Happy Birthday Daddy!!







Julia loves the pool!


Trying to be just like Mama.

Playing in the big float with Daddy.










August is such a busy month for us! Starts off with Julia's bday, in the middle of the month is our anniversary and at the end we celebrate Daddy's birthday. Hectic but it's all good. :)

We started off this morning by taking Ray out to breakfast as we were certain that if waited for dinner it wouldn't happen. Good thing we did, at 6 the phone rang and he's off to work again. So I guess we played that right. The rest of the day we had a pretty lazy day and as you can see spent some time in the pool. Julia didn't want her float anymore, she wanted mine! When we let her have it, under very close supervision of course, it almost worked like a small pool for her in the big pool. She was loving it. As you can probably tell.

We then made a quick run to Walmart (what a nightmare! it was packed!) for some water and what not, came home, got dinner and were just cutting cake when the service call came in. All in all not a bad day though and hopefully he won't have to work too late.

Julia's 2 Year Old Portraits! Well finally after correcting an error, Julia's portraits were available online this morning!! She did so well at the studio having them done and I am very happy with them!! Enjoy!

Julia's 2 yr dr appt

Julia had a wonderful visit with Dr. G today. She was pronounced very healthy and right on target developmentally for a 2 year old. Though Dr. G was concerned that she may be a bit too trusting, I assured her that in truth she is definitely not. There are a few rare people that Julia will go to so willingly and thankfully Dr. G is one of them! We missed out on shots today because the base was all out of what she needed so we'll have to go back up in a few days and try that again. I don't think Julia was upset at all that she couldn't have them today. ;)

She weighed in at 26.3 lbs (25percentile) and they said 34 and 3/4" tall however she was LEANING against the wall not standing up straight at all, so I believe that's 35", I couldn't believe the tech didn't straighten her or give me the chance to. But safe to say 35" and 75th percentile for height. We are all agreed that regardless she's very tall.

Dr. G is convinced that Julia will do well in school and be anything she wants to be, as are we :) She was impressed with how much focus Julia has when checking out something new, and with how mellow she was. She kept saying "not hyper at all" nope, active when she wants to be but definitely not hyper. All in all a good visit :)

Princess Julia at her Party








Julia's birthday party was yesterday at Chuck E Cheese. While I had to miss it being sick, I've managed to get every detail out of Daddy that I can! And THANKFULLY Ms. Debra was in town and was a HUGE help and life saver!!! She took all the pictures and helped Daddy at the party. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Julia truly has a very special Godmother to drive all the way from South Carolina with her grand kids to spend a few days with us and Julia!! We love you!!!

So I'm told that her party went very well, the hostess took wonderful care of everything at the party, and most importantly, Julia and her friends had a good time. We really do have some great friends here in Texas, and while we are ready to move on to a new area (whenever the Air Force decides to let us!) we will be sad to say good bye to many of them.

Julia's cake was just beautiful! We got it at Albertson's and they did a wonderful job!! I guess the girls at the bakery didn't even want to give back her picture! LOL. What can I say?? Julia has that affect on people! She's beautiful inside and out. :)

There are lots more pictures at Dropshots of her and her friends having fun at the party. Be sure to check them out!

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Who cares about candles when there's icing?? LOL. Julia definitely enjoyed our little family celebration last night. Still not crazy about getting it on her fingers but she sure was quick to take her fork and dig in!

Happy Birthday Julia!!

I can barely believe that my baby is 2 today. Where did the year go?? She's grown so much this year and not just physically. We have had the privilege and honor of watching her take her first steps, wiping her tears and cleaning scrapes, hearing her laugh and everything in between. I can't even find the words for the last year. I never cease to be amazed at how much a 2 year old learns and the rate at which they do it. And Julia amazes me more every day.

I can't help but think of her birth mother today and wonder if she's thinking of Julia. And I pray and wonder if I'll ever have the right words to answer Julia's questions as she gets older. We know by her note, the clothes and diapers that were left with her and even by where she was found that she cared enough for her to put her in a place that she would be quickly found and taken care of. I can't even imagine those moments for her. I pray that she knows somehow that Julia is happy, loved and well in the world, for without her we would not have Julia, and there can be no doubt that we were meant to have Julia.

As mentioned our little Princess turns 2 today, and "princess" she is, to the point that her Daddy and I even caught her muttering "Princess" in her sleep the other night. A tad bit spoiled you say?? likely, but it was still very cute. lol. She's already received a couple of her birthday presents. Her Poppa and Nai-Nai got her a kitchen set and she busted us putting it together Sunday night. Good thing is we know it was an instant hit, she played with it the entire time we were putting it together and until bed time that night and quite a bit every day since. :) So thank you Poppa and Nai-Nai. We also picked her up a table and chairs to go with it and she is quite funny playing pretend.

Debra and Karen and Kasey are coming in from South Carolina this evening so we'll have cake and ice cream and the rest of her family birthday presents then. We are having her birthday party with friends at Chuck E Cheese Saturday afternoon. So as there are no new pictures right this moment, I just knew it was the best time that I was going to have to get my thoughts down, I will I'm sure have lots of pictures throughout the week and this weekend to post for you all. So be checking back.