It’s always Autumn in England

I haven’t blogged for a while, and I have missed it. I’ve thought about it, logged on, and it just never went any further. I have found a new time waster, and if you are my friend on Facebook, you what what it is: www.mylifeisaverage.com Three days running, I have laughed until I had tears in my eyes. They aren’t all funny, but when you find one that is…

Also, next Thursday, 5th November, is Bonfire Night in England. Evan and I are going to have a party to celebrate, with lots of English traditions (or at least as many as I can come up with). If you live around here, please feel free to join us, we will start around 6pm. We will have snacks, but you might want to eat something before you come.

Last Wednesday I celebrated my 28th Birthday. I grabbed a few friends and family and headed to Dave & Busters. Go HERE for some fun pictures of the evening. Thanks to everyone who came, I had a great time hanging out with you all!

Saw an update on Evan’s counsin’s facebook. Her 2 month old Kaiden has been in ICU for 2 weeks, but they got good news today!

Kaiden Update: They retested Kaiden for RSV…he has CLEARED… However, he is still on the vent…and their hope is for him to come off hopefully by Monday. We will see… will keep you all updated. Thank you all for your prayers and support. ♥ We love and appreciate you all.

Is it wrong to pray to win a competition? I am seriously about to pass out at the possibility of winning this scrapbook storage system:

This is called The Workbox and can be found on The Original Scrapbox website: http://www.theoriginalscrapbox.com/

One of the blogs I read on a regluar basis is running a comptetition to win one: http://lifeaslou.blogsome.com/2009/09/28/who-wants-to-win-a-workbox/

I don’t have time right now to enter the competition in all the ways described, but over the next few days, I will be following up!

Edit: I have entered the comp in several ways now!!
I’m also adding tags for The Original Scrapbox, Scrapbook storage, Workbox.

Evan’s cousin and her husband had a baby boy. Jennifer gave birth 12 weeks early, when her waters broke, they did an emergency cesarean. I don’t know all the details of what happened, because I got it third hand, but he was born on July 29th at 28 weeks and 4 days.

Since his birth, I have kept in touch with Jennifer on Facebook, so I feel a little more in the know. Kaiden was able to go home after several weeks in the NICU, but yesterday he had to be admitted to the hosptial. He tested positive for RSV, and has been put on a ventilator and is being sedated to help him rest. There is not much more they can do medically, because he has to fight the virus off. He is receiving breathing treatments a few times a day. Please be praying for Kaiden and his parents, Jennifer and Brian.

Today I got to hold Isaiah for the second time. My roommate from college (and her husband) just had their first baby. I went to see them at the hospital, and today she stopped by my office. While I was holding him, I whispered to him several times that I am his favorite, non-related, Aunt. He gave me two of the cutest smiles ever! I figure if I tell him enough, by the time he can talk, he will believe it

I am posting this particularly for my other roommate, MN, who refuses to comment on my blog and instead remains anonymous. Hear that? I’m his favorite…and he’s less than two weeks old :)

Ok, so when I said watch out for change on here, I didn’t mean that I was going to suddenly disapear. However, that is what I did…but maybe I’ll be back more regularly now that my life is settling back into more of a routine.

My mom’s fiance sent me this link this morning, saying it was Sam’s interview with Fox 59!!! Seriously??? Wow, I had no idea my kid brother was going to be on TV. At least I got to watch it online, and now you can too.

Ok, moving on from my bragging…I could upload all the links of when he is in the local paper, but I won’t do that to you. I’ll leave that to my sister.

Now, back to what I said before…about change…well, I finally figured out how to personalise and fix the coding on Blogsome so that I can design my own template. I asked Evan if he could help me, and he said yes. So, I posted it on my blog….then, Evan got like 4 jobs for his consulting business and now suddenly, being paid to design logos and websites for people is more important than doing a free one for his wife. Oh well, I don’t complain at spending the money, so I guess my template can wait for now. But…it will come one day, so just wait patiently with me for it!

On to other stuff. I am finally harvesting veggies from our garden. Not too many, but we didn’t plant all that much. We planted really late in the season, so we were not sure we would even get anything. However, we have had at least a couple peppers per week and about 5 or 6 cucumbers off of 1 plant this week, and lots of tomatoes from our 3 plants. So, really not too bad for a very late planting of only about 8 plants total.

Well, I need to get to work, and then off to the Lapel Football game again tonight.

Last night was the first game of the season for the Lapel Bulldogs. This year, my brother is a senior and playing Quarter Back and Safety. The Herald Bulletin ran a story on their WIN last night!

I am excited for this football season. I understand a lot more than I did last year, so the plays actually make some sense to me now and makes the games more enjoyable. However, the weather last night couldn’t have been worse for this early in the season. During the second quarter is starting raining, but by half-time is was pouring with rain. The weather has said a 30% chance of scattered showers. We were prepared for that, not for driving rain for more than half the game. Yuck, we were soaked, and I was very glad to get home and into dry clothes.

be prepared for a little bit of a change around here….

and no, i am not pregnant

Saturday, Evan and I headed to the Michigan City area to help friends of ours who just bought a house. We were mostly cleaning, stripping boarders, and I got started on painting the kids bathroom.

Here are a couple pictures:

Bathroom before

Bathroom after

Sunday, we headed to Lapel to help work on my mom’s house with her and Jay.

We hung insulation and dry wall in my younger brothers bedroom. Here are the before and after pics of our work.