Well the weather was a lot warmer this week, until the weekend that is. But on Friday Breezy got a chance to plant some flowers. She has waiting all winter to plant flowers. So I took her shopping and she picked out pink and purple flowers. It was such a nice quite day just doing some planting and spring cleaning.

I think our next spring project will be making some bird feeders. Breezy found some pine cones last week if we add some peanut butter and birdseed we will be set. We do want to purchase some pre-made bird feeders, we have so many beautiful birds around the yard and we all love to watch them.

I can't wait for the weather to be warm constantly this 87 degrees one day and 65 degrees the next is getting old. And I think the sunlight would do us some good Breezy and I are looking like ghost (yes I'm even paler than normal). The pool and beach are calling my name.

The only thing that I'm worried about is the looming first day of kindergarten which will inevitably follow that wonderful warm weather. But I have about 6 months to prepare myself for my baby growing up, so I'm sure I'll be fine.

Thanks to everyone who has already donated to The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation on behalf of Breezy's Bravery Team. We have reached our goal of $1000.00 , this being our first year I'm very excited and we still have about a month and a half until the walk. I think we will exceed our goal. Again thanks for all of the support :)

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful St.Patrick's Day. Breezy had a little party with her play date friends this morning before school. She had a great time in the playhouse and ate some lunch. She was so cute I think she found everything green that she owns and wore all of it. Yesterday we went ribbon shopping to make a St.Patrick's day bow. She picked out this cute clover patterned one and of course green, her bow turned out adorable.

This week was a busy one, a friend of mine had to get surgery out of town so I watched her daughter and took her to school all week. Yesterday we all took a trip to the park and played for a while. Then I took the girls on a nature walk, which I must admit was lots of fun.

We took about an hour to just took around and see what we could find.

Animals & Insects we found:
~Turtles
~Ducks
~Cardinal
~Fish
~Butterfly
~Spiders
~Beetle

They found a pile lots of leaves on the ground and threw them around for a while. Dug around in the dirt and found the perfect pine cones. It was nice to just walk around and relax for a while. Everyone had a great time. And after a long walk ice cream is a necessity.

We came home for a slumber party,ate junk food, watched movies and painted nails . All in all a wonderful day!!

Well we have an alligator that lives in the pond. He is a seasonal fellow who leaves during the winter. The weather has been warm this week and guess who showed up. How do we know this is the same alligator? Well if he is underwater and you clap he will pop up and come to visit. Don't worry we are very careful and Breezy is never out our screened porch. And the alligator stays on the other side of the pond or in the water. But I thought you guys might like to see him....he is BIG!!

I have been busy trying to get all of our Great Strides plans organized. This is our first year, I have so many plans for next year now. I just don't have the time to get everything together this year, the walk is in May and I'm crunched just getting normal stuff done....lol But after this years walk I will be planning and preparing for Great Strides 2010.

I have created an email that will be going out to all of our friends and family in hopes to get more members to walk with us. It is so cute and it includes links to the Great Strides, CFF, and of course this site. The video is also on the email. I wish I had a still image to so you guys.

I also started a Facebook Cause, maybe we can get people who know people who know people involved :) I hate that my little Breezy has CF but she is such a great little girl and everyone just loves her that I feel like we can do great things together.

If you have a Facebook and would like to be our friend just CLICK HERE

Thanks to everyone who has already joined the team and donated we really appreciate everything.

Well I'm happy to report that besides her deep voice and quite a bit of mucus out put Breezy has yet to catch the crud. By the way getting the mucus out is a plus in my book. So I'm actully happy she has been getting rid of it, better out than in...right.However Nate did give me the crud and I keep it for much longer than him. He was over the whole thing with in 2 days. I'm almost better but I still have a little conjestion. Still there are no complaints on my end because if Breezy is good then we are all good.

My Dad lives about 2 hours away so we try to meet half way every couple of months. On Sunday we had a Grandpa day. It was fun we all went out for a great lunch at a Brazilian Steakhouse which was the first time Nate, Breezy and I had ever been to one. In case you have never been they cook tons of meat on huge skewers and bring it to your table. Beef, Pork, Lamb, and Chicken in different cuts and flavors. It was so yummy and filling...but this place is in no way accommodating to a vegetarian. We later ate some ice cream, watched a movie, Breezy took a train ride. We really just had a great time hanging out with each other.

Well Friday was a fun day Breezy and I ate lunch together. At Subway, why because Breezy is addicted to the 5...5 dollar...5 dollar foot longs. Which I think is great because she will eat quite a bit of food there. And what CF mom doesn't like any food there kid will eat, having to struggle with maintaining and gaining weight is a huge concern in our house. So Woohoo for Subway!!

And of course when you have some time to kill before school you find a local store that you can try hats on at. Breezy and I tend to lean on the dorky side. So her are some adorable photos of her playing dress up at the store. The one in the pirate hat just cracks me up...lol

If you would like to join us for our walk on May 16,2009 or make a donation to Breezy's Bravery Great Strides please CLICK HERE and visit the CFF Site.

Well at least for the next 28 days, Breezy finished last months round of Tobi & Colistin. Which cuts our treatment time down considerably. I can't wait until her CF clinic in April so that we can find out if this round of such aggressive treatments took care of the pseudomonas and staph that Breezy cultured at her last clinic. I really wish that we could just do a culture now so that we can find out if the meds are working. When we go to clinic she will have been of the levaquin, tobi and colistin for about 3 weeks.

If you would like to join us for our walk on May 16,2009 or make a donation to Breezy's Bravery Great Strides please CLICK HERE and visit the CFF Site.

Some of the blogs I read do fun things for each day of the week like Cara who does the Tuesday 10. I thought this was a cute idea but I can never think of 10 things. But today your in luck because I came across some really fun stuff this week.

10 Awesome bits of info. or cool things from the week.

1. Thanks to Cindy at Cure CF for Reilly I fell in love with microwaveable sterilization bags. I was boiling Breezy's Nebs twice a day, I know that sounds crazy because I could just clean them but Breezy has reoccurring bacterial infections and I want to make sure that we are killing all the germs. Well these bags have saved so much time and I love love love them.

2. Where can you find the sterilization bags? Well that is another awesome discovery that Cindy made Medi-Simple Shoppe this shop is owned by a CFmomma so you can find all kinds of cool time and space saving CF goodies. I have my eye on the The Pari Treck Compact Compressor.

3. The IFRD1 Gene. "The IFRD1 gene appears to play a role in the severity of cystic fibrosis lung disease through its influence on neutrophil effector function." To Read this Article Click Here.

4. Well this was really my number one, I found out that my momma is healthy. She had a little scare but after a few test it turned out to be fixable and not to bad. Which was such a relief because she is taking care of my grandma who is going through chemo, and everything with Breezy's health I'm not sure what I would have done if my momma got sick also. So yeah for that, I love ya mom!

5. Breezy got some ribbons at gymnastics this week. She was so happy and I could not have been happier for her. She loves gymnastics and is doing very well. I love to see her happy and sleepy when she gets home...lol

6.We found the school that Breezy will attend next year. I'm very worried about having to change to full time school and have her gone all day. But she is so excited and can't wait to be a big girl. Kindergarten here comes Breezy.
7. Breezy loved celebrating Dr.Seuss' Birthday. Her class made a cat in the hat, read Dr.Seuss Book and ate Green Eggs and Ham. Green Eggs and Ham was my favorite book when I was little and Breezy love it too. She told me that we can make a great meal now because she has the recipe.

8.Breezy finished her levaquin woo hoo one down how exciting!!

9.Breezy's Bravery Great Strides Team is growing!! We are getting very generous donations that I can not thank everyone enough for. But thanks to Briana Kaya, Shelly Adams, Liz Walden, Papa, Aunt Ginger, Annie Porter, Grandma D, John Chason, Michelle Emden, Diana Dailey, Crystal Colletti, Louise Smith, Kara Tishler and every for all the wonderful support.

1o. We had such a great week with our friends and family. A very busy week that was full of fun.

If you would like to join us for our walk on May 16,2009 or make a donation to Breezy's Bravery Great Strides please CLICK HERE and visit the CFF Site.