Teag hangin' out at Grandma's

My mom took these pic's of Teag when she was watching him the other day.

The Letter "K"

The letter "K"

Ten things I love that start with the letter "K"

* Kit-Kats
* Kittens
* Kabobs
* Kauai
* Ketchup
* Kermit
* Kites
* Kim Kardashian (2pts) :)
* Khole's
* Kisses and more Kisses

I tag Angie with the letter "L" Jeremy with the letter "M" and Mom with the letter "N"

5's Tag

What I was doing 5 years ago:

Searching for and Buying my home
Working at Unicity
Just got back from Europe and was going to Hawaii to swim with the sharks
Hanging out with my friend Teresa every night after long days at work
Living care free with money until I got strapped with a mortgage

5 things on my to do list today:

Go to lunch with Jennie and run some errands
Bring Chicken Noodle soup to my grandma
Go to Maglebys and check things out for our Temple Sealing Dinner
Make phone calls and do research for the best place and price for the dinner
Take care of Teagy and the dogs

5 What I would do with a million dollars:

I would pay off all of my bills
Put money away for emergencies
Put money away for my kids
Put money aside for school (for me and Jeremy)
Go traveling all over the world

5 Places I have lived:

Provo, UT
Orem, UT
Pleasant Grove, UT
Farmington, New Mexico
Pasadena, California

5 Jobs I have had: (I'll put some on here that probably no one even knows)

Kenny Rogers Roasters (when i was 15)
Western Watts (when i was 16, PT)
Waterford Institute (when i was 19, PT)
Service Experts (when i was 19, temp)
Animas Floral (kind of. my parents owned it, so does that count?)

5 Things I want to be doing in 5 years:

Be done having kids
In a bigger house
Done with school
Skinny (That should give me enough time, right? ha ha)
Out of debt with a GOOD financial reserve

5 people I tag:

5 people that want to do it.

Quick Update

I just wanted to give a quick update... This has been a LONG last week.

Jeremy has been slowly but surely getting sicker and sicker. :( I have appreciated my husband more and more and I realize how hard it is to get everything done with him being out of commission. Especially when there is a little baby that you hope and pray doesn't get sick. Jeremy went to the doctor today and found out that he has a bad case of brochitis, a sinus infection, a fever of 102 and bad allergies (which isn't helping). Tonight he started coughing up blood which totally freaked me out and I called our home teachers to come over and give him a blessing. We have the most awesome home teachers and we appreciate them so much. They are so dilligent! Thank you home teachers!

Jeremy also started school again a couple of weeks ago. He started a block class to kind of break himself in again. I'm so proud of him for going back to finish. He has also finally taken advantage of working from home 2 days a week. I LOVE it! I feel like I get so much more stuff done just because he's working. Our little "hidden office" was a perfect space for him to start doing that. So, I'm glad we bought it.

Teag is getting so tall it seems. I haven't measured him, but man he is getting big. I can't believe he is almost 3 months old already and that Jeremy and I are going to have our one year anniversary next month. So much has happened in the last year.


The weather is getting warmer and it makes me excited for spring and summer. I can't wait to take Teag and start hiking again. I LOVE hiking! My Grandpa has been hiking up to the top of Y Mountain (not just to the Y, but to the top of the mountain) for the last million years. This October will be his 200th consecutive month to do so. I need to get back in shape so we can go with him. Yes, you read TWO HUNDRED, not 20. :)

Also, we got our deck all prepped and ready to fire up the BBQ grill (compliments of CA Dad when I moved in as a house warming gift). It has definitely gotten used over the years.

I have some cute pics of Teag that I will post soon, but just wanted to put 'something' up on here. ...and, he started crying so I better go. :) TTFN

Teagan's First Date

Today was Avery's baby blessing which was held in our clubhouse. Teagan got all spiffed up to go since Avery is his girlfriend.

After the blessing they went on a date to the movies and watch "Finding Nemo" in the clubhouse LuvSac. They stole the show together and everyone had to come in and watch.





The date ended with a bite to eat and when they both told everyone as loud as they could that they were done watching the movie.


And here's our little family.

Our first Gymboree Class

This last Thursday Teagan and I went to Gymboree for the first time. I thought it was kind of dumb, but I had to bring myself down to a baby's mentality, because Teagan LOVED it! ...and that's what matters. You meet up with other mom's and babies for a 45 minute class to sing songs, blow bubbles, play musical instruments, etc. It is supposed to be a stimulation for his stage of development for audio and visual, etc. I found out that he LOVES those little rain sticks that make noise when you tip them from one side to the next. He also had a lot of fun when we blew bubbles and the room was full of them. It was his first time seeing bubbles. Then we had parachute time where we layed him on the ground and held a big, colorful parachute over his head and pulled it up and down over his face. It was so cute watching how excited he got. I probably wouldn't have thought of doing all of this stuff. We are thinking about doing something like this in the future to get us out of the house and socializing with other kids and moms. It will give us something to look forward to in the week. :) I should've taken a picture of him, but felt dumb pulling out my camera in the class and didn't. Now I wish I would have.

Teagan

My Dad came over today and took some pictures and this one was my favorite one. Isn't he precious?

It died in our living room!

We came into the living room a couple nights ago and we found one of the doggy toys had been murdered. The culprit? Banks! We respectfully put Mr. Tiger and all his innerds in the trash.

Temple Date

It's official. My endowment date is Friday, April 24th at the Provo Temple for the 4:40pm session. Let me know if you're coming and I will account for your spot.

Also, we're getting sealed in Manti the following Tuesday, April 28th at 11:00am. We will be meeting up all together afterwards for lunch.

More Blessing Day Pictures

I stole these from my mom's blog.

I didn't even have a pic of Teag in his outfit. Isn't it so cute?
The Lister Family:
Jason & Teagan:
My friends Cassidy & Rhett:

A rare picture! Jeremy's Mom & Dad with Teagan. :)

Happy Birthday Samantha!

We celebrated Samma's 11th Bday party at Classic Skating this last Saturday. We had a lot of fun. Teagan was malled (sp?) be all the kids and was exhausted by night time. It was great. :)

They even put Samantha in some box that blew air and money swirled around her body and she had to get this fake money in 1 minute. I still never understood what the significance of the whole thing, but it looked fun and I wanted to do it.

The Finished Storage Space

Ta-Duh! It's done. Yay! We have so much room to store stuff now. We have all of our food storage, holiday stuff, camping stuff, blankets, misc stuff, etc stored down here. AND, we still have room to grow. We spent a lot of time this last week going through things and making numerous trips to DI to clean and get rid of stuff. What a good feeling.

Here is what our garage looks like with the new shelves that hang high above our cars. You can see where we put framed off the storage room because we had such a deep garage. We still fit to vehicles in here with room for bigger cars... still. :)


Here is a pic of the inside of our storage room with our stuff. That rotating can system is our Shelf Reliance storage system we got for a STEAL of a DEAL. If any of you would like a good deal on this, let us know. One of the members of our bishopric is part owner of Shelf Reliance.


You can see we also put a new stand up freezer in here to store meat and other stuff. I feel like such a grown up now. :) Joey also put a door on it, but you can't tell in the picture. I have an extra dead bolt lock that I think we're going to put on the door. Plus Joey added a separate light switch and outlet in here for the freezer. Joey is so talented! I can't wait til he does our closet organizers.

Teagan's 2 Month Appointment

Teag had his 2 month appointment on the 17th of February. He had to get his first round of immunizations. :( Poor little guy. I'm glad they are so fast at giving them, cause he screamed and it made me feel bad. He had no idea they were coming.

He is definitely chunking up as you can see in some of the pic's I've posted recently. He measured in at 50th percentile in all areas (height, weight, head circumfrance, etc) as opposed to 10th percentile at his 2 wk appt. So he has been growing, growing, growing. All he does is eat, eat, eat. He weighed in at 11 lbs 15 oz and was 23 inches long.

He is smiling and coo'ing now all the time and will stick his tongue out at you when you stick yours out at him. It is really cute. He is always thinking and has a "thinking" look on his face, like he's trying to figure everything out. Especially when you do something new, he will just stare at you while thinking. We are going to our first Gymboree class this Thursday. I'm so excited. I've always wanted to be a "class" mommy and do fun things with my kids. Even though he has no idea right now, I hope he looks forward to my activities one day.

Killer Deal! Our Hidden Office

OH MY GOSH! So, I've been looking for a black computer armoire FOREVER and they are hard to find. Well, they are easy to find if you want to pay over $1200 for them. But the other day we were at RC Willey and found a really nice one for $250! Not only that, the guy gave it to us for $200!!! I HAD to get it. I knew I'd never find one like that at that price. I've been so excited about my find all week.

Here it is.

Teagan's Baby Blessing

It was Teagan's big day yesterday. He was officially blessed and given a name: Teagan Amana Green. Jeremy blessed him in our ward. Here is a pic of everyone that stood in the circle, minus Jeremy's brother Tom (we didn't take the pic early enough before he needed to leave) and his cousin Brock (I'm not sure where he is?).

TOP (left to right): Jason Christensen (Jeremy's good friend from growing up), Grandpa Humpherys, Grandpa Grover, Brad Davies (We have adopted Brad and his family as part of our family)
BOTTOM: Joey (Jeremy's good friend from growing up) holding Teagan, Jeremy, my Dad and my Uncle Rich

The Girls
TOP: Nadia (Joey's Fiance), Laura (My good time friend for the last 8-9 years), Ruth (Travis' Girl), Angie (My good friend from when we worked at Waterford together), Evelyn (Brad's wife, my adoptive big sister. Me and Ev worked together at ForeverGreen)
BOTTOM: Jenya holding Teagan (My good long time friend and old roomie), ME, Jennie holding Izzy (Jennie was in my singles ward and is engaged to Jeremy's cousin), Heather holding Maya (Good friend from FG), & Cassidy (with one on the way in July in her belly... my good friend from FG also)

The Boys
TOP: Jason, Mike (Jeremy's good friend and old roomie), Bear (Angies hubby and our good friend), Brock (Jeremy's cousin), Brad
BOTTOM: Joey holding Teagan, Jeremy, Jake (Jeremy's Cousin), Travis (Jeremy's good friend and old roomie) holding Ty, Jason's son

My Family

Jeremy's Family

We had an awesome lunch at the clubhouse right after sacrament meeting and 67 people came! Wow!

We had Cafe Rio Pork, which I got the recipe from Jenya. Jeremy did such an awesome job. He prepared all of the meat and got up at 4am yesterday to get all the last minute things done. He even packed the car up with all the stuff we needed. So, all I had to do is set up with the help of my mom and Jason. Thank you babe for all your hard work.

People keep asking me for the pork recipe, so here it is:

Cafe Rio Pork
3-4 lbs Pork Tenderloin (thawed and/or fresh, not frozen)
1 Bottle of Taco Sauce/ Med (16 oz)
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1 Tbsp Cumin Powder
1 Can of Coke

In crock pot, put pork in water filling water about 3/4 of the way.
Cook on low for 6 hours.
Take out pork and shred.
Mix ingredients together in crockpot.
Mix in pork.
Cook on low for an additional 3 hours.

We served the pork with tortillas, which we got the tortilla dough from Costco and cooked them on the griddle. We made white rice, brown rice and LIME rice. :) Yum! We also had shredded romaine lettuce, cheese, guacamole, sour cream, 6 layer bean dip and Peach Mango salsa. My mom made fruit salad and Jeremy's mom made her famous pasta salad. Another side we had was chips and spinach/artichoke dip.

Here is anothe pork recipe I got from my friend Teresa which is very similar and is just as good.

Pork Picnic Roast
6lbs thawed picnic pork roast (put in slow cooker)

Add water and cover 1/2 of roast
Cook on high for 5 hours (Do NOT remove lid during this time)
Take pork out after 5 hrs and drain water from slow cooker
After you drain water, put roast back in slow cooker

Add 1 Can of Coke
Add 2 Cups of Brown Sugar
Add 16 oz jar of Pace Picante Salsa (Med Spicy)
Cook 3 more hours on High
Shred Pork & Enjoy!

We had just enough food. I was worried we'd run out. The blessing went really good and Jeremy did a fantastic job and the lunch turned out well. Thank you everyone that could make it. It means a lot to us. We are blessed with great friends and family.