What.A.Day.

Where do I start...  We had a GREAT weekend!  It started off on a scary note.  Did you read my post about my nephew Lane?  After an emergency trip to the hospital he was diagnosed with ITP.  He had a viral infection a few weeks ago.  His little body was trying so hard to fight it off and it ended up attacking himself.  His platelet count was VERY low.  He had an 8 hour IV treatment where the gave him platelets.  His counts were up to 40,000 when they discharged him late Saturday afternoon.  He is still not back to normal.  He will have weekly blood counts and more IV treatment if it is needed.  They told his parents it could take months for his counts to be back where the should be.  Poor little man!  But we are all beyond thankful that it was something that can be treated and that he will be okay!  Thanks for your prayers also.

With the good news about Lane we were able to enjoy the rest of our weekend.  My hubby is a bit of a cowboy.  No lie.  When I first met him he actually rode bulls.  Stupid.Crazy.I'm glad he doesn't do it anymore!  But we do like to go to rodeo's.  This weekend there was one about an hour away from where we live.  One of Clint's best friends also lives in this town.  He also used to Rodeo ;)

So Saturday afternoon we headed North.  Met our Friends for an early supper and went to the rodeo.  My cousin and his girlfriends joined us later.  We all had a great time!

Love my new cowboy boots;)  Never owned a pair before - I went to this rodeo in style;)

We stayed the night and did some shopping before we headed home on Sunday.  It was absolutely gorgeous  weather this weekend.  In the high 70's.  However it thunder stormed like crazy on Saturday night.  We knew there was a chance for sever storms on Sunday also.  For most of Sunday it was really warm and partly cloudy.  Then for a brief, 10 minutes or maybe less it got ugly.  I can not say enough how lucky we are.  There was a tornado along the same road that we live on.  A couple miles west there was some major damage.  We have 2 huge trees down in our yard but neighbors had roofs torn off of bars and campers flipped over onto vehicles.  Thank God, nobody was hurt.

Our attorney called yesterday and needed some additional information to finish our taxes.  Yes, you read that right, our taxes are not done yet.  Eek.  This is the first year that Clint has been completley self-employed.  Let's just say, umm, he is not very organized.  We didn't really know what all to expect.  Now that we do I will be taking over that part of the business.  I am wwaaaayy better and keeping track of things and putting receipts and what not where they need to go.   Well anyways we were trying to get all of that information together when the tornado came.  We lost power.  For 3 hours.  We stayed up late trying to get it all done.  I should say Clint stayed up late.  In my current state I am not much able to keep my blue eyes open much past 9... ok, or earlier!

When I got up this morning, Clint begged, I mean begged for me to call and take the morning off.  There were a few other spreadsheets he needed to finish for the attorney.  Clint and spreadsheet should never be used in the same sentence.  But we are busy at work and I said I really needed to go in.  I gave him a quick lesson and told him to call me if he needed help. 

I back out of the driveway and here a God awful noise.  I thought something was stuck under my car, like a branch or something.  I thought when I drove forward maybe it would fall off.  Nope, no such luck.  I get out of my car to check it out.  Not a branch, a flat tire.  I came  back in the house and asked Clint if he did that on purpose so I had to stay home and help him. 

Long story I guess... to sum it up I ended up taking a vacation day.  We spent a few hours finalizing the tax stuff...its now at the attorney's office!  Relief.  We went and bought 2 new tires for my car and we had lunch in town.  Ran a couple errands and came home. 

Clint was going to go to his shop for a few hours.  So I took the dog for a walk.  We were enjoying the great spring day, and were almost back home, when...  there appeared a skunk just up the rode.  Yep, between us and home a skunk.  I prayed and prayed and prayed for the dog not to bark.  I was certain we were going to get sprayed.  For a moment I froze.  We started walking the other way, called Clint and he came and picked up his 2 favorite girls and brought us home...smelling just as nice as we did when we left, ha!

See?  What a day!  That was a long post, but so much happened!  Grilling out tonight, so I am going to go get everything ready!!!!