Pygocentrus Nattereri

 Since our family has moved and we're now in the city, we've made a grown-up decision to NOT have any pets...except for piranha.

Red-bellied Piranhas!!! From the moment these little guys hatch from their tiny eggs in the wild, they are armed and dangerous! Currently we have three; not including the previous picture. (That's what they'll look like full-grown.)

Here's Attila, he's the biggest and baddest right now and kind of lazy. Here we are acclimating him and Genghis to their new, bigger tank.

Genghis, he's Attila's right-hand man. They are ALWAYS side-by-side. Two of the first three that we purchased...they ate the other one.

Napoleon, the new addition, he seems to be getting along okay with the others, so long as he stays on the opposite side of the 60 gallon tank...We named him Napoleon because he is one-third their size and  he is doing quite well keeping himself alive. Today, he ate the head and tail of his breakfast with no interruptions.

We've had fish before but NOTHING so cool as these diabolically menacing-looking babies! They are hearty fish and surprisingly easy to take care of, just keep the Ph levels down...or up in the tank and make sure they have PLENTY to eat or they eat the weakest link. We've learned from trial and error that if their bellies aren't bulging, they ARE NOT full! 

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY

(We plan to have five or seven of them.)

Trip to the BEACH

We went to the Oregon Coast this weekend, Lincoln City. It was Taryn's first trip to the Pacific! He LOVED it...

It was pretty cold and windy when we went on Saturday so we parked on the beach. That's Matt, he and Cari are our friends who LIVE THERE! Lucky.

Sidewalk art and my feet in Lincoln City.

To get down to the beach on Sunday we had to walk down those stairs...my thighs loved it...I think there were about 8,653 of them. Taryn just wanted to play and run around so it wasn't worth it to get him to pose with us.

The camera on my phone has a two (or so) second delay, I tried really hard to get a picture with T in the sky...but it didn't work out and I was sick of trying after the sixth shot. LOL! But I LOVE that second picture!

That log was just washed up on the beach, along with a few other smaller trees, this one had to be about twelve feet long! The picture of our backsides was taken shortly before Taryn and I got our feet wet! Those waves are sneaky!

He was so funny with that hat! He held on to those strings ALL DAY!

These pictures are hard to do. So I'm pretty proud of this one!! We love you! We miss you!!

Just a Little T

We've moved again, and this time we'll settle. It's still a little chaotic at the new place, all kinds of things are missing and I just haven't had the motivation to move or empty many boxes these last couple of days...maybe that has something to do with the fact that Devon and I filled a U-haul truck with all our stuff and emptied it out ourselves too...just wait until you see the ONE THING I COULDN'T help with...

Anyway, here are some new pictures of T-man!

This was taken in our new living room, he seems pretty chill already! YAY

That's his shirt, I'm not sure if he was seriously trying to dress himself or if he was being funny, this kid has a pretty awesome sense of humor.

See? He knows those are the pants...

Feeling a bit nerdy, he LOVED those sunglasses...AFTER he popped out the lenses.

Birthday number 2! Lots of friends and family came, that's Aunt Lavern!! He didn't like our singing, I didn't get a video, but he kept saying "NO!" and "Stop it!" HA!

His favorite Christmas decoration.

Some glamour shots....Yes, my pits are a bit hairy.

This was the one piece of furniture that I couldn't help move. Oh yes, the DOMINATOR.

Trying to be like Daddy. (Can't quite figure out the devil horns.)

His feet can't reach the pedals, so he plays with it his own way.

Christmas 2009

We finally did it! We got pictures as a family (minus Turkish). The place didn't do that kind of stuff. And even though it was a BAD time of day for Taryn to be posing for a camera, somehow we managed.

The Schwartzhoff-Holloway-Suckow's. We let everyone pick their favorite last name for us.

He was really shy, the photographer was a pretty good-looking blonde...HAHA.

Devon's parents, Mitch & Robin. They're a beautiful couple!

Mitch's parents, Bob & Irma Jean/Taryn's GREAT-grandparents! It's exciting for me that Taryn has living great-grandparents.

The whole family. Back row: Nikki, Devon, Cory (Mitch's son), Mitch, Robin. Front row: Taryn, Grandma Irma, Grandpa Bob, Lexi (Devon's sister).

We even took an awkward picture with Santa Clause this year! I'm thinking next year will be fun for Taryn, rather than terrifying. But it was fun for ME this year, I couldn't STOP laughing!! Poor kid.