Caed Mile Failte

More pics of Baby Shannon

2010-01-12T12:06:00.005-06:00

Her feet don't fit in the alotted space!! haha

Shannon doing what she does best.

Shannon at the age of about 1 hour.

Baby Shannon

2010-01-12T11:33:00.004-06:00

Shannon Aoife LeMon born 01-11-10

Shannon meaning "Having Ancient Wisdom" and it is also a river in Ireland.

Aoife (Ee-fa) meaning "A beautiful woman and in mythology it means warrior princess"

LeMon a variation on lemon that gets mispronounced daily, also it means nothing when translated from French.

Mom and baby are rcovering from their big day and doing great. Denise made the delivery look like a breeze. She was given Pitocin at about 7:30 yesterday morning and had some incredibly strong and frequent contractions which helped make up her mind as to whether she wanted an epidural or not. She got an epidural around 9:00 which made her contractions more bearable and better spacing between the contractions. When it came time to push just after noon, Denise pushed for about 45 minutes and Shannon was born at 1:17 weighing 8lbs 1 oz and 20.5 inches in length.

Any day now

2009-12-19T19:19:00.002-06:00

Denise is measuring at 39-40 weeks so we may be having some exciting news in the not-so-distant future!!

All in a year!

2009-09-21T22:02:00.002-05:00

Since moving to Kansas City a lot has happened! The following list is not all inclusive.

We are expecting a baby girl in January
We bought a house
We are both have good jobs
We have a made a trip to Ireland with my parents
We had have had 5 visitors from Ireland stay with us
We have been able to celebrate two birthdays with Jeff
We had our 4th wedding anniversary
We bought another car
We have learned to make bread
We started a food storage
We went to see the Killers and Beck
We went to a family reunion
We have helped others
Others have help us
We made all new friends
We have gone to the Winter Quarters temple and the Saint Louis temple
We were here when it was announced that there would be a temple in Kansas City
We are learning new grilling/smoking techniques
We are familiar faces at the hardware stores
We made our house a home
We are having fun!

A much needed break

2009-07-23T16:28:00.003-05:00

We are going to a family reunion in Utah on Wed the 29th. It's been a long time since the whole family got together. Everyone but Jeff. Looking forward to time with the family and some relaxation, hopefully. I'll try to post some pictures when I get back.

Yes, we are still alive

2008-11-23T09:14:00.001-06:00

We are not the best bloggers... as you can see. I think we do things that would be worth reporting but I don't really think when I get home from something fun or interesting to put it on my blog. We'll see if we can update it more than a few times per year...

Beck..... at the Uptown Theatre

2008-09-30T19:06:00.003-05:00

I feel young again! What a performance by Beck, great seats, good company and the music was exceptional. MGMT , I like most of their stuff but they were way to loud last night or maybe I'm just showing my age! I saw Steve let loose for the first time!!! He really can dance. Great night had by all.

Dive of Death

2008-09-26T19:03:00.000-05:00

YouTube video

Did anyone else watch this? This guy got on prime time television and this was the "exciting conclusion!?" This was unbelievably lame and embarrassing to watch. I get frustrated that this guy gets all this publicity built up to do what I could go to the local climbing wall and watch someone do.

To sum this up in one word, "Reallyfreakinlame!!"

Application of what I got a degree in...

2008-09-20T10:42:00.001-05:00

After getting a degree in Health Science and learning for four years what I am supposed to do to be healthy, I am finally doing it. I don't know how many times I learned the basics and the research behind those basics. Eating right, exercising, and getting enough sleep.

Since we have moved here, Denise and I are eating better food and less of it. We can make a dinner go for lunch the following day. We used to eat all that in one sitting. I'm also taking a water bottle to work so I drink enough. I am running too. I used to run track in High School and I was actually quite good! Then I got a plantar's wart my sophomore year and I couldn't run, and I ate a lot, and I put on nearly 50 pounds. I needed to gain some weight, but that was a lot of extra weight to be carrying around the track with me. So, I stopped running because I didn't enjoy running with all that extra weight.

For the last month or so I have been running three times a week and I am finally at the point where I enjoy it. When I first started running again the whole time I was just trying to tell myself to "keep going," "you can do it" and other internal motivational speeches. Now, I can go out and relax and enjoy it!

Prison Break

2008-09-17T17:42:00.000-05:00

Does anyone else watch Prison Break? We're hooked. Feel free to post comments if you are a fan or want to discuss.

Our thoughts:

Season 1 - Great introduction and exciting gritty story

Season 2 - Somehow kept the story going and kept our attention like kids to candy

Season 3 - Writer's Strike = Crappy Season

Season 4 - On the rebound so far

If you are not caught up get season 1 & 2 and be up to date for the current season on TV

Hello

2008-09-14T17:12:00.000-05:00

I've broken down and created a blog on blogger. I learned how to do HTML coding and I was convinced I would create my own and design it. As you can see I gave up. Considering how much time it would take me to manually do everything every week, I always ended up just not doing anything.

So, here's hoping that Denise and I can actually do this.