Bring on the BBQ!!!

If a new person comes to town, would they believe they are in a desert?!! No freaking way!! It's been raining so much it reminds me of the Rainy Season in Shanghai! I can't decide whether I like it or not, but John definitely doesn't like it because it ruins his biking plans. He's been biking every sunny day and he's even been up to Sundance for a couple times. Never thought he'd be so into biking. But hey it's better than being a computer nerd. :-) 

We've also been taking advantage of every sunny opportunity we have to have BBQs because we got a new BBQ!! It's a portable one, mostly for camping, part of our emergency preparedness item, but it works great at home! Plus I love the color! John was so excited that he even came home early from work to put it together because otherwise he wouldn't be able to fall asleep :-)

I love this picture. Tender love of a father, precious :-)

Miss Red's debut :-)

We were going to go to the canyon, but it started raining (surprise!!), so we decided to stay at Wymount where Dave and his family live. It was fun. 

Jade loved Danny's "kitchen". Maybe she'll be a great cook :-)

Now is the story of Jade and her watermelons :-) Jade loves all the food I give her, especially fruits, especially mangoes and watermelons.Maybe because mommy always has watermelons on hand :-)

jade, jade, more jade :-)

Just a few cute pictures of  Miss Jade to sum up our month of May :-)

Daddy got a couple hummingbird feeders, one in the front yard, one in the back. Jade loves watching the birds and pointing to them :-)

~~Just being cute~~

A Chinese baby? Yes, indeed. Jade's getting plenty Majiang influence when mommy and daddy have Majiang dates with Mark and Callie, which is, every week :-)

@Jade's 9 months appointment, the doctor told us to start brushing her teeth. So daddy got her some cute toothbrush and mommy started to add brushing her teeth to the night routine. 

It happens that one of Jade's favorite books from China is all about brushing teeth. So we would read the story together and I would show her the toothbrush and help her brush. She's only interested for 3 seconds before she throws the brush on the floor.  (Notice jade's cute round belly in the picture below :-))

This was taken in the mall when daddy was biking in Sandance :-)

So is this one. We were in the fishing clothes section at Dillard's and there was a fishing net. So Megan threw it over her head. She had a blast! I got a video to show daddy later.

This is jade in church. When the choir got up singing, jade crawled to the middle of the room and started dancing :-) What a little performer! Everyone loved her little dance :-)

This is daddy being silly with jade before her bath time. He stripped her naked, but it was cold outside, because of all the RAIN!!

Jade was playing @ Wymount with Danny in the rain. 

Sneaking into Megan's closet and got caught.

Getting ready to go to Tucano's to celebrate Auntie Megan getting into BYU :-)

Jade will start dancing whenever the music on the phone turns on.  In daddy's words, "she's incapable of not dancing".

She kisses that cute little girl in the mirror every time she sees her. 

Jade likes some alone quiet time before she goes down for the night. I usually sit there playing on my iphone and watch her while she plays on her own. When I saw this mess, I was about to say something and jade gave me this "shush mommy, leave me alone" look. So I did. So adorable. 

Loves her chubby cheeks and beautiful eyes!!

Jade and daddy was playing outside in the car. Daddy put the seatbelt on her to make her feel like a big girl and look how happy she was!! So cute.

Look who's climbing up a mirror like a pro?!!

~~Happy Mother's Day & Congrats to Megan ~~

Mother's Day this year involved shopping, gifts, good food, Park City, flowers, singing in church and a postponed photo shoot due to the weather!

We started out our Saturday at daddy's favorite car wash place. Look how cute jade is in her new dress!!

 

With a spotless, shiny car, we went on our way to Park City for a fun shopping and playing trip.

We went shopping at the outlet. Got daddy some cycling gears, jade some clothes (12 month) that actually fit her, and nothing for mommy (we ran out of time :-( ) So we'll have to go back again soon.

 I would've gotten her these shades but she kept pulling them off :-(

Jade got some cute swim suit that's too big now. But in a few months, it'll be perfect. It came with the hat. So cute.

 Then we had dinner at our favorite pizza shop on center street in Park City with the Vanwagenens. 

Jade sat in a highchair for the 1st time in a restaurant and she did AWESOME!!! She entertained herself the whole time and we had a great time eating! Jade, you're the best!!

Oh did we mention that our married student ward was dissolved and we were sent back to the family ward we stopped attending due to John's work schedule conflict?! Yeah we're back. And John got to sing in the men's choir for Mother's day and I got some pretty roses. 

Another big happy news is that Megan got accepted into the Business School at BYU, starting September. Neil took everyone to Tucano's for a big celebration!!

Can you believe it's been raining non stop for a whole day and will possibly continue for the rest of the week?!! I thought we lived in a desert!

1st finger food has to be Chinese

Last Saturday Megan and I went to Super China in Sandy and stocked up on our authentic Chinese food. Among the trunk load of food storage, we got Jade her 1st finger snack, a Chinese baby cookie I ate when I was a baby :-) She loves it and I'm so happy that she does :-)