Mommy & Jadee Rainy Day Fun

One rainy day last week I was trying to figure out what to do with Jade because we had been cooped up in the house all day. So what is better than getting out the tent, filling it full of pillows and blankets, making some popcorn and sticking in a good movie?? Not much better! It was so fun to just spend some quality time with Jade. She absolutely loved being inside the tent and eating her "corn" as she calls it. It was cute as she cuddled up next to me to watch the movie. We only made it about 10 minutes into the movie before she started wiggling and her attention was gone, but we sure had fun playing in the tent!

Jadee helping to make her "corn." Don't worry the stove is not even on, this was staged just for a picture!

Look at that face!! She cannot believe this big bowl of corn is hers!

OOH, yummy!

Diving in the tent...

This black eye, her second one to date, was a result of her jumping in to the tent without looking. I happened to be holding her magna doodle and did not see her jump at me. She smacked her eye squarely on the corner of the magna doodle and the result was an instantaneous purple bump under her eye. I knew immediately that it was going to be a bad one. We tried to put ice on it but she had more fun just playing with the ice pack.

Here is her black eye the day it happened...

A few hours later we were playing with the letter O and you can see her eye getting worse.

This was taken about two days after, the bruise looks awful but the swelling has gone down. We also took this pic to show you all of her hair! You don't really know how much she has until it poofs out like this!

Look at that hair!!

My Birthday

Birthdays are funny things. I have always loved celebrating mine because it is fun to be spoiled all day long. This year I was excited for the birthday part of it but not for the turning one year older part. The closer I get to 30 the more I realize how old I am getting and it is not fun as your body starts to wear out and not do the things it used to. I think it might be because I just had baby #2 but I just don't feel as great as I used to. But for this birthday Ben surprised me and we celebrated it for a whole week. The saturday before he got his mom to babysit the girls and we went to eat at our favorite place, Red Robin. Afterwards we just walked around the mall and shopped and looked, it had been probably since before Jade was born that we did that and I had forgotten how much fun it was to just be with Ben and shop. Then on the wednesday before my birthday, Ben rented a tandem bike and we took it riding up the canyon. I was a bit nervous at first but we actually had a lot of fun. It was not as hard to balance as I thought and I loved being in front, in control.



Finally on my actual birthday last friday, my mom and brother came down and took us all out to lunch at Olive Garden. It was super yummy and of course we ate way too much! Then Ben took the girls and my brother home and my mom and I went shopping for the rest of the day. It was nice to have a day to spend with my mom and just a day to myself. I really needed it, thanks Ben!!!

Mom and Me

Cole and Ben

My Jadee Lady

My sweet baby Kiera

Pool Time

Jade is having tons of fun in her pool this summer. We have to stick with the backyard pool this year and forego the swim lessons because it is just way too hard to watch a newborn and swim with Jade at the same time. Jade has fun collecting all of her rings and going down the slide. She is a bit timid of the water this year but has fun when someone plays with her.
She is so funny, she has to throw all of her rings down the slide before she will go down herself.

Wheeee!!!

Visiting Aunt Kaeli

Last week we decided to take a day trip up to visit my sister Kaeli on her day off. Jade absolutely loves Aunt Kae and has so much fun with her. We started off the day by having lunch at a fantastic hamburger place with Kaeli and her husband Troy and then we played at the park for awhile. It was super hot so we decided to go back to Kaeli's house and rest. I was brave that day because Jade did not take a nap on the way down in the car like I thought she would but she did pretty well, only a few crazy moments. While we rested she watched Toy Story 3 and Aunt Kae painted her toenails for the first time. I was amazed at how still Jade sat there. When they were done and even to this day Jade will look at her pink toes and say "ooooh, pretty, Kae." It is so cute!
Later that day, we went to feed the ducks. On the way to the pond, guess who fell asleep? Yep, sure enough she just couldn't keep her eyes open one more second.
After a five min. snooze we took her to feed the ducks. She had lots of fun and even remembered to eat some for herself too!

Kiera's Blessing

We blessed little Kiera on June 12, it was a very special day for our family. We had lots of fun with all the family that came and ate lots of good food!! Thanks everyone!

Daddy, Kiera, Mommy
Our little family, this is what Jade does now in most pictures. She can't sit still! Oh well, that's our big girl!

Jade always has lots of kisses for her little sister.

Sisters
Yes I know Jade is not wearing a shirt, you will see in a few pictures why it is off...

Our sweet, pensive, pleasant baby girl

There was lots of fun to be had with so much family around.

We decided to use the leftover chocolate from my sister's wedding as part of our dessert. Well this is what you get when your almost 2 year old discovers the cups full of chocolate on a table that she can now reach!!

Yummy!! Gotta get every drop!
Look at her point that finger, she is saying don't touch my chocolate!


Wagon rides with Uncle Cole...

My Dad was a kid magnet as he played with all the girls...

3 generation photo with Ben, Kiera and his Mom

4 generation photo with Me, my Mom's mom, Kiera, and my Mom

I love the little girls in this picture with all their grandparents. Look closely at Jade and Maddi...I promise they had fun!

A rare shot, Kiera with all 10 of her living Grandparents/Great-Grandparents. So awesome that she has so many left to grow up with.

Lot of swinging on the hammock....

4 generation photo with Kiera, Me, my Mom's Dad, and My Mom

Ready, set, slide.

Jade had so much fun with her cousins today.



And one of the funniest pictures to me is Grandpa trying to sneak some goodies and chocolate...




Too bad Grandma caught him!

Smiley Kiera

Kiera has really been growing fast lately. She is starting to gain lots of cute baby fat rolls. Here are some pictures of her just being her happy smiley self!

I love this "deer in the headlights" look as well that she gives quite often...

This was her first bath in a baby tub. I guess I just find it much easier to sponge bathe her because she was two months old before we pulled out this tub. She rather enjoyed being in the warm water.

The Dress and Pretend Phase

I think we have officially entered a new phase at our house. Jade is now pretending to do things. She carries her baby doll everywhere with her and makes it do everything she sees me doing with the real baby. It is super cute and she is such a good little mommy! Here they are playing outside at her table.

And she is also in the "I only want to wear dresses" phase, who knew a kid of mine would only wear dresses!! This is funny to me because I only wear them when I absolutely have to! Below are several dresses she has to wear, she looks so stinking cute in them!! I think we have a little lady in the making!

And what happens when we wear shorts and dresses in the summertime, combined with a very rambunctious and active toddler? You guessed it, lots of scrapes and bruises!!

This red dress is my favorite and a great color on her. I also wanted to show off the Capri Sun couch that Ben built for her. He made it using only capri sun boxes and half a roll of packing tape. Considering we got the boxes for free I would say it was the cheapest couch we have ever bought!! Jade absolutely loves it and sits/stands on it whenever she is in the living room.