pictureless post!

HI friends!

it has been a muggy week, not too much sleep going on for me as of late!
But oh what fun we've had, and i havent been taking pictures, I've been giving myself a break!
{{Gasp}}
what? you ask.. yeah, everyone needs a little vaca from some things in life so me, i put my camera up on the
shelf and just relish in, oh maive's doing something cute, or sir-curls-alot has chocolate ice cream all over his chin,
guess we'll have to call him captain-curls-alot, ARG.. nope
i've been resisting the urge to grab and snap!
giving the old rebel a little siesta so she can work her some love and magic on saturday
when our friend Shawn and maria will be walking down that isle known as Mr. & Mrs. Shawn Leonard!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWW!!!!! 'D
and my friend Theresa will be accompanying me on the trip, partner in crime photog!
SO excited we're going to have a blast!
I'm thinking, there will be 2 or three posts.. outtakes, goofyness.. you get the picture, and of course the gorgeous & handsome bride and groom!
So yes, some things I want to write down, about a quarter of them I already forgot!
< knock-knock> COME ON BRAIN!
1.) Maive you are so darn cute when you and Aidan play cars; Aidan is "VRUUUM, VROOOMING away, and then they're you are,
swinging your little arm to and fro saying "shooooz shooooz" I love it.
2.) Aiva has been asking alot of questions about GOD, Heaven, Jesus, praying and everything beyond.
It amazes me and I love it, however she is so young that I struggle a tad with explaing things in a simple form in which her little
loving heart can grasp.. I always end up pulling through, and she is
satisfied, dimpled and hugs me with a smile!

3.) Maivey says "Tank you, biss you { bless you} here you go and just so much more, she's just been exploding with words!
i love her little voice, atleast when she is not on the warpath screaming redheaded banshee.. She is getting really good at singing her favorite song.
It has gone from tweego tweego, to "tweeenkle tweeeenkle, wittle, dar" OH I LOVE IT!

4.) Aidan too, has been expressing himself and finding words with ease. I think I can finally say to you that his speech is really starting to "flow"?
He even starting singing " OH mr sun, sun, mr golden sun.. please shine down on me" the other day, and I was astounded because back in the summer '06
( he was nearly a year) until spring 07 Aiva and I were always singing this.
And we really havent... so when he started singing it out of the blue, it made me grin so big.
There he was sitting on the sidewalk swiping the chalk in his little Aidan world and busted out in song. Aiva of coursed recognized the
song and joined in responding with, "remember when we used to sing that mama?"
Why did we stop? I dont know.. I was wondering why too.. so now we are again.
well, i think it's all I am going to write now, gotta go do some reading and hopefully accomplish one chapter without falling asleep!
I love you, even if I dont know you, i want you to feel some love, so i'm sending some warm thoughts in internet energy love.
Rock what the good Lord gave you,
Julie G

Please take some time and pray!

In exactly one week...

This BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY...

will be walking down the isle to the one she loves most.
Their love is so contagious.
They are very affectionate, and in the new love phase,
giggling, poking at each other, cracking jokes, stealing moments...
I cannot wait to be blessed in spending the day with them, I hope to cherish and capture the day as it unfolds, okay..
I am getting way jazzed right now!
ahhh 7 days!!
A pre-congrats to you guys!
We so value your friendship, how loving you are to each other, and how it pours out on us when you visit!
The kids's adore you and I'm thinking that you are pretty much adopted into our family! Aiva is always asking me; " When is Maria coming again?" "can we go see her" " can she be my sister too! "
well, Aiva in a way she is!!
No worries Shawn, they love you too!
Enjoy these pictures, I am going to go mop the floor, and pace around the house because of my excitement, and all these ideas and such just racing through my mind!







P.S. Aidan adores the new puppy you got him
( but totally didnt have to! )
and he and Maive occasionally fight over it. We love the "new addition!" See you saturday!

Mi Familia

Boy, what a bunch of winners, eh?
Joking!
I was so happy to be able to get my brother's family, and my sister and her son and my family all together.
We had yummy marinated chicken, Dawn's potato salad, and Crystal brought corn on the cobb! It was so very yummy.
Shawn and I had spent the sunny day digging three more post holes for the fence and put two panels up, then we mowed and cleaned, and of course juggled the kids
. By the time everyone got here though, it started raining.
Bummer.
But we still had fun, the kids danced and played hide N seek.
and as you'll see I'm one of those horrible mom's that actually lets her kids jump
on the couch. call social services!
Come on people, it was raining out.. 6 kids? and we danced as you'll see..
you'll also see that my sister and I got some time to get some quick pictures,
across the street and I GOT SOAKED!









Noah & Aidan were breakdancing!



My brother does an awesome Yoda impersonation and pretty much talked like that way
throughout dinner, the kids laughed alot, and as always so do I. " Eat your corn, you must...." You dont have to tell Maive twice!!

Dawn & Noah















Happy Weekend!
Hooray!

A new friend!

I think I just made one!
maybe unbeknownst to her!
awww.. silly happiness..over here!

'o)
I love blogs, and people! and girl-stuff.

the crunching under foot.

"Roseeta" will be making her monthly uninvited appearance very soon and I am so determined to just defy all that intales. I become the most miserable creature you could meet.
Stick me under the bridge and call me a troll.
I feel like just burrittoing myself up and going to bed for 5 days, I dont want to be talked to, I dont want to talk,
snuggle, dont touch me, and I am a horrible whiner if I do venture into social civilization.
I am a hermit.
Then Roseeta starts packing up to leave again and Julie,mom.wife.photographer.homemaker.giverofhugs
and all that includes the mothering delights returns.
NO.
This will not be the miserable Julie that will wake up in the morning
and suddenly be kidnapped. I will wake up that morning, and have defiant joy, no matter how tired,
headachey, impatient, irritable, or wiped out I am..
I will semi-bounce from bed, and embrace the and my three blessings.
I promise!
I will!
OK so yeah, as you can tell I didnt have anything too important to write to you about, I'm just not tired, and anxious for that time of the month.
I HATE IT.
I just hate how i feel for like 12 days..
But, to escape into the oncoming pictures.
OH I LOVE IT. Makes me want to pick up Emerson's writings.
I just love the woods. and water.
I love how when you go for a hike, suddenly you feel like you could be the only one for miles, the world seems so clean and fresh and all
is right and well with it.
I am an odd one and I just feel so safe in the woods, and at home.
I know I probably shouldnt, with bear, mountain lion, coyotes and other creature
about, but that never worries me.
I just love how your canopied in, all these trees around you,
you stop look up and it's an unending sky of green leaves waving hello at you.
The sky peak-a-booing you here and there.
its like the largest roof you could have over your head. What are you chicken little,
"the sky is falling?" NO, it's not like that, maybe a little of my Ithacan roots.. maybe psychologically I feel shielded from pollution?
Well, anyways. I love the quiet time, and how close i can feel to God,
how much adoration wells up in my little beating heart.
The smell of the pines, trees, moist grown,
the crunching underfoot, the trickling sounds of the creek.
MMMMMmmm.. i think this is my happy place. I'll most likely be returning here in a few days, my escape and refreshment.
Defiant JOY!

Adventures with the G5 & the C3!

Hello Dear friends!

I promise I'll be posting some love, and photo love very soon!
We've been having a blast with my sister visiting from Florida, and all
the summer fun that keeps you occupied with summers many joys!


Been making alot of changes in our lives, marriage, how our home is functioning.
Alot of hard decisions. Thankful we're not going it alone.
Lots of opposition but some support as well!
Yikes right?

I'll be be back soon!












We dare you to kiss the frog Uncle Matt!



No frogs were hurt in the taking of these photos.