So I have no time to blog... but here are a few pictures of the kids.

I just thought I would put some pictures of the kids on here! We have been very busy and the kids are growing up so quickly. John grew very slowly the first few months of life, but he has finally made it onto the growth chart - 20% in weight, 5% in height and a whopping 70% in head size. Jim says we have a bobblehead. Elizabeth loves her baby brother - sometimes to the point where he is screaming from her snuggles. But she does it all for love. She of course is a little jealous, but she is handling it pretty well. She is a chatterbox, she never ceases to amaze me with the things she says. Recently she told me we couldn't go to "crazy" because it was too far away (little does she know) and she told me we couldn't go there because we would get "owies." She cracks me up. Here are some pictures from the last few months.

The kids got a wagon for Christmas from Santa. We had to take it out for a spin on St. Patrick's day. It is going to be awesome for the zoo. I can't wait until John is big enough to sit up in it. He can sit up, but not for long. However it is only a matter of time.

Princess Elizabeth. Her Great Grandpa bought her this dress and she is so proud of how pretty she looks.

She got a cool tent with a tunnel for Christmas and we often spend time reading books or playing in here.


This is one of my favorite pictures, Elizabeth looks so cute snuggling up to John.

John at 6 months old. He is such a cute little guy and has such a cute grin. He is a pretty easy baby - I am very lucky.

A new member of the family

Our family would like to introduce our latest edition to the Keegan family, John Arthur. He was born on the 2nd and he is a little cutie. Here are some of the pictures I have taken the past month.

Disney World

We had a great vacation at Disney World the second week of June. We couldn't pass up Jim's free millitary 5 day hopper pass, and a deeply discounted pass for me. We even used our time share for the first time ever. It was a fun trip. Jim spent some time with his best friend from high school and we had a blast introducing Elizabeth to Disney. She would yell Mickey every time she saw his face, which was all the time. She also loved Minnie and Donald. She even braved a few of the themed rides from Pirates of the Caribbean to Haunted Mansion.

I didn't fare too badly myself, even though I am 6 months pregnant. It was hot, and very humid. But we had a fun time. We even met Jeremy at Epcot on our first real day in Florida. It is crazy, we had to fly clear across the country to see our friend who lives in Chicago. We did so many things, it is hard to describe them all. Elizabeth even went to her first water park - Typhoon Lagoon. She went body surfing with daddy, she did have a life vest on. She enjoyed it much more than her fraidy cat mother who stayed in the shallow end.

We went to all 4 parks. Epcot was one of my favorites. The Animal Kingdom was too hot and crowded to really enjoy, but it is a cool park. The tree of life is one of my favorite parts of the place. The Magic Kingdom was fun - we enjoyed all the Disney favorites - Small World, the Tiki Room (under new management) and Pirates of the Caribbean. Hollywood Studios was also fun because they had Star Wars characters everywhere, Jim loved it. They did Star Wars weekends in June this year. We even saw Darth Vader- that costume was huge!!!!

Here are some of my favorite photos of the trip.

Elizabeth and Jim wearing their 3D glasses for "It's A Bug's Life." She wouldn't keep the glasses on, and it was a little scary for her, but daddy told her to yell "go away buggies, go away" and it seemed to work. We enjoyed the theater because it was air conditioned. We were at Animal Kingdom. They also have a really cool safari ride, it recommended pregnant women not ride -but I went anyway and it was no worse then riding in Jim's old jeep.

Here she is in "France" at Epcot. She was posing for mommy!

Jim and Elizabeth "Celebrated" today with the whole Disney crew- they danced in the streets with all of the characters during a parade. It was so much fun - Jim was half dead by the end of it - they were both soaking wet from the heat and humidity. But they had a great time. I have video, but I don't think Jim would appreciate the fact that I put it on the web.

Here we are at the fireworks show at Epcot. Jeremy took our picture. Elizabeth didn't have a nap all day and was the best baby ever. I can't believe how good she is sometimes. We also spent some time with Jim's friend from high school here.

We had our pictures taken with all the characters, the park took professional pictures, but they also let you use your own camera as well, they took the pictures of us. They turned out great.

We had an awesome trip, and I am glad that we were able to do it. It will be a while before we can do another trip like this one.

So months later, I actually post again...

So for those of you who check to see if I ever update, you can see that I haven't in months. I will call it busy working mommy syndrome. I don't touch the computer very often. I had well over one hundred e-mails to slog through this week. I just don't have time to do it, after Elizabeth goes to bed I just want to veg in front of the t.v. for 2 hrs then go to bed myself.


Life with a two year old is fun. She is starting to hit those terrible twos. Who knew a two year old could have such opinions. We are also expecting baby number two, which according to the ultrasound guy is a boy. We are excited and can't wait - he is due in the middle of September. The timing isn't great because I will teach for three weeks and then give up my class. Who knows what they will be like when I come back from my maternity leave. But that's life.


Here are some cute pictures from the last few months that I want to show off. Elizabeth in her Christmas dress at my brother's house.


Elizabeth and I at Thomas the Train.

Elizabeth's new bicycle for her 2nd birthday party. I loved the cheesy grin. She is such a silly girl.

Elizabeth and Declan in California. We spent Easter weekend with Rob, Carol and Declan. We even made our first trip as a family to Disneyland.

Elizabeth and her cousins. Getting 4 kids to face the camera is almost impossible, but we did it.
We were all out in Oregon celebrating my grandparents' 65th wedding anniversary. It was a fun weekend.

Well that is all I have for now, there are tons more pictures, but these summed up the last few months pretty well. Hopefully I will stay up on my blog while Elizabeth naps this summer.

Lagoon again!

We took Elizabeth to Lagoon today to go to Spook-A-Boo and ride some rides. She didn't enjoy it nearly as much this time, she refused to go on Baby Boats and wanted to be held by Daddy instead of ride on one of the horses at Merry-Go-Round. I think she doesn't feel very well, however, she loved Spook-A-Boo, she thought the candy was the best part. She was a little fearful of the Chainsaw Guys, but she liked their dancing and was jamming out. Here are a few pics from the day.

We don't feed Elizabeth, can you tell?

Just give me the candy!!

Long time no blog!

Where do I begin, it has been weeks since I blogged last. Well since September, I have been crazy busy with school - I have a new Spanish textbook and I am teaching U.S. history for the first time since I student taught. As you can imagine, I am a very busy girl. Jim got pneumonia around the middle of September and that took him out, literally I have never seen him so wiped out, he basically was down and out for about two weeks. It has been well over a month, and he still has problems with his breathing.

We had Jim's Grandfather, Aunt Mary and Uncle David come for a quick weekend visit. They were visiting Jeff and the family before Jeff ships out. It was a fun visit. Since it has been so long since I last posted, I am going to post some random pictures from the last few weeks. Hope you enjoy them.


We went horseback riding the day we found out Jim had pneumonia. Actually it was technically the day before, because we spent 4 hours in the Heber Valley Medical Center Saturday night into Sunday morning trying to figure out what was wrong with him. He didn't have a cough or cold, he just had terrible chest pain. We were glad it was just pneumonia, not something more serious.
Here is Elizabeth in her Grandpa's rocking chair. Isn't it cute! She will have her own chair up at Grandma and Grandpa's house.
Here she is trying on Great Grandpa's Fedora. She thought she was pretty cute. She loved looking at the pictures after we took them. Suzy has made her a camera hog!

Biking with the Keegan's

So this summer, Jim and I bought a bike trailer for Elizabeth to go riding with us. We bought it in June, but have been very busy all summer long. Needless to say we didn't put it together until a couple of weeks ago. So far we have taken her 3 times, including the pictures I am including. It is a lot of fun, but she slides down while riding so it doesn't look that comfortable for her. I was worried about her not having a helmet, so I went looking for one. It was the only one left at Target. It is good that she is a girl, because the only helmet I found was one with pink butterflies. Too bad it really doesn't work well in the trailer, it kept turning sideways and she kept trying to take the helmet off.
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Fun at Lagoon!

We took Elizabeth to Lagoon with Myndee, Marci and Myndee's nephews. She loved it, I think she will be a roller coaster baby. Here she is on her first ride at Lagoon. She loved riding with daddy.
Here she is with Myndee's nephews. They rode Moonraker, I think she would have cried if it hadn't been for daddy cheering every time she went by. Mommy on the other hand was over on the side freaked out about how high she was in the air. How many years did I work there, and didn't think about it before I put her on it?
Here she is on Red Baron. The two little ones didn't know how to make the plane go up, so they rode pretty low on the water, which was fine by mommy.
Here she is on Boats, her favorite ride. She loved ringing the bell. She even went on it twice.


The video quality isn't very good, but you can see she is having fun.

My summer is over... :(

Well as you can see I have been very busy today adding posts to my blog. That is because today is my last day before I head back to school. Elizabeth goes back full time to daycare and I get back to work. I know all of you are jealous that I had the summer off, but I earned it, I promise, junior high kids are crazy.

I can't tell you how much I am going to miss my little munchkin following me around and not letting me get anything accomplished this summer. If it weren't for nap time, I wouldn't have a blog or a semi-clean house. I will miss the times we spent together this summer. For our last weekday together, I took her to Layton Park and we met Declan and Carol. We watched the ducks and had a picnic lunch. I think she really enjoyed her day, I know I did. Here are some pictures of the kids. They were so cute when we asked Declan to hold her hand.

Family Pictures

While we were out in Boston, we were able to spend some time with Elizabeth's Great Grandpa, and her 3 Great Great Aunts. We had a lovely lunch at their residence in Holyoke, MA. It was a fun afternoon, and Elizabeth enjoyed spending time with her family.

Whale Watching

Wow if hanging out in Boston wasn't enough, we also went whale watching. Now first I need to tell you that I have been whale watching on the Pacific Coast a few times, but I have never seen as many whales as I did on this trip. They figured we saw about 20+ whales the day we went out. Some of them were flipping their tails, blowing their spouts, or just plain hanging out. It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. Elizabeth loved it, she thought that the whales were waving at her, so she waved back. Here is some bad video of a few tails.

Ducks, Ducks, Ducks

Ever hear of a book called Make Way for Ducklings? Well it is about a duck family in Boston. It is so well loved, there is even a statue of the ducks from the story in Boston Commons. Elizabeth loved this statue. I think she sat on every one of those ducks. So here are a couple of cute pictures of Elizabeth trying out the ducks. I can't wait to read this souvenir book to Elizabeth when she is older and remind her she actually played with these ducks. Thanks Eric and Sarah for a great souvenir of Boston! This is one she won't outgrow for many years to come.

Finally putting some pictures of Boston onto the Blog.

I loved this picture of Elizabeth. She looks so cute. This was just after a wonderful lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. Thanks to Aunt Liz for the great lunch!

Here we are about to ride the Duck Boat in the city of Boston. What a fun tour. It was a great way to see the city on land and water. Yes I did say water, we went on water in this old World War II boat. Ours was a Boston Red Sox boat. Our driver was very fun. He even let Elizabeth and I drive the boat for a short time.

We would like to thank Sarah and Eric for letting us stay with them. We had a wonderful time and enjoyed the relaxing week away from home.

Here we are on the wetter side of the tour. We sure had a great time.

This last picture is of us on the tour boat driving through town. If you look close we are in the 2nd seats back from the front of the boat.