Teagan's first dance competition last weekend went great! Despite the fact that this whole team is BRAND NEW to competing...they won 1st in every category they competed in and got 2nd overall for small group 8 and unders with their hip hop....and FIRST overall for large group 8 and under with their jazz!!! The jazz routine was actually an ( Read more... )

Man I can't stop coughing! Teagan has had a small cold since practically the start of the school year but as soon as Christmas break came, she caught something nasty and was coughing really badly, runny nose, diarrhea, and ear aches from all the build up :/ She recovered super quickly though and was better before she had to go back to school. ( Read more... )

Miss my mom so much....and I knew as the holidays came around, we'd feel her absence pretty hard. On Thanksgiving, my Dad and I teamed up and cooked the meal together....there were those moments when we had questions on how to cook something that we knew she would have been able to answer for us. And cutting the turkey...my mom always did it. ( Read more... )

Its a little shocking that it's already been a month and a half since my mom passed away....it still feels like it happened last week. Her birthday is next weekend and I am a little sad that I won't get to wish her happy birthday and take her to dinner ( Read more... )

My mom passed away last night after a 3 year battle with cancer, just a little before 11pm, surrounded by her family ( Read more... )

I had the privilege of knowing someone in this world who had the ability to make anyone and every one laugh. Someone who wasn't afraid to be himself, who wasn't afraid to be just outright silly and weird. He was my bird of a feather and I knew that the moment I met him. One of my fondest memories of him was one of the first nights we actually hung ( Read more... )

Oh my gosh its been 3 months since I updated this thing. Sometimes I am a little freaked out by how quickly the days and weeks fly by. I guess I'm past due for a little bit of updating ( Read more... )

So far, our experience with Teagan's new school has been excellent. I have absolutely nothing bad to say about it thus far...in fact, I'm thrilled! I love her teacher, love the parents that I've met so far and love the students that Teagan has gotten to know so far. She has a new "best friend" at her school named Lyla who also happens to go to ( Read more... )

Teagan woke up today, leaping out of bed, while saying "OHHHH MY GOD pre-kindergarten starts today! Moooom!It's my first day of school! It feels like Christmas. Oh my god!" So ya....you can say she's just a little excited to start school today ( Read more... )

On our way to Teagan's gymnastics today, we were stopped at a red light when all of a sudden BAM!!! we were hit from behind. Of course the first thing I checked was Teagan to make sure she was okay...thankfully she was completely un-phased by it all and was sitting safe in her carseat. We pulled over around the corner to get out of the way of ( Read more... )