Erica McBride

The new Chapter

2011-11-07T09:54:00.002-07:00

So as most of you already know I got a new job with University Of Phoenix... Yes that is where Lars works too. We will be right across the side walk from each other. I am pretty exc ited about being able to car pool with him everyday and have lunch everyday. We will be seeing each other a lot more then wer are now so its going to be good. The thing I am most excited about it that I will not have to resort to going back to Wal-Mart ever again.This job comes with a HUGE increase in pay for me and free schooling also so no more student loans for me! Also we both have weekends and holidays off which also means more weekend trips to Disneyland! I am just so grateful that this opportunity has presented itself to me because for a long time I have not been in a good place with feeling like I have to work, but hating my job. I have done that on and off four four years and I am just so sick of it. Now I can at least feel like my days work means something and I can leave work feeling good instead of leaving angry and bringing it all home with me. I will let you all know how it goes, but I have a feeling that everything from here on out will be great!

I know right!

2011-11-07T09:53:00.001-07:00

Ok so first off I would like to say that I know some of you are shocked that I still come onto blogger let alone post something. But here it is the return!

Update!

2011-07-01T20:45:00.002-07:00

Ok I am officially the worst blogger on the planet these days. I feel like I have so much going on that I never have time to get on here an blog about my life anymore. Here is a small update of what we have been up to for the past two months. I went up to Utah for a quick visit. While I was there I watched my brother graduate from high school. I got to spend some time with my grandma and one of my aunts. We spent as much time as we could with my dad who left for Alaska with my brother Carson till September for the fishing season. I brought my brothers cute girlfriend Emily back with me who is now Teagan's part time babysitter. She will be living with us for the summer( possibly longer) I am still working a Wal-Mart and have picked up a lot more hours lately as everyone I work with has gone on vacation. We are planning a trip to Disneyland this coming weekend and we are so excited because we have not been since January when we wen with the Kinyon's and their adorable little girl. We get to go with Lars' sister and her husband and I am so excited to see them because this is the first time we will see them since his siter found out she is pregnant with twins after trying to have kids forever! So exciting! We haven;t really done a whole lot more to our house or yard.( it is too hot to work in the yard after the sun comes up) I promise lots of pictures from Disneyland and I hope everyone has a nice 4Th of July weekend.

I know I know I suck!

2011-05-05T19:17:00.003-07:00

So I get that I haven't blogged in a while and I am sorry to the three people who read this. So just to get everyone up to speed here is a snap shot of our life the past month or so. I got a job at Macy's ( the department store) I worked there for one week and ended up getting offered a supervisor job at you guessed it Wal-Mart. I told myself I was never going to work there again, but hey when your offered a job without really having to do anything you take it. So that is what I did. I am still in the process of looking for a job that I can do with my degree. Which is also new by the way! I finally finished my associates degree and two weeks later was enrolled in the Bachlors program so I didn't really get a long break with school, but thats ok with me I would rather just get it over with anyway.

So the second week in April my mom and my sister came down and stayed for two weeks. They mostly came to help us out with watching Teagan and letting me borrow her car, but I think it was fun for them to have a little get away from all the cold weather in Utah. My dad came down a couple of days before they left to basically take them home so they could leave a car for me to use while my dad is in Alaska. It's really nice of them to let us use it since we can not afford another car right now. Teagan ended up going back with them to Utah and spending Easter with my exteneded family in St.George at my grandma's new house. Lars' parents came down for his graduation the weekend following Easter so they were albe to bring her home for us.

Lars graduated from University Of Phoenix ( the school he works for) With his BA in IT. I am so proud of him! It took him a little bit longer to finish his program because he had a lot of credits that were basically worthless. I know he is glad to be done with it for now. He is going to take the summer off and then start with his Master's program.

Update! on project

2011-03-30T12:41:00.016-07:00

I know I have been horrible at blogging. We had a problem with our computer a couple of weeks age but now it is back up and running normally. Here are a few projects I have been working on. First off a HUGE!!! Thank you to my good friend Amy for sending me a HUGE!!! box full of goodies for my house. She is such a sweet person an always thinking of how she can help others. She also happens to have fabulous taste in decor and she sent me the cutest stuff!

This is a project that will be coming soon! It is not finished however.

This is one of the things that Amy sent! I thought it would look cute in Teagan's room.

I am going to paint this shelf an aqua color and put it over the little tree.

Upstairs in our house we have this little nook that I have no idea what to do with so I have just made it Teagan's coloring area. I put this cute Vinyl chalk think up and let her color on it. She LOVES IT! I need to go get her some colored chalk for her to use on it...maybe the Easter bunny can bring that ;)

I put this cute Calender right by my computer. I always need a calender when I am on the computer and it works out nicely to have one that I can change all the time.

This is a cute little plaque that I out in my front room on my little side table. That room desperately needs decorations!

She also sent me this cute flower vinyl that I didn't really know where to put then she gave me this great idea to make some art with it on canvas. So After a few attempts at getting it the way I wanted it this is what it looks like.

I changed out my thing that hangs on my door and fixed it a little so it didn't hang sideways and bang on the door so much.

We are going to be painting our garage door this color! The color it is now is not far off but it just looks dusty and faded. So that should be happening with in a week or two.

We planted some flowers in the front yard by our door! Which brings some good color to the house. However they are sort of dying no matter how much I water them it just gets to hot right there so we will probably be planting something else there.

We also put in some sod in the front just to make it look not so deserty ( I think that's a word)

We planted some palm trees which we got for a STEAL!!! They are normally around $79 for a big queen palm and we got them for $23 Thank you Costco!

And last but not least we put in our garden. It contains mostly the contents to make the most amazing salsa ( made by my amazing husband) and one lone strawberry plant that we could ot leave the store without! Teagan had to have " the bebe strawberries"

A couple other side note.
Teagan is now potty trained during the day. She still has to wear a diaper when she sleeps, But progress is progress.

I also will be starting my job tomorrow. I will be working part time at Macey's ( the dept store) I am excited to start something new and thankful to not have to be working at Wal-Mart again.

Las Vegas with my girls!

2011-03-14T17:11:00.007-07:00

A few months ago I was sitting at home feeling sorry for myself because I don't have friends here in AZ like I do at home in Utah! So I got this idea that I wanted to spend some girl time with my friends just hanging out, but I live so far and lets face it Utah is just too cold this time of year so I thought. Lets meet in Vegas. I told all the girls about it and they were in! ( unfortunately not all of them could come, but what can you do when your and adult and you have responsibilities) So we planned a trip to Vegas! We stayed at the Monte Carlo which was super nice, minus that our toilet broke and our first room stunk ( In my opinion though I think that guy that came to fix it broke it when he tried to "fix" it) and minus the fact that Dani and had some unknown stain out our sheet which was fixed right away! My cute friend Dani came down and stayed at my house for two days, which was very fun just to hang out and do nothing. We went to the outlet malls which is ALWAYS! fun. On Friday morning we got up early to get to Vegas and we had some minor situations that made us get there just in time to check in. Crystal and Amy met us there, which was so fun because I had seen my friend crystal since summer of last year and the last time I saw Amy was like three years ago.

Our first night there we went out onto the strip and just sort of walked around. We ate dinner and then we walked back to our hotel room and just sort of hang out.

All of us at M&M factory!

We were determined to get all four of our heads in a picture while laying down. Neddless to say we didn't get a decent one because all of us were laughing WAY! to hard!

Those times are the best cause you get to talk about stuff and laugh, and boy did we laugh!
The next day we had tickets to see Phantom of the opera, but first we went to the outlet malls and did some shopping. A trip to Vegas is not the same without the outlets. We went back to our hotel and grabbed some lunch. Then we went back to our room and got ready for Phantom. We got to the show just in time and it was AMAZING! IF you have never seen it I highly recommend it!

These are all of the cool people from differnt times around the theater at Phantom. Amy sneakly took these cause you were no allowed to take pictures at all!

After the show we went back and changed and then went over to New York New York so Dani and Crystal could ride the roller coaster! Mean while Amy and I played Dance Competition( I think that was the name) and needless to say we both sucked! ( although Amy beat me every time) So we just acted like idiots and these employee's were staring at us the entire time. The next day was the day we had to leave :( We got all packed up and went to our last meal together and then had to head our separate ways. I got to go visit my sister-in -law and her husband for a good part of the afternoon. They took me to lunch at The Cheesecake factory which was delicious. Thanks girls for the fun weekend! This will DEFINITELY be a annual tradition.

some new stuff

2011-02-16T08:58:00.015-07:00

My Aunts and my grandma came down for a few days from Utah to see our house, get some some and help me out with some much needed projects. So here are a few of the things we did.

This is Teagan's room. We found this headboard at DI for $3.00 and all we did was spray paint it white. It turned out so cute!!! We also painted her wall a very cute purple color!

I found that little side table at Ross for $36.00 and it goes perfectly with everything else in her room.

I already had this book shelf in her room I just moved it to a different wall.

I had a really cute shelf that I previously had painted this cute blue color, but it didn't really go with anything down stairs so we decided to put it in Teagan's bathroom to match her shower curtain and it worked out nice because she doesn't have any drawers in her bathroom for her hair stuff so I put it on the shelf.

We also hung this hook board and took down her towel rack so she could get her towel herself.

Some stuff we hung up turned out so cute!

Our nook that goes out to our back porch. We painted it this blue that I love! and got some new curtains!

Some new table decor..we I already had the sign.

painted part of the back splash in the kitchen the same blue. I also got those cute bird towels at Ross!

Some cute little red tables that I also got from Ross!

My Valentine flowers from Lars

And last but not least my cute little Teagan this morning in her PJ's watching a movie and eating her breakfast! you gotta love the crazy hair.

Just made this.

2011-02-08T10:51:00.006-07:00

I just made this for my door. I found a similar thing on one of the blogs that I follow and decided to try it on my own and make it better. It was really easy and super cheap! It took me about half an hour and most of that was because I had to let the paint and the glue dry.

I first bought two frames. One that was 8x10 and one that was 5x7. I got them at walmart for $3.00 each. I would have gotten them from D.I. so that I could get them cheaper,but we only have one D.I. in AZ and its a little bit of a drive so I just bought these ones. First I painted the *x!0 with a cream color. It looks more white than I wanted it to, but oh well.

Next I put in this piece of left over scrapbook paper that I had. and this little love sign that I used at my wedding and a center piece thing.
Then I took the 5x7 and left it the color it was brown with a little bit of gold hint( on the advice of a good friend :) ) I glued the 5x7 to the 8x10 frame and put some ribbon on it and that was it.

Unfortunately it has to hang crooked because the glass is still in the 5x7 frame and so it is a little side heavy. If anyone has any suggestions on how to make it better. I would love to hear them!

Disneyland with The Kinyon's

2011-02-01T08:55:00.007-07:00

This past weekend we went to Disneyland with some of our friends from Utah! They were celebrating a birthday and they were nice enough to let us tag along. They have the cutest little girls that is Teagan's age and they had so much fun together!

Teagan and Brielle with Ariel!
We started out on Thursday where we all met up at our hotel. Then we walked over to Disneyland and spent all day there until it closed. The little girls had so much fun. I got them matching Minnie Mouse shirts and they looked so cute.

On Friday we got up early and went and stood in line until the park opened. Kyle and Lars had discovered this game the day before where they would try to throw change in the weirdest places they possible could so one of the first things we did was buy a roll of pennies for them.

The Kinyon's
WE spent the whole day on Friday between Disneyland and California Adventure. Morgan finally convinced me to go on California Screamin with her and when we got off both of us had tears streaming down our faces because we were going so fast and laughing so hard. ( Thanks for talking me into it Morgan).
On Saturday we got up early so that we could go into the park and it turns out that Lars and I couldn't which was way lame! So we just waited in line and then went in. WE spent most of our day Saturday in Disneyland we went to California Adventure for about two hours and did a Bugs Life for the girls. They both LOVED IT! over there. We had a nice dinner at cafe Orleans on our last night which ended up being WAY!!! too spicy for me and me face was so hot and red for the rest of the night. We did all of our shopping on Saturday night which was so fun! The girls got the cutest things. Brielle got a super cute Tinker belle castle ( she loved Tinkerbell) and Teagan got a Snow White Barbie. On Sunday they had to go home back to Utah. It was sad to see them leave cause we had so much fun! We went back to Disneyland for a little bit on Sunday and it was miserable cause it rained ll morning. After a few hours and some lunch we decided to leave too cause it was cold and wet. That was our trip and it was so fun that we are going to plan another one. Our girls got along so great and had so much fun together and we had fun hanging out with some good friends! PS Morgan that ticket didn't let us out of the parking lot.HAHA Lars had to go in and tell them for some weird reason our ticket wasn't working and they let us out!!!! Awesomeness! Also Morgan took A LOT! more pictures then I did so if you want to see more pictures you will just have to wait for her post.

A fun project

2011-01-21T17:02:00.001-07:00

So I pretty much copied everyone I know and decided to make some cute Valentine's Day decor. So this is what I made and it's not that great, but it's still pretty good for me. I am not very crafty. I really want to be, but I get very frustrated and impatient so I am working on trying to do crafty things.

So this is my decroation that I made. I wanted to hang it on my door with ribbon, but I realized that I do not own a hot glue gun to glue it together and I didn't want to put a thousand holes in my door so instead i put it in my bathroom on the little ledge that I have.

Some new furniture

2011-01-12T08:18:00.000-07:00

I finally got some new furniture that I wanted to get while we were in the middle of our move so we did not have to rent a truck twice, but after everything was over. That last thing I wanted to do was get furniture and move it. So LArs took the day off on Monday and we went and picked it up. We had some friends that were coming over for dinner anyway and to help with some other stuff so we jumped on the opportunity of having healp moving it. So these are the bigger pieces that we got.

This is just a little hutch that I got.

This is our new TV stand. We put the tv on the wall before we got this so they are a little close together, but any higher I think and the tv will be too high so I just left it. I also got the really cool colorful vase that is next to the tv as well as the colorful ceramic bus.

And this is our new couch. The end two seat recline and it is very comfy and very soft. I love it.

The McBride's new house for a new year!

2011-01-05T19:22:00.000-07:00

OK so I know I needed to blog about the house I just haven't cause we just go our Internet hooked up today! So here are some pictures of the house. and some stuff you might want to know about it I guess. It's in San Tan Valley (Queen Creek area) Lars has found a great way to commute to work so it only takes him about ten to fifteen minutes longer to get there rather then half hour to forty five minutes. Its a two story house and it is just a little under 2100 square feet. It has four bedroom and two and a half baths. It has a fenced in backyard with grass which is great for Teagan already she loves it!

This is our house!

This is a shot from the entry way into the living room and kitchen area.

Teagan's messy room.

Our master bedroom that literally only has a bed in it.

One of our spare rooms that we are using as a computer room for now.

Here is one of Teagan in the back yard today! She got this tree house from Santa!

The living room. It actually took us a little bit to set up the TV cause I am really picky about cords showing so we had to cut a hole in the wall and shove them down the wall one by one. Also we are getting a new couch but haven't gotten it yet so I will post pictures when it comes.

The kitchen. We are using our kitchen table chairs as bar stools right now cause I still can't decide what I want to do with my table. I kinds want a new one, but I don't know if I even have enough space for the one I want so I guess for now who knows!

Alright so that's most of it. I didn't take any pictures of the forth bedroom cause well there is nothing in there and I also didn't take any pictures of the room in the very front by the door because I still have a few boxes in there that I need to unpack. I think this house is something I will be posting about a lot because it is definitely a work in progress. I don't plan on having it all completed any time soon, but if anyone wants to come visit your more then welcome too, but just fair warning you might end up doing a house project while your here. Love you all and I will be better about posting things we have really just had the craziest two months of our life and I hope things are going to start calming down now.

Alright People!

2011-01-05T18:45:00.000-07:00

Ok so I pretty much have sucked at blogging the past couple of months. I really want to get better, but I really feel like nothing exciting goes on in our life's that is worth letting the world know about. So I will bring everyone up to speed over the last two months. So for Thanksgiving we went to Utah! We got to spend 10 days there!. Of course the day we got there it snowed like crazy. We had a great Thanksgiving day spent with Lars family( which also happened to be our anniversary this year) The night before I got to see a few of my lovely girlfriends whom I miss so much and got to meet Emily's ADORABLE daughter! Teagan also got to spend so time with her good buddy Brielle that night, and be terrorized by Hank Dani's dog( and for all those who weren't able to make it I was very sad cause I wanted to see everyone, but I totally understand how it is around the holiday's) The day after Thanksgiving I went shopping with my two Aunts and my one uncle who tagged along for the craziness! We started at 9pm and did not stop till 9 am( I know CRAZY) We also found out in November that we got a house that we bid for back in Oct. Some one else had gotten the bid, but weren't able to close by the end of the year so we got it instead YA! We came back from Utah and were lucky enough to bring back my mom and my sister Jacie with us! We came back to Phoenix for 4 days and then headed to California to meet my entire extended family on my mom's side at our favorite place on earth DISNEYLAND! we spent 5 days there with everyone and it was a total blast! If you haven't ever been to DL at Christmas time I HIGHLY recommend it. It is so awesome with all of the Christmas decorations and ll the fun festivities they have. After Disneyland we came back to Phoenix and worked on getting into our house. Needless to say we ran into a major paperwork issue and had to resolve it ASAP! Long story short we were supposed to close on the 16Th of December and be before Christmas, but that didn't happen. We spent Christmas with Lars's brother and his family that live just an hour from us in Tucson. His sister and her husband also came down from Vegas and spent Christmas with us. It was really fun to have Christmas with them and let Teagan play with her cousins all weekend. We came back from Christmas and immediately started working on getting our house to close again. After a crazy month with this back and fourth house business we finally closed on the 29Th Of December and just in time to move out of our apartment. We Spent New Years eve and New Years day moving into our house. Needless to say I really didn't take a whole lot of pictures during all of this. I know I should have but we were literally everywhere so here are a few that I have.

Ok so these three pictures are everything that I got from the Disneyland Christmas parade. It's kind of hard to get pictures when I am at Dl because we have been there so much that I really don't see a need to take pictures, but I will be better next time cause we are going with The Kinyon's and it is going to be awesome!

Teagan and Daddy at the Mesa Temple lights.

The Mesa Temple

This is a picture of everyone at Christmas. We made "graham cracker houses" but we themed them all as something from the North Pole. With out a doubt Peter's was the best (Lars's brother) but he is an architect so I don't think that should count.

This is Peter's it's a fire station.

Our niece Brenna and her train station.
Well I guess that's it. I have no pictures of Christmas morning and I don't know why we had a ton of presents( well not so much our little family, but the group as a whole) It took us forever to open everything.So that it the last two month in a very long , but dull blog post.

I have nothing to blog about!

2010-11-17T09:06:00.000-07:00

I pretty much have run out of stuff to blog about lately! Teagan and I don't really do a whole lot except for play and watch movies all day! Now that it is getting cooler we can go for walks and I can get my butt back in shape( or at least try to). The past few weeks have been crazy! we are trying to buy a house, but as our luck would have it the process isn't going very well. I am sure people have had a harder time finding a house, but we feel like we keep getting slammed against a brick wall. We found this house that was perfect for us! It needed a little bit of work, but we were willing to do it. It had only been on the market for two days! We went and saw it and as we were there looking at it another couple were there in the driveway waiting to go look at it too! we though it was no big deal. Come to find out after waiting for a whole week someone else got the house. So we went back out the next day and found one that we like better. This time to make sure we would get it we went WAY! above asking price. We were supposed to find out yesterday if we got it or not and no one has called us! Hopefully we will hear something today! I am so sick of looking for houses I just want to find the one I want and move into it. I don't want to drag out the process, but it is really hard down here in AZ because its like vicious bidding wars! who knows if we will ever get a house. Next week we will be in Utah from the 24th to the 28th if anyone wants to get together, following that we are coming back home for four days and then we are off to our favorite place on earth! Disneyland! this time is different because we are going with my ENTIRE! extended family! It should be a blast! Well hope you all enjoyed my bunch of nothing to blog about.

A picture of my sweet baby when she was a sweet baby! just because I have n o new pictures! I am so slacking!

Pumpkins!

2010-10-25T09:35:00.001-07:00

On Saturday we didn't really have a whole lot to do so we decided to go get some pumpkins and carve them. I am pretty sure you all know how Pumpkin carving works so I won't explain that I will just post the pictures. Well I tried to post all the pictures, but the files are too big so I will just post the finished product.

It a little hard to tell in this picture, but the pumpkin on the left in Teagan's and it is a Snow White face. The pumpkin in the middle is Lars' and it is the Oggie Boogie guy from The Nightmare Before Christmas and mine is on the right and its Jack Skellington.

Girls day out!

2010-10-25T09:18:00.001-07:00

Teagan and I decided to get out of the house the other day and do something. A girl in my ward went to California to visit her family for ten days and she had me take her and her two kids to the airport so we had her car while she was gone which was so nice. I decided to take Teagan to do something she would like since she has been working so hard at going in the potty. So we headed over to the outlet mall( Its the one we went to Dani) They just recently built and aquarium inside it and it was actually really cool!

Teagan wouldn't touch these Star fish for some reason, but she did touch some different kind.

She also wouldn't stand by the fish tanks by herself she got a little scared.

This is us at lunch at Johnny Rockets. We normally don't eat there cause it is a little over priced for a Hamburger, but we got a free meal coupon at the aquarium so I thought why not.

Sorry for the lack of Aquarium pictures my camera was dying so I didn't get too many, but it was really fun to just hang out with Teagan all day, which I realize I do everyday, but it is fun to see her interact outside of our apartment.

The Princess and the "pee" Party

2010-10-18T08:42:00.001-07:00

I am very determined to get my child out of diapers! All the other little kids that are around Teagan are potty training right now or are already potty trained and I don't want to be the one that is left changing diapers, plus Teagan has had a form of staph infection on her butt and thighs since April ( we only found out in September about it) But its called MRSA and it makes these HUGE boils that we have to pop and it isn't fun for anyone involved. So in my twisted thinking I figured it would probably go away if she wasn't stuck in a diaper that was just spreading it around everywhere ( sorry for the gross information over load) So that is what leads us to today our Princess and the "pee party" I was trying to think of things that would make it seem like we are having fun and also giver her a few incentives. So she really loves princess's and getting presents and candy. So I went to the dollar store( my new favorite place) and only spent $18 on everything. I got her a total of 7 things she could unwrap, three types of candy, some princess balloons. I then made her a potty chart and a sign telling her it was a party. We are going to just hang out all day and watch all the princess movies and hopefully get this potty training thing nailed down. Here are some photos.

Please di regaurd the sign I made in like 30 seconds.

Don't worry she has on underwear.

Disnyland

2010-10-05T08:04:00.001-07:00

Well here they are some of our pictures from Disneyland! We had a lot of fun this time just taking it easy and not being in a rush to do everything. I love Disneyland at Halloween time! They decorate it so cute and they change up some of the rides it is so fun! Teagan had a lot of fun! She got to meet A TON! of characters this time which she is starting to love more and more. She used to be very afraid and cry, but now she will run up and hug them ( after some convincing on my part of course) Well that's pretty much it hope you enjoy the pics and videos. Needless to say we won't be going back till December so get your fill now...J/k. The Haunted Mansion at Halloween time!

This is Teagan with Fawn for those who have not seen Tinkerbell, she is an animal fairy.

Tinkerbell and Vidia. Teagan liked there shoes i guess.

Snuggling with Cinderella. She also got to meet Ariel and Princess Tiana again, but you've already seen those so I won't post them on here.

AS you can see this is not my child! I wanted to get a picture of Jack just to show you how awesome the costume is, but the line to get a picture was like three hours long so we opted out of that, but some day I will get a picture with him.

During Halloween time they change the haunted mansion into a Nightmare Before Christmas theme. If you ask me they should leave it that way all the time I think it looks much better. I took a lot more pictures on that ride and even some video, but they didn't turn out the best cause it was dark and Lars was yelling at me for having the flash on during the ride, but Nightmare before Christmas is one of my favorite movies ever and I know most people think it is weird, but I just can't help it. I love it!

Under construction!

2010-09-24T08:08:00.001-07:00

Ok I know my blog is a mess, but I am trying to mess with some stuff online to make it really awesome so you peeps will just have to deal with it for awhile! thanks love you all!

Wait for it!

2010-09-22T15:35:00.000-07:00

Yes friend we are going to Disneyland again! If I didn't know any better I would say we lived there! So look out for more pictures! Unless they will just make you jealous then don't look! anyone who wants to come and meet us over conference weekend should totally come! Yeah I know we are horrible, but when you teach Primary any chance you have not to go to church on Sunday MUST be spent at Disneyland! OK so this post was lame, but I really have nothing else to post about.

a Steal!

2010-09-12T10:46:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I get on here and read on other people's blogs about all the good deals they have gotten on stuff and I feel like I never find a good deal on anything...Well over the weekend while on the hunt for Tinkerbell paraphernalia. I found these.

We were walking into Ikea and we normally walk through it very slowly cause I always like to look at the set ups they have of all the rooms on the top level. Well on this day I didn't really feel like walking around I just wanted to walk around on the bottom level. So we get into the Marketplace( as they call it) and I see all these workers piling these boxes onto a pallet and all these people are just standing there waiting for them to be finished. So I walk over there and look at the sign of where all the people were standing and it was a sale on these dish sets. They were normally $14.99 for 4 bowls, 4small plates, and 4 large plates. I was not in the market for new dishes cause I really have nice ones that I love, but I could not pass up this deal and I don't think anyone else could have either( Morgan you would have been so proud of me for finding this one!) So drum roll please!..... They were $1.99 for the whole set! That's right ...that is not a typo! So I ran over there and pushed my way through people and grabbed two boxes of them. Right after I walked away from the pallet they announced it over the intercom system and all these people just came running. Now that I have them I wish I would have grabbed more of them, but it was craziness. So that is my one good deal and I will probably never find another one in my life.

Improvments

2010-09-12T09:47:00.000-07:00

About a week ago I blogged about this

This book shelf for those who didn't read that post was given to me by a neighbor that moved to Connecticut. I decided to put it in Teagan's room since her room is really the only place we have room for furniture anymore. I didn't like how it looked so I got some ideas on how to improve it and started from there. Well this book shelf has sparked a whole new room theme you could say and I started converting her room into this theme this weekend and I am guessing it is just going to get worse for me cause she LOVED! it when she saw it! She ran in her room and saw some of the stuff in there and just shouted...TINKERBELL! Yep that's right friends we are now the proud owners of a Tinkerbell room. I will give you the tour.
This is the finished book shelf.( Don't judge it to harshly) This was the first thing I have ever re done on my own.

The book shelf with all the decor...and books.

The door! Teagan wanted to put a Tinkerbell sticker on her door. So being the push over that I am ...I let her.

"WOW...Tinkerbell!"...Mommy look...Tinkerbell!

We purchased these Tinkerbell pictures last time we went to Disneyland. We really love all the art they have there and we decided to get these for Teagan and put them up for her.

I already had these mirrors I just moved them around and put a Tinkerbell sticker on the small on to make them match everything else.

This is her shelf. I moved the shelf to a different spot. She got that bear on her birthday and I thought I would put it up there since it matches. I also got a little silver lantern to put up there and next time we got to Disneyland we are going to get a small Tinkerbell to put inside..( Like on Peter Pan)

Those silver frames on the wall will have all of Teagan's pictures of meeting the fairies at Pixie Hollow at Disneyland. I just have not had time to print them and she still has to meet the last fairy Roseta.

That is the end of the tour. It is still a work in progress, but Hopefully by the time we move into a house we will have all the Tinkerbell decor required to fill a room. Teagan is in love with her room and hopefully she stays that way.

Caterpillars

2010-09-08T10:25:00.000-07:00

I recently have noticed that I don't really do anything with Teagan. So I decided to test out doing some sort of craft with her besides coloring. I thought of the easiest thing I could think of which was pipe cleaner caterpillars. I bought all of the stuff I though we would need like pipe cleaners little fuzzy balls, eye, glue ect... Well needless to say the first attempt didn't turn out so well. I tried just gluing all the fuzzy balls to the pipe cleaners and that didn't work out at all. So being the most un crafty person on the planet I had to google how to make a pipe cleaner Caterpillar. Well the second attempt was much easier and Teagan had fun making them.

My Caterpillar

Teagan's Caterpillar ( with Mommy's help of course)

My attempt at a spider.

Hold your caterpillars up Teagan... uh...Too far!

She decided the boy Caterpillar and the girl Caterpillar needed to kiss

Disneyland...again

2010-09-01T09:14:00.000-07:00

Yeah so I know everyone is probably sick of seeing our Disneyland pictures but since we have the annual passes that is pretty much the only thing we do these days. ( i highly recommend purchasing annual passes it is the best thing I think I have ever spent money on...seriously!) So anyways this past weekend we went with Lars' sister and her husband. They also have annual passes so they go just as much as us. We had so much fun with them. We were actually able to go on all the rides that Teagan can not go on since they came with us it was a lot of fun.
Teagan and Daddy

Our favorite ride ever! We go on this ride about 100 times!

We found these stairs and thought it would be cute to take Teagans picture on them, but she wouldn't stop trying to climb them so they didn't turn out that great.

Teagan and Daddy at the honey pots.

All of us!

Teagan fell asleep in her stroller and Lars thought it would be funny to try and dry out her lips. Poor kid has to put up with her dad.

Teagan and her aunt Katie and Uncle Cory, she loves them cause they take her on the Teacups which I can not handle!

Teagan meeting Ariel! She ran right in and hugged her and then wanted to play with her hair. Then they compared shoes and then she wanted Ariels necklace. I think Ariel was her favorite this time!

Meeting Tiana- Teagan can't get her name right so she just calls her Princess and the Frog. She was really pretty!

Meeting Belle! Teagan loved meeting her too! Lars thought she was hot and wanted a picture with her by himself, but There were too many people waiting sorry Lars!

and last but not least our favorite Disneyland Buddies! Thanks for going with us Katie and Cory We love you guys!

IDEAS!!!

2010-08-26T09:37:00.000-07:00

So we helped some of our Friends from our ward move last night and they are moving across the country so they got a really small truck and could not fit all of their stuff in it. So they gave us this book shelf. I have been trying to find a book shelf for Teagans room for awhile( a much smaller one of course, but hey I got it for free) So anyways I need ideas of how to make it look girly and antique. Any thought also I need Ideas of thing I can put on it that will not break if it falls over because a two year old decided to climb on it any thoughts?

I should probably mention that it is not real wood. It just has the faux wood finish on it so I don't even know if that is able to be painted over?

Some pictures of us

2010-08-02T09:54:00.000-07:00

So we are trying this new thing where we go a whole month without spending money on anything except for bills and food. So on Saturday we decided what would be something we could do for free that we haven't done in a while, so we went to the temple grounds in Mesa and took some pictures. Most of them are of Teagan cause I think it s like some written rule that once you have kids all the pictures you used to take of you and your husband of your boyfriend go right out the window and now all the pictures on your camera are of your kids. anyways we are still playing around with some of them in photo shop, but here are just a few that we took.

Oh Just some stuff

2010-07-28T09:14:00.000-07:00

So I haven't really done a whole lot of...well really anything lately, But some of my family cam down and spent some time with Lars and I and we had fun. First my mom and my little sister Jacie and my brother Carson and his girlfriend Emily came down. We just kind of hung out at the pool for a few days and had a bbq like every night, they even got to experience a little Arizona Monsoon rain and lightening storm. Then on Thursday we went to a Dimondbacks game and those are always pretty fun.( it would be better if they would actually win

Then on Saturday we got up really early( 4 a.m. ) and drove down to San Diego. We spent all day Saturday at the beach and it was a little over cast so we all got fried!

We went to dinner that night and then got up early again and went to Seaworld on Sunday. Which was really fun for me and Lars and Teagan, but I think my mom was not having a good time cause my little sister was really enjoying being a total BRAT that day! but in any case a pretty good time! Lars and I ended up buying a pass for $69 each to be able to just go in for free for the rest of the year which was awesome because it is normally $69 to get in for one day!

Then after that was over it was time for my family to head back toward home they were leaving from San Diego to Las Vegas to stay for the night. Lars and I decided to go on a little side vacation of our own and ended up in Disneyland! There is just something about going on a trip and not having to wait or worry about any one else. We were only going to stay for one day but ended up staying for two. Unfortunately my camera battery died on the first day we were there so I didn't get that many pictures and the ones I did get are on Lars' phone so I will have to post those later. When we got to Disneyland on the first day the first thing we did was let Teagan meet some characters so we could get that over and done with. Teagan got to meet Cinderella, Snow White, Aruora, Tinkerbelle and silvermist( another fairy for those who are Disney challenged) then we just went on rides for the rest of the day. It was pretty busy while we we there and because we decided to stay for another day we had to give one arm and one leg to stay at the Disney Paradise Pier hotel, but it was cool cause when we got there at midnight they had up graded our room to the best suite they have because they actually did not have enough room for us. So the room we stayed in was NICE! it had a full length dinning table two bathrooms a living room and an entire kitchen. Lets just say it was bigger then out apartment! So at least we felt like we got our monies worth. Then on the second day we decided to go over to California adventure and ride some stuff over there. We went on a few Bugs Life rides with Teagan then decided to go shop around! after a little shopping we were wiped out and decided to head home. Over all we had a very long and eventful weekend with limited pictures because my camera died, but fun!

Fourth of July Weekend.

2010-07-06T09:43:00.000-07:00

This year for the Fourth of July we decided to do something different. Every year that we have lived in Arizona we would go to Tempe Town lake and watch the fireworks, but this year we dedcided we didn't want to go and sit on the grass for four hours just to get a good seat to watch fireworks. Instead we went to the Dimondbacks baseball game and watched the fire works at the game. It was really fun the Dimondbacks played the Dodgers and although they got KILLED! it was still fun to go. That was on JUly 3rd so then on the fourth we went to this park in Chandler and watched the fireworks. It was nice because they had bouncy houses for the kids and the whole event was FREE! I didn't get any pictures from the free event, So these pictures are from the Baseball game.

This is how close we were to the field( front row)

Ok this was hilarious! They had these giant baseball players walking around, they were supposed to be like giant bobble heads. So anyways TEagan was scared of them. We saw them from where we were walking and so of course we said "look Teagan" and started to walk over to them to get a picture. So Teagan being the little smart girl she is instead or crying she pretended she was alseep so they wouldn't talk to her and so she wouldn't have to look at them. So they would walk around all of the sections at the game and any time they cam to ours she would pretend she was asleep. Little turd!

She saw the bobble heads from across the field and this was the face she made when she saw it.

Me and Lars

DORK!

Fireworks!

Random pictures from our trip to Utah

2010-06-28T17:10:00.001-07:00

Watching Bugs Life on the airplane ride to Utah!

Getting her hair wrapped in sponge curlers our first night there.

Jacie

My family does this thing where they each get a turn picking a place to eat once a month( No kids allowed!!) and they dress up to match the place they are going.

at Toy Story 3 with the girls( most of my cousins went too, but they weren't in the picture)

and last but not least dinner with the girls, Teagan and her new BF Brielle!

T shirt bleaching.

2010-06-28T16:52:00.000-07:00

While I was in Utah my aunts came up with this idea to bleach t shirts. I know right why would you want to bleach your shirts. So we decided to make them one day here is how you do it.

1- find a t shirt. you can use one you already have or go buy a new one. I got Teagan's from Target for $2.50.
2- buy freezer paper. you can find it at most grocery stores.
3- make sure you have a small spray bottle( travel size works the best) also make sure you have an exacto knife and an iron.

step one- Choose your design( I did a lower case t for Teagan) I just got on Microsoft word found a cute font and put the font size at 500. Then I printed it out.
step two- Trace your design on the freezer paper- so for mine I just traced the lower case T.
Step three- cut out the design from the freezer paper.
step four- place the big piece of freezer paper over your shirt.
Make sure you have enough to cover the whole shirt or the bleach will leak through the un covered parts.
step four- iron the paper onto your shirt.
step five- fill your spray bottle with bleach and spray anything that is uncovered ( your design)
step six- put it out in the sun to dry.
step seven- when the design is the color you want it bring it in and rinse it out with cold water. Then your shirt is done and ready to be washed and worn.

a couple of things I wanted to include were. I recommend using lighter colored shirts if you want the design lighter. We used a black shirt for one and the design turned out grey. Which also looked cool but brighter shirts will just turn a brighter color of the shirt color. Pastel shirts will turn white. Also DO NOT over spray the shirt. It will leak through the paper just spray it lightly and let it soak in and have time to change. If you want to try it and have any other questions let me know. It was super fun and turned out really cute!

Just some cute stuff

2010-06-28T16:30:00.000-07:00

So while my BFF Dani was here at my casa we decided my very dark and black apartment needed some color. My color of choice was GREEN! I don't know what it is but I really love green right now. So a couple of weeks before that i bought these pillows at Burlington Coat factory.

So we got stuff to sort of go with those. We painted some of my frames that I already had. They were just plain black.

Then I found a shelf that I got from my father in law that I have been wanting to hang for a ling time and we painted that blue. Then I went to Michael's and got the candles and the flowers. I am still looking for other little things to go on the shelf.

And then we got some curtains to go in my front window. which are green but you can't tell in this picture.

here is what they look like up close.

We also got a cute table runner and some kitchen towels that all match.

I had the glass vase and I just filled it with pieces of broken glass.
So remember
Curtains with rod
table runner and matching kitchen towels
spray paint for frames and shelf.
shelf decor
and another set of pillows which I forgot to put up before I took the pic( they are blue)
for $50.00 that's right... what would be do with out Burlington Coat Factory.

Las Vegas and Lars' Birthday

2010-06-01T16:18:00.000-07:00

So we decided to go to Las Vegas for Lars' birthday/ Memorial day weekend. Lars' sister Katie and her husband Cory live there. Lars' parents also drove down from Utah and we decided to make it a family gathering( minus Lars' brother and his family). We went down on Friday night. It is about a 5 hour drive from Phoenix. On Friday night we basically got there and went to sleep. Then Saturday we woke up and went to breakfast. Then the guys went to the driving range to hit some balls and the girls went to the freezing pool. I opted out of getting in the freezing cold water. Instead I layed out and got a horrible sunburn. Then we went to dinner to eat and watch the Phoenix Suns horrible lose to the Lakers.( that was sad) after that we decided to go out to the strip. We only did a few things cause it was getting pretty late. We went to the Coke factory and M&M world and then back home. Then on Sunday Lars and I had a room at the New hotel next to the Venitian called the Palazzo. It was so nice. We got there and checked in. Then we went and ate lunch at this Wolfgang Puck retraunt which was really good. Then we decided to go to the spa. We got messages at this really nice spa. They had you wear robs and special shoes. They had drinks and fruit in the spa. They also had all these special rooms you could go into that did different things. It was awesome! Then we went back to our room and got ready. We then went and got some dinner and dessert. Then we came back to our room and just relaxed. It was so nice to just do nothing. It was also really nice to be able to do something without Teagan as much as we love her, sometimes you just need a break!

Our room!

Sadly these are the only pictures I took the entire time we were there because I just suck at remembering to take pictures!

The TuTu.

2010-05-27T11:21:00.000-07:00

So Teagan has this red Tutu that she got from my aunt! She loves it! She wants to wear it everyday. I have pretty much talked her out of wearing it everyday except today! She threw the biggest fit when I told her she could not wear it to the store. So I decided to just give up and let her wear it.

This is it.

Watching Sleeping Beauty.

Happy Birthday Teagan

2010-05-17T08:56:00.000-07:00

Well today is my baby girls birthday. It is a bitter sweet moment. She is growing up too fast and I can not believe she is already two. She is very much loved by everyone who knows her. She is the biggest blessing in my life and I am so excited for her to grow up and discover new things, but very sad at the same time to be losing my sweet baby girl. Happy Birthday Teagan Mommy and Daddy love you very much!

This was her Birthday cake. He cute Aunt Ruth made for her yesterday at our little family party!

She liked to look at it and say "Pretty"

And then she realized we were going to light the candles and she got scared. What kid is afraid of their own birthday candles... that's right mine!

After they were lit and she didn't want to be near them!

Mommy trying to help her blow them out.

IF you can't tell this is a picture of her earrings! That's right she got her ears pierced, I tried to get a picture at the store, but that was not happening. She had a complete meltdown before, during and after. When the lady was marking her ears she started crying. But she likes them now. She grabs them sometimes and will just smile and say" pretties" ( they are Hello Kitty earrings if you can't tell that's kind of a bad picture)

This was one of the other presents she got from Mommy and Daddy. She got to go to Build-a- Bear and make this bear. She liked picking out the clothes for it. Its name is Tinker Bear.

a better picture of it's dress!

Frustrating

2010-05-06T09:22:00.001-07:00

Ok so I am just a little bit frustrated about this topic and I am not writing about this to get anyone's opinion on it. I will pre- appoligize if this offends anyone, but I feel like this is not a far thing to do to the people that live in Arizona and I wish it would stop. So most of you probably know that in the State of Arizona they just passed a law that if police have reasonable suspicion that some one is in this country illegally then then can ask them for their proper identification. Now this would not be such a big deal except that everyone that is against it says that the bill will racially profile people. Which is unconstitutional. So here is my problem. now that it was signed into law people ( even our own members of congress) are staging boycotts against the state. They are telling people not to come and spend money in the state. Which doesn't make sense to me and heres why. There are a lot of illegal immagrants in the state of Arizona. There are an estimated 400,000 to be exact. That is 400,000 people that live here and get the perks of living here, but they do not pay taxes, and yes I realize that there are a lot of our own citizens that don't pay taxes either. The bigger problem is now becoming the boycotts. If you boycott the state of Arizona then the hotel and entertainment industries are going to suffer people are going to start losong jobs againg( that includes whites, blacks and hispanics that are here legally) so even though some of those people opose the bill they will start losing jobs. The state of Arizona does not boycott other states with Laws that we don't agree with. You know not everyone agrees with gay marriage, but we don't tell poeple not to go to California because they support that. Arizona has a very unstable economy still and I wish people would stop getting so angry about a bill that the citizens had nothing to do with and I wish they would stop telling people to boycott the state. I agree that something needs to be done about immigration. I don't think that this bill is the right way to get it done, but something does ned to be done about it, and until people that do live in the other states have lived in Arizona and have seen how much crime there is cause by illegal immagrants and the amount of drugs that is brought into our state everyday then they have no room to send their protesters here. Thatnks for letting me rant. This is just really annoying and is getting way out of control and now that I have said how I feel I will stop now.

Update on stuff.

2010-05-04T09:12:00.000-07:00

So i Know I have been horrible about blogging. We have had a lot of stuff going on, but at the same time nothing. The biggest news being that some of you may have heard that we were looking for a house. Well we were looking for a house a found a few that we liked, but after much conversation and thought and prayer we decided to wait another six months to get a house. We just are so close to being debt free that we wanted to finish paying all of it off before we jumped into something. So the next item of business is. I took my Cosmetology state board exams and I was pretty sure I bombed it. I walked out of the test center not feeling good about my test, but 7 days later I was surprised when Lars opened the results and I had PAST! So now I am looking for jobs doing hair till I finish my degree. So this last weekend Lars' family all came from their places of residence all we all drove to Safford Arizona. It is one of the most boring places I have ever been. The reason we went down there was because Lars' family lived there for about 13 years and this small little town in the middle of no where acquired a LDS temple. So we went to the open house along with all of his extended family. We all stayed at his grandma's house. So there was about 25 people crammed in this little 3 bedroom two bath house. It was complete madness. I didn't take a whole lot of pictures while we were there, but I took a few in the car on the way back to civilization. So I will post those as well as some others that I have taken in the past couple of weeks.

This is just Teagan playing at the little indoor playground at the Chandler mall, She loves it we go at least once a week.

Same place(This is the top of the slide)

Daddy and Teagan at The World WildLife Zoo

Leaving the Zoo

Another D-backs game

This was funny. Teagan found a paper towel tube I threw in the garbage, and because she is so little she could stick her arms all the way up to her elbow through the tube so Lars thought it was really funny to stick both her arms in there like a chinese finger trap and she would get so mad.

Um I'm not totally sure what she was doing this for? (on the way home from safford)

And last but not least Teagan and he noise maker at the Suns game last night. She thought it was fun to lick it I guess. This family fun event started out aweful We got all the way downtown from our house and we were looking for a place to park and all of a sudden I hear these noises coming from the back seat that didn't sound too good. Next thing I know Teagan is throwing up the Pizza and fruit she had for dinner and of course I didn't bring extra close. So I cleaned her all up and stripped off her close and carried her into U.S Airways center in just a diaper. It was way embarrassing. So I got inside and had to buy her a Suns sweat suit to wear( which was not cheap) That sucked!

Mommy and Teagan at the game( Lars was too cool to be in the picture with us)

Notta Lotta!

2010-04-13T09:13:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone. I haven't blogged in a few weeks so I thought I would just ya know say something. We really haven't been doing a whole lot. We have been pretty busy. We did go to Utah over Easter weekend, but because I am horrible at remembering to take picture I didn't take a single picture while we weren there. Then when we got back we slipped right back into our daily routine. We did go to our first D-Backs game of the season which was AWESOME! They won 9-1 and then they had a fireworks show after. We love going to the games ven Teagan will sit through a whole 9 inning baseball game. Her favorite thing to do it to get Peanuts! She will eat and entire bag of peanuts all by herself too bad they are like 5 dollars a bag! It is really fun to go though. She also made friends with these people behind us that were WASTED! I might add, cause they kept giving her their pom pom's and telling her to dance and she would just wave it around and spin in a circle it was kinda funny, they however thought it was REALLY REALLY funny.

Gila Valley Temple

2010-03-22T09:03:00.000-07:00

So back in April 2008 the LDS church announced that they would be building three more temples in Arizona. Currently there is one in Mesa,and one in Snowflake. They said they would be building one in Phoenix, and one in Gilbert which is great for us because we are going to be so close to those as well as still close to the one in Mesa. Then they said they would be building on in the Gila Valley. Which is Eastern Arizona the area where Lars grew up. This was really big news for his family. The town in which the new temple is being built is called Safford. It is probably the size of just Mapleton alone( for you Utah county folks) So for them this is a big deal because pretty much every one that lives there is a memeber of the church. Anyways the reason for this post is that Lars' whole family is coming from Utah and Las Vegas to come to the open house. So we will be spending the last weekend in April In Safford. It is a three hour drive from Phoenix and although it will be fun to hang out with Lars' family Safford is only fun for about two hours and then it is so boring. I am excited to see the temple, but spending time with Lars' family while they travel back in time is not as exciting for me as it is for them. Does anyone want to drive down here for 10 hours and then another 3 hours and spend the weekend at my husbands grandparents house? anyone? anyone? ok fine!

ha ha!

2010-03-17T09:35:00.000-07:00

We need a trampoline just so I can laugh at Teagan's hair while she is jumping.

The Happiest Place on Earth!( warning long post)

2010-03-08T10:29:00.000-07:00

Well we just returned from Disneyland! It was Teagan's first trip, my first trip since 1999! and Lars's first trip since 2002! So needless to say it was pretty fun! We left on Thursday night from Phoenix and I was really mad because I wasn't really feeling very good, but we left anyway. We got to Cali at around 11:30 got checked into to our hotel for that night and then went right to sleep we got up at around 7 and headed over to Paridise pier which is were we stayed for the rest of the time. We were meeting Lars' sister and her husband and his parents there. they all drove from Las Vegas were his sister lives so they wouldn't get there till about 1:00 p.m. so we went into the park anyways and did a lot of stuff just with teagan on our own. It was really nice weather on Friday. We went on a few rides and then his family finally showed up. So after that we just went on rides with them. teagan had so much fun and she did great! She wasn't scared of any of the rides just the characters that she met. It was really nice cause they have made it a lot easier for you to take little kids on rides. The only things she couldn't go on were the rides with height restrictions which was only like four of them! So she went on everything she could. Her all time favorite was the Teacups which I did not go on. They make me so sick! She got so spoiled by her Aunt Katie and uncle Cory! They bought her everything they possible could. So then on saturday it was over cast all day, but it didn't even start raining till 7:00 p.m and we were already at dinner so it worked our perfect! Then on Sunday it was really nice, but we only went on a few rides then we left cause we had to eat lunch and drive homw. We had so much fun! The funnest part was being able to experience it all with Teagan. She loved every minute of it. Except when she met the charecters of course. I think the pictures will explain more so here they are!

checking out the flowers!

just us!

just after the Winnie The Pooh ride! That ride was so cute!

Inside Micky's house

Meeting Mickey Mouse! She didn't really like that

Daddy, Teagan and Goofy!

I think Lars was a little bit too excited!

Teagan on the Teacups with her Aunt and Uncle!

Teagan in Pixie hollow!She really loves Tinkerbell so she thought this was really cool! She kept sayinh( WOW! Pretty)

Oh just Lars and I being weird.

this is a photo of our splash mountain photo. Lars and Cory did a stupid pose everytime! I was trying not to get wet.

Teagan and her gramie and grandpa McBride.

Teagan, Mommy and Minnie Mouse. She didn't like that either.

This was on the Peter Pan ride which is one of my favorites!

Last but not least on our last day there Tinkerbell was finally in Pixie hollow with one of the other fairies so we let Teagan go in there again and she didn't really like ti so we hurried and did the picture and then after we walked out she was so mad that we had to leave. I think she was mad the she was so shy cause she really love Tinkerbell!

this was Teagan's attempt to meet the other fairy, but it was too close for comfort for Teagan. She was a really nice fairy though.

this was all the stuff she got. The best part was I didn't have to buy any of it because she got spoiled by her aunt Katie and Uncle Cory and her Gramie and Grandpa.
Well I think I will stop with the pictures I think you all get the idea! It was really fun and I would recommend that anyone with kids that is thinking about going to just go cuase it was so worth the money and Lars and I enjoyed it just as much!

Happiness is...

2010-03-03T08:16:00.000-07:00

-Teagan's laugh.
-Finally getting good grades in school, with little effort.
-Getting my hair washed by someone else ( who doesn't love that)
-Time spent with Lars and Teeagan.
-I know this might seem weird, but the heat of the summer in Phoenix.
- A vacation anywhere!
-Knowing that I am with my family for eternity!
-FRIENDS! I have been missing my friends A LOT! lately and wish everyone would just move to Phoenix! Nothing makes me happier then my friends. They are so supportive!
-Going to Dineyland.
-Some very good mexican food! that is pure happiness.
- Watching Ni-hao Ki-lan with Teagan. I like how she tries to say the Chinese words!
I am going to tag, Chelsea Brandon, Julia Robinson,and Shelley McBride. That is pretty much the only people I can tag everone else has already done it.

Teagan's "Big girl room"

2010-03-02T08:58:00.001-07:00

So after my family came and stayed at my house I decided that it was time for the crib to come down. Teagan has been sleeping in her bed on and off for about 6 months and she does great in ti. She hasn't fallen off once and she actually likes it cause her legs don't get stuck in the bars in the middle of the night. (she is a crazy sleeper)So i finally got all the bedding on her twin bed and moved it around to give her more floor space and so far she loves it! She is spending more time in her room and she is not bringing all her toys into the living room anymore. My only problem now is that the little girl I watch still has to sleep in a crib, but I guess now she will be sleeping on the floor, and her mom keeps bringing all of her big toys over to my house.ANNOYING! They live in a one bedroom apartment for right now and all of Amarah's toys are all over their house which I can not handle at my house so that is really driving me crazy. It's like she is using my house as her storage unit, but that is another story for another day I guess.

I got the bed spread at Ikea, it is actually a cover and you just put the thicker bedding inside it, but it is already starting to get hot so I just put this on her bed. I got it for $7! and it is reversible.
I am planning on covering this rocker with hot pink fabric, but I am not very crafty so I have to wait till someone who is can help me do it.So for now we have a hot pink blanket.

I am also going to put a white shelf in the middle of these pictures with some stuff on it,but I have a husband that doesn't think it is worth it to hang a shelf up when we will be moving into a house in October. It was like pulling teeth to get the pictures up.

So all together I paid $7 dollars for the comforter. I got the sheets from Wal-Mart for $10.00 the white shelf that is not up from Ikea for 12.00 and the lamp was on clearance at Ikea for $8! That is all I had to buy for this room so far, so grand total I spent $37.00. So it's not quite finished yet, but it's a work in progress.

My Family

2010-02-28T21:20:00.000-07:00

Sadly the Phoenix sportsman's expo ended today so my family is gone. They came down to do the Sportsman's expo for my Dad's lodge and they stayed at my house for four days. There was my mom, dad, little sister, my brother( Carson) and his girlfriend. Then Lars and I crammed in my little two bedroom apartment. Which only tells me one thing I am in desperate need of a house. Sadly I didn't take any pictures of anything while they were here, but we did do some fun stuff. On Thursday we went to the University Of Phoenix stadium where the Cardinals play to set up the booth, then we went to one of my favorite places, the World Wildlife Zoo. Then on Friday my parents were at the show all day so I took Teagan and Jacie and the little girl that I watch to the park which was fun. Till Teagan found a nasty chicken nugget covered in sand and decided she would try to eat it. That was not fun trying to dig that out of her mouth. Then on Saturday we went to the show and hung out. We ate lunch at the expo and we paid $22.50 of three hot dogs and two drinks! YEAH! I don't think so! Never again will I eat at an expo. Then after that we went home so the girls could nap and then we went back and ate dinner with my parents at a restraunt in Glendale. Then on Sunday just may Dad went to the show and the rest of my family packed up and then they all left. Sadly I didn't take any pictures of anything, but I finally got a battery charge for my other camera so I will e able to take more pictures of stuff. I also re arranged Teagan's room and will take pictures of that tomorrow.

GRRRR!

2010-02-23T10:23:00.000-07:00

Just when you try to get stuff done more stuff just happens. Now that I have two little monsters... I mean girls at my house everyday stuff is bound to happen. So already today my house been torn apart. Which is ok cause I have to clean it anyway before my family comes, but i thought I had everything under control. I turned on a movie for them to watch and put them both on the couch and they were just sitting there. So I decided that this would be a good time to work on some homework since it is my finals week of the two classes I am in right now and my family is coming this week and I want to be able to spend time with them. So I got on the computer and started working on my paper and then I hear teagan start to whine and say " sorry, sorry" I was like" what the heck is she saying sorry about. Then I hear this crunch. I walk into the kitchen and this is what I found.

Yes that would be an entire box of cereal on the floor.

Did I mention that there is cereal in that shoe.

Did I also mention that this cereal is like almost $5 a box... Little Shit!

So I take her in her room to get her undressed and put her in the bath tub and I come back from turning the water on and she is doing this...
They always know when you need to be put back in your place and laugh! What a little blessing!

Flashback Friday

2010-02-19T08:14:00.000-07:00

So today in honor of the letter of the day on Sesame street being "w" I decided to do a flashback on my "wedding" "W". (I know I'm a little strange, it's Friday)It was a very cold and windy day in November. I thought because the sun was out and there was no snow on the ground it might be ok, but that's the great thing about Utah the weather seems to trick you a lot. We decided to have our wedding close to Thanksgiving so that those family members that were coming to Utah from other states could kill two birds with one trip. So it was November 25th, it was a long day that was just sort of a blur. I got up at 6 o'clock and drove down to Orem to get my hair and makeup done at the salon I worked at, at that time. Then my mom and I drove back home and got dressed. We had to be at the temple at 11:00. You would think that you would have enough time if you had five hours between the time you get up to the time you have to be at the temple( which is actually two hours before you get married) but you would be wrong. I was late by about 30 minutes. We finally got in and got married at one then from the second we got out of the temple at about 3 o'clock till the second we had to be at our reception we were taking pictures outside in the freezing cold weather. Then we finally got to go to our reception which was at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on the 10th floor which was so pretty cause you could see the temple right outside of the window and the Christmas lights were on so it was so pretty. We had lots of fun at our wedding, but I am really glad we only have to do that once in our lives.

My BFF's

The best day of my life!

Teagan and timeout!

2010-02-17T11:49:00.000-07:00

So anyone who knows Lars knows that he has to have the nicest electronics that there are. Which unfortunately does not mix well with a little girl. So he has spent many hours teaching Teagan not to touch things and how to turn on and off the DVD player stuff like that. So she has been doing pretty good until recently. I started watching a little girl in my ward during the day while her mom and dad work. She has been getting into all the DVD's and messing around with Lars' little movie theater he has set up in our house, and because she is not mine I feel like I can;t be as firm with her as I am with Teagan. So today Teagan got into the movies and pulled them all out and was messing around with the receiver.I think she did it cause she saw Amarah doing it and thought she wouldn't get in trouble this time. I decided recently to start doing time out. I really thought it was going to be a challenge, but it isn't I tell her to go sit in the chair and she will just sit there till I tell her to get out. How did I end up with the easiest child on the planet!

these are of Teagan and Amarah the other day. Playing with Playdough. Boy! do I love claening that up.

she is the only kid I know that is smiling and laughing while they are in time out.

Flashback Friday

2010-02-12T13:42:00.000-07:00

This week I decided to do a flashback on our family journey ( mostly about Lars and I.) How we started out our dating journey. Lars and I met through our friends Dani and Steve. Dani and I had gone to The Kieth Urban concert for our birthdays ( for those who don't know our birthdays are two days apart although I am one year older)We then went over to the house where Steve, Kyle and Jon were all living to hang out. That's when I met Lars for the first time. He had just come home from his mission a few months earlier. We hit it off really well. We went on our first date a couple weeks later. Before we went to dinner I had to go put gas in my car ( Dani I am sure you are getting ready to pee your pants right about now) I decided that night that I was going to wear a skirt. So we got to the gas station( which my dad owns) and I started putting the gas in my car, then I turned around to go inside that's when I tripped on the hose to the gas pump and almost fell on my face. Then after that happened I got in the car and shut my skirt in the car door. I was so embarrassed. Then we went to dinner at carabas. As if this date couldn't;t get any worse I some how managed to get the sauce from the food I was eating all over his arm. Then after dinner we went to a movie. We went to Into The Blue. Which was a really dumb movie. After that we all just kind of hung out and he hardly was talking to me so i figured I blew that date for sure. Well I must have been wrong cause he called me every weekend for a few more months and then it was official we were together ever since.

This is the only picture of us I have before we were offically married.( well on this computer) This is in Lake powell where I was working for the summer. Lars came down to visit me and thats when he proposed( offically).

Flashback Friday

2010-02-05T11:59:00.000-07:00

So I was reading my friend Amy's blog and decided to do a flashback Friday like she does. I think it is so fun to read about things that happened a while ago. I really like re-living those memories. For my first on I decided to tell my story of Labor and delivery. Some of you may know this story already, but some of you may not. My due date was May 31st( Lars' birthday) and I was so sick of being pregnant. My doctor kept telling me that I would probably go over my due date "almost every first time mom goes over their due date" I decided that wasn't good enough for me so i decided to try and force my labor. I tried everything I could think of. On May 15Th I decided to go for a little run on my grandma's tread mill. I ran for about 30 minutes and then I couldn't anymore so I stopped. I decided that this was hopeless and I just needed to give up trying. So the next day May 16Th my mom called me and asked me if I wanted to get some lunch and go with her and my sister to the park. I said yes so she came and picked me up. We went to Arbys at about 11:00 a.m. then we went to a park in Murray Utah and we had been there maybe 5 minutes. We were looking at the ducks. Then we started walking toward the playground. I felt a little pop and then I felt water. So i turned to my mom and said something is happening to me. " I think i might be peeing my pants" I know super embarrassing right. She said" well squeeze you muscles and see if you can stop. I looked at her and said" It won't stop" She looked at me and said" Holy crap your water is breaking"! " We need to go to the hospital" we stopped off at my grandmas so I could get some stuff and in the mean time I was trying to get ahold of Lars who was at work. I didn't know how long it was going to take so I tried to hurry. Long story short I was in labor for 12 hours, very comfortably I might add. I started pushing at 9:00 p.m. and pushed till 12:08 a.m. and she was born May 17Th after 3 hours of pushing and a very in experienced nurse. She got stuck on her way out and would not budge. They finally turned her and stuck this vacuum thing onto her head and out she came with one push. She was finally here weighing in at 5lbs 6 oz. What a day!

Updated picture

2010-01-28T16:49:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I posted something about my little sister Jacie and I got an updated picture from my mom today. These are just a couple of pictures she got taken yesterday.
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Happy Birthday Jacie!

2010-01-27T11:17:00.000-07:00

For those who don't know I have a little sister. When I say little I mean little. She is 3 today. She is getting so big. I hope she has a fun birthday party, without us. We love her very much and although she can be a huge brat at times we still love her. We love Jacer-Jay and we miss you everyday.

This is me with Jacie the first time I met her, cause we lived in Arizona when she was born, She was about four months old.

What I Meant to say Wednesday.

2010-01-27T10:53:00.000-07:00

So a couple of weekends ago we went to Las Vegas to visit Lars' sister and her husband. While we were there we got a phone call from someone in a ward telling us that we needed to meet with the Bishop on Sunday. Lars then proceeds to tell them that we won't be there on Sunday we are in Las Vegas. So then they guy says OK well how about next Sunday right before church? Lars says OK then hangs up. I said " who was that?" he tells me "well what did he want?" Lars says "I don't know we have to meet with the bishop." well why? I say ( like he is going to know)

Anyways we get hone from Vegas and go on with our week and we get a call on Tuesday asking if we can come meet with the bishop tonight. I'm am really wondering what it is now cause we just got a calling like two months earlier to be substitutes for Primary.

So we get the the church and it is really packed( they were doing recommend interviews)
We go into his office and he starts just chit chatting with us. Asking us where we were from ( cause everyone that lives in Phoenix is always from somewhere else)
How we met, what we do for work( did I mention we got a new Bishop)

What I said: Oh I grew up all over parts of Utah, we met through our friends, we were married in the Salt Lake temple...Blah blah blah....

What I meant to say: Um can we just get this going already. You don't have to butter us up, we're already going to do whatever it is you want us to do anyway. (did I also mention that our new bishop was in the bishopric, so he already knows us)

The bishop: So how old is your daughter?
Lars says: Well she will be 2 in May , So I guess she is like 20 months or 19 or something like that.

The Bishop: Oh so she does go to nursery already.
Me: yeah she does.
Bishop: does she do OK in there?
Me: Yeah for the most part she cries sometimes when we leave, but she gets over it pretty quickly.
what I meant to say: Your not going to put me in nursery are you. I will kill myself. I watch a baby all day long 7 days a week, her going to nursery on Sunday is my only break. please, please, please don't put me in nursery.

Bishop: well I called you guys in her because we wanted to extend to you a calling
Me: o....k.....?
What I meant to say: Another one we already have two we don't need a third calling.
Bishop: well I know you guys substitute taught in the primary a couple of weeks ago and the class was really big
Me: Yeah there was 16 of them.
What I meant to say: Oh NO! I know where your going with this...Oh please no, can I retract my no offer for nursery. I will even change all the diapers just please don't put me with that class! PLEASE!!!
Bishop: well we have decided to split that class and make you guys the permanent teachers.
me: ok
what I meant to say: oh crap! am I allowed to say no?
Bishop: so you guys will have the kids that are 10 turning 11
Lars: ok
What I meant to say: Oh great a buch of pre-teens with horrible attitudes and a kid with sever ADHD. Kill me know!!!
Me: ok great sound fun!

Hiking.

2010-01-24T20:32:00.000-07:00

So we went hiking on this little trail area that we found that is about three minutes from our house. we live in the BEST!! area in Arizona... seriously. We can walk to the grocery store... we are literally inches away from it. We have everything around us. We are 10 minutes away from downtown Phoenix and we still have mountains and desert land surrounding us. I love living in Ahwatukee I don't think I will move from this area as long as we live in Arizona. Anyways we went on a little hike on this trail and ended up walking down in a wash and collecting all the "Pretty" rocks, which I left on the side of the road...on accident..... here are some pictures.

What I Meant to say Wednesday.

2010-01-21T11:20:00.001-07:00

So I am going to start this new thing that I saw on a friends blog, and I know it's one day late, but I didn't have time to do it yesterday. So this edition is going to be about something that happened when I worked at wal-Mart. I still have a lot built up frustration from that job.

A young girl comes up to the Customer Service desk and talks to the girl behind the counter. I am running around with my head cut off trying to get all the problems that are going on resolved. My palm polite beeps and it is Julissa that girl at Customer service so I go up there and

ME: "whats up?"

Julissa: "This lady wants to return some things and I need you opinion on what to do."

ME: "OK. what does she want to return."

Julissa: " Well she has a DVD TV series that is 45.00 and she also has this pregnancy test that has been opened."

ME:OK....? Huh? Does she have receipts?
Customer: YES! i have two receipts one for each item. I didn't steal them or anything

What I said:"mam was there anything wrong with these items?"

What I meant to say: What the? who says that?

Customer: Yeah I bought the DVDs at 2:00 this morning and I realized I got the wrong ones.
What I said: "OK well unfortunately because they have been opened all we can do is exchange them for the same thing,because of the federal copy right law it prohibits us from returning opened media."

What I meant to say:" You stupid girl do you think I am stupid. You bought these DVDs this morning and you either went home and watched them all and now you just think you can get you money back, or you took them home and burned all of them and now you think we will just give you your money back. This isn't a thrift store you can't just return anything you want."

Customer: "Well I have the receipt can I just get a gift card or something?"

What I said: " No we can not do that either. You are going to have to keep them or exchange them for the exact same thing."

What I meant to say: "You stupid B*****. That would be the same thing as returning it. Just because it's Wal-Mart Store credit doesn't make it different, that's as good as cash."

Customer: " But I don't need these anymore"

What I said: "OK well unfortunately you have to keep them."

What I meant to say: "Of course you don't need them anymore. You copied them at home who needs two sets of the same shows."

Customer: "Well fine, but wheat about my pregnancy test?"

What I said:"Well what was wrong with it?"

Customer: "Well I used it and nothing showed up in the little window."

What I said: "You mean you used this and it didn't work?"

Customer: "Yeah i waited for like ten minutes and nothing happened."

What I meant to say: "OH MY HELL, you used this and I now have it in my hand that is DISGUSTING!.You just broke like a 1000 health codes by even bringing this inside! and second of all you dumb B***** it shows up after 2-3 minutes not 10 it probably did work and you waited way to long."

Customer: "So can I get my money back for that?"

What I said: "No you can't I'm sorry, but you bought it over the 90 day limit for a return."

Customer: "oh I didn't know there was a limit, can we just do it this once."

What I said: "Unfortunately I can't do it, you have already shown me the receipt."

What I meant to say: "NO you idiot there is a limit for a reason, do you really need your drugs that badly that you would bring back a pregnancy test that you bought three months ago."

Customer: "WELL FINE I WILL NEVER SHOP AT THIS WAL-MART AGAIN!" ( as she is yelling this in my face)

What I said: "OK well have a nice day!"

What I meant to say: "Fine see ya tomorrow you stupid B***** you'll be back everyone always says they will never shop at Wal-Mart again and I see them a hour later."

Play time with Teagan

2010-01-13T13:25:00.000-07:00

These are some pictures from the little park on the other side of the lake that is right by our house. We walk there about once a week and just play for a few hours.

She really loves the swing.

and she really loves the "Swide" (as she calls it)

YA! that's what she says every time she gets to the bottom.

this is a little tunnel and every little hole that's in it she pokes her face through and says" Peek Boo Momma" then she laughs at herself.

playing with the little tic tac toe thing.

This is Teagans little friend from church her name is Natalie. They were at the park too so that made it twice as fun I guess.

She can't get the concept yet that you have to sit down on the slide, so most of the time I am running around the slide trying to get her to sit down instead of walk down it and crack her head open. she keeps me on my toes that's for sure.

2010-01-13T13:14:00.000-07:00

These are some pictures of Teagan right after I would pick her up and throw her on the bed, she could play that game all day...I hate it.

Sad day.

2010-01-11T11:03:00.000-07:00

So for those of you that read my Christmas post Lars had told me that he would pay for me to get Lasik surgery. So I was so excited I made the appointment for the consultation, and when I got there they were really busy. So I sat there and waited for an hour and then when I finally got in they did all these tests on my eyes and that part took two hours. At the very end the dilated my eyes which I hate cause it makes me really sick every time. Then the lady was like "Ok the doctor will be in, just give him a couple of minutes." So I sit there and wait with my huge dilated eyes and then he finally comes in and looks at all my eye tests that I had been doing for the past two hours and then he says" Well it looks like your not a good candidate for Lasik." WHAT!!! I was so mad. So I asked why and he said " Well we need the layer of your cornea to be at the very least 500 and yours only registers at 445." AHHH! he told me if I were to get the lasik right now they would have nothing else to cut off and by the time I was 26 I would be back in glasses anyway. Guess its back to glasses and contacts for me. That was a sad day. They make it seem like everyone can get it when really you might not be albe to. Stupid genetics

My Little Princess

2010-01-05T11:38:00.001-07:00

Teagan has this new obsession. She got this princess dress and a crown from her little cousin Brandon for Christmas because he had her name. So she got the dress and the crown and then she got the wand and the purse from Santa Claus. Then she got some more" Pretties" that is Teagan talk for necklaces. and she has to wear this whole outfit everyday all day. If we go some where and I take it off she will cry and throw the biggest fit. So I have just started letting her wear it places. She does look so cute in it though. I think in the midst of creating a girly girl I may have created a monster because not only does she have to wear the dress, but we are now watching Sleeping Beauty everyday so she can "dance" spin around to the music. What have I done.

Daddy playing Prince and Princess with Teagan

Christmas

2009-12-26T16:19:00.000-07:00

This Christmas was pretty un eventful for us because we stayed here in Arizona. We would have gone to Utah because Lars had a four day weekend, and even though I have put in my two weeks notice at work I still have to work till the 30th of December. On Christmas eve we just went out and got some last minute gifts for Lars' family then we just hung out at home and watched Christmas movies. We let Teagan open her Christmas pj's as is a tradition in my family( I think it is in most families) then we all went to bed.

We woke up Christmas morning around 7:30 we went and got Teagan out of her bed and brought her into the living room and she found the little table Lars and I got her and immediatly just wanted to play with that. It is a little Tinkerbeel table that is just plastic on top and you can color on it with dry erase makers. We decided to show her her stocking and let her open that first. We didn't take a whole lot of pictures of us actually opening presents because we didn't really think about it till the end. So she liked all the little toys and candy in her stocking. Then we decided to eat breakfast before opening everything else ( which is a tradition from Lars' family.)Then we started all the other presents most of them where for Teagan, but Lars and I did ok too. Teagan wasn't too interested in actually opening the presents she would give the present to me or Lars and make us actually open it and then she would just take what was inside and set it neatly next to her other things.

This was all the stuff that Teagan got.

this was all the stuff Lars got with the exception of his playstation which he has had since black friday. It is pretty hard to had expensive gifts from your husband when you share a bank account.

this was all the stuff I got with the exception of my lasik surgery which I will be getting in a couple of weeks.

Teagan wasn't too interested in actually opening the presents she would give the present to me or Lars and make us actually open it and then she would just take what was inside and set it neatly next to her other thingsShe looked at each present for about two seconds before going for another one. So needless to say our christmas went rather quickly. Except for anything that was a stuffed animal or books. She got two stuffed animals and she would see them and hold them for a really long time and then every book she wanted us to read it to her. Lars' sister Katie sent her a big Minnie Mouse stuffed animal and she carried it around all morning, if we tried to take it from her she would get so mad. So anyways after we finished presents at our house we headed down to Tuscon where Lars' brother lives for the rest of the day. We had a pretty fun Christmas. We missed all the family and friends that we didn't get to see, but hopefully next year we will be able to come up to Utah and see everyone.

this is a picture of her with her bath toys that Santa brought her. They didn't make it into the picture of all of the rest of her stuff.

I had to put this picture up. Look at the nasty face.

Teagan's hair FINALLY fits in ponytails. Not on top just in the back, but i will no longer have to hear " oh wait a cute little boy." (yeah my little boy in the purple shirt with the pink shoes)

This is a picture I took of her a week before Christmas. I caught her looking at all the ornaments and lights under the tree and then when she found out I was in the room looking at her she got mad and this next picture was the out come.

Family pictures.

2009-12-09T07:37:00.001-07:00

So I decided it was time to update our family picture. And I decided to get one of all of us when we actually look put together( meaning me) I swear every time we bring a camera anywhere and take any kind of pictures, I am either not wearing makeup for that brief moment or I'm not feeling good or I really really really need to get my haircut ( the people who do hair wait as long as possible for some strange reason.. or maybe its just me) anyways so these are some of us that are semi good. Except that I am wearing my glasses in some of these because I have refused to spend money on contacts anymore because I just lose them about every two weeks and I am supposed to wear them for a month so no more will I be wasting money on contacts. I am holding out for lasik...(Hint Hint Lars)anyways I am hoping to make some Christmas cards out of these.. If I ever find the time to.

We had a hard time getting Teagan to look at the Camera.

Update and anniversary

2009-11-25T20:39:00.000-07:00

So today is our anniversary. Three years down many more to go. Today was very relaxing. We went and did some shopping for some new clothes for Lars for his job. Oh... wait.. Ok so Update first. Lars and I have been living in Phoenix xince June and he has had the worst time finding a job. Well after many months of applying like crazy anf tons of prayer and fasting he finally landed a job... and it's a good one. He will be working at The university Of Phoenix as a finance counselor. The job come with a yearly salery as well as medical benefits in 60 days, and not to mention his tuition is free and mine is 80% off. YAY!!! No more studnet loans( for the most part). so in light of this new job which we are VERY!!! Thankful for. I will still be working for Wal-Mart, but I am now working overnights which I have never done before so this will be very different for me. So we went shopping and got Lars some business atire because he has to dress very profssional. Lets just say that was his christmas whether he likes it or not. I just got homw from a visit in Utah which was so fun. My family really went out of their way to make sure I had fun while I was there. I got my tooth fixed which was nice. We are staying in Arizona for Thanksgiving and Christmas just because I work in retail and its impossible to get any holiday off unless you request like like five years in advance. We are actually really excited to have our own Christmas here( no offence meant family)So that is what we have been up to for awhile. Sorry I don;t have any pictures of anything. I can not find my battery charger for my camera and Lars' camera takes forever to load on here. I will get some up though in the next few weeks.I promise.

Halloween/update

2009-11-02T18:01:00.000-07:00

So this was Teagan's first year trick or treating. Last year she was only 7 months old so she didn't really go anywhere. Well maybe I should have just let her stay home again this year. I thought It would be nice for us to go down to Tucson so she could go trick or treat with her cousins. We got there right after I got off work on Saturday and ate dinner and then got the kids ready to go trick or treating. Well Teagan did not like it from the start.

We put the make up on her face and she didn't like that it scared her.
Then Lars and his brother were dressed up scary because they were going to scare kids and she went into hyperventilation when Lars' brother came out of the room dressed up like the joker. She would not even look at Lars.

In this picture Lars was in his costume and he was trying to talk to Teagan and she did not want to have anything to do with him.
Need less to say Teagan hated everything about Halloween(except the candy) I had to carry her and her stupid blanket all over the neighborhood. Until the very end when we only had five houses left. then She stopped crying and wanted to do it on her own. Maybe next year she will like it more.

These are just so random ones of her being scarred that I thought were kind of funny.

On a better note. Teagan and I will be heading up to Utah in one week to visit Family and Friends that want to see us. I will be getting the crown put on my tooth finally! I had a root canal a almost three months ago for those who didn't know and I am going up to Utah to have the crown done. So that will be nice. I will be there from Tuesday November 10th to Tuesday November 17th so anyone who wants to get together just call me. Our lives have been crazy the past few months we ended up having to move again after only living in our apartment for three months. The complex we live in rented us an apartment that was in forecloser ,and they didn't know it. So they gave us one month free rent and we moved across the complex to a semi- nicer apartment. We have lived in this apartment for a month now and we like it so far. With the exception of the fact that we had to get rid of our satellite dish and we are now without decent TV. Oh well... That's what movies are for. Lars has still been looking for a better job and has had a few leads, but nothing yet. We just feel blessed to even have ANY jobs at this point. Teagan defiantly helps us get thought the day. We love and miss you all.

McBride Family Weekend

2009-10-13T08:47:00.000-07:00

So the last weekend in September our little niece Brenna got baptized. So Lars' parents came down from Utah and His sister and her husband came over from California( they were on vacation there they currently live in Vegas for the time being) Anyways so we all went down to Tuscon for the weekend. There were 12 people staying in their three bedroom house which might sound big, but in fact is not big at all. So on Sunday right before we were leaving to go back to Phoenix we decided to take some pictures of the family. So here are some of them.

our little family. I know I look like crap, but I wasn't feeling good.

Lars and His Brother and sister.

The whole family.

I think this picture of Teagan looks just like Lars.

Teagan and her cousin Emmy walking through the desert. (Emmy is 5 months older then Teagan)

Update!

2009-09-13T20:12:00.000-07:00

So I haven't updated my blog for a month so I decided to just give everyone a little recap of our life in the past month. We have been working a lot. I go to work early in the morning and as soon as I get home from work Lars goes to work and doesn't get home till midnight. We don't get to see each other to much, but we do have Sunday off together which is nice. We haven't done a whole lot in the fun department because we are always working. We did how ever find out that our apartment complex rented us and apartment that is going into forecloser. So we will be moving really soon. We don't know yet if we will be moving somewhere else or just to another unit in our complex. We are pretty mad about the whole situation. It has been a big stress dealing with that whole mess. Lars's family will be coming down in a couple of weeks for our niece Breena's baptism so I will post more about that after they come. So for my post I have to post so pictures of Teagan for my aunts so here are some random pictures that I have taken in the past month. Oh it was also my birthday on Saturday the 5th but we both had to work so the next day we skipped church and went to breakfast and then went miniature golfing and then went to dinner not to exciting, but still fun to spend time out of the house together.

tires girl. She is just like her dad. She can sleep anywhere.

She was so excited that I finally let her have an Oreo that it tuckered her right out.

I am always giving Lars crap because I think that he doesn't ever match her clothes. So he thought he would be funny and teach me a lesson that he really does match her clothes. These are also her new favorite toy. She has to have these necklaces where ever she goes.

Teagan is just learning how to use a fork and spoon and this is a picture of her getting some practice

Visitors, Root canal and food poisoning.

2009-08-14T18:28:00.000-07:00

So I don't have any pictures for this post, but I will get some put up of Teagan for those who are asking( Aunt Erin). So this week was a crazy week for me. My Mom, grandma and little sister Jacie came down to Phoenix on Monday. They stayed until Friday cause it is kind of a long drive and it's hard for little kids to do it all in one day. So anyways then the next day (tuesday) I FINALLY had a root canal that I desprately needed. I had been having severe tooth pain for about two weeks and went to two dentists and they both said that I had to go to a specialist. So I finally just went and got it done, and let me tell you it was the best $1100 dollars I ever spent my tooth feels so much better. Then on wednesday night I got some really bad food poisening. It last pretty much all day on Thursday and then on Friday I had to go to work really early. So needless to say my family came down to my house to sit on my couch. I hope they enjoyed their time with Teagan and Lars cause I was pretty much out of it all week.

Water fun for Teagan!

2009-07-22T23:08:00.000-07:00

So today was my day off this week so I decided to take Teagan to Tempe Beach...ok its not a real beach its more like a lake that you can't swim in. Anyways its were we watched fire works on the 4th and we have been there a lot aready because they have a little water play area for kids and Teagan LOVES it. Everytime we get out of the car she knows exactly where we are.

this is what the slide area looks like. She loves to climb the stairs, but then when she gets to the slide she won't go down it.

this is her favorite thing in the water park. She gets on the whale and then runs down the little stream and then runs back and gets on the whale again.

Just running around.

trying to get the water under the bridge.

this is the only picture I could get of her face the entire time we were there.

lets go DBacks!!!

2009-07-14T11:05:00.000-07:00

Well since we have lived here we have gone to four Arizona Dimondbacks games. They are baseball games for those who don't know. They are so fun to go to. Teagan loves going cause they have a playground inside the stadium as well as a swimming pool. We have never been in the pool. Maybe someday we will rent it out cause that would be so fun. They are a fun cheap way to have fun in Phoenix.

this is a bad picture of us, but it was really hard to get a good picture of the three of us.

Lars is so serious. I don't think he likes his picture taken very much.

Teagan likes to sit in her own chair when we go, but she is not heavy enough to make it stay down.

Teagan couldn't stay awake for the whole game this time. The amazing part was she stayed asleep the whole way to the car. We walked 6 blocks in 114 degree heat.

The 4th of July

2009-07-07T11:16:00.000-07:00

So I had to work on the fourth, but after I got off work we went to tempe town lake to watch the fire works. Tempe town lake is right in the middle of ASU campus. Its really fun they have a bunch of bands that perform and they also have a little water park that you can take your kids in. We didn't go to the water park this time because it was way to crowded. we just had fun sitting there on the grass waiting for th fire works to start.
I didn't take very many pictures while we were there.

Happy Birthday Teagan!

2009-05-18T09:37:00.000-07:00

So yesterday our little girl turned one! The time goes by so fast. On Saturday I took her to get some pictures taken with one of her many birthday cakes.Then on Sunday her actual birthday we went to church and she got to go into my Mom's nursery class. She loves to go in there cause they get to play with bubbles. Then after church we came home and we all got to take a nap( that was nice) then we went to my aunts house for a party. She got LOTS of presents. My Grandma bought her a little rocking chair that is so cute! It was her favorite thing. The first thing she wanted to do this morning was sit in the chair. So tonight she gets to have another party at her Gramie and Grandpa McBride's house and get even more presents. I think she had a good birthday. I can not even put into words what a blessing she is in our lives. We don't know what we would do without her. Mommy and Daddy love you Teagan and we hope you will always know that.

Another Arizona update!

2009-05-11T07:54:00.000-07:00

Everyone is probably so sick of hearing about this, but as the economy would have it. We will be residents of the great state of Utah till August. The job market in Arizona is defiantly not good. the unemployment rate down there is at 7.5 percent. Lars has been searching for a job down there since January and has turned up maybe a couple of phone calls, no interviews at all. Also he can not transfer to the school down in Arizona till then so we have decide the best thing for us to do would be to stay in Utah and work like crazy while we can still get free babysitters and keep looking for jobs and then when he can transfer schools we will go that way he doesn't miss any classes and push his graduation date back any farther. So hopefully this will be the last post about our move to Arizona till we actually go. I am excited to get the time with my friends and family longer, but I am also a little sad cause that means we will be living with my family still till we go so we can save even more money... AAAHHHH!

Arizona update!

2009-05-01T07:51:00.000-07:00

It looks like we will be moving sooner then we thought We will be moving June 4th or 5th depending on how fast we can pack and make the 12 hour drive in a moving truck! ya! we are so excited about finally getting our life back! and being back in our own place!

Arizona here we come.

2009-04-27T07:10:00.000-07:00

So we have finally figured out a for sure moving date. We will be moving down the weekend of June 20th and 21st. We are really excited to finally be out on our own again. I am sad to be leaving everyone again,but we will come visit as much as we can. and since I don't have any pictures of the place we are going to be living you will all just have to wait till we move to see some. Thanks to everyone who supported us while we were here. We could not have done it with out family and friends.

Arizona

2009-04-22T08:42:00.000-07:00

So we decided to take a last minute...I mean really last minute trip down to Arizona and try to look for some jobs. It was brutal!!! The unemployment rate down there is almost at 9% and there are people that are highering,but Lars has yet to get a single call back. At this point moving is still in the cards for us, but rather then Lars working its looking like I'm going to be the one working. I swear every salon we passed was hiring so that look like the plan so far. We don't really know for sure yet though. We are still hoping and praying that it works out to our advantage.

Lars's Pohotographs

2009-04-13T18:24:00.000-07:00

So I decided that I don't blog enough about my husband Lars so I thought I would just write a little bit about him and what an AMAZING! photographer I think he is. He loves to take pictures. He took photography in high school and one class in college and that was it. After that he just practiced a lot. He just has a eye for that stuff. If he had his dream job it would be taking pictures but he says "There is no money in it unless you stay in Utah and do wedding, so He decided to do graphic design instead. I wish he would take pictures more often cause he is so good at it. So here are just a few of some of the ones he took. ( and yes they really are his, I didn't believe him the first time he showed them to me.) I hope you all like them!

Pass or fail?

2009-04-07T07:02:00.000-07:00

So I took my written exam for my cosmetology test about two weeks ago and when your there at the testing center they tell you wheather you passed or failed right there on your computer. So I finished and took the survey on the testing center and then it popped up FAIL. So I just sat there really confused cause I didn't really think the test was that hard and I had been studying like crazy. So I still just sat there for a minute and then looked at the percentage. I had failed by one question. So thats when I got really mad. So I got in my car and drove home and cried in the car the whole way from North Salt Lake to Lehi and then I started to be ok and just thought I will take it again no big deal. So then yesterday ( alomost two weeks later) I get a letter in the mail with my test scores in it and I thought " Geez how many times do they have to rub it in my face" So I opened it anyway and it said PASS. So then I got really confused. So I started to read the letter and it said that they had messed up my score and I had really passed. And I mean I'm not compaining at all I will keep that score, but, it was just confusing to me because you would think that a computerized test given by the state would not get messed up like that. And not to mention why would you just send someone a letter two weeks after the test was taken. I would think you would call someone to let then know tha. Oh well only one half of the test left( the hard part).

Frustration!

2009-03-30T07:09:00.000-07:00

So i am pretty frustrated with life right now. As most everyone knows we are trying to move back to Arizona but we are having a really hard time finding a job for Lars. I think the most frustrating thig is that there are tons of jobs there, but he applys for everything he can and then he doesn't get any phone calls or emails or anything. Its also really hard because we are ready to go we know where we want to live and everyhing the only problem is we can't go down there without a job. We only would have enough savings to sestain us for about two months. ARRG! everyone be grateful for the jobs you have.

My state board.

2009-03-18T10:30:00.000-07:00

So I graduated from hair school about 4 years ago and have never taken my state board test to get my license here in Utah and I basically have not done any kind of hair besides basic haircuts and color since I was in school and I also have thrown away every note and hand out that I got in school. I am freaking out! I know its not that hard of a test, but when you haven't done any studying or real practice for the last 4 years it gets a little scary. I don't really know why I am even posting this. Maybe to vent I don't know anyways I am scared everyone pray for me!!!

Baby hands and fire places do not mix!

2009-03-08T20:42:00.000-07:00

So in my parents house there are two fire places on in the living room that has a protective cage thing on it and one in the master bedroom that doesn't have the protective cage it just has the glass and the glass gets EXTREMELY hot, something like 500 degrees anyways so we were just hanging out and Teagan decided to crawl into my moms room while I was on the computer and the next thing I heard was a scream that I never ever want to hear again. So Lars runs in and grabs her and immediately out her hand under the cold water. So an hour and a half after it happened I called her doctor cause she would not calm down and he said to take her to the ER and get her checked and something for the pain. So we took her and turns out she got a second degree burn from just touching the glass and she had to get it wrapped and all the blisters cut off and drained. So now she is doing OK, but is in a lot of pain and it is so sad to look at. I posted the pictures of it wrapped cause she wouldn't let me take pictures of it unwrapped ( she gets mad when I touch it).So here it is wrapped.

My little sisters birthday.

2009-02-10T09:13:00.000-07:00

OK so for people who really know me and know whats going on in my life right now this will be nothing new, but for all others here is a little background story for you. So i have a little sister who is 20 years younger then me and she just turned two in January. So right now since I stay home with Teagan and we are living with my parents till we move back to Arizona I agreed to watch my little sister for my mom so that she could work this year. So on her birthday my mom took the day off and she wanted me to go with her to get Jacie's pictures taken. So we went and they took some of Teagan too and they turned out pretty good. Anyways i don't really recommend that people have a two year old and an 8 month old at the same time it is very ex hasting.

Viral infection.

2009-01-21T09:12:00.000-07:00

So about a month ago Teagan got a pretty bad cold and she was given medicine for it and we gave her all the medicine and it never really went away but it wasn't bad she would jut cough occasionally and have a runny nose for a few days in a row and then it would stop. So then about a week ago her cough started to get worse, but I decided I was just going to watch it instead of running her right into the doctor and then having them tell me there is nothing they can do about it. So then Sunday was just like any other Sunday we got up and got ready and went to church. She felt warm to me in the morning, but I didn't really think anything of it. So then Lars and I went in to teach our primary class and my mom came in to get our keys so she could take Teagan home. When we got home. Teagan had a fever of 102.5 and so I tried giving her some Tylenol. The minute I turned around to put the bottle away I hear this projectile vomiting sound coming from her then she just starts coughing so hard that more of it comes out. So then next day I decide to take her to the doctor. So they do the whole work up on her and then decide they are going to send us to the hospital to get a chest x-ray. So we go there and take the disk back to her doctor who says." she had contracted two pretty bad viral infections back to back" and then tells me to just take her home and watch her so I do and then the next day (Tuesday) it started to dawn on me that she has only had two bottles in the past two days and then I started to think about it and she has not had a wet diaper since early morning Monday. So I decide to call the doctors office and ask them if I should bring her in and they say yes of course. So at five o clock on Tuesday we take her into the doctor and they decide that she needs an iv so they give her one and she doesn't even cry the whole time. She is such a trooper. But it is so sad to look at her cause you can tell that she just doesn't feel good and it just breaks your heart that there is nothing you can do.

Sleepy girl!

2009-01-17T10:01:00.000-07:00

Today Teagan is Eight months old, and for me it is so hard to believe! You don't really ever believe anyone when they tell you that time flies by so fast. So I was thinking about it and I decided that I really need to take more pictures of her and more video of her. So after I had decided that this morning I put Teagan in her high chair and gave her a banana and left the room for two seconds to do something and I cam back and this is what I found.

Teagan and the car!

2009-01-13T12:57:00.000-07:00

So my little sister Jacie got this car last year for her first birthday and she would ride it for a little bit but then she would just push it around so one day I decided to put Teagan on it. So I out her on and started to push her and she would just laugh so hard that she would get the hiccups and then she figured out that it had buttons that make noise so now she will scoot herself over to it and just sit there till I out her on it. She is so cute!

Twilight!

2009-01-08T09:18:00.000-07:00

So i was probably the last one to jump on the Twilight band wagon. Everyone kept telling me how good it was and that I needed to read it, but i thought it was for like teenagers ( not that I am that far off from one) so anyways I told myself that I wasn't going to read it. Then my mom started reading it and everyday when she got home from work she would lock herself in her room and just read. So I decided that there must be something about it that is good. So I started reading the first one. I read the whole series in Two and a half weeks one night I didn't even go to bed! Lars woke up to go to work and I was still up reading. So then I went and saw the movie and was brought back down to reality when I was sitting in the theater and Edward's character came on the screen and a bunch of little girls sitting next to us would scream. They are very good books, but I thought it was funny how at first i thought it was just for teenagers and then I ended up sitting next to a bunch of screaming teenagers at the movie theater. Anyways if you haven't read them you should it is a very good story.

Computer virus.

2009-01-08T09:14:00.000-07:00

OK so i know I haven't updated my blog since like November, but our desktop got a bunch of viruses so it is currently getting fixed. I could have done it on our laptop but Lars usually has it so today I have it and now I can update our blog. FINALLY! I hope everyone had a good Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

The Bahamas!

2008-10-29T08:21:00.000-07:00

So Lars and I just got back from the Bahamas and it was so much fun! We went on a four day cruise from Miami. We flew into Florida and stayed one night in South Beach and then headed for the Bahamas on Tuesday we got to Nassau which is the capital of the Bahamas. It is also where Atlantis is located. We got to visit Atlantis is was really cool. Then the next day there was a storm so our boat could not dock so we had to stay on the boat all day with 2,000 other people so that kind of sucked and then the third day we went the The Grand Bahama island which was cool. The whole island is like one giant Beach and Rain forest mixed, but they are still trying to rebuild there island because they lost a lot of it to hurricane Francis. They took us to these caves and these really nice beaches, where you could whole sea shells that were huge! it was a really fun vacation!

Babies are so funny!

2008-10-21T12:36:00.000-07:00

Babies are so funny! When you want them to go to sleep they are wide awake! and then when you least expect it they will fall asleep any where! Lars and I were going through all of our stuff we have stored in my parents basement and getting rid of junk. Teagan was in the other room sitting in this chair thing watching baby Einstein and I walked in there and she was awake and fine and then not even five minutes later I walked in there again and she was totally asleep on this chair thing it was pretty funny!

She tricked me!

2008-10-03T08:54:00.000-07:00

Teagan was born Premature by two weeks so when she was born she only weighed 5 lbs 9oz and ever since she has just been really little and her Dr. says that she will probably just always be little. I mean she is almost 5 months old and she only weighs 11lbs 4oz. So since she is little she has not been able to sleep through the night. Then all of a sudden Wednesday night she finally did it! I was so excited! I thought" Finally I will be able to sleep" Well I thought Wrong she woke up last night but I am still hoping that maybe last night was a one time thing and she won't do it again. We'll see!

Teagan can roll over!

2008-09-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

Teagan learned how to Roll over finally! She can only get from her back to her stomache and then you have to turn her back over, but she does it really fast! Her Doctor says she has strong stomache muscles for being so small and her thinks she will be an early walker!