We had such a great weekend! The weather was just absolutely breathtaking. I LOVE weather like this.
Beautiful blue skies, high 70's, breezy, just gorgeous. The Azalea Festival was this weekend --- this is the biggest festival of the year for Wilmington, but it's the festival we never seem to make it to! We really didn't make it again this year. Raymond and I still are a little under the weather so we only went to watch the parade - and we were so late we never got close enough - so instead we just walked along the streets (and streets and streets) of vendors at the street fair. We had to park so far away and while walking we came along the neatest little street that we had not seen before. I loved the houses on this street so took some pictures to post. I was so upset I didn't have my regular camera, so I had to use my camera phone! I absolutely just love porches 
- can you tell!? :) and flowers -- and I love history! Most of the houses I took pictures of have those black plaques on the front from the historical foundation stating when they were built and their historical significance - really cool stuff!!! :) Sorry again the pictures aren't great - it's hard to push a stroller, take pictures and try to get good images on a dinky shakey camera phone! :)
Other than that we just hung at the beach cottage with Brandon's side of the family. Then had a great service at church as usual. I love Sundays. I will write another deeper post tomorrow or sometime this week about my thoughts after church today.and as far as other things that went on this weekend..... a special Raymond thing is that tonight, while daddy and him were reading before bed, they were just doing the usual point and say game. Raymond loves books and just loves to point at the pictures and say bear, truck, red, dog, etc. etc. etc. I have been working on letters in the past week with him --- for right now only M for mama D for dada and R for Raymond....but tonight Brandon said that Raymond out of nowhere pointed to the big A on one of the pages and said "A!" Brandon was so excited. He wanted to make sure he heard him right and had him do it again and again. And then he called me in there and did it for mama and I was just so so excited! It's like he never ceases to amaze me. I really think he knows so so so much more than we realize! I don't even remember teaching him A.
I said well let's do more and I got the D, M and R blocks - and he just looked at me and laughed. I could tell he knew what each was, but he was going to play on his own time. He didn't want to work on demand like that haha. It was just such an awesome thing to see him shout the A though.... because of the ear problems he had, I am always worried that he will be a later talker or have speech problems - I got a lot of info from this speech therapist I met at a party and I just don't want him to have to play catch up and it to cause problems later. but he is so far above and beyond what I guess! He always surprises me with his sense of humor, knowledge, physical ability --- I am just so proud of him in so many ways. What a joy he is in our lives!
also this weekend, I finished doing a lot of the purging of "stuff" in the house. So here's the new closet with a TON of clothes throw away. I had to give so many clothes away that just didn't fit anymore...which is a GREAT feeling -- but now my choices in clothes are so much more limited! haha but I am so thankful to have finally overcome my battle with gluttony ---- yeap you heard it here, I was just plain overweight for too long and praise God He has helped me break away those chains too.... I know my friends and family are chiming in saying "no you weren't....you were just not skinny.... you always looked pretty to me.... you were just athletic...you were always healthy...etc. etc." and I say bla bla bla....hehe :) I don't care what the BMI says - I *felt* overweight! Since about 2001 I have learned to love myself, all parts of me.... and accept myself, weaknesses and all... BUT I have felt so convicted in this area of my life recently....and quite frankly it was just time to stop bending my elbow as my great aunt says HAHHA! :) I was not trying my best or even trying at all to eat healthy or control my portions and it was starting to hinder my love for me therefore my relationship with God, others, etc. Maybe I'll write more on this on the next deep post, maybe not. Depends on what else God lays on my heart. So, I gave away a lot of clothes ---- so here's the newly organized closet. Those hangers were a Christmas present and I LOVE them!! Thank you MomMom! All my photo albums and scrapbooks are at the top. I want a piece of furniture maybe even like a buffett style thing that I can put all those in easily accessible and all........ but that will have to wait until the next house. For now, it's okay...I can still see what's up there and get them when I need to! :) 
There's Lennox and Raymond and yellow truck. and that picture from the park was from last week - but wanted to post it anyway.
The last 2 things we did this weekend was hang up this picture of Raymond's room finally! hehe A year later, we finally got anchors, this picture was just a lot heavier than any other so couldn't use regular nails. So YAY! It feels good to cross that off the list.
and here's the one that we hung up right away that sort of "goes with it" on the other side of the window:
and we cleaned out his toys/clothes again. I love baskets and have them everywhere in the house. I like these ones we use on his shelf and the big one full of stuffed animals in the closet.
So that's a little bit of what my weekend looked like!!! :)
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