It could be worse

I could be wearing a banana clip and whitewashed denim! I officially received the worst haircut of my life today. Its awful. Its something like this...
I'm the blonde guy in the middle!
Ok maybe thats a slight exaggeration. But not far from the truth. Needless to say, you will not be seeing my smiling face in pictures for a while.

It's official. I'm addicted to blogging....Not just my own blog but everyones. I even bought the book "Blogging for Dummies!" I know I'm a dork, and its kind of oxymoronish (I know, I know) to buy a book about a technology as great as blogging. I guess I should not have dropped my web design class(es) in college. Because now I think its amazing! I have read so many witty and inspiring blogs I just can't get enough. I have added some favorites to my list. The problem is I click to see another post and lose track of what I thought was so great. Hence the reason for the book. I want to learn shortcuts and options, about blogrolls and widgets, RSS feeds, the magic of search engines and more! I hope all of you reading this blog enjoy it and leave comments. There is certainly more greatness to come....
I have so many things I want to blog about, it is a great way to keep track of memories and recount old ones. And you can always go and take a look back...that is unless choose to delete something (which is a great feature!) but is anything ever really deleted from the Internet anyway...


And now I will leave you with the real reason most of you visit this site...
Pictures!!!Our little water baby trying to put his feet into the dirty Oklahoma River!
Playing "catch" with Dad in the outfield of the cowboys baseball game.

"Tomorrow could be one of the best days of my life"...then it rained!

We are back from NYC and recovering.

Unfortunately, the Yankees/Mets game got rained out. Just to give you some background. I got tickets to see them play for JonEric's 30 b-day, so that is really the reason we went... Thursday was gorgeous and Saturday was perfect. Friday it rained from the time we woke up until after we went to bed. Thursday nite Jon Eric said to me.. just in conversation that tomorrow could be one of the best (most exciting) days of his life. Then it rained...I feel so bad for him. I know he is disapointed. But at least we got to go to the stadium before the tore it down... and it was really cool. We had a great time overall.

We (I) shopped Madison Ave. We went to central park and the 9/11 memorial. There is so much to see and do...It was a great time just to be together! We were glad to be able to visit there. It is definately like another world from Oklahoma. Its a great place to visit, but I could never live there.

I'm sure you've noticed. My pictures were really small last time. I'm working on it! I've posted alot of NY pics on Kodak gallery so I'm not going to post them here. I got a new video camera for Mother's Day so hopefully in the near future I'll be able to share some video blurbs of Austen with you on here. As soon as I figure it out! So for now here are a couple of priceless pics of my little person with personality!

I can't begin to tell you how blessed we are. I have been thinking alot lately about how amazing it is to have a healthy child. I guess working in the hospital just does that to you, I have the opportunity to work with some very sick kids. We've also been personally connected to a couple sick babies recently.

Austen will be 10 months tomorrow! He is getting so many teeth(8) and beginning to cruise the furniture, not far from walking I'm sure. Just a few weeks ago we dedicated Austen at our church. Both sets of grandparents were able to join us for this special day. I've posted a picture below.

Jon Eric and I will be leaving this week for our trip to NYC! We are super excited. Although I am not excited to be away from Austen for 4 nights! I know..I know...you all say I'll be begging for that in a few years... but not just yet.

Yesterday was my first Mother's Day. I have to say, I got butterflies in my stomach when the pharmacist wished me Happy Mother's day. I'm a dork!

I have to brag that Austen has officially begun sports! He is now able to make baskets into his basketball goal... and he loves it... too bad we will have to break it to him that he will probably be too short to play basketball! just kidding!

This past weekend we celebrated Macy Austen's cousin's 2nd birthday. I've added an adorable picture of that day. Macy, Madeline, & Austen.

Where to start.

Well, I finally gave into the blogging craze. I am making no promises! I will blog when I can, and everyone knows how much time I have on my hands. ~ha I just wanted to be able to tell everyone all the exciting things going on in our lives. (especially Austen's)

Speaking of Austen, he is such an amazing joy. Our lives were sooo very boring before his arrival. What on earth did we talk about?

He is just so much fun. He has been crawling like a machine for about a month now. I was shocked the day he started to crawl. No rocking, no crawling backwards, he just took off. About the same time he began to pull up and we learned what an important step babyproofing is.

He is saying mama & dad and just recently bye bye with a wave!

This weekend my Dad got him to say pop!

We are so very lucky to have found a part -time babysitter for Austen. Her name is Natalie and Austen really likes her and I like him to be able to interact with other kids. She keeps 3 other kids ages: 1.5yrs, 6 months, and 3 months.



I love my job working at OU MEDICAL CENTER. I work in the marketing and PR department. I work with a specific program called Kohl's Cares for Kids. Kohl's Department stores provides grants to hospitals around the country to fund public health education in local communities. I feel so very blessed to be working with this program. We are providing an injury prevention initative for the OKC Metro area. This is right up my alley, as I get to pick the focus of the program and this year no doubt we are doing child passenger safety, because this is where my passion lies. Its going to be a challenge in years to come to venture to other areas of injury prevention. I am fortunate because I have a super flexible schedule and only work about 20 -25 hours a week. I love it!



Jon Eric is enjoying his job as the Director of Operations of the Chesapeake Boathouse. This weekend they are hosting the Olympic Trials for canoe and kayak. Its a great event for OKC and when you are in OKC you should visit the boathouse is a beautiful place.