Three cheers for the Orem Police

Early Saturday morning we woke to find this! Our car had been broken into sometime in the early morning. We had been out to see Indiana Jones the night before so we were with our car up until about midnight. The next morning around six a.m. as we were getting into the car Dan noticed the window had been broken and that the navigation system was gone! Things also missing: Dan's golf clubs, the manual for the car along with all of our lease information, and our cds.
Well, I took Dan to work and came home and called the police. An officer came by and checked out the car, he said he didn't see anything to fingerprint but he noticed a footprint just inside the rear passenger door. He told me how there had a group of about five men who came from Salt Lake and had been out that night stealing from several vehicles. He said he'd call when he had more information. After about a half an hour I got a call saying that they thought they might have our stuff and they'd call back later.
At about eight a.m. I received another call saying I could come to the police station to identify our items. Dan called me on my way over and as I pulled into the police station parking lot I noticed that the police were escorting a young (mid-twenties) man into the back of a patrol car. He was hand cuffed. I said to Dan 'I wonder if that's the guy'. Dan of course wanted me to get out and punch him in the mouth.
An officer came over and Jade and I went inside to identify our stuff. Everything was there and more. He had also taken a power converter with a charger for our nintendo and my lotion from victoria's secret. :) All in all, everything worked out ok. I am very impressed by the Orem police, I had my items returned to me just over two hours after I'd found them missing. Way to go police.

This is the picture of Jade that we used for her passport photo.

Mini flood

Well, Jade is napping so I thought I'd take advantage of this quiet time to update our blog. Last week we visited Dan's family in Idaho. It was a lot of fun, his cousins (who live in Rexburg) came down to visit with us. We had a BBQ with our friends Chris and Darcy and their little girl Penelope, and Brandon and Elaine Delos Reyes (I don't think I spelled that right).

On Saturday we took advantage of the warm weather by going to the driving range and hitting a few buckets of balls.

Jade has been sick for the past week or so, she was a trooper while we were vacationing but she wasn't quite like her happy, cheerful self. She had some shots on Wednesday, the day we were driving up to Idaho. That night she got a fever and it got worse from there, she couldn't sleep and she was so feverish for the next couple days. Finally, her fever went away but then she picked up a cough, so she's starting to get over that.

Today I noticed that she is getting one of her bottom teeth! I will post a picture when it is more noticeable. I'd imagine that that was part of the reason she has not been feeling well.

Right before we left for Idaho we noticed that the carpet in Jade's bedroom was pretty wet, I thought that maybe it was just from having the humidifier on at nights when Jade sleeps but when I moved stuff around and it still didn't dry out then we called the landlord. Apparently some pipes needed to be fixed outside, so this is our yard now:and as a result this is what Jade's room looks like:

Just enough room to walk in and lay her in her crib and if you're lucky you can also close the door. Oh well, I guess it could be worse. We could own the place and have to deal with this problem ourselves. Ah, the joys of renting.

Happy Mother's Day

My first official Mother's Day was wonderful! Dan had to work so Jade and I went to visit my mother. We took some time just to relax on the lawn and catch up. Both of my sisters were able to come visit too so we had a blast. Jade is getting so big these days, she's not really a little baby anymore. She is such a joy to me and I couldn't be happier to be a mother.

My dad got to stay for a while after Michael and Jess's wedding. He stayed with us, even though he had to sleep on the couch we're so glad he decided to stay at our place. Of course, he had a blast hanging out with his first grand baby, Jade. He is such a cute grandpa.

One day after doing laundry I put Jade in the laundry basket and she seemed to think it was fun, but she was sliding all over the place. She has some of the cutest smiles.

This is a picture of my brother Paul playing with Jade on Mother's day. My little brothers are so eager to help Jade do things like, learn to crawl, catch a ball and help her stand. They are so much fun to be around. Jade is fascinated just watching them do boy things like swing on the tire swing and wrestle.

My brother got married

Michael and Jess at their reception. They got married on Friday, May 2nd in Manti, UT. We had a very good time at the reception. There was delicious food and cake and ice cream and even a pinata! My sister Katrina and Jade. Jess's family had a beautiful wreath of flowers made for Jade. She looked so so cute!
Our friends Brian and Melissa (in the middle here) are moving to Arizona so we had dinner with them at P. F. Chang's on Saturday night. We will miss them terribly.
This is me at Katrina and Mike's house getting ready to ride their new scooter. It was sweet, I'd like to get one. Katrina made delicious homemade lasagna and we pigged out.