all aboardd!

Would not say I am all aboard this polar express.. I am plum worn out and it's not yet Christmas! We will be celebrating Christmas eve tomorrow( 23) and Christmas day on the 24th, due to Josh having to work.

The presents have been flowing in non stop, today Julian got presents from his Aunt Shelby.. and he was in deed, all aboard!

a Thomas Powerwheel is right up his ally, with matching hat, and still a train whistle in route!

My neighbors probably think we are rich, with all the stops fedex and UPS have been doing at our house this last month!!! :P

All these new toys mean alot less space around our house, I feel like we are going to bust at the seems. Today I worked on weeding through old toys, and organizing Julian's bedroom to be more playtime friendly, in hopes of him spending some time up stairs playing toys.

Before I wrap up this post, I must show you...

oh come on, you've seen this before..... think... yup.. The first Toy Story! Julian was playing today while I was preparing lunch. When I came out I could barely believe he was coping what he saw on the movie! You know, when the neighbor(Sid) is about to blow up Buzz with Fire works and has Woody on the Grill!

ah ha- now you remember! I was so amazed.. :P

anyways, that's all for now, more later tonight. Time for this momma to play CATCH UP on blogging!

let it snow, let it snow, let it snooww!

Family and Friends,

I know I have not done the best job keeping you all updated on our life up here. Truthfully, the holidays has consumed us! Josh is working on the ship daily, and having to stay over night every other night. As well as, lots of last minute shopping, Christmas events/preparing.

As most of you know and already saw, we got a good bit of snow AGAIN a few days ago! about 3-5 inches, but plenty enough for a bunch of coon asses! we had such a blast!

a lil bit of video Josh got of all of us playing in the snow! It was soooooo much fun!

enjoy Xoxo

Christmas Cookies...

We are a wee early, but i was excited to try to make Rudolph Cookies. So I only made 12 instead of 24(we'll make the rest on Christmas Eve).

Julian was mightly excited about the coocoo's.

and they were pretty yummy too! :) that's all for a update...

Visiting Santa

OKkay.. So for starters, a few weeks ago, I got this app for Julian on my phone, 'talking Santa'. (He likes all the apps that repeat) I figured this would be a good way to introduce ole' St. Nick, and let Julian enjoy the image, and idea before throwing him in some weird old man's lap. haha
Julian played with this app just about daily, even if it was only for a few minutes. I continued to tell him, "that's Santa, he brings presents!" Also, in the days before bringing Julian to see Santa, each night we watched Christmas cartoon's that had the Big guy in it.. which softened the blow as well...

A few days ago Julian started asking for what sounded like, NANA(banana). We were clean out and he knew it, I couldn't understand why he kept crying for it. hm... Well, Last night we brought him to the mall to see Santa. As you stand in line waiting, they give you these picture bundles to choose from, which aren't cheap at all. Josh was a little anxious thinking Julian would throw a fit. In fact, at one point he said, " who hangs pictures of their kid crying on Santa?" I replied, " Marsha Barr!!" It was cool because it was the second time she was brought to my memory in less than 2 hours! How i miss that woman. Any case, I was pretty confident that he would do wonderful, so I talked him into at least buying ONE 5X7. We came up to being next in line, and I got a little worried as the kids in front of us threw fits, kicking, laying on the ground- the whole nine yards. I didn't want Julian to get the impression that it was scary, or what not. HA- nott. Julian was itching to fun to "Anta"- there it was.. what sounded like "nana".. that he had been crying for! AHh- DUH JONNILIN, he wanted SANTA!!!!!
So I walked Julian up to the chair, and Josh went stand near the camera thinking he would have to jump and act crazy to get Julian to smile! NOT- AGAIN... Julian gave "Anta" a high five, huge hug, and sat their laughing. He oh, so gently touched his white beard, and when Santa asked what he wanted for Christmas, he told him, cars and wood. :)
As Josh and I stood in line, so impressed with Julian's behavior I told Julian, " Wavy bye to Santa, tell him see you later!!".. Julian poked out his big bottom lip, and started to pout. My child did not want to leave him! So dang on SWEET, made my heart melt right there. So this morning the picture is on our fridge, and as Julian passes he sees and points, " Anta"
:) what a good experience!

Look how much our baby has grown since last year! And last year- we had to sit in the picture.. he wasn't so fond of Santa then!


enjoy!! :) xoxo

Winter Wonderland!!!

Winter Wonderland at it's finest!!! The snow was falling, and continues to fall for hours. It was a the fluffy white snow you dream of and imagine being at the North Pole.

Julian walked out the back door, and yelled at the top of his small lungs, " ICCCEEE MOMMY!!!" he took off running, trying to hold his balance on the sleek frozen blades of grass that were crunching under his firefighter boots.

Of course he planted his face in the iccey, white, fluffy, magical snow.

And judging by the face he made when he came up, it is safe to assume it did not taste as he expected. :)

Of course that did not slow down my little Danford boy. He shoveled the snow into his mouth by the handful, trying his hardest to now drop a single flake.

To mix things up, he did his own thing by sliding down the freezing slide on his back..

to find it was equally as cold on his back and butt.

Mawmaw insisted we build a snowman regardless to how much snow was outside... so we came in to defrost, and gather materials to make the basic, eyes, noses, buttons arms.. you know, the usual. But unfortunately that did not work out as planned. My fingers were beyond frozen when it came time to place all those materials in place. It did not work out as planned, so we went the easy route. I came in to dig in Julians toy box for Mr. Potato head body parts...

Julian actually helped me to build out 5-7inch tall snowman!

Oh and let us not forget, every snowman needs a hat right???

What other hat but a woody hat....

Ahhh.. there we go! Perect!! A Woody snowman!!!

Sadly, it was after Julians nap time.. and he pitched the biggest fit about leaving Woody and his hat outside in the snow. Poor guy did not understand so he stood at the living room, and later bedroom window..pointing and crying for his "ICE WOOD". hahaha, That kid comes up with some stuff!!

After another 4 hours so snow since these pictures were posted, its safe to say we are frozen, and plum worn out! We have enjoyed this blissful day!!

Enjoy the post! xoxo