My Baptism-Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Today at church was a special day for me, today I was baptized!  I am now a member of the United Methodist Church of Saint Francis, Kansas!  It was a little scarey being up there in front of the whole congregation but you know me, once I warm up, I enjoy the spotlight!  Can I go to the nursery yet?

This is the main event...the spinkling of water on my head!  I didn't care for that much but don't judge, I didn't want my "do" to get messed up! My hair is a work of art!  NOW can I go t the nursery?

After church we took family pictures!  Mommy says I wasn't very cooperative!  I know I wasn't but it was lunchtime and I was hungry!  I mean, isn't it MY day afterall?  :)  Thank goodness I did get to go to the nursery with my best friend Joel for a little while!

Ugh, can I PLEASE go back to the nursery?  Why do you need soooo many pictures anyway?

QUICK, LOOK UP!  Maybe I can make my getaway back to the nursery now?

After church we went to Majestic to eat lunch!  Joining me and mommy and daddy were:  Great-Namma Roose; Namma & Gampa Gardner; MeeMaw & PeePaw Chinn and Miss Morita!  We had a very nice lunch and afterwards, everyone but Miss Morita came to my house to eat cake and ice cream for dessert.  I helped mommy out by giving the icing a little taste test!

I wasn't too sure about the icing so I decided I needed to give some of the decorative icing flowers a trial run!

"Look mommy...the icing is going to work just fine!"

After cake and ice cream I got to open presents...wonder if I can  be baptized every Sunday?  Namma & Gampa Gardner gave me a Precious Moments cross.  Very awesome!  Daddy is going to hang it in my bedroom!

Great-Namma Roose also gave me a present!  It is a picture frame with a cross on it!  Mommy and daddy are going to pick the best picture from my baptizem to put in it and daddy will hang it right next to my Precious moments cross!  Thanks to my Great-Namma Roose and Namma &Gampa Gardner for the gifts and thank you to Great-Namma Roose, Namma & Gampa Gardner and MeeMaw & PeePaw Chinn for making my day even more special by sharing it with me and my mommy & daddy!  I LOVE ALL OF YOU VERY MUCH! 

One Cool Dude

It was a beautiful Sunday here in Saint Francis today so mommy and I got up, ate breakfast and headed to church!  Church was sooooo much fun that I did not want to leave!  My buddy Joel Gilliland was there and we always have sooooo much fun together!  Joel didn't want to leave either!  I mean, we had a whole room full of toys and got Oreo cookies to eat and Kool-Aid to drink!  Who could ask for more???

After we got home from church and ate our lunch, mommy, daddy and I headed out for a walk and we stopped at the park to play on the way home!  It was 65 degrees this afternoon so we did not want to pass up the opportunity to be outside!

Here I am at the park, teeter-tottering on this wild thing!  Mommy laughs when she watches this!  She says about 2/3rds of the way through, when I'm shaking my head, that's how I act all the time!  HYPER CHILD is what she says!  LOL!  She has no idea!  Just wait!  Haha!

Well, I guess I will have to finish this post later....I've been trying to add pictures and for some reason, blogger isn't letting me retrieve anything from "my pictures" on my laptop!  Hmmmm......

I will try to get it resolved ASAP b/c I have some awesome pics of me at the park wearing my shades!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  I know I did!  Hope the week to come is a great one for each and every one of you!

Thanks for checking in on me!

J. Augustus "Gus" Gardner, M.D.

I think I've found my calling in life or "What I want to be when I grow up!"  Soooo, lets have a listen, shall we!

Good!

"And now take a deep breath in. Now, exhale!"

"Well daddy, everything is sounding good!  I think you will be back to your old self in no time!' 

--Notes from Mommy--

Justin and I traveled to Loveland, Colorado this past week for Justin's scopes!  Dr. Langer said he did very well during the procedure!  After it was done and Just was still asleep, Dr. Langer came in and went over the results w/me and answered all of my questions!  Dr. Langer said that he found several ulcers on the duodenum, gastritis and an irregular z-line.  An irregular z-line can cause something called Barrett's Esophagus, which is pre-cancerous (a warning sign to watch for cancer in that area).  So Dr. Langer said he took a total of 8 biopsies for the irregular z-line, ulcers and gastritis.  He is also making sure the gastritis isn't accompanied by an infection as well.  So we will have to wait about a week to find out the results of the biopsies.  Please keep us in your thoughts...even though we do not think there's anything to worry about, you never know!  Feels great though to finally get some concrete answers to a few things that have been keeping Justin ill for so long now!  Our journey began in September of 2009...so we are definitely ready to have Justin in tip top shape and back to his normal, happy-go-lucky self!  It will be wonderful! 

Thanks for checking in on us,

Gus's mommas

"Like Father, Like Son"

 Hey everyone!  Hope this finds everyone well in the new year!  Sorry it has been sooooo long since I posted on here!  It has been a busy time for me, I've had A LOT of playing to do!  So my apologies!  I've made a "new year's resolution" to myself that I'm going to be MUCH BETTER with my blog from here on out!  We shall see if I can follow through w/this resolution!

LOOK AT DADDY AND I....WE MATCH!  I really love my daddy, he is my best friend and today we even dressed alike...blue shirts and striped bib overalls!  Mommy thinks daddy and I look too cute and handsome in our outfits!

"YAY for Saturdays and for bib overalls!"

Here daddy and I are again in our matching outfits and this time we even have on camoflauge hats!  We are too cool!