Merry Christmas!!

Friday night while chris was visiting his friends in Milwaukee. Me and Teagan decided to give Toby a haircut and a well-needed bath.





Teagan getting ahold of the camera and taking a video of me giving toby a bath...



Christmas Eve at my parents house.

Mr. Potato Head!!! She loves this toy. Thank you Aunt Barb and Uncle Andy!


Christmas morning at my parents house. We left cookies out for Santa and we were checking to see if he ate them all.



i just took this video to show off her cute little hat. every year my mom gets us all silly hats to wear for christmas. Teagan looks like Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch!



Teagan getting her froggy sleeping bag. Both grandparents must think alike, because teagan also got a teddy bear sleeping bag from her other grandparents.



Later that Christmas day we went to go see Chris' side of the family. Teagan and Andrew got to exchange christmas gifts. We will be planning to go somewhere together on our break. The two of them love to play together.



zooming time with Aunt kelly. First Teagan and Andrew went, then Teagan wanted more. she couldnt get enough.


Aunt Kathy is always to creative. She brought cookies with extra frosting and sprinkles for the kids to do. Teagan loved it! she ate about half of them though...

  
this is about 10:30 on christmas night. Teagan is all crazy from all the comotion that day, just look at her hair! She is putting pretty's in pop's hair.


This morning.
Teagan finally getting to the presents we got her... She is the slowest present opener. Every present she opens she wants to play with and wont do anything else until she plays with it for a while. this morning i kept asking her if she wanted to open her presents and she kept telling me "I will open them later". I dont get her at all. I thought all kids wanted to just rip through them faster than lightning??? oh well, at this rate, we will be opening christmas presents till next year...


Making me a sandwich with her new play food. the concept of the bread going on either side of the fixings was just not fathomable (if that is even a word).


These presents are from great grandma Margie!! Thank you great grandma Margie!

12-18 to 12-25-2011 Merry Xmas

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catching up (videos)

olives. i love her little laugh...



listen to how beautiful her voice is... had to pretend that Gini wasnt taping otherwise she would stop singing.


Library time!











Teagans Actual Birthday!! We went to Bella's Bouncies in Lake Villa. We crawled all through the tubes...several times.

Baking cookies (videos)

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baking cookies

We went over to Andi's house yesterday and baked cookies all day. it was so much fun. Teagan got really involved and helped us make cinnamon ornaments with grandma G, and then made chocolate mint cookies and lemon cookies with aunt andi. she loved it! Teagan helped pour the sugar, mint, crack the eggs, and stir the dough. She even helped aunt kathi put buttons on the gingerbread men/butterfly's. This is going to be such a fun christmas tradition. hopefully next year i will actually bring something to bake. I am not much of a baker to begin with, but this year i had a really good excuse. i couldnt do anything because of my hand. for those of you who do not know i burned it real bad wednesday night while cooking a nice dinner. last time i try to cook steaks in the oven/stove while time managing everything else on the stove (asparagus, potatoes, gravy, and mushrooms) to get it all out at the same time while Teagan is standing up in her booster seat wanting me to come get her...

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in the tunnels at the bounce house. i went once and chris went twice with her. ouch, it hurts your knees after a while.

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not the most stable child in the world....

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This was Teagan's actual birthday, we had a free pass to go to Bella's Bouncy house. She loved it! She was a little shy at first but then she got the hang of it.

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Teagan's birthday at Thanksgiving at aunt Andrea Wood's house. Blow out your candles!!!

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This is what Teagan does in the car.... She sings, sometimes trying to sing louder than the car radio. She saw me videotaping so then she got shy.

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Teagan playing with her new drums in her new stylish outfit!! This was drum set number 2 since we already broke the first one...

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Teagan with Grandma Gini Ross reading to her bear. So cute!

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Teagan and one of her new favorite toys!!! i thought she was going to fly away...

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Surprise mom!! happy 60! birthday!!!

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us getting teagan ready for her birthday party. love the dinner choice, i know....

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Thanksgiving from Erika

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11-4 to 11-29 2011

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what haaaaaaapen???

Teagan and her slurred speech. i love hearing her toddler talk. I wish i could get her enthusiastic "what haaaaaaaaaapeeeeeeen?" saying on video with out me coaxing it, it is way better when it is authentic. here is my attempt. for the second time, the first video was better but she deleted it before i could download it.



this is why meals take so long in our house...Teagan would rather sing and goof around than eat. wish i had that problem!! of course these videos are before she got her cold.


our entertainment on the way to the cosby show.. thanks mom, jamie and tosha!!!


This was my sickly kid this morning. she was in a good mood at this point, her medicine had kicked in and she was feeling better. she HATES taking medicine. she actually liked it at one point, but now she hates it. i feel like i am waterboarding her when ever i give it to her. poor thing.


last week at grandma laurie's house.

9-23 to 11-1 2011

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The past few days (Happy Halloween)

Teagan kept reading us this book the other night so i finally decided to get up and get my camera. she wasnt quite as enthusiastic this time around, before she didnt need any prompting. She would just carry on herself telling us the animals sand what they said and then showing us. She must be learning this from the Library visits with grandma G and Andrew.



Happy Halloween

A glimpse of trick or treating yesterday with a monkey and a dog... needless to say neither of which are very fast movers and get distracted quite easily. But it was still tons of fun!


Just one of the many distractions we encountered along the way. for some reason these children would rather play with all the Halloween decorations than get candy...



Not sure if you can hear Teagan and Emery over my loud voice, but they actually said trick or treat while the girl was there! they would either say it on the way up to the door or after the fact.



Just getting started.... Sorry for the sideways video. thought i edited it to turn. Emery really gets into full character!!!



I will be posting the pictures sometime soon i hope. maybe tonight if i get ambitious! 

ABC's

Teagan singing her ABC's tonight on the potty. and yes, she is sitting on top of the toilet seat, with no diaper. she was on the toilet like she is supposed to be but then decided to sit on the top. she just kept saying her ABC's over and over as if it were one long word. too cute. i was amazed at how much of it she knew.

Weekend fun.

Starting off the weekend with Teagan picking out my clothes, even though i was already home from work. she is such a mimmicker now. then she decided to read my book





teagan reading me a story. needless to say, her making-up-stories skills need a little help...



Teagans new trick... so cute!



feeding horses at Pride Acres. Teagan loves it. we were outside in the pasture, but they were getting too pushy so we escaped the the comfort of the barn. Didnt faze teagan at all.



Still carrots left! Teagan was getting sick of seeing the horses eat all the carrots so she wanted to eat them... ick.



out with the horses, and in with the kitties!!!!



Football Sunday. This is where i spent most of the football game, playing in Emery's room with the kids. i didnt tape the good part. i think my ears are still ringing from all the high-pitched screaming. this is just the tail end when they started getting tired.





Teagan helping chris clean the leather seats. she would rub so fast it was cute. of course i missed the first time and that is always the best.

enamame for dinner

fun at dinner time. Teagan eating her favorite. whatever gets her to eat veggies, right?

babysitting fun

i watched Andi's friends 2 girls, Kira (3) and Lydia (1.5) on Monday. It was fun, tiring, but fun. here is lunch. i totally was late getting the camera. i just missed the screaming match they were all having and the head shaking back and forth. i always miss the good stuff on video.

we also carved a half a pumpkin (just cutting the top off, and scooping out the seeds) that was about all i could handle with the three of them. i will try to post more pics to facebook or shutterfly. stay posted.

Why dinner takes sooooo long

Botanical Gardens and LJ's Wedding

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more videos

Last weekend at Pride acres. Teagan chasing the old blind peacock... she loved it!




Teagan picking up her first kitten. she loved feeding them. there were tons, but we had the dogs out earlier and they scared them away. just farm cats.



Practicing blowing out candles for her birthday. she is pretty good, but i still think there is more spit than air coming out of her mouth. she doesnt get to open her mouth, she blows through her teeth and lips...



Friday night for grandma G's birthday. we went to Wine Knot in Kenosha. food was really good. Teagan was getting slap happy on our way home.

videos

teagans bribery to take her allergy medicine...



singing

Potty attempts

Teagan has been going on the potty off and on for a few months now. One day she will go twice on the potty and then she wont want to sit on it for a week. I dont really get it, but we are not really pushing it yet. I just ask her when i think she is going to go or might have to go. sometime she gets all excited to go on it, and others she refuses to even go upstairs...

so here was one attempt.




this is what we end up doing most of the time teagan attempts to go on the potty.... either this, or reading tons of books or singing songs.



I was also trying to get her to say "What haaaaaaaaaappen?" the way she says it is sooo cute. I did get a bit of her rolling b's (mom).

8-14 to 9-17 2011

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Dad's 60th Birthday party

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Bry's 4th Birthday

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Bry's 4th Birthday

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Technology

Did you know what an ipad or in iphone was when you were 1.5 or 2????

screaming matches

Teagan's new favorite thing is to have screaming matches with other little kids... this was the tail end of one. They are normally much more ear piercing!!! She started them off a few months ago with our neighbors kids, Lindsay and Logan. Logan doesnt talk much so he just grunts and screams. well he was looking out the window one night at us playing out side and started this screaming and teagan did it back, and ever since then every time she sees a small child, or one she thinks is smaller than her, she tries to have these screaming matches...

Andrew and Teagan, who do you think wins??

Kenosha Beach

At the Kenosha beach on Saturday. We went to see the Nina and Pinta and she wanted nothing to do with it. Then we walked to the beach cuz it was soooo hot. then she was in a good mood!

New Shoes!!!

Thank you so much Missy for giving me some of Makayla's old shoes, Teagan loves them!!! The purple ones are her favorite! I totally missed the initial reaction of her looking in the  bag for the first time, but i did get a little of her after the initial shock. They actually fit her quite nice. I would have thought they would be too big, but i guess she does wear some size 7's...

thanks again!




here is part 2 of teagans fun with her new shoes. She started it off by running around the island saying "new shoes, run; new shoes, run!" by the time i got the camera out it was too late again to hear her saying it. i tell ya, i need this thing attached to me...

Go Bears!

While teagan was watching one of the bears home preseason games...

Freemont 8-5

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Squeeeeeezzzzzzzeeee!

this cracks me up! same face that teagan makes when she is pretending to go poop on the potty. i love it.



Teagan playing dizzy

never give a camera to a man...

i was playing airplane with teagan and doing flipps with her last night and chris was supposed to be taping it. it was so cute! i would put her up in the air and she would put her arms and legs out like she was flying! but of course chris thought he was taping and then he actually hit the record button after it was all said and done. but he did get some scary looking doll heads on there!! that would give you nightmares...

Tea party

I came home from work today and Teagan was having a tea party with grandma G. it was sooo cute! Teagan would pour your tea and give you some sugar. here little sound effects as she pours the tea was just adorable!!! see for yourself!



fun with pop! Teagan i think is going to be a little dare-devil! she loves to get that feeling in your stomach when it drops.

Angry Birds

We went to Arlington Race track  yesterday and then afterwards we went to Matt and Megan's so chris could do is fantasy football by 7:00. needless to stay we were there until 9:45 by the time he was done. To keep Teagan entertained and happy we ended up with her playing on Matt and Megan's phones. Angry Birds was one of her favorite games to play. She actaully started to get the hang of moving the screen around and pushing buttons. it was kind of funny. I wish i would have started video taping earlier (as usual), because her enthusiasm was so high.

Enamame Fun!

At dinner today teagan was eating some enamame and having fun! it was too cute. i showed her how to squeeze them out, and she got such a kick out of it that she just kept doing it and eating them. Works for me, she is entertained and eating veggies, how can you go wrong there?!?! i thought i was video taping a while before i actually was, i must not have had it on the right setting all the way. i missed some cute moments, one where it shot up and hit her in the forehead, and another one where it shot straight across the kitchen! she loved it! this video just doesnt even come close to the amount of fun she was having originally...

Playing ball with Toby

Teagan was playing around with Toby the other day and it was just too cute. of course i got it after a while and her excitement wasnt nearly at the same level as it was to begin with... Toby is pretty good with her, he at least gives up his toys much faster and easier than he does with us. i think it is because we yell at him all the time to give it to Teagan. He gave her a run for her money a little bit in this one, you sill see. Teagan kept cracking me up though. Every time she threw the ball she would hit herself in the back of the head... too funny. didnt seem to faze her at all, guess she wont be a pitcher when she grows up!

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Walking Toby in the house

I was trying to keep Teagan entertained this morning while i enjoyed a cup of coffee, at Toby's expense of course... poor toby. He did pretty good, he was getting excited every time i said the word walk, but he kept his cool. At the end i think they both had enough, needless to say, it wasnt very relaxing for me. oh well.

Emery's 2nd Birthday Party

Towards the end of the party, the kids had some fun. Adelaide had fun in the pool while Teagan and Emery chased around Sponge Bob.

here is part one.



here is part 2




as you can see Emery and Teagan don't always see eye to eye, but they are starting to get along better as they get older. Emery is a little rough, and Teagan cry's too easily, but we are slowly closing that gap. maybe by his third birthday we will have it.

Spraying the hose!

Teagan's new favorite thing to do outside is spray people with the hose! she is so sneaky about it. she will walk up to you all innocent and then all of a sudden she will pull the hose out and get ya! Even the neighbor kids got into it.

videos from this weekend

Teagan playing in her little frog pool in the front yard with grandma G.



Teagan found some dum dums in my purse and brought one down to me. she at most of it but eventually she got the stem too wet and it started to fall apart so i had to throw it away.




Teagan sharing grandpa's 60th birthday party cake with everyone! she loved it. at least she shared...




Teagan practicing her colors with a bunch of water balloons this morning.

Washing the Car

It was so hot this past weekend we decided to wash the cars to get all of the firework ("booms" as teagan would say) residue off.

Cookout in Scotland

Here is a typical cookout in Scotland... these guys are always up to something. They crack me up!




needless to say, they tried several alcohols and none of them worked, i dont think they had a high enough alcohol content.

Wedding in Scotland

The wedding was on July 1. It was beautiful, the weather was wonderful and everything was perfect. here are a few videos.

Nice Dinner in Dublin

We went to a nice dinner in Dublin our last night there. We had a 3 course meal and live music. It was a lot of fun.

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End of the wedding

This was one of the last songs before the wedding was over. so much fun. i love this song!!! i have more videos but this one too almost 2.5 hours to download onto youtube, so the rest will have to wait until we get back. sorry for my screaming... didnt realize that i was so loud, i guess the scottish beer clouded my judgement a little... :)

enjoy.

we had a blast. still in Dublin at the moment. having a good time.

Teagan playing with the cat

this one is also from tonight. i was putting stuff away in the bookshelf in the living room and she saw part of the cat toy, so of course she had to have it. cant believe she saw it to begin with. well instead of opening up a new toy, i convinced  teagan to go and find Ollie's current toy on the ground. so here is a little clip. i missed the best part though. we were on the stairs and teagan was waving it around and was trying to get him to come like the dog. she would say, "oyyyyyeeee. come!... (silence and waiting) come!" it was too funny. by the time i got away to get the camera she wouldnt say it unless i told her to. plus ollie was done playing with her (as you will see why in a minute) and had already started to run away... i would too if someone was coming at me flailing around some feathers on a stick at my head!

poor sick teagan, again.

it couldnt happen at a worse time!! We are leaving for vacation in a few days and teagan and both of us have been sick for a few days now! Teagans runny nose has sort of gone away, but now she has goopey eyes, and i cant get her in to see the doc yet. Michael isnt sure if it is viral or bacterial, or if it is pink eye. only time will tell. well i am going to try to get her in tomorrow if i can, otherwise i will try to get some Colloidal Silver. it is some natural remedy for pink eye, or bacteria in the eyes. they dont seem to be bothering her, but it just worries me. she has been a good sport, the first hour and last hour of each day is the worst. in the morning she is so contested with snot and a cough, she is just miserable until she can get it all out of her. after that, you would never know she was sick, aside from the occasional cough and runny nose. her appetite hasnt been the greatest, but i think it is because she is teething. one little one popped through on the bottom and i think there are others not far behind. she is still drooling like crazy.

well, here is Chris trying to entertain her earlier tonight while i am making dinner. she is obsessed with trains and always requests to see them on the computer. earlier in the week she actually sat at my computer by herself watching random train videos (both cartoon and home videos). i just kept getting up to pick a new one to play. it was kind of annoying because they are like only 2 to 3 minutes long so i couldnt get much done anyways. but it was nice that she could entertain herself for a bit.

Another Tooth!

Finally!!!! i felt another tooth coming in on Teagan (this will be her 7th tooth). it is coming in on her bottom left, next to her bottom front tooth. i have a feeling the other bottom teeth and molars are not far behind. this isnt the tooth that i can see from the front (eye bottom tooth), so i think that one might be next, along with some molars that are making her gums bulge out on the bottom! it is about time, she has had 6 teeth for like 6 months!

Cubs Brewers Game

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5-19 to 6-19

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Happy Father's Day

We went to the dog park today with Bry and Teagan. They had a good time, and after all that walking around we stopped to get some yummy ice cream. Teagan still isnt extremely thrilled about it yet which is fine with me. she does better with the soft serve stuff that you eat with a spoon.

18 month checkup

well we went in for Teagan's 18 month checkup and everything looks good. She has slowed down growing (mommy's jeans are kicking in). Teagan checks in at 32.5 inches and 23.13 lbs. her height is in the 75% range and her weight is in the 50% range. She was a little sick when we went in so i was scared that they wouldnt give her her shots, but the doc said it was up to me. so we did them. She was fine. she is getting braver though, only cried for a little while. it must have hurt afterwords because she was kind of limping around, so i gave her some baby tylenol.

The doc was very impressed with all her words she was saying and that she could put a few of them together. so that is good to know she is on track. i asked her about Teagan's teeth, and that she still only has 6 of them, she said not to worry, the norm is so spread out that it is hard to say much of anything. also she said no deet in the bug spray (as she was noticing all her mosquito bites-they loooove teagan!) i told that to Julie, my neighbor and Kim my friend who both have 1.5 yr olds and their ped said it was fine as long as it was under 10% deet. interesting... i guess it must be an opinion thing.

trying to get teagan to say certain words

well we have discovered that when teagan says; shirt, sit and sheet, it comes out like s-h-i-t. and when she says frog or fork it sounds like f-u-c-k. it is really funny when she is calling the frog!!! can you imagine?!?! for those of you who have herd her call toby, you will know what i mean. i am still working on getting these laugh-out-loud moments on video, but it is getting harder and harder. i almost have to hid the camera, otherwise as soon as she sees it she wants to "see" her picture that she thought i took.

here is one attempt.





this one is from tonight when i got home from work. Teagan was being really silly. she is in the habit of calling my name constantly so i started calling her name and she found it hilarious! by the time i got the camera she was done with that game and decided to beat me up. she bit my cheek after i got done changing her diaper and then you will see in this video her beating me up some more.

Teagan's first wedding

My cousin Katie got married this past sunday at Strawberry Creek. it was beautiful. We all had a wonderful time, including Teagan....



little break dancing move interrupted by shoe...


dont worry, she was fine. i think the girls reaction scared her more than anything. Teagan was back on the dance floor in no time.

fashion show!

Chris' aunt kathy got teagan some tutus. i got her to try them on last night. it was so cute. i was trying to get her to do little poses, but it was a little hard to get that concept across. all teagan wanted to do was for me to take the picture and then show it to her. well since i have no more room on here for pictures all i can post are videos, i had to get some. teagan wasnt too thrilled with the idea, she wouldnt settle for anything but looking at herself after i "took a picture". so the videos are not that great, but at least you can see her in her tutus.




me trying to get teagan to twirl. but again, all she wants to do is see her picture after i take it. to fooling this kid.

Visit to Great Grandmas!

we went to my grandmas house (Teagan's great grandma) on Saturday. it was so hot i brought over our new water toys for the hose. Teagan loves them. she is still kind of scared of the shooting water, but she likes to get wet.

chris is getting her used to it. entertaining. was waiting for him to slip and fall...



this is what happens when my mom gets the camera...

last weekend water fun.

Teagan got to play in the sprinker for the first time. she had fun with it for the most part. she was a little scared with it splashing her in the face, but after a while she got used to it.



she loved aunt andi's pool. she kept getting in and out, in and out. then we had these cups and all she wanted to do was pour it down her shirt or out of the pool. i dont know what to say...



at our house, chris got me some mulch for our flower beds. well we were watering and Teagan had to help, so she figured it out... what did we do, now she has to do it ALL THE TIME. i tell ya, if you dont have two of something when you are working, you will hear about it or have to sit there and watch Teagan try to do it at 1 mile and hour!!

Playing on the bed

here are some recent videos. mainly teagan being goofy last night. she was getting all crazy. she loves to do timber on the bed. she has been starting to say so much more stuff lately i have to get it on video. her new obsession of late, are choochoos!! everytime we go somewhere, she asks for them.

naked horseback riding again

this kid loves to ride her horse...NAKED! it is so funny, she really gets going on the horse now. likes to rock and bounce this girl!!

Blowing bubbles

here is Teagans first attempt at blowing bubbles! she gets the idea, sort of.... it was a little too windy for bubbles, i couldnt get them to go by her, and they didnt stay afloat very long.

Outside Fun 5-4 to 5-17-11

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little slide

Teagan has gotten pretty good on the little slide. this is the one she fell off of. As you can see she tries to skip a step, causing her to lose balance. Hopefully we can get her past her little fear and she can do this all over again.

Big Slide

Teagan going down the "big" slide on the little playground behind our house.

Jumping Zebra!!

This is Teagan last week bouncing on her zebra outside. she really like sit. at first i thought she would be too big but she seems to enjoy riding on it. she can get on and off by herself. Speaking of which, she can now officially get on and off the couch all by herself. she has been able to get off by herself but not until late last week was she able to get on all by herself....it is about time!

Push-ups!

Last night all of a sudden Teagan got this burst of energy. i think it was her being tired, because it was about 15 minutes before it was time for bed. she started going crazy! she was running around and trying to do a bunch of push-ups, nearly whacking her head on the floor! it was too funny. i finally got my camera out and started filming. i didnt get the really good stuff, but you get the idea...

Meal time

here are some more eating videos... this one is just her eating, nothing special. and yes, she is eating some letover spaghetti again... what can i say, she loves it!





i got some words on this video. she was such a chatterbox, but when i got the camera out she would stop yapping!!! she is really good at saying please now. it is too cute.



well, here is a cute one, she is singing something. i have no idea what it is, but she thinks it is pretty good. it got cut off because i ran out of room on my camera.

Outside Fun_5-2-11

Outside Fun_5-2-11, a set on Flickr.

random pictures of teagan outside and a little photo op with mom and child...

Easter

Easter, a set on Flickr.

We had Easter fun at the Cerney's on Saturday, and then on Easter Sunday we went to the Hansen's for food, company and a visit from the Easter Bunny next door.