Christmas Day 2012

Another blessed Christmas celebration! This year we had my cousin Michelle here with us. It's a day filled with fun, food, and gifts! Jade had so many presents that she got overwhelmed and didn't even open all of them. Her favorites are the play dough set and the Repubzel Tower:) she missed her nap with all the excitement and didn't want to go to bed because she wanted to play with Repunzel:)

We had two of Michelle's friends join us for lunch/dinner. We were left with an overwhelming amount of leftover and treats! I think we'll be eating ham for at least a couple weeks:)

We are so blessed!

Everyone is jealous of Megan's bear.

Jade's favorite present of the day.

Yay! I got new cooking sets!! They are so legit. I'll have to clean my kitchen and have an opening ceremony for them.

"Stop taking pictures of me, mommy!"

We had a good laugh with John's green hat. Michelle got it for him from his Amazon List. John is either humoring me or forgot that in the Chinese culture, a green hat means your wife is cheating on you. Or maybe he's color blind to this shade of green :-)

The Repunzel Tower quickly became her favorite after she opened it later in the evening. She was disappointed that Eugene was not there though. 

A happy mess :-)

Christmas Eve 2012

Most Fun on the Shortest Day

Today is Winter Solstice. We have the shortest day and longest night. Growing up, we've always had dumplings on this day. Today is no exception.

We also had lots of fun riding the Front Runner to SLC with mom, Paul, and Emily. Jade had a good first time experience with public transportation. We had fun playing at City Creek Center downtown Salt lake. Jade loved the fishes and loved her visit with Santa Clause.

Then we came home and made dumplings with Megan and Neil. And jade got to open a present from uncle Neil:)

Trampoline Party

Walter is a little boy in our ward. Jade went to his 3rd birthday party at a trampoline park and had lots of fun.

Such a girly girl

When it comes to being girly, Jade is nothing like me. She got her girliness all from Megan :-) 

1. We went to a RS dinner and craft night. Jade started painting her nails with purple glue sticks and paint brushes :-) 

2. She'd play in the sink for hours if you let her. Most times she just get her clothes all wet. But sometimes she destroys all my cotton balls and Q-tips.

3. I was vacuuming one day and she got into my bath tub and shampooed her whole head. It took lots of water to rinse her hair clean.

4. She uses my makeup kit more than I do. 

5. She LOVEs chap sticks!! 

All about Jade :)

You know how people always say their children bring so much joy into their lives? I didn't quite get it until Jade came into our life. She's becoming such a fun and smart little lady!She makes us laugh all the time with her funny remarks or actions. 

She gets silly in front of cameras. 

She loves doughnuts. 

She loves cooking with us.

She loves her stuffed animals. 

She would put on her cute backpacks and tell me, "Mommy, I'm going to school. Bye bye!"

She loves doing crafty things. 

She loves sweets.

She loves sitting on her cow chair and watch her shows on the iPad while snacking. 

She loves finding relationships for her stuffed animals. She insisted that the white monkey is the little sister of the black gorilla.

She loves doing dishes, mostly playing with the dish soap.