Happy Birthday Dylan

Happy Birthday Dylan! I sure love you. Thank you for being such a wonderful person. I am so grateful to get to be a part of your life. You mean so much to me. This past year and a half that we have been together has been some of the best times in my life. Happy Birthday Love!

Oh, Good Morning MAY!!

It snowed so much so fast that it broke branches. When we drove

into town there were fallen branches all over the place!

Yes, May 16, 2011 and we wake up to THIS! Unbelievable. It snowed 3 or 4 inches last night. The gall. Dylan and Dad cut down the broken branch and as I type it is pouring down rain. Talk about flooding. At least it meant Dylan had a day off of installing pivots in the fields!

p.s. I definitely stole these pictures from Dad's blog....I didn't get my camera out this morning. Thanks Dad!

Haines City Wide Yard Sale

Today was the Haines City wide yard sale. Definitely couldn't pass this up! Carly, Shem, and I walked around the whole town going from yard sale to yard sale. I'm pretty excited about what I got!

I LOVE this chair. It's in really good condition too!

This will probably be turned into a lamp

I can't believe I found this Polaroid film!

Vintage clothing patterns. Some of these Vogue originals might be worth some money! I haven't decided of I'll try to sell some of them or not. But there are definitely some dresses and coats here I want!

The bill: $18.75

Tie-Dying

Yes, this is a little old. I'm behind.

Kimberly sent me to a blog where they did this. http://www.ourbestbites.com/2011/04/silk-dyed-eggs-aka-tie-dyed/

You need silk ties so Dylan and I went to Salvation Ar

my and found a nice little selection. Some of the ties I had to fight

Dylan for. He seriously owns over 200 ties. Why would he w

ant more?? Then we cut the liners out of the ties and opened them up.

Then we cut them out big enough to wrap snuggly around the eggs. Wrapped those in pieces of pillowcase (which, by the way, we used a new one. Dylan is attached to his pillowcase haha) and put them in a pot. Filled that pot with enough water to cover the eggs then added 1/4 cup vinegar. Boiled for 20 minutes and......

We had a really good time! I didn't get very good pictures but the eggs looked amazing! I think we will do it again next year but maybe let them boil for a bit longer to try to get more color. Thanks for the idea Kimberly!

Hello Little One!

Everett Bradford Janeway

5-7-11 at 5:07 am. 7lbs 12 ounces, 20 3/4 inches long

Currently Everett is in the NICU. He has a very rare (and still undiagnosed) extremely low blood platelet count. (9,000 instead of 150,000+). He had a platelet transfusion and now they are monitoring him. He will need another transfusion this afternoon. He is undergoing a battery of tests to try to find out more. Bless his little heart. I'll update the blog when we hear more!

UPDATE: Everett is doing really well. It turns out Kimberly's blood cells were attacking his. Now that he is on his own he is able to recover. His platelet count is rising and he should be fine without another transfusion. Once he stabilizes this shouldn't be a problem that will affect him again. We are so blessed to have everything work out for this sweet little boy! I can't wait to meet him :)