leaving for Tuscan

Thur. October 1st, we were up at the butt crack of dawn, 4 AM getting ready to leave for Tuscan. Our flight left Norfolk at 6:25. Great, Wonderful.. so we get to the airport, park, make it to our gate with time to eat breakfast.. board the plane, EVEN take off.. 30 mins into the flight, we get news that we lost all communication with the airport..so we had to turn around! after deboarding the plane, we sat in Norfolk Airport for 6 hours before they got us on another flight!!!!!!!!! Here are some pictures of Julian resting on Josh and I while waiting!

so after leaving Norfolk finally at 12:10 PM we flew to Atlanta, GA just to sit for another 5 long hours until our next flight would leave out at 7:10 for Tuscan. SOOO.. caught that flight.. and traveled 4 long hours to Tuscan and got their 10:30ish.. Mountain time. Great.. LONG FREAKIN DAY! But very glad to have made it safely!

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! :)