A new look

I will be working for the next few days on giving our family blog a new look. So keep checking back and I hope I get it done by Friday with LOTS of Julian Family News! Have a blessed week

All is well

Sorry that I have not posted in a couple of days. All is well here! Just enjoying the Wii Santa gave our family. We also have been visting with Bill and June bewteen our Wii time. I will update everyone on our Christmas after Robert returns back to work. I just realize I need to change my wall-paper on me Makes me sad . Later!

Christmas Eve is here!

The kids are all excited for Santa's arrival. Robert's brother, Bill and his wife June arrived in Mooresville.My nephew who is in the Army made it last night with his girlfriend Lisa. ( Hum I think we might have a new Julian by next Christmas. Welcome to the family Lisa)) . My house is looking pretty presentable thanks to my greatest husband who is vacuuming.The present are wrapped. I made ONE last batch of my famous cranberry, white chocolate cookies. We are headed soon to a Christmas Eve service at the Cove Church. Did you know Christmas can happen 365 days of the year? One very easy way! Invite Jesus Christ in your life and heart!Do it today! This is what God's wants for Christmas is YOU! Praying you are blessed as you joyfully welcome Christ into your homes and hearts. Merry Christmas Love From Robert Teri Morgan Jason Allyson Caroline Elijah!

WASH!

I got to take a break today from Christmas fun and wash clothes! If I don't undies will be on Santa's list for drop-off Wednesday night! Robert just left for Hanes Mall in Winston NC with 60 teenagers! I think Hanes Mall at Christmas sounds more terrifying than 60 teens! Allyson's youth group at our Church goes every year with our youth pastor. Robert does not have the opportunity much to hang with our youth so he volunteered to go chaperon. Tonight we are going too see Bolt and take the kids out to Pizza Hut! So I will get a break from the CLOTHES!

Christmas Elves at the Julian's House

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Santa, Gingerbread Houses and Fun!

Thursday night we headed out too see Santa at Concord Mills. There is the coolest Santa at Bass Pro shop. He really takes the time to talk to the kids. He always ask the kids "Tell Santa who has a Birthday at Christmas". Kudos to Bass Pro shop for keeping CHRIST in Christmas. We also had a delicious meal at Olive Garden before hand. Robert's parents Barret ( Papaw)and Billie ( Nanny) went with us , which was a extra treat to our kids and us too!! Friday the kids got out for Christmas Break! YAHOO! I love having my babies home with me! Last night I went with Allyson and 70 other youth to the Church for a Christmas Party for our Youth Group. They had Rice Fun catered in and it was delicious. They headed out on TWO buses for lights and Laser Tag in Charlotte. I did not go with them . One reason I would probably kill myself trying to play Laser Tag and the second reason would be they did not get in until 3:30 AM! Too late for this Momma! I had fun serving dinner with a BUNCH of awesome Youth Kids! How blessed my daughter is too be part of a great youth ministry! Today we have been just hanging here at the house. I made white chocolate cranberry cookies.. MELT IN YOUR MOUTH! Later on Robert, kids and I made a Gingerbread house and Ginger Bread Christmas Tree! MESSY BUT we are making memories for our kids! They will forget someday when they are older what Santa brought but they will never forget Mommy, Daddy, and their home covered in Gingerbread House icing. A few picture for your pleasure!

Sneaky Husband

Last night Robert said look at all those beautifully wrap gifts. I wanted to say YES HONEY I wrapped them all. I looked down and under the tree was a package wrapped by a professional wrapper and it had my name on it. The wrapper was my husband Robert who wraps better than the ladies at Belks ! My brother-in law came home from the hospital yesterday. Please continue to pray for him and June. He has a long road ahead of him through his recovery. Hopefully he will be home for good until his next surgery. I took KFC too Allyson's class party yesterday at school. She even invited me to stay. The young people in her class( 12th) are the most polite kids and all of them made me feel welcome. Allyson has only 9 seniors in her class and they are super close! Here is a awesome and powerful song and video . Please take the time to watch it. Jesus is coming back and soon! Let me ask you a personal question "Are you sleeping"????

LOOK at OUR LIGHTS

Enjoy! Actually we are dreaming it was our lights! COOL HUH?

Plays, Birthdays and more

Don't you hate to hear I have bad news and good news. Bad News! Robert's brother Bill after getting out of the hospital this past Wednesday had to go back Saturday morning. We think he got dehydrated. He is very discourage and does not see the end of the tunnel. Who can blame the poor guy. He was there before 43 days. We are praying that this time he will be there just a couple of days. Good News! Today is Bill Birthday. Happy 51 Bill. My kids were in two Christmas Plays this weekend at our Church. Elijah said never again. He hated wearing a tie, tucking his shirt in and did he not like to sing. He is a typically boy ;-) Caroline would had fun but would had enjoyed more if she had participated in the drama part. We still have one more Christmas play Monday tomorrow night at their school. Elijah will not be happy because he will have to tuck his shirt in, put on a tie and sing again Allyson my 17 yr old daughter went out Fri night and enjoyed the Twilight movie. It really is a teen chick flick. But I did enjoy spending time with her.

DONE!

Allyson has a research paper due today. She has been working hard on it for weeks. The subject she picked was not a easy subject to do research on. She ended up picking The International Mission Board. She found with help from our pastor ONE older written book and some info on the web and that was it! Last night after her game she came home to finish it up. She asked me to edited the paper for her. So I spent about a hr going over it. She lacked one more page after I edited the paper ( required nine pages). I helped her find some more filler info and the paper was finally finished! Poor girl was stressed out!!! Before she closed the paper she asked us about saving the paper. We told her if the save box did not come up she was OK. I had actually saved it MANY times as I edited it. We are not sure what she did but we could NEVER find her saved report on the laptop. Robert searched through so many files. Allyson of course was crushed and upset. So we started all over again. We still had her original paper that I edited from. It took ME and her two more hrs to edited her paper. She then spent even more time filling it back it with more info. She was very tired this morning and discouraged. We could had spent many more hrs on this paper last night but we were both tired. I actually went to bed and she worked more on it. I told her this morning not to stress out about her grade. She worked hard and even learned more about the International Mission Board. That was her goal to learn more about ( IBM) because it is her dream to work there someday! I am sure why your asking why I wrote about this on our family blog. I did not handle what happen last night very well as a parent. She and I ended up fussing the whole time while we worked on the paper. I did apologize this morning. I really messed up again as a parent of a teen. I could not ask for a better teen! There are many teens that are making unwise choices for their lives . Allyson loves our savior and has never gave us any serious problems. We actually get many compliments on her daughter! So Mom's and Dad's pick your battle wisely. Don't make the mistake I did last night. PS. She hugged me in the van this morning and said that is OK Mom I love you and thanks for your help last night. Thanks Allyson for loving me through my unwise choices