Dinosaur Danford AKA Godzilla

Apologizing again for not blogging like i usually do, but again i repeat.. my camera's memory is FULL! something i never thought would happen and i would love to go print them all up but know it will cost me a arm and legg..so im putting it off..haha.

BUT anyways, Josh and I were laying around the other day and I was telling him what i wanted to do for halloween BEFORE I knew he was going to be out to sea! And asked if he would like to see Julians costume!.. SOOO.. i went into Juju's room and pulled it out and put him in it! IT was soo stinkin cute! & fit like a glove! Hopefully he didnt put on any pounds in the next month, otherwise it might not fit! haha But anyways.. He was marching around the house loving playing dress up! Julian picked up the nick name Godzille from Gabryel Jennings, and just thought he came into character in this costume! :P

Excuse my messy counters, they usually arent like this but Josh and myself had been weeding out junk out of our junk drawers this day..lol


rawR!


:) i love my little dinosaur!

oh no, there he goes again!! :)

corn on the coobbbb

my camera memory card is FULL!.. i thought the day would never come but it has! so i havent been able to catch all the little things like i would like. Its going to cost me a arm and legg to get all the pictures i have on my camera printed out! These are all signs that im behind on my scrapbook because normally i print pictures as i take them so i can scrap them! OMG i havent scraped in 6 months! SHAME ON ME!.. it's way OVERDUE!

so Josh cooked us dinner..and made corn on the cob. This was NOT Julian's first try at corn on the cob, but this WAS his first success at eating it! haha. He was cleaning that cob...he looked like a grown up eating it, he was just doing so well. It was the funnest thing in the world to me and Josh..he was making these really determinded faces and oh my, it was just fantastic so Josh took some pictures with his Iphone...

haha.. do you see the determination!?

hahaha.. oh man, this is just so cute.

i was nearly falling on the floor laughing so hard! :P

birthday party!

pooh bear cake the i slaved over. lol thanks for the help with making the icing and stuff tabatha! i love youu!

^ Julians beehive cake! :)

^ daddy tring to pinch julian with the tongs

Gabryel and Mariah

^Mrs. Deb & Lexi

Lindsey, Lexi and Julian

HORRIBLE picture of me( i was worn out, tired & sweaty!!) but my family :)

^presnent from Paul, he got him some curious George movies,
^ Disney Moviesss from mim!

^chair from cherish!

^Shelby this was the first thing he grabbed out of your present..haha!

^aw Tabatha got him a George in the box...lol see the fear in his eyes? Julian is terrified of it!.. It was on the floor in the living roo m when we got home and Julian was afraid to even walk near it! i hope he learns to like it, because it's really cute!!

^yay Presents from mommy & daddy, his first bible, two curious george movies, some bath toys and a vtech easle.

^ singing happy birthday! he keep looking at me with the biggest smile, haha he loved the attention!

^^ this is the smile i was telling you about! :) i love him sooo much!

^^ eating beehive cake!

Couldnt have asked for better weather, better company and a better first birthday for my jujubugg!

:) Thank you for everyone who sent him gifts, money or giftcards..and thanks to all my friends here that came to his party and helping us to celebrate this important milestone!

Happy Birthday Julian Elijah!!!! :)

It's been one year, 365 days and I can still feel that feeling I got when the nurse handed you to me, smell they way you smelt and remember complimenting the nurse on what they washed you with, just to be told it was "water". I had the hardest time believing that because to me you smelt like a bed of wild flowers, like heaven, the sweetest aroma I had ever smelt. It was my love for you at bliss. I remember the struggle I had with in myself to hand you over to the nurse, and that restless first night that you werent at my side, the countless calls I made to the NICU to check on you, and the worry the filled my heart every moment that you were not in my sight.The proud overwhelming feeling I felt as i was wheeled out of the hospital with you in your car seat, I was going to take my baby home!! :)Over the last 365 days i have never been apart from you! I have watched you learn to hold your head up, sit up, scoot, crawl, pull yourself into the standing position, walk and even talk. You went from being the "Jellybean" in my tummy to a infant in my arms, to now a one year old, a toodler!You love to pull the plug to your bath, get into every cabinet that is baby proof, every door that is kept shut, hoot like a monkey when watching curious george, and follow mommy and daddy around the house as we wonder. You are the most precious, perfect being I have every met. One day you will go to grade school, graduate high school, maybe go to college? the service? no matter what you do son, always know that someone is standing along side of you who will love you no matter what. You are my heart, the root of my daily joy, my first born son. I love you, Happy Birthday Julian.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i fearno fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i wantno world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it's you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars aparti carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)



going in to get him out his crib! :) birthday morning

i made him a special birthday breakfast!

before we left to Mc.Donalds we let him open one present, its the shirt and new shoes he's wearing to his party on Saturday! :) Thanks Mim.






This was his first time eating fast food- HIS first happy meal! these we're my favorite as a child, i would ask for "pock.pock" evidently i couldnt say chicken nuggets, or i was too lazy too..haha.. so i would call it pock pock. :) Julian enjoyed his "pockpock" :)

ps. Thank you Joshua for working so hard to provide for us, you have given me the best gift a husband could give a wife, a beautiful child & the ability to say home and raise him! I loved the last 365 days that I was able to spend with Julian, thank you for making that possible! I love you very much, and could never thank you enough! :)

past two days...

This last week has been crazy busy..especially the last two days! Monday & Tuesday seem like one combined day..full of house work, organization, planning, and shopping for last minute party stuff. But somehow inbetween the mess of things to be done, Julian and I went to the park to play! The girl who lives under us babysits a little boy who is only a few days older than Julian...they had fun playing at the park!

Yesterday was busyyy... we had a Wic appointment at 1:15 but left early to go to the postoffice, then payless to see if they had any cute shoes to get for Julian..he wears a size 5/6! They didnt have anything..so we walked over to babies R us where there was a awesome sale of winter clothes, i think it was last years style but who careS? buy one get one half off.

Then after we went to the WIC office Julian is a whooping 28lbs and 30 3/4 inches long. They said they arent concerned about his whopping weight because of how tall he is. the lady told me if there were 100 kids in a class..Julian would be taller than 75 of them!.. big boy!

After we headed over to michaels to get one last cake pan..and that was about it...headed straight home! : ) At the stop light i decided to get pics so you could see for yourself...

My baby turns 1 tomorrow!... ahhh!

new chair..& present from mim

Yesterday after Julians morning nap I wanted nothing more than to get out of the house!.. it was a beautiful day..so i decided we would go buy his gifts with the money mim and aunt cherish sent..

Finally home, can you see how happy he was to be home!

Below is his new chair, i got it with the money Aunt cherish sent!! I have always hated the high chair we had! it was a hammy down from a friend that was only suppose to be until we got around to getting a new one for him! well.. we NEVER got around to getting him a new one.. but the hammy down def. did serve it's purpose. Our kitchen is so small that the highchair took up so much space, i and we would have to move it for every meal closer to the table, then put it back in the corner after eating. it was def. a pain in the butt. so im very happy with the new chair, it has three different setting for the hight of the chair and the 3 for the size of the tummy.. It can push under the table and doesnt take up any space..not to meantion Julian gets to sit at the table with mommy and daddy!.. OH and the chair can be folded up and carried like a purse for use in restraunts and outtings to friends. I really love it, and Julian liked it as well! Thanks again aunt cherish & uncle Josh!

Seeing if i can push it under the table like the other chairs, and YES IT GOES UNDER< YAY!.. Juju went under as well to check things out..lol

After setting up his new chair and making sure he fits in it any everything, i took down the P.O.S high chair! :) with a good heart! lol

as i was taking it to peices, julian was tring to play with it, while watching his toons, so i set him up a little floor chair for the day to sit in front the tv and eat his snack before nap! :) this was a pretty niffity idea if i say so myself! :)

This was taken at dinner time! His first time eatting at the table, in his new chair!

Also, thank you to MIM for sending Julian some money for his birthday! He will enjoy very much, you know that! :)

park pleaseee.

Today was not so much of a busy day, infact Julian and myself both napped for 2 hours in the morning. We took a stoll to the store to get juice & milk, and mostly i did house work and school work will Juju played.
It has been so beautiful here the last two weeks.. today it was in the low 70's high 60's.. sunny skys with a perfect breeze. Nice and cool outdoors, so after Julians second nap we went to the park to play for a while.

before we left home to go to the park..

he was so excited..lol

thought he'd taste the grass to see if it changed from the last time he tried..lol

tonight before bath i weighed Julian, he weighed a whopping 26 pounds even!... haha My big linebacker! :P :) I just can not believe Julian will be one year old in 7 days. Gosh seems like yesterday he was still in my belly, infact around this day last year I was in the hospital starting to go into labor & had to rush Josh home from a cruise. my oh my.. how time has flown by.