February 2009

February 1, Aaron was called to be the First Counselor in the Elder's Quorum Presidency. Wheew! At least it's not Bishop or Elder's Quorum President. I think Aaron is both sad and exicted for the new calling. He's sad because he was just starting to get comfortable in the Young Men's Presidency and he really likes the boys. He was perfect for that calling and the boys seemed to really like him. However, I think he's excited because it's a new challenge and it gives him an opportunity to get to know the men of the ward. He'll be good at it though. He does well with anything he puts his mind to. The Super Bowl was tonight. We went to Mom Gunn's house and had a great spread of Super Bowlgreatness. The Steelers won. It was a pretty tame game and we spent more time watching Jade than really the game.

February 2, Ground Hog's Day. Jade had her first taste of chocolate cake tonight for FHE at Mom Gunn's house. She loved it. Aaron is in Kentucky for another couple of days so we are spending the day the with grandparents. Mom Gunn thinks I'm starting a bad habit and that she will be a sugar-aholic if I'm not careful.



February 5, Jade is officially 9 months old. Today I gave Jade her little yellow train that she got from Grandparents Gunn for Christmas. She stood right up while holding onto the train and started walking behind it. All by herself! She can't turn the corners very well so that means you have to follow behind her so you can turn her around but other than that she loves it.

February 6, Jade did a real wave today. I have been practicing with her since her 9 month check up with the pediatrican. She said that by 9 months Jade should be waving. So to make sure she's not behind, I've been practicing with her everyday. She finally waved all by herself. It's more of her fingers going up and down rather than a side to side wave.

February 8, Today was our Stake Conference and Jade was a PILL. She didn't want to sit in her car seat, she wanted to see everyone around her and then she didn't want to sit on our laps. Everytime we let her down she would try to escape holding onto the chairs, then when we would pick her up she would just scream. I was so tempted to strangle her. Luckily there was a cute boy sitting behind us and he started making oogly eyes at her and that kept her attention for awhile. I am starting to hate church, especially if she starts being a pill in church.


We got out of the car to go to Grandma Sorensen's and found Jade this way. She didn't even cry.

January 12, Jade can WHISTLE! How funny! I make this breathing sound through pursed lips and it makes a whistling sound. Jade can mimick it and she has actually got to the point where she makes a whistling sound when doing it.



January 13, Jade is wearing her first pair of shoes. Mom Gunn found her a pair of white high tops and we can actually fit her fat feet in them. Before, with any other pair of shoes we haven't been able to get the tops of her feet to fit in the shoe, especially if they are Mary Jane styled. It creates a muffin top over the strap and it looks super uncomfortable. Poor child inherited fat, wide feet from her loving, adorable father. :)

February 14,

Jade's first Valentines Day. Cupid came to the door and left her a cute red stuffed bear to play with. It was fun to pass on the tradition of cupid at the door just like my parents did with us kids. I know she doesn't get it but it was fun for me to do. It was also Kylee's and Roanne's birthdays today. We went over and hung out with the family and met Cade's new girlfriend Lisa. She's super cute and Jade seemed to really like her. She played with her and sat on her lap all evening long.

February 16, I tried Jade with a soft nipple sippy cup for the first time. She seemed to get the hang of it really fast and seemed to like it. I only use it for meals though because I don't want it dripping all over the carpet.

February 18, We decided that Jade was getting too big for her infant carseat. So we bought a big kid carseat that sits forward from KSL. She seems to really like it because now she can see what is going on all around it. It's like its opened a whole new world for her to investigate.



She has also started sticking out her tongue like a lizard when you ask her to. You say, "Jade, what does a lizard say," and she will stick out her tongue. It's super funny to watch. Tonight Aaron watched Jade while I took Mom Gunn to Madame Butterfly for an early birthday present. We went to dinner and then the show. It was a great play and I think mom enjoyed herself. I enjoyed it because I was able to get mom a gift that was super unexpected, that she never would have bought herself, but that she enjoyed seeing. Point for me!

February 19, We went down to St. George with Aaron's family to hang out for the weekend. Originally it was just going to be Clair, Roanne, Jen and Jeremy because they wanted to go to the Parade of Homes but it ended up being everyone. We all seemed to be able to get work off and go. Jade did really well. We just put her pack-n-play in the laundry room and she slept really well. She loves hanging out with her cousins because there's so much going on and it keeps her entertained for hours on end. We have the cutest video of Jade "dancing" while at the Parade of Homes. We were out on a patio and she grabbed hold of the railing bars and started stamping her feet up and down, laughing and yelling at the people below. It is the cutest thing ever!



February 23

This is a picture of Dad and Jade sitting in the play pen together. Dad will do anything to win over Jade's love and affection.

February 24, It was the Draper Temple Open House tonight. We took Jade with us and she did really well. Occasionally she was a little irreverant but we took her pacifier and that seemed to help. At the end of the tour we found ourselves in front of Cierra and Paige. We took them home with us and went out to eat at the Porcupine


After the open house, Jade was super tired. She feel asleep drinking her bottle.

February 25, I've been trying to go to the gym 2-3 times a week. I have the Gold pass that allows me to use their daycare for free. I just have to call a day in advance and schedule an appointment. However that is a good thing for me because it keeps me motivated to go. Jade seems to really like it as well. It gives her an hour away from me where she can interact with other kids and toys. She never cries and all the daycare workers always comment that she is super easy to watch because she does her own thing, is never needy and never cries. I think this is a really good thing for both of us. We need that hour of alone time, away from each other because it keeps me sane and it keeps Jade from getting mother dependant. Win-Win!

February 26,

Happy 52nd Birthday to Mom Gunn! Mom and I scrapbooked all morning and afternoon long. We are scrapbooking queens lately. We both have catching up to do, some more than others, (that would be me. I think I am only 6 years behind now.) but we both want to get it done so that come summer we can swim. To celebrate mom's bday we went out to Italian Village. So tasty!

January 2009!!!!

Happy New Year! It has been a very eventful year, especially with the birth of Jade. We are so glad she is growing and developing so well. She really is fun to have around and I really can't imagine our family without her. It will be fun to see how 2009 turns out and what things she has accomplished in a year.

January 4th was not a very fun day. It was fast Sunday and I had been fasting that I would be able to come to terms with this new pregnancy. I have been feeling guilty because I didn't really want to be pregnant. I had talked about going back to school now that Jade was easier to leave for an hour or two. I really wanted to finish up my degree and I thought this would be a great time to start again. I was also really nervous because Jade and the new baby would be so close in age. The thought of handling a 15 month old and a brand new baby at the same time were frightening. So I guess I was fasting for a piece of mind with this pregnancy and a little bit of excitement. The thought had been in the back of my mind though that this pregnancy was very different. For starters, the ultrasound that I had several weeks back didn't pick up a heart beat and that made me nervous. Also the fact that I had two days of some nausea and nothing else for several weeks. I thought maybe I had just gotten lucky with this baby but it was so different from my pregnancy with Jade that it was just another warning sign that something might be wrong. So on Sunday after fasting, I started thinking that maybe I was going to miscarriage. Sure enough, that night Aaron, Jade and I were down at my parent's house for Sunday dinner when I started to spot. I spotted with Jade about this same time but again the nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right started up again. My brothers, dad and Aaron gave me a blessing and Aaron blessed me that I would be okay and so would the baby. We went home but I continued to spot and by about 11pm I was starting to cramp. During the middle of that night, I woke up with serious abdominal pain. I went to the bathroom and miscarried. I've never had that happen to me before, even though I have seen it a million times at the hospital. However, I wasn't really prepared to have it happen to me. Even though I had been having nagging feelings all day that something wasn't right, it still took me by surprise. I told Aaron and he was very supportive. I think he was a little nervous because I wasn't very emotional. I think I was more in shock that anything else. I went back to sleep that night not feeling much. I was just too shocked to really express my emotions. When I woke up that morning, Aaron asked if I wanted him to stay home. I told him no, that I would be alright. I called all of our family and told them the sad news, but never got emotional. It wasn't until that night, late, that I broke down. All day I had been thinking about what a horrible person I was because I didn't want to be pregnant. I felt like this was a way for God to punish me for being so selfish. Finally, my emotions just came to a head and I had a break down. I think it scared Aaron a little bit because it came out of no where. One moment we are having a normal conversation and the next I'm bawling my eyes out. No matter what I told myself about the statistics of a miscarriage, or that it wasn't my fault, that it just happens, I just couldn't stop feeling guilty. I finally fell asleep (because that is what I do when I am upset. I sleep really well!) When I woke up that morning Aaron told me he was taking a day off of work. He fixed me breakfast and told me to just take it easy. My feelings didn't change but it sure was nice to have his support that day. We just hung out, put away Chrismas decorations, Aaron worked on our fireplace, and we played games. It was a great day and by the end, I felt more at peace with myself and God. It was a horrible experience to have to go through and I totally empathize with those ladies that come into the ER miscarring. However I feel like a learned a lot about myself and my Heavenly Father.

January 8th, The stake president, President Murphy, and his second counselor stopped by the house today unexpected. I just happened to be flexed from work and Aaron and I were sitting watching TV whent he doorbell rang. The president came in and just chatted with the both of us for about 30 minutes and then left us with a word of prayer. It was nice to visit with him but of course we were both very interested in why he came to visit us. When I told our neighbor she said it was because they were looking for a new bishop. I guess ours lost his job and he has been looking out of state for a new one. Let's hope that Aaron doesn't get called to be bishop. With how busy he is with his job right now, I just don't know were he would find the time. Let's keep our fingers crossed!

January 10th, I have decided that with the miscarriage, maybe I should really go back to school. I had talked about it with Aaron before we found out we were pregnant and then just put it on the back burner when I really was pregnant. But now that I'm not, I think maybe I will. I have to have one more prerequiste before I can apply to the U of U's BSN program. It's a 16 month internet program and I could get in this next fall. So I've registered at SLCC for a Bio-organic chemistry class. I'll take that for spring semester and then be ready to turn in my application to the U for the fall semester. It's two days a week for an hour plus I have to have a lab. So maybe I will get Jen Sorensen to watch Jade for me two days and week and get this class done. I haven't talked to her yet but that would be that plan. I start class on Monday (it's Saturday) so I better hurry, huh?

Tonight we went up to Park City and met all the Gunn kids for dinner. We ate at our favorite mexican restaurant, Baja Cantina. We then decided to go to the hot springs because we weren't able to go on New Years. We got to the hot springs and there were naked people in it again. It was super crowded for some reason and with the naked people, we decided to just leave. We were super disappointed that we had to end the night so early but Aaron came up with this awesome idea. We would rent a cheap hotel room that had a hot tub and then let everyone come over and crash it. But could we find a single room in Heber? NO. All of the cheap ones were full or they didn't have a hottub. Finally, we called the Homestead and instead of renting a cheap room, rented an expensive room. It was fun though. Everyone came over and we went to the pool. It was heated and they had a great hottub and we spent the rest of the night hanging out. Jade loved the water and had a really good time. It was getting late, so Aaron and I headed back to the room with Jade and on our way back to the room we saw a huge buck right outside our little room. It was eating the branches off the tree right next to our door. It didn't move the entire time. It just stood there and we were able to walk right past it and into our room. It turned out to be a really fun night and we stayed in a squeezie hotel room.

January 12th, I started by bio-organic chemistry class today. It's at nigh, Mondays and Wednesdays from 5-7pm plus a two hour lab in the early afternoon on Wednesday. So Jen Sorensen has agreed to watch Jade until Aaron get's home from work. I have to leave our house at 4:30pm to get to class on time. So she watches her from about 4:30-6pm and then watches her on Wednesdays starting at 1pm until Aaron gets home. This class looks like it's going to be a tough one. I haven't done chemistry in almost ten years and they expect you to have just taken it. So that will be challenging. But it is kind of fun to be back in school. I just hate how much it costs. The book was over $150. Unbelievable!!!!

Something quick about Jade. I walked in to her room this morning to get her up and found her standing in her crib holding on to the side rail. She was looking over the rail. Cute thing. I was so impressed that she had pulled herself up by herself. She hasn't been able to do that by herself yet. I guess this means were going to have to lower her bed so she doesn't lean over the rail and fall out.



Jade cheesing for the camera. I love this picture. It's so her in the mornings. She definately got that trait from her dad, not me!

January 13th, Jade woke up this morning with really bad diarrhea. I have had to change her diaper at least six times today. Because it doesn't really smell, I don't catch it in time and so her poor little bottom is just super red and raw. She screams every time I try to change her diaper. Poor thing. I wonder if she's getting another tooth. I guess we will see.

January 16th

Our new entertainment center. Jeremy Sorensen designed and made it for us. He did a really great job. Now we just need to finish the tile around the fireplace and install everything.

January 17

Jade at lunch with Dad Gunn wearing his hat and sunglasses.

January 18th, On our way home from Mom Gunn's house tonight, Jade threw up in her car seat. She had been acting cranky all afternoon and didn't eat a very good dinner but I didn't think anything about it. Her diarrhea has gotten better but she hasn't had any other signs of being sick. Luckily when she did throw up we were just pulling into the drive way so she didn't have to sit in it for very long. Poor thing vomited three times. Then it was like she felt much better. I gave her a little bath and then put her to bed. She went right down and didn't fuss or vomit anymore that night. She woke up the next morning just her chipper little self. Weird!

January 19th, Aaron is in Tennessee on business. So Jade and I went back down to my mom's and hung out all day. I've noticed that we have hit a high maintainence stage with Jade. She doesn't like to just sit and play with her toys anymore. Now that she can crawl around and now even stand, she thinks she needs to be on the move at all times. She especially loves to hold onto your fingers and take steps. She's gotten really good over the last week and will walk around as a long as you will hold on to her fingers. She absolutely loves it and that's the only thing she wants to do. It's very tiring and getting pretty annoying. I mean don't get me wrong, it's cute that she is starting to walk around but really. I'm sick of bending over and holding on to her fingers. Part of me just wants her to start walking, although that would be a nightmare. At least she could be on her own when she did that.


Jade in a shopping cart at Maceys. We put here in the cart and she loved it. She thought she was really driving a car. She would hold on to the steering wheel and honk the horn. She was really cute. And then she pooed everywhere. She had it on her tights, skirt, turtleneck, back, legs etc. I used twenty wipes and Jade ended up leaving the store in only a diaper. Remind you it's January. I think every mom there was ready to call DCFS on me for having my child in only a diaper in 20 degree weather. :)

January 20th, Poor Cierra. She was playing with Jade and she ended up scratching Cierra's eye. At first we just thought Cierra had taken a finger to the eye but after several hours and Cierra still couldn't open up her eye, I took her to JVH and had one of my doctors take a look at it. Sydney told her she had a scratch on her cornea and that she needed to use antibiotic eye drops for a couple of days. We put in some numbing drops and the first dose of antibiotic drops and by the time we got back to mom's house her eye was feeling much better. At least she could open it. Poor thing!!


Paige, Cierra and Jade at the THS basketball game. This is right after Cierra got a finger to the eye.

January 23rd, Jade had her first try at a hotdog and loved it. I was eating one for lunch and gave her a bite. She ate the rest of it for me.
Jade is also getting better at saying Kitty. It still is Kit but it's clearer and she says it everytime she sees one of our cats or Mom Gunn's cats.


Paige and Jade playing the piano together.

January 24th, I let Jade lick the egg beaters today. I was making a cake and let her taste one. She loved it so much that I put her in her highchair, put on the bib and let her have one. She thought it was the best thing.



January 26th, Jade had her 9 month check up today. She had to have it a little early because our Pediatrican, Cami Goff, is going on maternity leave sometime in the first of February. So we thought we would get her in a little early so we could see her. Jade is doing really well. She is 18.14 lbs, 27 inches long, and 17 inches in her head circumference. She is still in the 50th percentile for everything. She is eating table foods really well. She still continues to have baby food and drinks it out of her infant feeder. But she's bascially eating three square meals a day. She can clap her hands and is in the beginngings of learning how to wave. Cami says she's still very advanced for her age and seems to doing really well.

January 27

Jade decided to just climb Mom Gunn's stairs all by herself. Mom Gunn ran over to make sure she didn't fall but she seemed to have the hang of it. Great, now she climbs stairs too. This is all happening way to fast.

January 30th, Dad Gunn bought Jade a cool gate for their house. It's big enough that you can make a play pen out of it. So we corral her in it and toss in all her toys. She plays in the living room while Mom Gunn and I scrapbook in the kitchen. Jade does really well until someone talks to her. Then she realizes that she's trapped and wants to get out.


The awesome new gate.

December 2008

December 1

Jade playing with her toys in her little "toy box".

December 3

Jade started learning how to feed herself with a spoon. We noticed that she would eat better if she can control the spoon. She's not very good yet.

December 4th we noticed that Jade had her first tooth. It's her lower right incisor. She's been sick for the last two weeks with a runny nose, low grade fever, occasional diarrhea and then for the past two days she started getting a barky cough (which I was worried would turn into croup). But luckily she's been okay and getting better now that her tooth is poking through. I first noticed it because she was chomping down really hard on a toy and making it squeak. She chomped on it for a good two hours while Mom Gunn and I were shopping at JCPennies. She's super funny to watch because she seems so intrigued with it and runs her tongue along the rough edges. So she's constantly making funny faces.


Trying to get Jade to open her mouth so we can take a picture of her first tooth. As you can tell she didn't want to cooperate.

December 5

Jade, Ethan and Boston at the Gateway mall. We tried to go see Santa but missed him by thirty minutes. We went out to dinner instead. This is Jade hating her pink snowsuit.

December 6 th Austin and Erica watched Jade for the first time while Aaron and I went to my ER Christmas Party. I think they were a little tired by the time we got home, not because Jade was so crazy but because they drove themselves crazy worrying about her. Austin said that once she went to bed, he checked on her at least once every thirty minutes because he was afraid she would stop breathing. Funny kid. He sure has a lot to learn before he has his own.


Hudson, his date and Aaron cutting a rug at the JVH Christmas Party at the Ecceles Stadium.

On December 8th Jade tried to army crawl for the first time. We have our little Christmas tree up and around it we have a small old train that used to be my parents growing up. Jade is just fascinated by it and we were able to catch her on film trying to get the train car. She doesn't go very far but with some practice she will definately get better. I'm not quite sure how I feel about this. I've really liked the "Paperweight" stage were I can just sit her in the middle of the floor and she keeps herself entertained. Now that she gets the hang of crawling she will be all over everything.


Jade and I hamming for the camera. This was right after she army crawled for the first time.


This is what I affectionately call the baby "paperweight" stage. I love that she would just sit in front of her little "toybox" and play and watch everyone around her. I miss those times.

December 9

Jade and Libby smooching.

Decemeber 11 Austin and Mara gave us extra tickets to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Program. They even offered to watch Jade. The program was lovely and it was so nice to go out together without Jade. When we picked up Jade, Austin and Mara's first comments were about how well she did. They said she was super easy to watch and that she was very good natured. They loved having her over. Good for her. She gets that good disposition from her laid-back dad.

December 12 Jade sprouted yet another tooth. Now its the left lower incisor. Mom Gunn was the one that found it. She was busy babysitting Jade, (yes, we do take care of our own kid. December has just been a busy month :)) while we went to Aaron's Xango Christmas party at The Grand America. Unfortunately we didn't win anything at the party and it snowed so much we thought we were going to be stuck there all night.

December 14

This is the Cousin's Christmas Photo. Grandma Ro bought cute dresses for the girls and ties for the guys for Christmas. So we decided to all get together and try to take a cousin picture. It didn't turn out very well. Out of a gazillion pictures, this is the only good one that I was able to get.


This is Jade in her cute Christmas dress from Grandma Ro in front of the Sorensen tree.


Jade watching the train going around the tree. Very exciting!

December 15 Jade stood for the first time. She doesn't seem to really like it very much. I think she's nervous about doing it because when she gets up, holding onto our fingers in a death grip, she grunts a lot and then quickly sits down. Actually maybe it's cause her chubby little legs aren't strong enough to handle the weight yet. She's really starting to get around with her little army crawl. She's discovered the new freedom and really likes it.


Jade standing at the railing all by herself. She was so nervous she kept grunting but couldn't figure out how to sit down by herself.

December 18

Dad Gunn with the Elementary kids from Redwood Elementary. For the last three years we have given them a Christmas party as a service project.


Here's the kids opening one of their many presents they got that day. Many of these kids come from disfunctional families that don't have the means of providing a Christmas.

December 19 Jade has discovered that she can talk. She babbles a lot but today she woke up saying Ga-Ga. By the end of the day it had turned into more of a Da-Da. However I'm not officially marking it as her first word. I think she just got lucky. Besides, I'm holding out for Ma-Ma to be her first word. :)

December 20 I found out that I'm pregnant. I don't know how that could have happened because we weren't planning on it and we've been very careful...if you know what I mean ;). But I am. I'm not super excited to be quite honest. This means that Jade will only be 15 months old when the little tyke is born. That is insane. About as insane as my mother was having Austin and Hudson 14.5 months apart. I ad an ultrasound done today while I was working. Amanda, the amazing ultrasound tech, could see a sac but not a heart beat. But she said not to worry only because I'm so early in finding out. I'm only 5 weeks along and that could be too early to hear one yet. So we will see I guess.

December 21 we had the Christmas Boot Party over at Grandma Bills house. Yet again it was a very nice evening. Grandma did a great job and preparing the food and having fun games and great presents for the boot. Jade, of course, was the life of the party. We've noticed that the more active Jade becomes, the less interactive we become with eachother and the more inthralled we become with Jade. While at Grandma's house, Jade actually took two little crawling steps up on her hands and knees. Dad Gunn was able to get it on his video camera. Cute little thing. December 22 we had a tender mercy moment today. Aaron has the last two weeks before New Years off from work. He had extra vacation time that he needed to use before they expired so he decided to go to Gordon's and install a new furnace in his house. To pay Aaron, Gordon just happened to have 8 new tires that would fit both of our vehicles. And randomly, both of our cars needed new tires badly or we wouldn't make it through the winter. We had discussed earlier the situation and realized that with Christmas coming on we really didn't have the money to replace all eight tires. But then Gordon offered to give us the tires in exchange for Aaron's work. It worked out perfectly.

December 24-Jade's first Christmas Eve. This is the first Christmas Eve that I have spent with my family in ages. I work every Christmas Eve so that I can have Christmas Day off. But this year I worked the last part of the Christmas Day schedule. So we were able to attend the annual Gunn Family Christmas Eve party. Dad Gunn was in charge of the festivites that night. He did a great job and we had a lot of fun but I think Jade was a little overwhelmed with the amount of people there. It would get really loud at times and it would scare her to the point of crying. Poor thing. It didn't help that we didn't get home until 2am because it snowed so much we had to travel 25 mph all the way home.

December 25-Jade's first Christmas Morning. We left super early through a blizzard to get to the Sorensen's so we could open presents. Jade is still too young to understand the concept of opening presents and being excited but she did like to play with the empty boxes and sit on the presents. She was super cute in her red christmas pj's and hair bow. Then be battled the storm and went to my parent's house to open presents with them. After opening presents with them we drove back up to the Sorensen's so that we could talk to Aaron's little brother, Tyler, who is on his mission in Sacramento, California. We have lots of video of the occasion if you ever want to check it out. We also having video of telling both sets of parents that we are expecting another baby. They were in shock but totally excited. After an exhausting day, I headed off to work for the the next 12 hours and had one of the busiest nights yet. It was so crazy with the snow and we were super overwhelmed. Not a great night.

December 26

Aaron and I sledding behind Dad Gunn's Trooper.

December 28 we got our taste of what church will be like in the months to come. Now that Jade has discovered that she can babble, that's all she did during sacrament meeting. That and blow loud raspberries at people behind her. She also let out a really loud burp today right as the sacrament was being passed and it was at it's quietest. So embarrassing but several people behind us laughed and thought it was adorable.

December 30 Jade gives open mouthed smooches. You ask her to give you a smooch and she opens her mouth wide and plants one straight on your mouth. It's gross but so cute. She also is standing for longer periods of time. The two big presents we got her enable her to stand up while holding on. She also sounds like she is saying the word Kitty when Huey or Addy walk by. It's more of a "Kit" sound but she says it everytime one of the cats meander by.

December 31-Jade's first New Year's Eve party. We went up to Midway and stayed at Inn By The Creek. We dressed Jade in her hot pink fuzzy snowsuit and took her sledding for the first time. She didn't like the suit very much so she didn't really have a good time. I think it's cause she can't really move. She looks like the kid from A Christmas Story in the snowsuit. Jade fell asleep before the new year. I didn't really let her stay up though. We tried to go to the hot pots again this year but we discovered that there were naked European men bathing in the hot pots. So we left before Cierra and Paige got a quick Birds and the Bees lesson. We ended the night with a funny show from Dad Gunn playing Wii fitness. He was so funny to watch doing yoga. Happy New Year!


Our exciting New Year's Eve party. Jade is standing holding on to her little giraffe.


We affectionately call the this photo "Frosty the Snowman". I love this picture of Dad Gunn right after being the lead tube while sledding on New Years.


All of us at the bottom of the sled track after one of our adventurous runs.


After sledding we decided to stick our feet in the bathtub instead of going to the hot springs. Too many naked Europeans. This worked out just fine. A little squishy but beggars can't be choosers.


This is Jade while sledding in her cute fluffy pink snow suit. She hated it.

Quick Apology

So because I am so behind it keeping up with Jade's journal, I've decided that the only sane way to do this is to catch up by month. Technically I am writing this particular blog in August and Jade is 15 months old. That means I have 8 months to catch up. That would take me a gazillion years. So instead I've learned my lesson. I will briefly touch on the highlights and then get to the present and then really spill the little details. So here it goes...