How many have your name???

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There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

I love unique names (and am very glad my parents came up with my name!), so this makes me very happy! Teagun also has zero, which I am happy about too! My husband has a more common name though - 103 people in the US have his name (first & last!). How about you?

Heartbreaker

Watch out Jen and Jim, I think you are going to have a heartbreaker on your hands! Look at those eyes and the eyelashes are to die for!!! This is my nephew Boone that you met below. I took him to the park while they were here and took some pictures of him so I could practice. He was such a great little model - it was sooo nice to have somebody that would actually hold still and listen to what I said!!! It was so cold and he was such a little trooper - notice how red his cheeks and nose are! :) I will be sharing some more pictures from our "photoshoot" over the next couple of days.

Cousins

Boone is a great big cousin to Teagun! He is always looking out for him when they are together. Here are some cute pictures I took of them together.

Future Troublemakers???

Teagun and Gunner are almost exactly a year apart in age. I had a cousin close to my age and we always had so much fun and I am hoping the same thing with these two. But it looks like we could be in for some trouble when these two get together! :)

Meet My Nephews

My sister and three nephews came into town for a very short visit so I took the day off to spend time with them since I only get to see them a couple times a year. Of course I brought my camera and probably took about 150 pictures of them, so I'm sure over the next week you will get to see a lot of pictures of my adorable nephews!

VJ - Age 14



Boone - Age 7



Gunner - (almost) 3

Like Father, Like Son

Teagun is normally my "victim" when I test out new things (ie - the white background), but I finally got Trevor to stand there for a second with Teagun. He was not thrilled to say the least and told me I could not post these on the photography site I go onto, but didn't say anything about my blog! hee-hee...I'm an evil wife! :)
We took Teagun to get a haircut on Saturday, and though it was not his first, it was the first time they used the razor and so now he has daddy's haircut. I thought it would make him look more like him, but I still can't decide who he looks like more. Just a mixture of us both apparently.

Dancing Machine

Who knew Teagun was a dancing machine (guess he takes after his mommy afterall!)? We went to a wedding yesterday (congratulations Todd & Melinda!) and Teagun actually broke out of his shell and let go of our legs and turned into a little dancing machine. It was the cutest thing ever - he was just running around the dance floor with his hands in the air yelling "woo-woo" and just laughing like crazy! These are just a couple I caught before they turned on the fog machine and then you could barely see anything - he loved the fog machine and was got even more into after that though! I know these pictures are probably awful, but they make me smile anyway thinking about how cute he was out there on the dance floor.

Oh, that looks fun!



Thinking about it...



Yeah, I'll give it a try...



This is fun!

Our "First" Child...

Zoey, our Jack Russell Terrier, was seriously our first "baby". She is our spoiled rotten, extremely hyper dog! And we love her to death even though she doesn't get nearly the attention she used too! I think she still secretly (or not so secretly) wishes she were the only child still. Here are a couple pictures I took of her this morning playing catch in the snow!

Bathtime!!!

My attempt on doing a creative shot while in the bathtub (that is while Teagun was in the bathtub!).



(this is a reflection of him through the drain release if you couldn't tell!) :)

What's Your Theme Song?

Your Theme Song is Back in Black by AC/DC

"Back in black, I hit the sack, I've been too long, I'm glad to be back" Things sometimes get really crazy for you, and sometimes you have to get away from all the chaos. But each time you stage your comeback, it's even better than the last!

What's Your Theme Song?

hmmmm...interesting!

Lazy Sunday???

Normally, I would say "Yes!", but not today! I got so much accomplished today. Not fun stuff, of course, but something that really needed to be done - I CLEANED MY HOUSE!!! I have no idea who lit the fire under my ass today, but I actually felt like cleaning (gasp!). The kitchen is clean, dinner in the crock pot, I'm on my 5th load of laundry, dusted, vacuumed, swept, mopped, even the toilets are clean! Yay for me! This doesn't happen very often at my house!

Now, don't get me wrong, my house is not disgusting. I keep up with the everyday picking up and cleaning, but I do not like to do the deep cleaning at all and it really doesn't happen often enough. I got an early start though. Teagun woke up with the flu in the middle of the night so I started with doing the laundry at 1:30 this morning. He isn't puking anymore, but he still has a fever and just doesn't feel well. And he was supposed to go spend the night with "papa" tonight, which he was looking forward too. Stupid flu!

Here is a picture of my poor sick boy:



Here are a couple pictures I took yesterday of him playing with his tractors and trucks. He always lines then all up and then will move them one by one. It is pretty funny to watch.

Playing

Just a couple pictures I took of Teagun playing this morning. It is freezing here today, so we are just trying to stay warm!!!

Ok, So Maybe He Is

I said below that Teagun wasn't normally really messy when he ate, but maybe I was mistaken! Seems to be getting worse as he gets older. Strange, I thought that would get better?!?!? Oh well, makes for cute pictures, right?? :)

100 Things About Me

So a few people on my "Blogs I Visit" links to the left did a post on a 100 things about themselves and I thought it was very interesting and a good way to get to know you better. So here is my attempt...I seriously don't know if I will be able to come up with a 100, but here goes...

1. My husband and I are high school sweethearts - going on 14 years together!
2. We were married in Hawaii 2.5 years ago.
3. We got pregnant with Teagun right away.
4. I absolutely hated being pregnant even though I had the easiest pregnancy possible.
5. I love sports and am really hoping Teagun is as athletic as his mom and dad.
6. I coached 7th grade girls basketball for three years until I had Teagun (coached up until 2 weeks before I delivered Teagun even!).
7. I work in Human Resources.
8. I want to move back to the town we grew up in (Deer Park) so Teagun can go to school there (we are actually only 30 minutes away right now).
9. I have three sisters - all starting with the letter "J". (Jennifer, Jaidean, Jolynn, and Jaclynn).
10. I have three wonderful nephews - V.J., Boone, & Gunner
11. I love photography.
12. I think I probably like to sleep over all other activities I enjoy!
13. I drive a Toyota Camry.
14. Pretty much the only thing I craved while pregnant was m&m's and I ate those constantly.
15. I hate Italian food restaurants, but I love Italian food if I make it myself.
16. My kitchen has brown appliances - totally 70's looking!
17. I was ready to return to work while I was on maternity leave.
18. Now after having 10 days off with Teagun over Christmas, I want to stay home with him - he is so much fun now.
19. We will probably wait to have another kid until Teagun is around 4 or 5.
20. I wish my older sister and her family (with my nephews) lived closer.
21. I need at least 10 hours of sleep a night...I rarely get that though.
22. I am almost always in bed by 9pm though.
23. I love the tv show LOST
24. I hate, hate, hate (sorry Lyndsay) to clean.
25. I blame my mother for that b/c she is a clean freak and vacuumed at least once a day if not more when I was growing up there! (no hard feelings mom if you read this!) :)
26. I wish I were more outgoing.
27. I normally change into my pj's right when I get home from work (around 4pm).
28. I have horrible eye sight and wear contacts.
29. I hope within the next couple of years to have lasik eye surgery (my mom and sister have already done it).
30. Flakey people drive me crazy.
31. I think jeans are so uncomfortable and prefer to wear skirts over jeans anyday!
32. I let my son watch TV.
33. I eat ice cream pretty much every night before bed.
34. I cried when I was pregnant and we were out of ice cream and Trevor said he wouldn't go get my any (he ended up going...what a great guy!).
35. Trevor got up in the middle of the night with Teagun way more than I did - he knows how much I enjoy my sleep.
36. I am a Diet Pepsi girl - do not even bring a coke around me!
37. My birthday is June 22. I will be 29 this year.
38. I do not like cold weather at all (it is supposed to be a high of 8 degrees here this week!).
39. I prefer swimming pools over lakes.
40. I was a lifeguard for 5 years.
41. I have a fear of drowing.
42. Our house used to have a pool until we filled it in last spring and I don't regret it at all.
43. I am horrible about wearing sunscreen.
44. For our next big trip I hope to go to the Caribbean.
45. I really want to go to Vegas too.
46. I love when Teagun belly laughs at our dog Zoey (even though Zoey dispises Teagun).
47. My camera is a Nikon D50
48. The lens I want for it is $700, so that is not going to happen...
49. I love going to Broadway shows, though we don't go very often.
50. We are going to Annie next month though...that is the first movie I can remember seeing on a theater.
51. My dogs birthday is April 26th, husband May 24th, and mine June 22nd...Teagun's needed to be either March 28th or July 20th to follow in line, but it didn't work out that way.
52. I knew Teagun was a boy from the very beginning and knew he would come early (came 4 days early).
53. I have become way more materialist as I've gotten older.
54. I love to dress Teagun in fashionable clothes, but worry I am creating a "monster".
55. I love when people tell me he is the best dressed kid they know (especially when people at daycare say that since they see kids all the time!).
56. I am pretty sure in Teagun's 20 months of life so far, he has way more shoes than me and Trevor combined...and nicer shoes at that (I don't own a pair of Diesels).
57. I love going onto Photography sites and learning new things.
58. I wish I had more friends and old friends that lived closer.
59. I wish I could meet some of my "internet friends", but know I would be sooo nervous (back to the shy thing!).
60. I like complete silence in order to go to sleep.
61. Teagun snores which drives me crazy b/c I can hear him.
62. I love, love, love to take naps (can you tell I like to sleep?) :)
63. I find this extremely hard!
64. My first car was a red Ford Mustang - the biggest piece of crap!
65. My favorite car was my Honda Accord (though I do like my Camry now too).
66. I don't like stupid drivers and have been know to have some road rage (not "crazy" road rage - just "get the heck out of my way" road rage).
67. I love movies that make me cry.
68. My motivation to go workout at lunch is so I can watch Days of Our Lives (hey, whatever works, right??)
69. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
70. I ran a half marathon before our wedding and would love to do it again, but I hurt my knee during it and am too lazy to do the necessary things to keep it from hurting when I run.
71. I would consider myself lazy.
72. I love that Teagun loves trucks and tractors and that he is "all boy"
73. I kind of secretly hope we have another boy next time, but then I also want a girl because of all the cute clothes options girls have.
74. I love movie theater popcorn with extra butter.
75. I'm 5' 6 1/2" - my husband is almost exactly a foot taller than me at 6'6"
76. I am left-handed.
77. Every second person in my family is left-handed (grandma, aunt, me, cousin (though I think she might use both???), and my youngest sister (who uses both).
78. I think Teagun is right-handed and really hope our second child is left-handed.
79. I love the outcome of my scrapbooks, but do not like the time it takes to do them.
80. I went to college at the University of Idaho - go Vandals!
81. I love to shop, though I don't do it enough anymore. Guess that's the price you pay to have kids, huh??? :)
82. I have no regrets having Teagun (just had to throw that out there from my comment above!).
83. Teagun never ceases to amaze me. It is so much fun to watch him learn and grow.
84. I worry that I won't love my second child as much as Teagun.
85. I cried (ok bawled) on the way home from the hospital with Teagun because I didn't think our dog Zoey would understand (she still doesn't).
86. I love suprises.
87. We didn't find out Teagun's gender and I don't think we will for the next child either.
88. I had an emergency c-section with Teagun - so scary!
89. In the end I was happy that I had a c-section because it gave me an extra two weeks at home with my baby.
90. I want to find a doctor who won't make me schedule my c-section with our next child - I want to go into labor on my own and then just know I will be having a c-section when I go in (love that anticipation of not knowing when you are going to meet your baby!).
91. I hardly ever read books.
92. I do not like to take baths - it is like soaking in your own filth - yuck!
93. I like to be on time and it bugs me when people are late.
94. I love weddings and would get married again (to the same man) in a heartbeat!
95. I love to get massages and pedicures.
96. I hate to walk barefoot in the house - I always have socks or slippers on until I go to bed.
97. We do not have a tv in our bedroom and I have no desire to have one in there.
98. I love to dance and look forward to weddings so I can dance!
99. I look forward to seeing what life brings our way.
100. I love my husband and son more than words can express.

Wow - I did it! Now after I hit publish I will probably thing of all these "better" things I should have put down, but oh well! I hope you have learned something new about me!

RAW, RAW, RAW!!!

I keep hearing how much better it is to shoot in RAW. So I tried it. Yes, it is very easy to just change it to RAW in camera, but for some reason I am having a hard time with the editing programs I use to pull them up and "fix" the pictures. I did finally figure it out - I just have to use two different programs now and I still don't get how I change things like it is "in-camera", but hopefully that will come someday! Oh, on a side note, I signed up for a PhotoShop class last night!!! Yay, I'm so excited! I have been looking for one that worked with my schedule and finally found one that is one night a week for 9 weeks! I think this will be a huge help for me...I am having the hardest time actually figuring out PhotoShop for some reason and I normally catch onto things pretty quick. Ok, back to the RAW...so I wanted to test out the RAW so I took some pictures of Teagun at dinner the other night (he normally isn't this messy!). Yes, I can see the RAW pictures are probably "technically" better, but I'm still not 100% convinced. I think if I knew PhotoShop well I probably could have done the same thing in jpeg format a lot quicker. But I will continue to try because I am told it makes all the difference...

Regular:


RAW:


Regular:


RAW:


OK - While I was waiting for these pictures to load on my slow dial-up (only a few more days until DSL!!!), I think I figured out how to open them directly into PhotoShop. Maybe I will become a believer afterall...

DSL, Here We Come!

Yeah, Baby! I just signed up for DSL this morning! No more stupid dial-up! Trevor already warned me though that he would cancel it if it makes me be on the computer even more (yeah, I might be a little addicted!) :). I told him it should cut down the time because I won't have to wait so long to pull up pages, download pictures, etc. Let's hope that is the case because I know I won't be able to go back to dial-up! It will be hooked up in a few days - I can't wait!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

We hope everyone had a wonderful 2006 and hope you have an even better year in 2007!

We took Teagun to Riverfront Park yesterday to ride the carrousel. He didn't like it so much, but we still had a good time. I think the temperature yesterday might have been 20 degrees though...just a little cold for going to the park, but we wanted to get out of the house. Here are some pictures to share from there.