2011... Where did the Time Go?

Wow, it has been a whole year since I posted!  I've had good intentions, just never got around to it.  I want to apologize to all of you who were kind enough to keep coming back, checking for a post.  But today is a new day, a new year and time for a new post!
Since this is Teagan's heart blog I  but I do have a big announcement for the heart world and all of our supporters, for those of you who haven't heard...I am the new President of Intermountain Healing Hearts.  IHH is a support group for people and families with CHD's.  It is a wonderful organization and I'm excited to be apart of it!  I hope to add to what has already been created, I have a terrific board beside me and I am looking forward to the future of IHH.  I want to reach out to all those who are looking for hope, hope is sometimes hard to fine when the truth sets in.  But hope can be found in these little faces!
Teagan is doing well (besides this cold he is fighting right now).  He still has his feeding tube, but he eats quite a bit by mouth.  He loves chicken nuggets, fries, popcorn, chips, apples, goldfish, salad, carrots, noodles, mostly salty things.  It's the liquids that  we struggle with, it's either Diet Coke or Water, I wish he would drink something dairy.  He is aware of hunger though, he tells me, "Mom it's time to feed me...in my tubee!"  He realizes that people around him don't have "tubee's" and I think that makes him want to eat more by mouth.
He is so much fun!  He is way smarter than I ever expected, he counts to 13, he knows some letters and sounds that they make. (It helps that big brother is in kindergarten and is learning all these things too.)  I just expected him to be behind in these things with the lack of oxygen and his early delays.  But the only thing he is behind in is running and keeping up with other kids, the stair make him pretty blue and we have a lot of stairs.  He recovers quickly though.  He is quite the singer, Woody's Round-Up is his most requested song, he also does All the Single Ladies, Tonight's the Night, and Be Our Guest.  He is very talkative and I have become a great translator!  He is a wonderful asset to our family.  It is so fun to see my two boys playing, rough-housing, and getting into trouble together! Teagan knows what he wants and he has most of us twisted around his little blue fingers!  We have a echo scheduled in March (fingers crossed, we can do it un-sedated).  The echo will tell us how Teagan is doing on the inside and when his next surgery might be or if we can put it off another year. We had a wonderful 2010 and we feel very blessed that we stayed out of the hospital all year and stayed away from any major sicknesses.   Here is a few lot of what you missed from our past year:

Mason's B-Day party

Valentine's Day

Teagan's b-day party

St. Patrick's Day (2 years since Norwood)

Zoo

 Helping Mom in her salon

 Blaze game

 Doing Kimmie's hair

 Heart Mom Lunch

 Watching his favorite show

 Falling asleep in Mom's car while watching his shows

 First major haircut

 Seeing Iorn Man 2

 Mother's Day Brunch at the Little America

 Trip to Kimmie's in Arizona, Great Grandpa Mason drove Mom and the boys all the way and the others met us there by flight.

 Got to meet Owen, a fellow HLHS brother

 Thanks Uncle Mike for the new puppy

Taking a ride

 Playing on the playground

 Boating on our new boat

 "But I don't want to wear this stupid life jacket"

 Don't you think we could be brothers

 Finally getting to see "My Guys" on opening day!

 Swimming at Grandma Becky's pool

 Rodeo Time

 Celebrating Big Mace and Big G's 50th Wedding anniversary camping at Willard Bay and Lagoon, so we could stay close to home for T.

 Practicing my surfing skills

 What a precious face

 "Hands on a Miracle" Real Game 24th of July

 Cortney and Trevor's Wedding Day

Porter's Baby Blessing

 Mommy's Birthday

 Working on the ipad

 At the end of July we got the devastating news that Big G had Pancreatic Cancer and didn't have much time left.  We made good use of her remaining days, she made a bucket list and we crossed everything off before we lost her in November.  

Bear Lake '10 

 Play Time

 Went to see the army men at Airport 2

 Mason start Kindergarten, walking him to the bus stop

 IHH Heart Walk '10

 

Playing train's with Brother

Cardiology Appt., My Guys needed an EKG too!

 Surging with my best buddy B

 Bucket List- Take Teagan to the State Fair

 "UTE'S BABY!"

 Grandma Dee's b-day

 Last boating trip of the year

 I am Iorn Man

 Pettit Picture in the Pettit Pumpkin Patch '10

 Bucket List- Meet all the girls and Mason & Teagan in St. George for the Huntsmen Senior Games to see Big Mace play Baseball

 Sip'n Slurpee's

 IHH Halloween/Birthday Party

 Ward Halloween Party

 Monkeys on my neck

 Line them up, nice and straight

 Mega Mind 3-D

 Licking Spamoni

 Big G's funeral

 Happy Thanksgiving

Me & my dog Roxy

 Festival of Tree's, time to see Santa

 I'm in a bubble!

 Handsome Boy, where are your pants?

 Grandpa Shreck's b-day

 Grandpa Bart & Grandma Dee took us all on a train to the North Pole and to stay there over night (Heber)

 They gave us pillow pets and new pj's

 We went to church there too

 Mckenzie's Rock'n wedding

 Christmas Eve Breakfast

 Christmas Eve Night

 Cousin PJ Picture

 Christmas Morning

 Christmas Night

 Christmas with the Rowley's, it was really specia,l Big G had done all her shopping early so we all opened gifts from her, it made it feel like she was there.

 Kori gave me Chuck the talking dump truck, just what I wanted!

 I gave Brookie Cookie just what she wanted

 Mason got a Paper Jammers, but I think it is mine

 New Year's Eve Breakfast at Vi

("Hi Sherri")

  New Year's Eve at Classic Skating, just as getto as it has even been

 Happy New Year

 Merry Go Round for being good while we did returns at the mall

 New Year's Day Ping Pong Tournement 

T has a mean serve

 Birthday Sunday with the Pettit's