current yard pics

with getting hardly any rain this summer, we sure got some about 2 weeks ago. here is the growth of our plants since the rain (a before and after pics --





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new class

Daniel and I have signed up for Sacred Marriage, a bible study class up at church. so far its been awesome. we'll keep you posted on the progress ..

I'm still alive

Just wanted to let everyone know the julian clan is still alive. :) we do not have the internet at our house anymore (mainly one extra thing to save $ on that we don't really need). So i will be checking email and stuff probably once a week. I do have a funny story (and when i get the pictures loaded onto my computer I will post them on here).

Daniel mowed the lawn yesterday -- and the dogs decided to help. Well, in the end our dogs looked like they had green socks on! it was very funny. It was more noticeable on our little white dog, Snowball, rather than daisy. :) It was pretty funny. 

have a good week! 

New Lenses

So today I went and got new lenses for my glasses. I had my eyes tested back in may but was just now able to get the money together to get them. I usually have to go ever year to get them tested, (which is usually in november) but i got to go a little longer this time. And guess what .... my eyes actually got better. I'm going to say its b/c i have graduated and no longer have my eyes in a book most nights studying/straining my eyes. But it's also weird b/c  I sit at a computer all day for work so i would think that that would strain them even worse. But who knows. 

So we went to the mall, and we ordered the lenses and they said it would take about an hr. And then they took my glasses! So for an hr Daniel and I walked around the mall. Now I'm not totally blind, but things were pretty fuzzy.  I probably looked dumb looking at things b/c everything i looked at I had to hold up to my face so I could see it. Plus if anyone I knew walked by, I wouldn't have been able to know who it was. Luckily daniel tried his best to let me know if he saw anyone we knew before we got to them and said hi. 

After our hr was up we went to get my glasses back. they adjusted them and cleaned them and thought we were good to go. we got out to the car and i realized that my lenses had a scratch on them. soooo ... we went back and dropped them off again and they said they would get a new lens and that the machine probably scratched them as they were putting them in. 

By this point daniel and i were sick of the mall so we went over to academy. we were only there about 10 min when the glasses place called me back. they had put the old lens in instead of the new one! Daniel and I had a good chuckle and left academy and went and got my glasses (again). and this time it was done right! :)  So I am now able to see clearly and I am glad. :) 

finally!!

it finally rained!! yay!! i don't think it's rained for at least 3 weeks, so this is nice! My "drought resistant" plants were started to look like they needed water! I guess I would be too if it had been 100 the past week with no rain. 

oh well.

yay for rain!

fun at the gun range

I feel weird for saying this, but our church had a father and son shoot out day at the gun range today. And even though daniel and I do not have any children, we do own 2 guns and wanted to go shoot, and they said we were more than welcome to come out. I haven't shot in a while, and I did have fun. I'm really glad I have never had to use the gun for home protection (which is why we have them in the first place). Here are some pics:

An awesome shot that daniel took of me shooting. if you look closely you can see the clip flying out. 

Sorry this and a couple of others are sideways -- but this is Ryan. 

and this is DJ

Daniel is waiting patiently for his turn. 

Kenny and his son Josh (who didn't seem to interested in shooting) 

Jayme and his daughter Hailey.

Kert, watching Matt and Kert's brother. 

Kert showing everyone how its done. :) 

allergies, allergies, allergies

Well, my whole life I have struggled on and off with my allergies. In the past year or two  it just seemed to get worse. There were two weeks last month that I just couldn't really do anything. I was just so exhausted. Thursday I went and got my allergies tested. I'm pretty much allergic to every type of tree, grass, weed that is native to texas (also, house dust/mites) -- but i'm not allergic to any food or my 2 dogs. :) So I started to get allergy shots this week. My first one was yesterday, and I feel a little bit better. I know that I will have to go a couple of more times for the effect to really take place. Also they put me on clarinex d and some nose spray stuff to take as well. hopefully as I get more of the shots, I will have to take those less and less.  If anyone has any helpful suggestions on allergies, please let me know. Today I will be cleaning my house from top to bottom and hopefully that will help as well.