Growing into a family of FOUR!

After trying to conceive for what seems like a lifetime,(two years). Being Josh would work out to sea sometimes, our "trying" would be interrupted, plus a ectopic, left me battered and in a state of self pity. Three months before our move to Mississippi, I gave away ALL baby items. Bassinet, swing, clothes, bouncer, boppy pillow, ... etc. I kept EVERYTHING from Julian, in hopes of giving him a sibling close in age.

Not being in our new home exactly ONE month & FIVE days.. I found out! Had one sick night, plenty of sleepiness ,bloating and a late cycle..  Josh was totally convinced I was pregnant. Of course after so many months of not having that second line- or reading,'not pregnant' I had developed a burning hate for peeing on sticks. I had to bring him to work on Wed. Dec. 7th and on the way Josh told me to stop at CVS, to get bottled water & a pregnancy test. I did so, but since he was going out of town for three days, i secretly was going to still want for my period and prolong peeing on that damned thing.  He begged me to use the bathroom at his office( he knew it). However, im stubborn and was sure that i was NOT preggo. After dropping him off, and driving back home.. I had a very full bladder & since there was two in the pack i figured what the heck. So I did it...and there was a very clear- BEAUTIFUL, LONG AWAITED second pink line! I tossed Julian back in his carseat and hurried over to catch Josh before going out of town. His was so excited!!! but no so surprised since he had a feeling I was! Julian also seemed to know something. Days before I found out- I was cleaning the spare room, and making the bed with clean sheets. Julian walked in and asked me,

Julian: mommy, what you doing?

me: im making the bed for grandma to come visit. this will be her room while shes here.

julian: noooo.

me: yess...

julian: no mommy, this is brudders room.

^ never have we told him this room would ever be a baby room, much less a brothers room. Hmm? perhaps he knows im having a BOY??

Since this day, I have had two ultrasounds & heard the baby's heart beat! Josh & I are so happy with my new OBGYN & the hospital we will be delivering at, Biloxi Regional.

    Here is our little baebae. At this appointment it measured 8w3d(i believe) && the heart rate was in the 160s!

pumpkin patch 2011

Yesterday, October 16th,2011.. we spent the day at the Pumpkin patch!! It has changed so much over the years, but still was a complete blast! We are so very glad to be living closer to family, to be able to be involved in annual family events!

Julian wasnt in such a picture taking mood- but still..

My family :)

                                                  Julian and his Lev! //Lev & his shadow..lol

                                 Hot tail'n it to the pumpkins!

                                              He is just getting so big- i can not stand it :(

                                                   Daddy washing our pumpkins! Good Man he is!..

                                   && Phil & my uncle Joe doing the same...they are some good men too..;)

 After the pumpkin patch, we went to the park for a family picnic! it was such a lovely day out!

BOO!! this time last year... he was soo small...

Dear Julian,

PLease STOP growing up!

Your making your momma very sad!..

:)

<3 mom!

Enjoy Xoxo

busy, hectic, crazy life! forgive me for the neglect! :)

Reason for being so busy! we have been house searching for a good while now! And after putting a offer in one house- that was a short sale, got impatient!.. withdrew the offer..continued looking... until we found this! the perfect home! We are less than 1/2 mile for the gulf of mexico, in Ocean Springs, MS. Neighborhood, Gulf Park Estates...

I fell in love with this house before walking into it... and fell even more in love after seeing it in person! I couldnt wait to get Josh in to see it, so we could make a offer!

i love how cottage like it looks, and all the trees!

It's frustrating, because even though i've been to the house a hand full of times, i ALWAYS forget my camera. So im still left with the pictures that were on the real estate website. :( they just dont show everything.. ... BUT.. ill make do with what i have...

This is the kitchen, well a piece of it. And you can also see straight to the laundry room. and where the breakfast area is.

Another picture that just doesnt do justice! this is PART of the living room.

This is a tiny piece of the master! turns out... the master has a entire wall of windows! Two floor to ceiling, then sliding glass doors that go out into the back patio. It also has a very large master closet. It does need a little work(its a fanny mae) but on small things like updating fixtures.

extra bath room.

This room is Julians room.

Its such a good size. will easily fit his dresser, full size bed, night stand and train table! And the closets are over sized. they are very deep and long. Not the typical walk in but large enough that they have lighting, so you can see to the far ends.

Spare room

Ill be putting a small bed in here, as well as our computer desk. The closet in this room will be my scrapbooking 'nook'.

only part of the back yard. we have a large screened in back patio, that the french doors from our formal dinning open to, as well as the sliding glass doors in our master open up to as well. The far door on the right is the muddroom/laundry room.



The other reason for my busy body...

Julian's birthday!

It was a blast, but felt so rushed with everything else going on!

kiddo's bobbing for apples!

juju playing trains, OF course!

Last night as i look for pictures of Julians party.. i felt like the worse mom every! The normal camera happy, mommarottiz i am.. i had a whopping 6 pictures from the entire party/birthday! :( I had to go through all the videos on my video recorder in order to take snap shots of juju close up! so excuse the crappy quality :( my fault.

But thats not the end of it! since then, Julian has had another birthday party, my dad has been diagnosed with cancer and sent home on hospice, my grandfather has been in the hospital with heart trouble etcetcetc. So please understand I have not taken many pictures, nor have I had any time to do anything extra. i will do my best to start taking more pictures and bloggin again! :) thank you all for your prayers, and your patience!

Enjoy XOxo

shoooo fly!!!!

well, Julian is officially a hurricane survivor! He went through his first hurricane this week, hurricane Irene.
It was a beautiful day, the day before we got hit.. so we spent it outside, expecting to be cooped up for a few days prior to the dead-on hit.

oh course Josh had the video camera in hand, recording everything pre storm-during storm and post storm!

:) pretty flipping attractive if i say so myself :) ;)

^ this little guy has been lingering around the apartment for days now. i think he escaped from the botanical gardens right down the street. ... i could be totally wrong haha.

Irene came, and went, leaving minor damages. our street flooded again but this go round we were prepared and did not get water inside our cars! we only lost power for a few hours, and had just ONE scare. We rescued two baby squirrels(Chipper & Irene). They were about 4 weeks old, and had fallin out of a tree. We brought them to a rescue lady the day after the storm so they could receive proper care.

&& as many of you know, we are in the home stretch of our life in Virginia!!! We are leaving here on Thursday, early morning to drive to New Orleans!! Things has been a little insane with packing, saying goodbyes, trying to spend time with friends..etcetcetc. We also applied for a home loan!!! We are looking to buy a house along the Mississippi coast, near Josh's new duty station. We should be hearing back about that real soon!:)

and on to...today!

Of course I am packing, packing, packing & cleaning my tail off. And i hear Julian yell..."SHOO FLY!"...(((((WWAAACCCKKKK!!!)))) GOT EM MOMMY! " i go in to find Julian butt naked, standing on his dresser, with the fly swatter... i thought it was too cute, not to take pictures. So for all you people who are offended by little butts- ya might want to stop looking at my blog-NOW!

^check out those tan lines!!!

To freakin cute not to post! and guess what?... HE REALLY KILLED A FLY!

Changing by the second...

my boy & his trains!
ah the simple life.

Julian's first love... Thomas the Train & friends

Julian singing Veggie Tales...

enjoy xoxo