this weekendd..

Family day Cruise!

Josh's ship invites family to come aboard the ship about once a year if we're lucky. I heard it was really fun but didnt get to do it last July because i was pregnant!
So there was a bus the left for little creek base and drove all the way up to Yorktown to meet the ship. Then we unloaded and found our loved ones. We got to go in and see and watch all the sailors do their jobs and enjoy the cruise, it was really cool i must admit. About 2 hours into the cruise i started getting sea sick! I could no believe it, never in a million years did i think it would effect me that bad. But after watching Forest Gump with Josh and eating lunch,(they bbqed) i felt much better. It was about a 8 hour cruise, i really enjoyed it.









mE & Lindsey

This is just a fraction of the pictures i took from that day!.. maybe ill load more later of the actual ship & things we did and saw.

Holts wedding /Fourth of July.

Our friends Josh an Betsy have been dating for about 3 or 4 years. They have been engaged for nearly 2 i believe. They have had to move their wedding date boo koo times but the event finally took place. It ws in Suffolk,VA at the Hilton Hotel.. which was very beautiful. Here are a few pictures from last night.

Cuteboy!

Mommy & daddy

Me tring to see what my shoes looked like with my dress! NO LONGER HAVE MY FLOOR LENGTH MIRROW, BOO!

car photoshoot..lol

HE just soo swweet i could eat him up!

Daddy tring to wear out Julian before the wedding, in hopes of him going to sleep & not being cranky! ( it worked)

Betsy and her Dad walking in.

Isnt her dress beautiful, he mom made it for her, i just think that is so special

Exchanging rings

Mr.& Mrs. Pretty Officer Joshua Tyler Holt!

Outside of the Hilton there was a fire work show! how cool right!? Reminded me so much of being back at the Bridge park in Louisiana!

Julian woke up right before the end... he wasnt afraid at all..just enjoyed it.

After back to the reception...
Sasha insisted.

Brandon and Lindsey Barney!

The bride(Betsy) & my cutie son dancing!

Sasha saw Julians sweet skills and wanted to dance with him as well!

Lindsay Spencer and Julian

My Girls(missing only two)! Every one warned me about having navy friends, but i think they kick are amazing. Me Lindsay Betsy Sasha and Lindsey. Lindsay and Betsy are both pregnant!

Girls PLUS the groom dancing.

lazy hang around day

Today was a really chill day for Julian and I! We woke around 7 and i made us some pancakes, Julian just loves pancakes, waffles and oatmeal..they are his favorite breakfast foods! and its been a while since i had pancake mix... so it was sorta a treat! :)

We played for a while, and i picked up around the kitchen a little bit-- Julian had his late morning nap then we went to the pool for a while. :) it was nice to be in the cool water.. my son is a water bug just like his daddy! & loves to be out doors like his mommy so the pool is a perfect outting!

didnt have a second set of hands to snap any pictures of usin the pool, so no pictures for tonight.
thats pretty much what our day consist of besides lots of cleaning and fussing. Julians front two teeth are almost out and oh golly he is just was not the happest camper today!

So he is down to sleep early tonight.

more tomorrow.

xoxo
jonnilin&julian

weekend..

ps. the blog before this one.. was actually a video taken on friday. My son refuses to use the walker we bought for him... he uses this toy haha.. :P oh well, at least hes using SOMETHING! Isnt my baby the cutesstt! :)

Ready for a laugh!?

Friday night Josh and myself were just sitting around.. and i was still craving seafood. Gosh i miss the food from Louisiana sooo much! So we ended up inviting some friends over for games.. but after talking bout my craving one of our friends asked if they would buy some crawfish would we help eat them!!!!!! ... Let me just say they DO NOT taste nearly as good as the ones we are use too, but it did take care of my craving.

a friend did the cooking with with the agreement of me cleaning the mess, so i was relaxing in the livingroom with some friends. I decided i wanted to see how things were coming along.. and i was taken back with laughter!!... so funny to see crawfish being boiled on my stove and a GUMBO ( from package ) being cooked in a sauce pan! HAHAHA

i must say, for the gumbo being a package thing not homemade it was pretty good.. wasnt as creamy as i like but still had pretty good flavor!

haha.. the way virginians boil crawfish! & make gumbo!

too funny.. i promised next time to make a homemade gumbo, i learned from my momma so i know its good! :)

but as far as crawfish..maybe next time we can have them shipped from Louisiana..so they can get a taste of the REAL STUFF! :P

Saturday we had a sunday school picnic.. it was so much fun..but oh soo HOT! i snapped a few pictures of our day..

this is a pictute of Josh, Brandon, Craig and Chris playing football while waiting for a open bbq pit!


Josh & Chris being big kids!


lol my goof

snuggle bunny was just waking up

Sunday i was being silly after church. I was taking my shirt off, Josh gave me a "ohh baby" look and asked what was i doing. and he got the picture and joined in.. ha

us being US!

we are silly.. :P

PROUDEST MOMMY!

THIS WEEK...

Monday was Josh's two baseball games, incase i havent already told you... hes playing on our church team!

We look forward to these outings..its tons for fun for Josh to play a sport he likes and have us there to support him.. i enjoy talking to my church friends, and Julian has many friends that come and play also! :) its just so much fun.

I had been forgetting my camera, but this Monday i made a point to grab it..

waiting to bat

playing second!

wishing he played as good as mommy..haha!:)

Julian and I went swing while daddy and the other teammates were warming up! Julian loved the swing.. at this park they had the baby swing so he got to sit in it alone! :) he laughed the whole time!

we had lots of fun!

SO a while back, long before Julian enjoyed playing with trucks and any other toy besides infant stuff.. i found a truck outside. It was near a dumpster and noone was around to claim it, it was in mint condition and would walk when you rolled it. I thought it was so cute so i picked it up brought it home, cleaned it really well, then gave it to Julian. Just recently he fell inlove with the truck, its now the first toy he grabs..and hes learning that if he pushes it, it rolls and talks!!

Tuesday, Julian had his nine month healthy baby check up! He weighed 23 lbs! hes such a chuck! and was in the 97% for his weight, height and lenght, so at least hes portional. The doctor isnt concerned at all, says hes healthy as can be and hitting all his milestones PLUS some! :) yay! I asked the doctor about his sLeep habits, considering my 9 month old had only slept through the night ONCE.. i wanted some advice. He asked me bout Julians nap schedule(which i thought was perfectly normal judging from the research i read and information i got from a book that a sleep specialist wrote, Healthy sleep, happy baby) 2 naps a day, one morning, one early afternoon both lasting about 2 hours each. The doctor informed me that i was giving him to much sleep time a day and thats why he was sleep waking at night.

Althought i thought the doctor was wrong(ofcourse) i was going to give it a try, im desperate at this point. He adviced one nap a day lasting no longer than 2 hours!!.. Yesterday was day one..and boy was it hard! Julian was cranky and wanted his nap..but i fought him and did everything in my power to keep him up and entertained!.. Nap time came and he went straight to sleep with out a peep! he slept just at 2 hours and woke in a good mood! :) prolly happy mommy finally let him go to sleep..haha. Then night time rolled around, he had dinner, bath bottle book and bed..like normal.. but unlike normal he didnt go straight to sleep... he cried for a good hour and a half..and i would go in to retuck him in and reasure him i love him.. and walk out. finally he conked out around 9, i watched the LSU game and hit the sack myself. i was expecting Ju to wake up soon, but i drifted off to sleep and next thing i knew it was 5:10 am and Julian had woke for the first time!!! he had done it, slept all night long!.. i was so happy! Usually in that time period i would have woken up 2 or 3 times...but i actually got 8 hours of sleep STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and more importantly, SO DID MY SON!.. :)

He ate his ba-ba..and went back to sleep til 830, man this is so wonderful, i pray this continues!!!

a pic of my angel sleeping..ps. julian loves this blanket.. he hugs it almost every night. THANKS MELISSA :)

mm' so peaceful!

xoxo jonniLin & juju