Tongue Cleaner?

Jade takes great pride in her personal hygiene already...she just loves having her tongue cleaned off after she eats!!! But if we try to clean her face she screams, such a funny girl!!

Doggy Laugh

This is how Jade reacted when she first saw a little puppy next door....So funny!

Fun Walk in the Canyon

Last Sunday we braved the rain and went for a walk up to Bridal Veil Falls. It was gorgeous up there and so green!

I thought the fog from the rain was absolutely gorgeous!

Jade, Me, & my sister Kaeli who is staying with us this summer.

Jadee and her Daddy sitting by the river.

In this video you can see how Jade loves to stick her hands in the water and splash!


Ben loves to do this to Jade...watch to find out what it is!


Listen to Jade say Da-Da!

Special Visitors

My Aunt Val and her family live far away in New Mexico. Every year they come up to Evanston for a visit and this year they stopped at our house to see us on their way. It was so fun to see her and all of her kids again. They had not seen Jade yet, so it was cute to watch them with her.

Jade and Aunt Val

Jade and Jacob (Val's youngest, he's 2)

Princess Sarah

The Boys, Jacob, Hyrum, & Joseph playing Mario-Kart! Gotta keep them entertained!

Brooke wanted to hold Jade the whole time. Jade just loved her and made the best faces and noises at her...

Cole's Birthday at Boondocks

Here are some more fun pics from my brother Cole’s birthday at Boondocks. The two little girls had so much fun together.

The "boys" had so much fun riding on the go-carts. I think they went at least 10 or more times!

I love my uncle Cole!

What ya got in there?

The Birthday Boy!!!

Making sure Dad's head doesn't get sunburned!!

The batting cages were so intense!

Grandma and Jadee

Maddi loved the holes in the table. Kaeli would poke her fingers up through the holes and Maddi would try to catch them! It was the cheapest, most entertaining game of "whac-a-mole" I have ever seen!

Cute Cousin Maddi Jo

The Grandparents

"Daddy, I can help you with that!"

The two girl cousins just taking in easy...

This club is so heavy!!

Grandma had lots of fun!

Cole expertly putting the ball.

Some fun shots of Maddi...

Grandpa and Jadee

Grandpa and Maddi

The Many Faces of Jade

Jade keeps us laughing with all of the faces she pulls. Here are just a few…

Here is my favorite face of hers....

We have a 10 month old!

It’s hard to believe that we have a 10 month old! I know I have said this before, but time is going faster than I would like it to. It does not seem possible that I could have an almost one year old!! She is now learning new things daily and with her increased mobility and curiosity, it is becoming quite the challenge to keep up with her.

Her shirt says "What part of Princess don't you understand?" And you can really see by the next couple of pictures that she is a princess and acts like one too!

Some of her newest feats this month are:
• army scooting across the floor as fast as she can go (she uses her arms to pull herself while kicking her legs and then drags her belly, it is the cutest/funniest thing I have ever seen!) Enjoy the two videos below of her crawling:








• making distinct consonant sounds like “Da, Ba, Ma, T, T, T”
• can finally make a raspberry sound on her own, she figured out how to stick her tongue between her lips and blow spit all over!
• her first tooth popped through and the 2nd one is well on its way
• is a master at finding and putting in her own pacifier
• can feed herself little finger foods, she is getting good at grasping things between her thumb and forefinger but if we don’t watch her she will shovel in the food as fast as she can!
• pulls herself up to standing on almost everything
• can now get from her belly to a sitting position (she loves to practice this one when she is supposed to be taking her naps, silly girl!)


Jadee can clap too:




She can almost stand up on her own, well at least here are a few attempts at it:







And last but not least, look at our little jumper now: