On Saturday we had our friends over to make Breezy's Bravery T-shirts for the Great Strides walk on May 16th. I had so much fun.I am really glad that we decided to make shirts this year. Every one is so cute and unique. People put some love in to making these and I love them.

I'm not sure how any people are on the team for the walk but there were 22 wet t-shirts hanging all over my house so that is a good group. And that is just the beginning. Everyone has been so helpful and supportive, I have great friends :)

This week has been so crazy with the doctors apts, cf clinic, tshirt party, and getting everything ready and caught up because we leave tomorrow. We are going to Greenville for the Artistic Union Benefit and I simply can't wait. In fact yesterday morning Breezy asked if she could go to sleep so that she could get to Greenville faster. I feel so blessed to have everyone doing this for my daughter. Our whole family appreciates everything.

Breezy had her CF clinic on Wednesday, we drive about an hour away to get there so it is always a long day. I am hoping to get the result from her culture today, so I know how we are doing. Breezy wants to defeat the mucus! When we saw the doctor they decided to add cipro and bacterium to Breezy's med schedule due to her week long bronchitis. The goal is to prevent her mucus bacteria from multiplying because of her coughing moving everything around in her lungs.

Current Meds:

• Source CF multivitamin
• Creon 10
• Nasonex
• albuterol
• pulmozyme
• tobi
• zithromax
• cipro
• bactrum

So I'm calling to get the culture results today and I will keep you updated.

I am happy to report that Breezy has been fever free since Thursday night. She still has a wicked cough and she got a bit of mucus out tonight. The mucus was cloudy and yellow so I'm not sure what that means at this point, all she ever has is clear "super glue" mucus. I call it super glue because it is the stickiest thing you will ever touch. Breezy has a CF clinic appointment on Wednesday so I'm just hoping that all is well until we can get up there.

After her chest x-ray, she has a 102.5 fever but is still all smiles :)

Breezy had a great Easter there were about 200 eggs all over the house. She had some help from Haylie, Aby and Ayden but there were still so many eggs that I had to empty their baskets a couple of times.

Breezy is really in to the Littlest Pet Shop toys so when the Easter bunny left some in her eggs she was ecstatic. Nate, Myself and Breezy's grandparents have been going crazy with the pet shop toys. We find it adorable that she wants to collect something so I get phone calls all the time " Does Breezy have the little armadillo? "

When the egg hunt was over she began asking questions "How did that tricky bunny get in our house?" and "Where did he get all of these eggs from , Target?". To which I reply the universal, I don't know how to answer your questions answer "Magic!"

All in all it was a wonderful Easter filled with fun and apparently magic..lol

I have been bad about blogging this week but Breezy has Bronchitis. We have been back and fourth to the doctors. The have upped her dose of zithromax and great news about her chest x-ray....it was clear. She has been coughing all week and she sounds very congested. She hates being out of school so we have been doing lots of school work at home this week. I love to see her eagerness to learn new things. Breezy has had a fever everyday this week, if we can keep her fever free this weekend then she can return to school on Monday.

I will be back tomorrow to add photos of Easter.

I took Breezy and Haylie to an Easter Egg Hunt that my mommy group put together on Tuesday! It was so much fun, between all of the moms we must have had a million eggs. I have a really great group of friends, if you say please bring 24 eggs more than likely each of us brought 48 eggs. I love having such wonderful people around, people who don't just do the minimum.

Anyway the kids were great and they all get along so well. The girls made out with a lot of loot :) My favorite part of the day was watching the little kids pick up eggs....have them fall out of the basket and get all excited when they found the same egg all over again. Sometimes I wonder at what age simple things like a recycled egg get to be unexciting.

Thursday Breezy will have an Easter celebration at her school. She made bags of Easter goodness for her friends. The bags were made a few days ago and she keeps asking...can I bring them to school today?

This last month has been baby..baby...baby!! On Sunday I hosted a baby shower for my friend Kara who is due to have a little girl in May. It was tons of fun and everyone had a great time. I had to get creative on the decor because we chose to use guitars, pink and brown. I had trouble finding anything so I got my glue gun out...lol and I think everything turned out just perfect.

On April 2, 2009 my beautiful childhood friend Liz gave birth to Deagan. He is the most precious little baby. I'm so happy for Liz , Bobbie and their whole family.They will be such wonderful parents and Deagan will have so much love in his life. Congrats Liz!!!

I'm so excited to report that my sister in law Meagan just found out that she is expecting a little boy. Everyone is so excited because he will be joining a family of 3 granddaughter. I have already started to buy him things, I only get to purchase girl stuff so I have been having a great time looking at all of the boy items.

I'm so impressed by every ones support, I hope that everyone knows that I am so grateful for everything!! Breezy's aunt Ginger and some of our beloved Greenville SC friends have put together this amazing event.

Artistic Union is an event that will satisfy all of your senses. Enjoy the energetic artistic live painting of Ric Standridge. Watch as he creates unique and vibrant pieces of art right in front of you. The inspiration for Ric’s paintings will come from his interpretation of the astonishing live music performance of Angie Aparo and Martin Lesh. The show will be enjoyed in Greenville’s beautiful Zen. This show is being held to benefit Breezy’s Bravery and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 30% of the Art Auction proceeds and a percentage of ticket sales will be donated. Please join us in helping create Cystic Fibrosis awareness while having a delightful evening filled with art, music, and fun.


$35.00 Admission includes:
Live Concert
Art Performance
Hor’dourves
Art Auction
guest appearance by Brianna “Breezy” Shiflett
for tickets contact the Peace Center 1-800-888-7768

For More information Visit- http://www.artisticunion.org/

Well this morning Breezy got me good. I had no idea anyone told her what April Fools is or that today is April Fools so when she told me there was a spider in my hair I quickly and frantically tried my hardest to remove the spider. Then with an adorable chuckle Breezy yelled April Fools!!! I was glad the spider was imaginary but my sweet, adorable, loving daughter tricked me and she did a great job...lol

How in the world can anyone eat this much salt. It still amazes me that Breezy eats this stuff. It makes me cringe to see how much salt she uses, but she eats it like there is no salt. Before Breezy was diagnosed we would not allow her to use this much salt. So when her doctor diagnosed her and said in front of her..." She can eat as much salt as she wants, you can even give Bri her own salt shaker" I knew that was the end of the "thats to much salt" discussion. Because now if I say no more she is quick to remind me Dr.S said I can have as much as I want.

• CF is a genetic disease that affects the body's epithelial cells, which are found in many places, including the sweat glands, the lungs, and the pancreas. An error in these cells causes problems with the balance of salt and water in the body.

• People With CF lose a lot of salt in their sweat, especially during hot weather and when they exercise. A good way to replace this salt is by adding salt to food and eating salty snacks.