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Once again, the sky is weeping, and Julian are insided hearing the rain water bounce off his outsides toys. Quite honestly, my house is a rutter wreck.. dishes in the sink, toys on the floor, spilt sketti o's on the table and my energy level is just not up to parr. Julian is wanting to go " byebye" and asking for his daddy nonstop. I wish Josh was not having to leave on that iron ship again for another week. Our little guy has taken one step forward and three steps back with potty training. We just are not ready to bring him out in public with his undies, so each time we have to go out and about Julian is loving just utilizing his diaper. It's discouraging to have to take steps back, but Julian is still young to be doing so well with the idea in any case, so my expectations have lowered. Our trip to New Orleans is approaching and I am hoping to have my juju bugg back on track so he can show off for his Mawmaw & Grandma.



My boredem is paralizing, and yesterday i rearranged the house, which got RErearraged once my husband came home with disapproval, so blogging is my only other option to keep myself entertained. (Well that is not totally true, i could clean.. but yeah, I'm not thinking thats a good idea.)



I am not sure there is a real point to this blog post, so I will just stop blabbling now.

xoxo

JDRF

Enjoying being snuggled in bed with the hubs and blanket wrapped around me like a big coo coon. Rolling out of bed was not easy, but so worth it. Walking up to JDRF gave me the biggest sense of fulfillment. The run raiser raised about 100,000 dollars, and the walk was a huge success as well. There was face painting, jump-a-roo's pizza, breakfast, water, a band, tshirts... it reminded me of the alligator festival, minus the drunks, and rides(haha). So many children of all ages, some so young they had not yet taken their first steps yet. Most were diabetics as well, some were family of a diabetic. The support system that presented itself, had the strongest humbling effect on everyone, it was a great honor to be part of something so important to not only our family, but many others as well.

Diabetes is a disease that can be managed, but unfortunately never can be controlled. This disease never sleeps, in fact it showed it's face at the walk. Julian got very fussy, and had the worse attitude for the first part. With the help of insulin, his little body got back to a good blood sugar level, and the sweet boy i birthed emerged.

It was such a beautiful day on the beach front, high 60's low 70's.. clear sunny skies, and nice breeze. Julian loved the birds that flew over head, and the horses the police road to escort us down the board walk.

Not to mention the dolphins that swam parallel to the board walk, as we walked the duration of the 2 miles. It was almost as if they were participating in their own way.

Did I mention how beautiful this morning was??

Cuyler, showing support to his buddy, Julian. Thanks Holt's for coming walk!

Boo boo Braeden, also showing support. Thank you Brown's for coming walk with our team!

The girls! Kristen and Trevor came as well. :)

What a awesome turn out!

:) excited about walking behind the horses. Yeah, until they started pooping every where..LOL

what a cute kid, i know! ;)

I am so thankful to everyone who came out, or donated. We are very excited to walk our next walk in New Orleans with our family and friends!

xoxo

surprise visitor...

Today Julian and myself slept in a good bit. The sky has been covered by a dark blanket of clouds which meant no sunshine in our bedrooms! It was pleasant to sleep in a bit, and even more pleasant to get a call from Josh around 9:10 saying he was coming home for a little bit. :)
Josh got to spend about a hour home with Julian and I, before returning to work. It was a surprise visit, but little did we know.. it was not going to be the only surprise visit of the morning.

As Josh walked out to the car and carried the trash can to the road, I got on my knee's next to Julian and opened the screen door, so we could wave bye bye to daddy, and blow him lots of kisses! Right as I opened the screen door, and glanced at our pumpkin's we had just set out the night before, and I noticed that we indeed have a visitor...

of course I ran to get my camera, and pointed our feather out to Josh before he got in the car to head back to work..

A smile was brought to each of our faces, in delight for such a simple sign we always look forward to getting.

I told Julian, " look juju bugg, Pawpaw Joe came to visit you!!", as I pointed out the feather held down by our front door rug..

He reached for it, and held is so delicately as if he understood exactly what I was telling him.

He and pawpaw even played hide and seek with me! Julian always goes around this tree in front our house and peeks around it waiting for me to jump out at him. He held on to his feather, not letting it slip for him grip as he played with me for a few short minutes before the rain began to come down.

we love our feathers, and surprise visits. It is a pure joy to have love ones who are not physically here with us, let us know they are with us, visiting us, and loving us.

Thank you Pawpaw Joe, for visiting today! :)

enjoy...xoxo

one heck of a day...

Today we woke up and got completely ready for church service.. i thought he looked so cute in his pink and brown. (real mean wear pink! )...

He was saying cheese so much for the camera...



that he then insisted on real cheese...



look at them big ole lips- haha



such a cute kid!!


This afternoon we made pumpkin sugar cookies..


Julian got to decorate his own cookie- and eat it too! :) yum!


mmm' oh yeah mommy! this is num num!


Final product!..




enjoy xoxo

pumpkin patch

A day it has been! Julian thought he would go with out napping today, so instead of sitting inside on a beautiful day, and fighting him to- we went out to get hair cuts, lunch and went to the pumpkin patch.

It is the same place we went last time- and I am amazed of how much my little man has grown, now that i am home and looking through the pictures from last year. He had so much fun at the fair/pumpkin patch. of course i took about 100 pictures, but here are some of my favorites after i played with the colors a little! :)

we were waiting for daddy to buy our tickets for the petting zoo! :)


They had so many things for kids to play on! playgrouns sets, and lots of blow up jumpers!


juju & his hero- walking the grounds of the huntsclub farm


There was a huge hay mountain.. Julian AND daddy had fun playing on it!












It's crazy-- my son is afraid of a teacut puppy not even 8 weeks old, but would feed a grown goat hay-- hahaha.


Even gave them his love!


Finally we made out way to pick out our pumpkins.. Julian claimed the big one-
he picked it out...


And even picked it up!!! he's very strong... he eats his weenies!


Picking out mommy's pumpkin...




and finally picking out Julian's...


and then daddy got some pics of me and my little guy..


he tried to pick one up,and broke a peice of the steam.. he was showing me what he had... and said " poo poo"


of course the stinker decided to smile in the picture i have the cheesest smile in!-- STINKER! :P



He wanted to ride the ferris wheel so badly. he kept pointing to it and saying " ohhhhh"


finally paying for our pumpkins and heading to the Brown's for some yummy dinner! :)

enjoy..xoxo