the hospital right away. While she was there, she had a heart attack of some kind and her lungs were filled up with fluids and so they had to give her an emergency tracheotomy which was to put a tube in her throat so that her lungs could take a break and a machine could breathe for her. It was a really scary situation at first but she did get the surgery she needed and the doctors say that she is recovering the way that they want her to. Last we heard, a few days ago, she was off the tube and breathing again and she is now down in Mesa or Phoenix working on her recovery down there. We are very lucky she is still with us. It made for a hard weekend, but we were glad we were able to be there instead of being stuck in Flagstaff.

After that note, the other events that we were able to do over the weekend was stay with our good friends, the Pratts. They are like another set of parents to us so when we came with Kayton, it was like he was a prince. He got whatever he wanted from them and they just adored him to pieces. The parade was on Saturday and Kayton was a little sleepy so I just stayed home with him and Sis. Pratt. Nate went and helped Mr. Pratt drive a van to the end of the parade route so that he didn't have to walk back to the beginning. Afterwords, we went to the Whipples house for lunch and hung out there for a while. Then that night we went to the fireworks with the Pratts at the lake. I love the spot that we went to and want to go there all the time now. Kayton fell asleep for a little bit before the fireworks started and a little bit through, he woke up and just sat with Mr. Pratt the whole time staring at the fireworks. I wasn't able to get a picture, but he was soooo cute. Sunday was nice and relaxing. We were able to go see more friends and just hang out. The next day though, I didn't have to work so we decided to stay til the afternoon. In the morning, we went with the two younger Pratt boys, Jeremiah and Trevor, and went kayaking. It was the first time I had ever been and man does it give you a work out. The boys enjoyed it more though because we took a break and they played on the shore and caught crawdad's. I found it disgusting but they loved it. (I was too nervous to bring my camera on the water, but I wish I would have now) That afternoon, we went and visited Nate's mom one last time and headed out. We got home really late because we stopped in Winslow to see our friends, but we had a great trip.