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Spring Fever!

2011-02-09T16:33:00.000-08:00

So Teagan, Dax and I are stir crazy. We are in desperate need of summer weather. The warm sunshine, pools, and walks to the park! But we decided to settle for summer clothes. Our first project is to sew summer clothes for the kids! So today I made a skirt and hair bow! It took three hours with my 18 month old awake for half of it so I think it went well. The skirt is fully lined so she can wear it without leggings under it. It turned out pretty cute, or maybe Teagan made it pretty cute!

Finding a Project...

2011-02-02T13:27:00.001-08:00

I have been sitting around all winter wishing spring was here. Feeling blue and maybe a little sorry for myself. Then yesterday I had this wonderful idea, I'll become crafty!!! Hooray! Great Idea! So let me explain, I do things, I do things like texture walls, paint, replace molding, these are fun things, and they are good things. But these things are hard to do in my small house in the winter. So I had this great idea to do things in the house like finally make that strawberry jam, sew summer clothes for my babies, or paint my picture frames different colors. Then I thought what if I transform my family blog that I never use into a journal blog for my projects, brilliant!!! I know, right? So there you go, and here we are. Next I'll be finding a suitable project, wish me luck!

Catching up...

2010-05-27T13:39:00.001-07:00

So it's been a long time since I took time to post the events at our house. I had a birthday and turned 27, Adam got me a new camera and I love it! Daxon turned one and we had a birthday party for him. He is growing up so fast, it makes me sad how fast babies become toddlers, who then become kids...my little princess is turning four this year and she is so busy. Adam got Teagan and Dax a puppy, and Teagan named her Missy. She's super cute, but a handful as well! We've been remodeling, and removing things, we've planted some of our garden. The pictures probably won't be in order but they'll be fun to look at anyway!

New Family Pictures

2009-12-11T10:49:00.000-08:00

It's been a long time since I last posted, and since I had time to check on everyone elses posts, hope you are all well!!! If anyone from DRMC is reading this I miss you guys so much...I never realized how much all of you felt like part of my family until we left. We've been gone from "home" for a long time and as time passes the more I realize DRMC will always be my home hospital!
That being said...these are our new family pictures that my sister Codie took. They turned out super cute!!! Thanks Codie, you do such a great job!!!

Quick Update

2009-07-21T21:21:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of Daxon and our Family. They were taken by Codie, Maryjo's sister. These are some things that have happened since we last updated: We took a quick trip to St. George to show Dax to the Ford Fam. and Cousins. Maryjo returned to work, Teagan got a bike,and we celebrated the fourth of July

Welcome Baby Dax!!!

2009-05-22T12:58:00.000-07:00

On May 15, 2009 at 12:45pm we welcomed our son Daxon Ben Ford into the world. He was 8.5 lbs and 21.25 inches long. His labor story isn't what we had planned but we are very grateful that he is here and healthy. He was almost two weeks over due so I was being monitored every three days to make sure he was ok. I went in for a check up and he had turned and was breech, but I had plenty of fluid so we were hopeful that he would turn again. We tried external version, were the Doctor trys to turn the baby from the outside but it was unsuccessful. Two days later I started have contractions every 6 minutes they were painful but I had an appointment the next morning (5/15) to have my fluid levels checked so I decided to wait as long as I could. I made it to my appointment still have contractions. They checked my fluid and it was less than half what was supposed to be there. So I was in labor with low fluid levels and a breech baby. Not an ideal situation for natural child birth. An hour later we were in the OR having a C-section. Daxon is very healthy and so cute. When he was first born his little face was very swollen from being smashed up against a contracting uterus, but now he looks almost identical to Teagan! Teagan is crazy about her baby! she loves to hold him.

When???

2009-04-28T19:16:00.000-07:00

My favorite question to ask Teagan for the last 2 weeks has been: "when is baby brother going to come out?" her replys varied from tonight, to tomorrow, to I don't know. She would always pull up my shirt and say in a really sweet voice "come out baby." I asked her today when baby brother was going to come out and she said "never," she pulled up my shirt and patted my stomach, shook her head and said "never." Hopefully she is wrong, but I know exactly how she feels. I'm starting to feel like he is never going to come either....

New pictures...

2009-04-20T19:52:00.000-07:00

Ok so I've really been slacking big time. We have been super busy and I'm not very energetic lately...but this collage has everything...my 38 week prego picture, Easter, and the nursery before and after shots!!! Now we are just waiting to have another baby....and if this pregnancy is like the last one we wil be waiting for a while hahaha!!!

sorry some of the pictures are side ways..

slacking...

2009-04-03T13:17:00.000-07:00

So we finished the nursery but I forgot my camera so no pics yet, and i'm now one day away from being 36 weeks pregnant, sorry no pic...
Teagan's rash is gone, but the low grade fever remains...she has had a fever for awhile now. We aren't sure whats going on with her. We are making another appointment for her at primary childrens so hopefully soon we will have some idea what is going on. Sorry this is a boring post but i'll post pictures tomorrow!

Happy Anniversary!!!!

2009-03-28T12:44:00.000-07:00

Adam and I have been married for 4 years!!! I love Adam so much and I'm so grateful for him. He is such a wonderful husband and I'm pretty sure the only person on the earth that could live with me forever. He pushes me to do better, to be kinder, and to live the gospel. I'm grateful for the strength he gives me, and all the help. Adam helps with the house cleaning and the dishes which most husbands don't do. He's always there to catch me when I fall. He is my best friend....I love you Adam!!!

Poor Little Teagan!!!

2009-03-19T13:37:00.000-07:00

So I took Teagan to Primary Children's again to get the new swollen lymph nodes checked and her doctor put her on Augmenten, just to see if she had another infection that was causing her lymph nodes to swell...that was ten days ago. This morning when Teagan woke up she was covered with a red rash! From her hair to the soles of her feet. I called her Doctor (who is wonderful) and he said it could be two things, an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin in the augmenten, or she has edb infection. So we've taken her off the antibiotic and are waiting til Monday to see what happens!

More MAC???

2009-03-06T16:42:00.000-08:00

So I've been watching Teagan's neck and leg very closely since her surgery...and there have been a few lympnodes on her neck that concerned me. But she had a runny nose and so I was very hopeful that the lymphnodes were swollen because she was fighting off a cold. I waited and watched for a month and a half. They are now much larger and her runny nose is gone. So I called her Infectious Disease Doctor and made an appointment. We are not sure what this flare up will bring as far as treatment plans, but we will keep posting!

30 weeks pregnant!!

2009-02-20T19:14:00.000-08:00

Ok technically not til tomorrow, but we are close enough to say 30 weeks!!! So I guess we better hurry with remodeling the nursery!

Binki Free

2009-02-20T18:44:00.000-08:00

Drum roll!!! We finally got rid of Teagan's Binki. We have been thinking about it for a long time but we kept putting it off because of her surgeries, then we put it off because we were moving, and again while we were potty training. So the other day I just decided that it was now or never. Teagan has had to sleep with us because we are remodeling her room, replacing the ceiling, retexturing the walls, and re-flooring. So since she is already sleeping with us I thought it would be easier for her if we "lost" the binki now. She has adjusted very well, I can't believe how grown up she is.
So on Valentine's Day we made cream filled cup cakes. They were soooo good! Teagan helped by licking the beaters, and Adam and Josh taste tested. They turned out very well.

Busy day

2009-02-04T13:31:00.000-08:00

So yesterday was Adam's day off. So I made a large list of things I wanted to get done and we did them...I think Adam was glad to go back to work today! He actually started to complain about having to work on his day off, and I just asked him when my day off was going to come! Guys are such wimps, when does a stay at home mom ever get a day off??? When do we get to not fix breakfast, lunch, and dinner, clean/pickup a million toys, take care of our kids, plus the dishes, and the other house work??? So we moved all the furniture and vacuumed and mopped everywhere, rearranged the TV/DVD/surround Sound wires. Cleaned the bathroom on our hands and knees, scrubbed the walls, made whole wheat bread, and wheat muffins. Then we took down the suspended ceiling in the nursery. It looks like we might have to remove the wall paper from the nursery walls as well as the ceiling, which will really suck because the wall paper has been painted over. But we have at least 13 weeks to get it done which should be plenty of time. Saturday we are going to take the paper off the ceiling and maybe the walls, I'm very excited! These are just a few pictures of Teagan I thought were cute. The first few are of her Sunday nap, then the rest are her cute hair!

Obsessed!!!

2009-01-29T19:01:00.000-08:00

I have become completely obsessed with not gaining weight this pregnancy...I'm totally crazy about it. I workout everyday for 45 minutes plus doing prenatal yoga, and I log everything I eat into babyfit.com (which is the coolest site ever for expecting moms) But I cant stop thinking about how hard it was to lose the weight I gained with Teagan, and I am very scared that I may end up gaining more with this baby, because everyone says you gain more with each pregnancy! Any advice??? Anything, like inspiring stories, or just something to take my mind off this would be great!!!

On the lighter side, I can't believe that it's already the end of January 2009! Where did the time go? I can't believe how fast it goes by. And it has been really warm up here for January! I've decided to start doing crafts, I don't very often because I don't ever think about it but if anyone has anything they've done recently that would be fun let me know!!

Pregnant Picture 25 weeks

2009-01-26T16:32:00.000-08:00

Well this is my 25 week picture, only 15 weeks left!!! So we are pretty excited, we've started to work on the nursery. We have to take down the suspended ceiling and steam off the pick shiny wall paper that is on the ceiling, then we will texture and paint...so hopefully it won't take very long and we'll be able to paint and decorate soon!!!! We are getting our decor from IKEA (I LOVE IKEA!!!!) and since we only have one room for both our kids, we are doing a European style nursery, which is just unisex. It is super cute I'll post pictures as soon as we've finished!

Not Much

2009-01-23T19:25:00.000-08:00

Not much has happened since my last post....or maybe just so much that I can't write it all. We had a wonderful Christmas, we spent most of it at home letting Teagan play and watching movies! But in the morning we went to Christmas brunch at my mom's house.
It has snowed a lot and Teagan played in it with her cousins. Teagan loves the snow! Adam sold his computer for parts and built a new one! I got bigger and now look very very pregnant. We bought the paint to redo the nursery, now if I would just do it!!! Well sorry for the boring post but that's how life has been the past month.

Christmas time!!!!

2008-12-12T19:37:00.000-08:00

We've been so excited for Christmas this year. Teagan loves Santa and gets really excited to see Christmas lights. She was given a really cute look and find Christmas book by her grandma Suzanne. We spend a lot of time playing with the nativity set and she loves the little baby Jesus...

Teagan's learned to wink!!!! It is so adorable!!! She also pulls funny faces, it's so fun to watch her personality develop. We bought her a calendar count down for Christmas she is so excited to get her little chocolate everyday.

Baby Boy Ford

2008-12-06T08:45:00.000-08:00

Surprise.... I'm 20 weeks pregnant and it's a boy!!! We are really excited, I would have posted a picture but I don't look pregnant yet. We are having a really hard time thinking of names so if anyone out there has any good ideas that they don't mind sharing it would be appreciated!!! My cute friend Marci and I were looking online for names and we thought Harrison was cute, then we realized he would be Harrison Ford, HA HA HA... so that's a no go!!! Anyways Happy Holidays!!!!

After the big slice...

2008-10-09T11:29:00.000-07:00

So this catching up is crap!!! But I am determined to conquer, but I'll be brief...In August we went to St George to pack our crap and move it!!! Grandpa Dave and Grandma Korrie met us there to help. My parents sent a semi down with my brother and his wife and we packed it up and moved it out! Here is a picture of Teagan with Grandpa Dave, this is where she gets her baby blues.
Teagan turned two on the 26th and we had a party. September we moved in to our house. And that should catch us up!!

Teagan's Surgery and more

2008-10-09T10:43:00.000-07:00

So to continue where I left off...Teagan had surgery on July 23rd. She looked like someone hit her in the face with a bat. This picture is of Teagan before surgery, I loved the baby slippers they were cute and the PJ's, but it was weird to help her get in her hospital garb. The next picture is of us waiting.

Because there are so many more pictures I'm going to explain them now and then I'll show the pictures in order. When Teagan woke up she had a drain in her head and a drain in her thigh. The nerve that moves the lower right side of her mouth was very weak so she couldn't move the right side of her mouth. She had a larger incision behind her right ear. Her face was very swollen. We spent alot of time out on the patio picking flowers and playing. We also went to the play room alot.

A glance at the past 4 months

2008-10-06T10:50:00.001-07:00

We have been out of commission for the past 4 months but we are now up and running!!! Teagan has really enjoyed living by so many of her cousins. She loves to go to aunt Codie's house because of all the animals, baby bunnies, ducks, a pot bellied pig, a mini goat, and Chady the dog. In June we spent all June visiting our friends.
In July we spent the 4th at the upper still water dam, it was beautiful!!! Teagan loved hiking around, that night we watched fireworks with Uncle Justin and Aunt Becca and their kids.

The 23rd of July Teagan under went a five hour surgery to remove the nercrotic lymphnodes caused by her MAC. It was the scariest thing we have ever been through!!! They made an incision from her hair line to the front of her ear and streched it to remove the nodes under her right jaw area. They made another incision about four inches on her upper right thigh to remove the nodes there, she stayed two nights in the hospital, at primary childrens. We left the hopital with a drain in her thigh and later went back to get it
out. I don't have the pictures from her surgey so they will have to wait until next time. This is all for now I'll continue with the first of August next time!!!!

Ford Family Current Events

2008-06-29T20:05:00.000-07:00

This is Adam Ford's first post on the family blog. It has been a very eventful few months. We have moved back to duchesne as many of you know, and I have started my new job as a personal banker at Wells Fargo in Roosevelt. We have been striving to sell our home in Saint George, but we haven't has any offers yet. I expect that it will sell soon due to it's low price. In any event, we are going to move into a cute little home here on July 10th. We really got lucky and found a great little home with a great backyard, which is the most important factor to me. MaryJo thinks the home has a lot of great possibilities and is excited about having a nice garden now that we have the room. Teagan is still fighting her infection, and seems to be very cheerful despite the constant annoyance of changing the bandage on her leg everyday. We have recently heard back from her doctor at Primary Children's and expect to have an appointment sometime during the next couple of weeks. We are looking forward to getting into our new ward here and becoming involved. We have been living with Larry and Julie over the past month and it has been a real blessing. We have been able to save some money and Larry gave MaryJo a great part-time job moving wheel lines. MaryJo has been moving wheel lines since she was 10 years old on her own. She has been teaching me the intricacies of moving wheel lines. All in all I would have to say that it is definnetly not as easy as it looks. I am grateful that she is so willing to help us save some money, and make it possible for us to pay both are house payment and rent coming up here in July. Well I would bore you if I got much more detailed than that. I hope all of our friends and family are doing and that they are being abundantly blessed during these economically turbulent times. Bye for now.

Primary Children's

2008-05-22T09:48:00.001-07:00

The first part of May I noticed a swollen lymph node on the right side of Teagan's neck. At first I thought that she was probably catching a cold, so I waited and watched, the very next day I notice another swollen lymph node. At this point I knew that it was related to the wound in her leg. We saw her Primary care doctor who referred us to an Infectious Disease Doctor at Primary children's. In the mean time Teagan saw the wound clinic again, and we found out that her wound isn't healing, it is a fistula.

We Took Teagan to Primary Children's Hospital to see an infectious disease doctor. She was diagnosed with Mycobacterium Avium Complex. She is now on three different antibiotics, the lumps in her neck will need to be removed in surgery. Other than that she is cheerful and energetic!

P.S. we are moving....again! Adam got a job offer in Roosevelt as a personal banker, so we are moving back to the farm!

Teagan's Wound

2008-04-28T10:37:00.000-07:00

This is Teagan's wound. It's healing well. Sorry that the picture sucks!

Paper Route

2008-04-28T10:32:00.000-07:00

On the days I work Teagan does the paper route with her daddy. They have to get up very early so they are both pretty tired. I came downstairs after my nap one sunday and they were both a sleep on the couch. It was so cute that I had to snap a picture!

Nothing Yet...

2008-04-18T00:07:00.001-07:00

We're still waiting to hear about the test results for Teagan's infection. Nothing is growing in the dish so far that looks positive for TB, so that's WONDERFUL!!!! And the incision is healing really well, it is a little green so I have to do a dakins rinse, which is really just bleach water, but it doesn't sting and she doesn't mind it. So hopefully in another week this will all be behind us!

Everything else is the same as usual. We haven't even celebrated our 3year anniversary, we've been so busy with everything else! But as of the 25th of March, we've been married 3 years! Yeah us!!!

Tuberculosis???

2008-04-11T02:10:00.000-07:00

So Teagan's doctor called yesterday to tell me that Teagan's culture from her sore came back and it has some kind of bacteria in it that is the same as the bacteria in tuberculosis. So they are sending it to have more cultures to see if it indeed is Tuberculosis. If it is we will be going to an infectious disease doctor...we wont know for two weeks. Everybody pray for her please.

On a more cheerful note, Adam passed his Air Traffic Control SAT test with 82%!!!! Yeah Adam!!! Just think what he would have gotten if he had studied! Now he will have an interview at the end of the month to see if he is going to Oklahoma City to start training for ATC! I'm so proud of him! We also had our 3rd anniversary, but with everything going on we haven't celebrated it yet.

Adam and I joined gold's gym. I want to take spin classes and Adam wants to lift weights again so we are starting to workout, wish us luck...we're gonna need it!

More Teagan pictures

2008-04-06T01:34:00.000-07:00

These are more pictures of Teagan's hospital stay.

Teagan goes under the knife!

2008-04-06T01:10:00.000-07:00

March 19th Teagan woke up from her nap with a fever, I changed her diaper and noticed a golf ball sized lump on her right groin area. I felt it and noticed that it caused her pain so we went to the instacare and they thought it was probably a bug bite that got infected. She took an antibiotic and we waited. Easter rolled around and she was still puffy and in pain so we went back to the instacare and they ran labs. The labs came back showing that her body was putting up a good defense to the infection. April 2 I made an appointment with her Doctor, because the lump was still there. He felt it and decided that we should call a surgeon. Blah, blah, blah, Teagan went to see a wonderful surgeon who saw her that very same day, he decided it was an infected lymph node and that she needed to have it drained. She went to surgery the next morning. I was nervous because Adam couldn't be there with us, he had to fly to California. But we had our good friend Kathy, Grandma Korrie, Aunt Alison, and Haiden to help us through! We arrived at 6:30 in the morning and she was put out and intubated. She did really well in surgery, but because the incision was so close to the femoral artery we had to stay the night in the hospital. Which meant the she had to ride in the ambulance to the 400E campus where the pediatric unit is. Now she has a 1 inch by 1.5 cm incision in her right groin area that they left open so the infection could drain and be treated. So Adam and I have to hold her down and change the bandage everyday. Right now we are packing the wound with mesalt, a salt impregnated gauze to draw out the infection. That about sums up our last 3 weeks. I'll post about Easter next time.

More of the same...

2008-03-20T21:58:00.000-07:00

There's not much to report on our family. Adam just started working at Wellsfargo bank two weeks ago. He also started a paper route. The joke around the hospital is that I'm sleeping with the paper boy Ha Ha Ha!!! Scandelous!!! Teagan has decided that the only thing worth eating is chocolate chip cookies. She goes to the pantry and says "cookie, cookie." She refuses to eat anything healthy. She has also started putting herself in timeout. It's kind of funny, but makes it less of a punishment if I put her in timeout. I rearranged our house, hung more pictures and fixed the bookcase. Nothing else really.

Happy Birthday Best Buddy!!!

2008-03-15T00:12:00.000-07:00

Cohen's Birthday!!!

2008-03-14T23:34:00.000-07:00

Teagan's very good bestfriend, Cohen turned two. It was Teagan's first offical Birthday party, that wasn't just family. She had so much fun! The party was at Cohen's grandma Marci's house.

Tagged

2008-03-08T02:12:00.000-08:00

What is his name? Adam David Ford

How long have we been married? 3 years March 25th

How long did we date? August-November, engaged November 11

How old is he? 27 in April

Who eats more? He does. He once ordered a 10 piece chicken nugget, a fish sandwich, and a double cheese burger from McDonald's and ate it all! Sick!!!

Who said I love you first? Adam did.
Who is taller? Adam is two inches taller than me. But when we were dating I thought I was taller than him. I guess I feel tall even though I'm not!

Who sings better? Adam does. I'm not that great but we like to make up stupid songs about things we do, (like making sandwiches). Adam likes to sing with his country accent and it drives me crazy!

Who is smarter? Adam is smart with computers, English, and spelling. I'm smart with history, science, math, and stupid facts

Who's temper is worse? Mine. Adam is way laid back.

Who pays the bills? Mostly me. Adam pays the cell phone bill

Who does the laundry? Both of us. Mostly Adam lately.

Who cooks dinner? Mostly I do. Sometimes Adam does.

Who drives when together? Adam and it is scary!

Who is more stubborn? Me

Whose parents do you see the most? Adam sees his mother a lot, but we don't see the rest of our family very often.

Who has more friends? The same, we have married friends so it's pretty much even numbers

Who has more siblings? Me=7, Adam=3

Who wears the pants in the family? Adam lets me think that I do...but we make all our decisions together.

Who eats more sweets? Adam lately. I had to quit eating treats...they were a crutch

Who mows the lawn? We don't have a lawn.

Who kissed who first? I kissed Adam on the cheek, before we actually kissed but he kissed me first.

Who proposed? Adam asked me to marry him in Zions canyon, we had gone for a hike. It was really cold and it had been raining. Adam found a pretty place and knelt down on both knees, I was sitting on a rock, he pulled out the ring box and asked me to marry him. I said yes and we sat there for a minute not sure what came next...then I asked to see the ring!!! Right after I answered it started to hail!

What is my favorite thing about him? There are a lot of amazing things about Adam. My most favorite is his testimony. Adam has a testimony that is solid rock, it never wavers. He loves the gospel. I have never seen someone enjoy reading the scriptures like he does. My second favorite thing is how kind he is. Adam is full of love. He is my best friend and I love him!

Now I tag: Jody Martin, Becca Farley, Maren Richards

Ice Cream Anyone?

2008-02-02T00:10:00.000-08:00

So a while ago my friend Maren posted this test on her blog...I finally took it and surprise I'm Chocolate! A totally irresistable flirt! Take the quiz by clicking on the tag, it's fun!

Christmas Pictures!!!

2008-02-01T22:58:00.000-08:00

Someday

2008-01-24T00:44:00.000-08:00

Someday, Adam will find the pictures of Christmas at my mom's and then all my family that blogs (that's you Becca!) Will be able to see how cute the pictures of our kids are! Adam saved the Christmas pictures to the computer in a safe place that I can't find them. I will post them before the end of January!

So not much is new with us. I'm working the night shift at the hospital and Adam is working the Insurance world. We're just trying to keep up. Teagan is getting ready to be potty trained (she doesn't know it yet) but we've bought everything we can think of that might help. I'm doing the biggest loser at work, so hopefully I lose! That pretty much sums up our life right now.

Teagan is growing up!

2008-01-18T01:16:00.000-08:00

Teagan is getting so big. She has started talking, she doesn't pronounce the words but she makes the same sounds. It's like she is humming words, she also has started to sign a lot. She signs milk, more, eat, drink, help, hurt, baby, and poop!!!! We are so excited!!! She also loves to be read to or just to look at books. In particular she likes books with animals. She is so smart and is growing up so fast. It makes me sad to look back at her baby pictures. The first pictures are her one year old pictures.

Christmas Time!!!

2007-12-20T01:10:00.000-08:00

Catching Up!!

2007-12-19T23:33:00.000-08:00

Well we have officially moved in. I did most of the unpacking because Adam was in Las Vegas at a New York Life training. Corrie came up and helped one night, (thanks so much!) and of course Teagan was tons of help! But we finally finished, and now everything seems to be cluttered. After living in an empty house and now having stuff it seems messy all the time. We bought a couch and a chair. We finished painting the downstairs, and now I'm working on decorating, and I'm not very good at it...

It's been crazy trying to unpack during the holidays, some of the first things to be unpacked were the Christmas decorations. I probably have my priorities mixed up but we couldn't celebrate properly without the nativity, Rudolph, and the tree. This year we decided to make ginger bread boys to decorate the tree, it was a lot of fun! And relatively harmless if swallowed!

6 random things about me!!!

2007-12-07T00:42:00.000-08:00

So It's been a really long time since I updated, sorry!! I was tagged by Kourtney a while back and it has taken me this long to think up six random thing about me (pretty sad, I know)! So here goes:
1- I wasn't allowed to wear shorts when I was young. As a result I don't really like them now, turns out I don't have that great of legs so no big loss!!!
2- I'm a total germ-aphobic!!! Ever since I was a CNA I am a real freak about possibly getting a germ. I eat candy out of wrappers, I don't wear my hospital shoes in the house, I bleach my kitchen often, like anytime we eat chicken or pork.
3- I grew up in the country, on a one cow farm that I milked by hand!!! I swam in the wash next to my house, and suntanned on my roof!
4- I used to have a crush on Keifer Sutherland, hahaha. I saw Lost Boys when I was very small and instead of having nightmares about vampires, I developed this crush on Keifer Sutherland and started wondering if I myself was a vampire (check out my canines, they really look like fangs) Thank goodness I grew out of this!!!
5- I'm scared of the dark. I think it comes from having a good imagination, that runs away with me a lot, and an older brother who used to sneak into my room at night to scare me. And I used to think I like scary movies, I have no idea why. I would watch one and then spend hours sitting on the kitchen floor with a large bread knife waiting for my family to come home!!
6- I cry when I watch the Tigger Movie. Which I do a lot lately (It's Teagan's favorite). Something about Pooh saying that they have nothing better to offer than the offer of being Tigger's family really chokes me up. And poor Roo spending all his time trying to help Tigger find his family, when what he really wants is for Tigger to love him, and be his big brother. It's tragic I know!!!

Well I hope you found some of that interesting, there isn't much about me people don't know, I've never been one for secrets!!! I'm going to Tag Jody Martin, and as far I can tell there's a lot of tagging going around, so most everyone has been tagged if not than I tag you who haven't been tagged as well!!!

a most unfourtunate event

2007-11-13T17:26:00.000-08:00

So since I started working again Adam has been taking Teagan to the babysitters. Which means he is responsible for many things like getting her breakfast, getting her dressed, packing her diaper bag, and combing her hair. He does fairly well, every once in a while he forgets a binki or wipes. And he hated combing her hair. The other day I received a phone call at work from Bree (wonderful Lady, who tends Teagan) In summary she was calling to warn me that Adam had "Trimmed" Teagan's hair. I was shocked!!!! Surely, Adam knew I would kill him. I surprised myself by staying very calm. And Adam did a good job considering that he doesn't cut hair. Now he doesn't have to do pony tails. Oh and he will never go near Teagan with scissors again, not even if I am dead!!!

Happy Halloween

2007-11-13T16:56:00.000-08:00

Teagan was a monkey for Halloween. We had so much fun dressing her up and taking her trick or treating. She was so sweet, she would knock on the door and then wait, when they would come she would hold out her pumpkin, then she would try to go inside. We put her in her squeaky shoes so it sounded like a monkey squeaking.
Teagan started talking a little in the last couple days, she can say peeka boo, mama, daddy, tigger, kitty, dog, hi, and byebye. She also signs milk, more, eat, and drink. And she blows kisses!!! I can't believe how fast she is growing, it makes me sad. She goes down the slide at the park by herself, she is so independent she almost doesn't need me at all (except the whole diaper thing)!!

Welcome Home

2007-10-29T14:05:00.000-07:00

We have been living in our town home for almost a month. It has been so nice to be in our home again. We have been painting walls and sanding down cabinets. We cleaned the carpets and everything else, too. I put a screw in the door to hang my first ever wreath on. A very homey, fall wreath, not to flowery or to bare. After much searching, I found this at TJ Max for 24 bucks. A pretty good deal, right? We still haven't been able to go get our things out of storage in Duchesne. We are sleeping on an air mattress and Teagan is sleeping in her pack and play. We have two chairs and a card table. If we want to sit in the living room we sit on the floor. Now considering all of this, I still am grateful to be in our home!!! It is so wonderful to have our own place with our own things, even if there isn't a large number of them!!! A big thanks to our family, who let us crash at your homes while we were waiting for our renter to move out! We love you bunches!!

Brock was watching them!

2007-10-17T21:49:00.000-07:00

At Sadie's reception I was helping in the kitchen. Adam was supposed to be watching Teagan, but he kept showing up in the kitchen. I asked Adam why he wasn't watching Teagan and he said "Brock is watching her." (Brock is my five year old nephew, totally wild!) Don't worry he watched Teagan and Hadley really good!! He made sure they both had plenty of treats and a nice place to sit.

Finally Fall

2007-10-17T21:31:00.000-07:00

We spent Saturday in Duchesne visiting Grandma Juli and Grandpa Larry. Sadie got married so we went to the reception. On Sunday, we played in the leaves with Teagan. She liked the leaves, but she loved my mom's dog. Rowdy would come up to her and lick her hands and she would squeal and laugh. Fall is such a beautiful time of year, I just love it!! I love the smell of mom's chili sauce, the cool air, and the red and yellow leaves. I love pumpkins, hot cocoa, the crisp apples, and the feeling that the holidays are right around the corner. I love Fall!!!

Teagan Turns One!!!

2007-10-05T09:10:00.000-07:00

When our summer in Wisconsin ended we moved back to St. George. We arrived in St. George on Teagans first birthday. Grandma Suzanne Ford had a birthday party at her home. We invited Great Grandma and Grandpa Moutrey. She opened her presents, we sang happy birthday, and then she had cake (for the first time in her life!!!) And she loved it!!!
She fed herself and probably got more cake on her face then she got in her belly.
She licked her plate clean!!! She gets that from her dad. After she finished she wanted more, she was signing and pointing, but we opted for a shower and some milk, in hopes of intercepting a bad belly.

Now that Teagan is one she has started doing chores...Adam was tending her and he walked into the kitchen and she was swiffering the floor. And yes, he did put those curlers in her hair!!! He is such a good daddy. He needed a little help after he got the hair curled but she looked great.

My First Post

2007-09-29T07:47:00.000-07:00

I'm very excited to get started on the blog....