wordless wednesday.

dance away your case of the mondays!

This weekend Zachary, Tegan and I went to see my mom and her boyfriends new house to help with some painting before the big move. Tegan decided it was the perfect time to perfect her dance moves! If this doesn't solve your case of the Monday's I don't know what will!

Here is Tegan busting a move to Matt and Kim's cd "Grand"

Sleepy Sunday

Our EIGHT month old(as of today!) baby girl taking a nap on daddy!

Something you may not know about me is....

I love to hold Tegan in my arms and dance around the house for hours!!! Tegan loves dancing with mommy, she usually laughs and waves her arms around!!! Our current favorite cd to get our dance on to is "Grand" by Matt and Kim. It is sure to turn any frown upside down and make your feet start tapping involuntarily :) "dance anthem of the 80's" and "folding chair" by Regina Spektor are a few of our other favorite tunes to rock out to! :)

That is my random post for the day!

Sleepy Sunday

no words needed...

Fourth of July weekend

Friday we went to Zachary's parents house to grill out and play some bat-mitten to get the holiday weekend started! Tegan enjoyed the day outside playing under the shade tree and taking in the fresh air. After taking tons of pictures of Tegan with grandma Dee's flowers we learned that Tegan has a horrible allergy to pollen. When She awoke from her nap she could hardly breath through her little nose. Our poor little girl was so stuffy by the end of the night! There is nothing more heart breaking than watching your little girl try to suck her thumb and having to take breaks to breath!!! She is so much like her daddy in so many ways, sadly his allergies had to be one of the traits she inherited from daddy.

We have been anxiously awaiting our first fourth of July as a family of three. I remember being pregnant at the fireworks last year daydreaming about how it would be. Just thinking about how wonderful it would be having our miracle baby in my arms during all the holiday festivities. I was so excited to be able to take Tegan to the parade, then swimming at my moms all day and go watch the fire works as a family later that night. Sadly mother nature decided to rain on our parade :( We didn't get to watch the parade and we didn't get to go swimming but it did thankfully clear up just in time to make it to the fireworks!!! We were a bit nervous as to how Tegan would handle them but to our surprise she LOVED them!!! You would never even know that she was 3 hours past her bedtime, she was such a good girl!!! I can't wait for next year to get here so we can do it again, hopefully with tons of sunshine, parade fun, and swimming.

Big girl things...

I am very sorry for my slacking on blog writting, I haven't at all forgotten about updating you all. It is just a matter of trying to find time to do so. I promise I will try harder, and lets face it...there will be more things to share with Tegan getting older so I better make habit of weekly or bi-weekly blogs. Now only do I blog to keep everyone updated with our lives and our sweet growing girl, but I also do it so I have all our memories and such documented for my keeping :) it is always fun to look back at time and see what you were doing or what you had to say at that stage of your life!

We are currently going through a small rough patch, but it isn't anything that we can't get through. Zachary got laid off from work for a few weeks thanks to the recession. On the plus side Tegan and I get to spend more time with Zach. That is something that no amount of money can buy!


Our summer days have been filling up quite fast. We start out a week saying that we are going to just sit home and relax and by the time the weekend gets here we realize we were busy every day and little to no relaxing actually happened. From swimming to grocery shopping, dr appointments to spending time outside, or days with friends and family our summer has been flying by! I can't believe it is July already!!!!!


Tegan is becoming more and more of a big girl each and every day!!!


She went swimming for the first time.



Tegan is now in a big girl carseat(rear facing convertible carseat of course)


she can stand up with the help of mommy or a toy


Tooth number two is working its way in and she is outgrowing some of her baby toys!


I have finally come to the realization that my baby is becoming less and less of a baby! We are slowly having to pick up size 12-18 month clothes for this fall and winter; it is hard to believe she will even be old enough or big enough for such things!! Her first birthday is only a few months around the corner and before I know it she will be walking around the house and getting into everything!!!

I just can't believe any of it!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuGjqNLE8Ys