Uploading Made Easy...er

Yay! I have found an easier (slightly) and faster (much) way to upload my pictures. Maybe I'll be able to post a few more in the future!

Also, check out the slideshow on the side. It has all the pictures posted to date, plus a few. Wish I could find a way to make it bigger, but it will do for now.

Hope you enjoy it!

New House

Flowers for Mommy

Laughing with Daddy

It's Potty Time!

Yesterday we started trying out the new potty...we discovered that it is great fun to drag it around the house (when mommy's NOT looking), it is also fun to get washcloths out and 'wash' it, and, best of all, it's good for climbing on to get into things that don't belong to you!



Today, we tried using it for what it was meant to be used for...I'm sure you can figure out what that is without me telling you?



We started as soon as she got out of bed...she sat there...and sat there... and sat there...and nothing happened.



We tried again about an hour later (she was still dry). Nothing happened.



About an hour after that, I was going to get in the bathtub and she wanted to try again (still dry). She sat there for a bit and was getting kind of restless, when all of the sudden she got a very strange look on her face and started trying to look in the potty. I checked - she went! Yay!! We screeched and clapped for a while!



After her nap, I put her back on it. She sat for a few minutes and went again!



Later when I was getting ready for church, she was in the bathroom with me and I asked her if she needed to go again, and she sat down on the potty (with the lid shut and fully clothed). I thought she was just playing, but when I checked a minute later, her diaper was wet! Ooooops! Missed that one!



For the rest of the day, she has come and gotten either me or Grandma when her diaper needed changed - usually as soon as she did it! (We went to church so we weren't where she could get to a potty) And, tonight before she went to bed, she went in the potty again!



Pretty good for the first day, wouldn't you say? :-)





Now tomorrow, she probably won't get within 10 feet of the thing!

This seems to be the story of my blog, but I can't seem to get any more pictures uploaded. Everytime they almost get finished, Juno has some kind of problem and shuts down on me. UGHH! I wish someone would get (affordable) high speed internet out here! All that is available is satellite and wireless, which both cost quite a bit more than we can currently afford. They have cable tv in our neighborhood, but for some reason we can't get cable internet, DSL, or anything! You'd think we live in the back woods somewhere instead of 10 miles from a fairly decent size city!

Forgive the ranting...malfunctioning internet at 2 am is not my favorite thing!

All that was to say --NO MORE PICTURES THIS TIME!

Old Time Is Still A'Flying...

And how! I can't believe it's been a month since I updated this thing!

We just got back from Camp on Saturday night, and we've been busy catching up all the little things that got behind with us being gone for a week. It's crazy how things that you don't pay that much attention to when you're home get so messed up when you're gone for a few days! Somehow we always end up with a pile of mail that threatens to obliterate the sun when we get home - and most of it is worthless...

We enjoyed Camp - at least, most of it! I think the first thing we all did when we got back was take a bath... We used to complain about our water, but after last week, our water is looking pretty good, even if it does leave white stuff on our dishes - at least it's not orange and smelly!
I especially enjoyed the services at camp. Yes, it's tiring sometimes, especially with trying to keep Juliana occupied, but it definitely refreshing for my soul to spend a few days with God! It's amazing how faithful He is to meet with us when we spend a little time seeking Him! I know I tend to get caught up with taking care of things that have to be done and a lot of times forget to spend as much time with Him as I should, and camp gives me a week when I can just ignore a lot of things and focus on Jesus.
Juliana enjoyed the time running around and playing with boys! In the space of a week, she had boys giving her flowers, trying to kiss her, and telling her she was cute! If she's alreay breaking hearts at 19 months, what is she going to be like at 16? Please, pray for us...
She's loved having her Aunt "Bebe" (Bethany) around. In her eyes, Beth hung the moon - She spoils her rotten is what she does, but it's only for a few weeks out of the years, so I guess we can live with it! :-) We actually kind of like having her around, too, although you wouldn't catch her 'Bubby' admitting it! (Brad)
Juju has also been loving her pool! She is always trying to get me to take her to the 'wahwy'. Unfortunately, the wahwie sometimes gets in her nose, eyes and ears...at which points she takes my hand and rubs her face with it and says "Mommy, wahwie nose!" (or whatever part is affected):-)
She learns so may new words every day! Tonight she was being grumpy, and I told her she needed to get a better attitude - and she nodded her head and said 'attitude'. At camp, we were pushing her in her stroller when a little boy got in fromt of her and she told him, plain as day, "Get out of the way!" Needless to say, she hasn't learned about manners yet!

Well, I've been trying to upload pictures, but the computer says it can't do it because I'm not coneected to the internet, which I obviously am, or I would not be typing this. Computers! You'll have to see pictures some other day!