Pizza Night!

We had TWO pizza nights this week! One with Aimee and Dave, the other with Lance and his friends. Lance makes THE BEST homemade pizza. Sadly, I didn't get any pictures from pizza night with Aimee...but we did get some pics from our 2nd pizza night. If anyone wants a good dough recipe....let me know!

the daddies and their daughters :)

A Baby Party

The other day we threw a baby party for my friend Aimee!! She is expecting her little girl any day now. You  may ask....what exactly is a baby party? Simple! Same as a baby shower, but hubbies and significant others are invited to this one. ;)

Isn't she such a cute pregnant lady??

We played an entertaining, yet rather disgusting, game where the
soon to be parents had to guess what candy bar was melted into a diaper.
Dave was champion at this.

It was so fun to have the hubbies around.



Lance is an awesome dad!

Our babies might not know this yet, but they are going to be best friends!!

A Mission Farewell and a Baby Blessing

Sunday, July 8th was such a wonderful day! Daniel left on his LDS mission today, so his mission farewell talk was on Sunday. We decided to give Jade her baby blessing that same day in our parents' ward so Daniel could be part of the blessing circle. I was a bit nervous about taking Jade to church for the first time (what if she starts having a freak out??) but she was such a good baby! I was so grateful that Lance was able to give our daughter a blessing.

Daniel gave an awesome talk. What was even sweeter about this sacrament meeting was that it was Troy's farewell too (he is going to Thailand!). They both did great on their talks and they sang a duet together "I Believe in Christ". They did a fantastic job. I am just so amazed by how great so many young men and women in the church are. Here are two very talented young men giving up everything to spend 2 years just serving God and other people. Wow.

Daniel with his friends

Lance and Jade
(Lance made Jade's headband!!)

Getting the little lady ready

Family Picture

1 month old!

 Our little baby is 1 month old today! I can't believe how fast time flies by! Jade is such a good baby! She really isn't very fussy...thank goodness. ;) She is so funny when she sleeps. She likes to kick her blanket off her body, put her arms in the air and stick her pinky fingers out. Sometimes she likes to sleep on her side and she'll roll to her side completely on her own! She doesn't mind tummy time unless she is hungry (she's good about anything unless she is hungry...that's how I am too!). When she is on her tummy she can do a pretty good scorpion. haha. She loves taking baths...we think it's hilarious that if you hold her head her bum and the rest of her floats. It's so funny to watch her kick her little legs like she's riding a bicycle. We hadn't noticed she had grown until we realized she no longer fits into newborn diapers and some of her really cute newborn outfits. We love this little girl so much!

Samantha said that I was allowed to make a post ;S under supervison of course.  Well the only thing that is ever on my mind is Baby Jade.  She is so much fun to have around. I love finding things to do to her like blow raspberries on her belly (which is getting so much bigger, she has a little pop belly now and it's so cute).  I sit her up in silly positions on the coach and throw her in the air, put her in my lacrosse stick, drag her across the bed by her feet. . . she is so much fun.  Best toy I've ever had.  The best part is school is over in three weeks, which means that I get to spend even more time with Jade and Sam and I don't have to tune them out to do homework.  Soon I'll be able to read to Jade, do Chinese Rosetta Stone with her, make cute hair accessories for her ( I just made a hair bow for her for her baby blessing on Sunday and I have to admit it turned out pretty good ).  Aside from being able to play more with Jade, I am ready to be able to sleep.  Right now when we put Jade down for a nap I have to do homework, it will be nice to not have to peel my contacts off my eyes each night from having to keep them open for so long while typing and reading off a computer screen.
YAY!

Fourth of July

Lance got to be in the 4th of July parade in Provo...and he was jumping on a trampoline! (What else would he be doing??) Sadly, I don't have any pictures because Jade and I stayed home...but you can see a video of him practicing his doubles act on our facebook page.

When Lance got home, we went to lunch with my family. Since my brother is leaving on his mission next week, he wanted to try a restaurant he had never been to before. We went to Brio at Fashion Place Mall. YUMMMM!! I highly recommend this restaurant! The food was delicious!!

This was the first time we took Jade to a restaurant and she did great! She was asleep most of the time, and when she did wake up, was content to look around the restaurant.

After lunch we went home and crashed. We watched a movie and slept the rest of the day away!

Silver Lake

On Sunday I thought it would be fun if we went for a family walk around the boardwalk at Silver Lake. We got my family to go too. It was beautiful up in the mountains, but we cut our outing short because there were so many mosquitoes!! I was so freaked out that Jade was going to get bit that I had a hard time enjoying the scenery. I guess she was pretty secure in her carseat/stroller because she didn't get any bites. yay! (I was the only one who got any bug bites haha)