Found a cool site that visually lists a ton of links to the best of the best on the world wide web.
July 11, 2009
Annie’s New Bike
It’s a big day for the Teague family. Katie cringed a bit when Annie picked out the Barbie bike, but I didn’t care…I was so excited, maybe even more than Annie! She rode her new bike all the way through Wal Mart, through the checkout line and into the parking lot! My little girl is growing up!
July 9, 2009
Pool Dunking
I love this! Takes me back to those summer days when there’s nothing else to do but make up stuff to do! Thanks John!
July 4, 2009
Happy Birthday To My Bride
To my beautiful bride…today on your birthday I hope you know how much you are loved! For being such an understanding, encouraging wife; for being such a caring, compassionate mommy; for working so hard and so patiently to care for your family…
I am so blessed – and so proud – to call you my wife, and our precious girls have so much more to learn about their amazing mommy!
So to my 31 yr old hottie…with all my love…
Happy Birthday!
July 2, 2009
How Ants Feel
I’m sitting in one of my favorite places to work/study out of the office, but when I came in there was a group of women gathered around all the tables, leaving me in the corner by the front window. The sun is blasting through the wall of glass and I feel like an ant frying under a magnifying glass that’s being held by some freckle-faced kid with glasses!
Now here’s the interesting part…this group of women who are occupying all the tables and most of the seating space in the coffee shop are doing a Bible study – I can hear them very clearly. I’m all about Bible study! I’m actually here to study the Bible! However, what about someone who comes in and doesn’t know who Jesus is or that God loves him/her? How would he/she respond?
Encouraged by what he/she overhears this group talking about?
Or frustrated because these Bible poeple are taking up all the seating in the shade?
I’m riding the fence, but at the very least it made me think…
June 30, 2009
The Price of Daddyhood
Entering Burke Lake Park on a weekend as a non-resident – $8
One adult and one child for a municipal park putt-putt course – $11
Playing putt-putt for the first time with your 4yr-old daughter – Priceless
I apologize for the cliche mastercard bit, but $19 for a few holes of mini golf with my little girl was so worth it! This week I experienced something as a dad: you can’t put a price on spending time with your family.
Annie barely made it through 9 holes on the 18 hole course! We jumped over some rocks from 12 to 18 so we could watch our golf balls disappear on the last hole! Though she is only 4, part of me thinks Annie played just for me.
Being a dad is incredible.
June 30, 2009
Vacation by the Numbers
- 1 – trip to the first aid station at the National Zoo! Hope fell out of her stroller – see picture here. Read about it here!
- 2 – trips to Trader Joe’s
- 4 – family members visited – Katie’s grandmother in Stuart’s Draft, VA; Katie’s aunt and uncle in Baltimore; my uncle in Burke, VA.
- 6 – nights
- 7 – days
- 11 – hours was how long the 8.5hr trip took us on the way up to DC
- 12 – runs scored in the Orioles 11-1 win over the Nationals. Fun to see lots of offense!
- 65 – mph was the maximum speed limit the entire state of Virginia
- 86 – dollars in gas
- 102.5 – Annie’s temperature when we got home
- 1100 – dollars for the new tires, brakes and rotors on the van before the trip…awesome.
- 1312 – miles traveled
- 0 – messages, emails or calls received by me!
June 27, 2009
Orangutan Peekaboo
Here’s another video from our trip to the National Zoo. This orangutan decided to put on a show and we just happened to be in the Ape House when it happened! (it’s better to go to youtube and load/watch it in HD)
June 27, 2009
Orangutan Crossing
The National Zoo has this cool cable system called the O-Line (the metro system has the Red Line, Orange Line…). If you’re lucky you will catch one of the orangutans crossing over you! The funniest part of this is at 15 seconds – there was a lady next to Katie who started freaking out because she thought one of the apes had escaped! You can hear her say “he must have got away!”
June 27, 2009
A Night at Camden Yards
Baltimore really isn’t that far from Northern Virginia/DC area…but it took us 2 hours with all the traffic! But the sky was a really cool pink, there was a nice breeze and our seats by the left field foul pole were great. It’s hard to beat a hot dog and peanuts at the ballpark!
