Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Grandparent visits!

This last week was pretty crazy...I ended up working Monday night at the salon, teaching at the school Tuesday & Thursday and Saturday at the salon!  So Jade went to Jenni on Tues and Tasha on Thurs and it was quite the grumpy, miserable week for her.  We didn't know what was up!  We thought maybe just teething (but we didn't see anything, obviously we didn't search that hard), her schedule being a little different and not seeing me as much, maybe sick ??, but then last night I saw 2 top molars in on this poor girl!  That makes a total of 9 teeth for little miss.  So yeah, cutting two molar teeth at once made the whole- crying, clingy, not wanting to eat, extra cuddly, miserable at the babysitters Jade- make sense.  So halelujah those are in because she has been completely back to her old self!
 So good thing the only 3 free nights last week were filled with visits from all of her grandparents to cheer her up!!  It's probably my favorite thing to see how Jade just lights up and gets so excited when they are around!  She is definitely a lucky girl to have all of her grandparents fairly close and that love her so much.

My parents came by for a visit on Wednesday on their way up to Salt Lake.  They flew out the next morning to Chicago with my brother Conlan because he was invited to perform there after he won the National MTNA competition!  They had a blast and Conlan performed great!  I wish I could've been there.


On Friday morning John and Tracie had their baby girl!  Congrats guys!  Teaghann is sooo cute!  We need to come up and meet her soon...These pics were stolen from Michelle:) 




 And on Friday night Michelle and Larry came down to see us!  We went to dinner (despite Jade's restaurant manners) and it was delicious!  They even surprised her with a new doll:)  They definitely made the rounds visiting the kids all over Utah that day!


 Then we came back home and just played.  By the end of the night Jade was definitely hamming it up and showing off!


 Michelle and Larry took these next pictures with their nice camera and I love them!  Hence, they are on the blog! Thank you Momma!! (I only wish I had wiped off her mouth first!)







"Hello?"







Then she even got her milk and bedtime stories from Grandma:)


On Saturday, Tom sent me some cute pictures of their day:)  He is such a cute dad...and yeah she was in her pj's all day, it's cool.:) 


 And when I got home from the salon she drew us her very first picture!! And you bet that it got put right up on our fridge!


 After church on Sunday, Kevin came up to see us!



 This is the first time we actually got her to say "Cheese" and it kind of worked haha
Thanks everyone for coming to visit!! We love it! It's good to see and hear her say that she knows who "Gammy", "Gampy", "Grandma", and "Grandpa" are!


One of Jade's favorite things lately is to eat a whole apple or peach all by herself!  It is soo funny!  If she sees them on the counter she keeps pointing and saying "apple, apple, apple, apple..." til we give her one.  At first we gave her one thinking she would just play with it for a minute and get bored, but nope...she goes to town eating them!


 I love this picture!! Such determination!

 And just a few cute pictures from the park yesterday!






Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Tom's 29th Birthday!!

We had a really fun birthday weekend for this handsome fella!  I can't believe how time flies!  I realized we have known each other for 10 years!! What!?  Crazy.  And I am grateful to say that I love him more and more every day!  Happy Birthday old man!  I love you!

On Wednesday night we went out for his birthday dinner!  He chose the Trolley and I didn't complain- we love that place!
 But this is how Jade likes to do restaurants!  She is still kind of a nightmare when we go out to eat...but we're working on it:)
 And then when we return home, she turns back into a precious angel!










 On his birthday I made him breakfast before work!  Good way to start off a birthday I'd say (patting myself on the back)  I also got him a coupon to go get a massage!
 Then when he got home from work we headed out to go camping for the weekend!  Thanks for coming with us and making it so fun Fowlers and Jones!  Dallas also came up to visit us that night!







 The next morning Tom went on a tiny, little hike!....JK!  He scaled a mountain basically...  That little spec in the center top of this mountain is him!  Crazy man!  Doesn't he know that camping is meant solely for eating and relaxing??


 That afternoon was SOOO HOT!  Blah, poor Jade was too hot to nap so we took a little dip in the ice cold creek!




Our men doing manly things.... chainsaws, fires, lifting heavy logs.....

 And the ladies doing what we do best....chillaxing
 And of course Swayzie and Jade had a blast playing and getting dirty together




Swayzie and I bonded:)  She loved following me around and asking "What doing?"  I love that she loves me right now:)
I did her hair real cute and then she helped me make peach cobbler!  And everyone said it was the best peach cobbler we have ever had and I know it was Swayzie's magic touch! She is the sweetest little thing! 


 That night was soo fun!  We had some of the most hilarious conversations and melted lots of random things in the fire


Ahhhh camping...sad it has to end... 
When I think of all the prep work and clean up that goes into camping and I wonder why we even do it!   But then I remember some of the best times ever are had camping!  No phones, no distractions, and LOTS of delicious food!

A few pictures from earlier last week---
Brittany and I had fun at the park again!  Jade is getting so brave now and isn't satisfied with the swing anymore and now wants to play on the big kid things! 





She loves to make her toys hug.  Sweet girl