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Watching "Cars" on the way to Dale Hollow Lake

We went on a four day weekend trip to Dale Hollow Lake with my family and had a great time. We packed a whole lot of stuff for 4 days, but it was well worth it. We were very worried about Max not being able to sleep in his pack-n-play since he is very partial to his own bed, but he did great.

Dialysis went flawless and we even got the opportunity to teach Uncle Bob and Aunt Ashley how to hook him up so that Tim and I could potentially go on our first date since 2007.

Max wasn't too fond of the life jacket on his first boat ride, so he fussed through most of it. Daddy was to the rescue for the second ride though and did a couple of adjustments and he did much better. Unfortunately it was freezing for the second ride, but we all bundled up and survived.

Reality set in for Tim and I on Saturday morning though. We have known all along that our life isn't "normal" but to us, this is normal. Saturday morning we woke up to the smell of bacon, eggs, sausage, geotta, biscuits and gravy and wanted so badly to jump up out of bed and run down to eat with everyone else. Instead, we had to unhook Max from dialysis, get a blood pressure and a weight, dialate a vesicostomy, clean a gtube, change a diaper and get him dressed before we could start our day. By the time I got downstairs and got Max fed... my breakfast was cold and I only got a small piece of goetta. Don't get me wrong, we would definitely do it all over again, but it was a reminder of the hard journey that we are on. It was a reminder of what the rest of our lives hold with having a chronically ill child. But it was also a reminder of how much fun you can have with your family and friends despite what your life is like behind it all. We had a blast.

Moving on from the Debbie Downer moment.... here are a few pictures from our first vacation with Max.

Max on his first boat ride
Heading out for a walk
Do they really look that much alike?
Uncle Bob blocking the wind from Max. Isn't he so sweet?
He sat on the floor and played through most of the boat ride
Uncle Bob and Aunt Ashley
Being a ham
A family of three
Getting ready to head back home
I only have this picture on here of my goofy brother, Bob, to prove that we were on the lake rather than sitting in a boat on dry land pretending that we were on the water :o)