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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Leslie's two patriotic girls!

September 11th and July 5th..........Les calls Riley and Avery her "patriotic babies."  Both girls celebrate birthdays with the red, white and blue!


July 5th weekend marked the one year anniversary of Avery's birth!  What fun!  First, a neighborhood parade on the decorated Kuboda..........a little tradition started years ago at Lake Cypress Springs.......what a fun 5 minute parade! 


All the neighbors sat along the roadway in lawn chairs to cheer and wave at the decorated floats.....everything from boats to trailers to lawn mowers to bikes!  Of course, we had the best!!

Later, Avery "tested" her birthday cake.............
...........and the girls posed for a picture.......(Josh said, "Les, you're really rockin' those bandanas!)

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and so did Riley & Budders.  They were "wide open" all day long!!

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...and even with a big lake at our disposal.....who doesn't love a good kiddie pool?!!




Later in the afternoon....John Morgan had a great idea (hey, don't let this photo fool ya.....John was tuckered out from swimming, eating AND cooking..........John is an awesome cook!!)





And of course, if there's a lake, then Larry LeBeau will be fishing......


What a wonderful day!  Family, friends, fun and fabulous food!





Then, back to reality............Monday, July 11th...........as Carol Harder says.."Dang Mondays"..........Leslie is such a trouper........Monday she endured yet another of the hard chemo sessions at The Cancer Center in Tyler.  During her visit a new patient came in to get started with his treatments.........only to experience an allergic reaction!  Les said it was very "scary" watching all that happened.......made her very thankful for her own non-allergic treatments. 

Strange that we can be "thankful" for NO allergic reactions.......amazing how when going through the middle of this aweful cancer...how we just naturally become more thankful for the small stuff.  How we really open our eyes to see what is around us.  As the rest of the world keeps turning and all the folks move through their "normal" lives.......our new normal is so very different.  In spite of it all, in many ways it's like we have a special seat to view our worlds.........it's like we now have the inside track and we see what so many around us cannot or will not or perhaps they're just too busy to see it........but, we now seem to love deeper, to appreciate more, to judge less, to criticize less, to forgive more and most of all we learn to trust!

God does use the bad for the good and we are seeing Him working on a daily basis........sometimes an hourly basis.  Yes, He is good.......all the time.

To summarize.........Only one more hard treatment to go and then on to surgery and radiation.  Leslie still has some hurdles to jump, but each day brings us one step closer.  Riley is especially anxious to see her Mom's new hair......she is told that hair that returns following chemo is even prettier than before.........could be a different color..........could be curly...........it'll be like waiting to open a gift!! 
(psssst....I think Riley is hoping for blonde!!)

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