Another exciting week!

Dan and I have had so much time to hang out this week, it's been really fun. We went to the Fromm's for New Years Eve and watched Footloose and made cookies. What a good time. This week we also got to hang out with Dannis and Heidi and Grant. We went to dinner at our favorite mexican place, Los Hermanos! Yum. I had the chimichanga, it was delicioso. Then we all drove to Midway, Utah and stayed the night there with them, we played games until the early morning. Other than that, not much new going on. Jade is getting bigger all the time and is just generally a happy baby. We hope you all had a happy new year and wish you the best in 2008.

Family Get together!

Well my family decided to start having a "familiy reunion" so this was our first one! It was lots of fun, we stayed in Salt Lake at one of the hotels there, we hung out and played games together and had such a good time! We all went to dinner at Buca Di Beppo and they suprised me with a cake for my birthday (even though the waitress sort of ruined the suprise by saying "my boss told me you guys brought your own cake", oh well, it was so fun). We also went ice skating at the murray ice rink. Happy 24th b-day! (dec. 31st)

Me, my mom and little bro, Josh.

Josh, Me, my mom, Michael, Jess, and Nathanael
Mike, Katrina, Jess and Michael

Christmas Vacation!!

We had such a wonderful Christmas. We got to go to Idaho for about two weeks. We got to see some friends that we haven't for a very long time. Hope everyone had as fun a Christmas as we did. Jade in her adorable Santa outfit from Grandma Mary!
Jade and cousin Rylee with Grandma Smith
Cousins!

Dan and Louann went in together to get this whole nativity set for me and dan made this really cool stand for the pieces to go on.

So the thursday before Thanksgiving we had a bunch of our friends and family over to have a practice thanksgiving dinner. It was so delicious!
When we went to Minnesota for thankgiving Dan and I went to go see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat at a local dinner theater. It was a really good performance, and the dinner was delicous also. Anyway, we had to leave Jade behind so here is a picture with her and her first babysitters. Dan's cousin Nate and his sweet girlfriend Trish.
Lunch at Benihanas (or as fans of The Office might call it: Asian Hooters) with Brandon and Emilynn
Jade's first swim. We wanted to get her a bathing suit so we checked out babies r us and found the last one. It was size 12 months but it worked, plus it was only 3 dollars. :)

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Happy Thanksgiving

one of jade's first (sort of) smiles
Dan making tamales. Yum!

baby girl watching daddy play games

Ok, so it's a little late but Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Dan and Jade and I got to go to St. Paul, Minnesota to visit his aunt and uncle for Thanksgiving. We had such a fun time. Jade had her first babysitter while dan and I went to see Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat at a local dinner theater. Jade did so well on the flight there and back. We also had baby Jade blessed today, it was such a great day! We had family over afterward and had some delicious grub.

Baby Jade has been growing so fast, last week she was 8 lbs or so, and today we weighed her and it looked like she was 10 lbs!!! how did she do that?? She's still pretty laid back, and you have to antagonize her a lot to get a response, but sometimes you can catch her staring and smiling at you when you're turned away. She's starting to make her needs known a little more now, and isn't afraid to squeel at you if you take her bottle away too early.

I just finished my travel contract with IHC, and have signed on with a local agency for PRN (pro re nata (Latin: for the thing born (As needed))) and am looking forward to dictating my own schedule. I got an awesome rate that will result in me making a little more per month than with my travel contract if I keep busy.

Other than cutie pie jade and getting a nice week off (make up for almost having to work through jade's delivery) things are pretty tame!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

long awaited update

wow! i can't believe it's almost been a month since i posted anything. ok, so we went to vegas. of course we didn't take any pictures (i guess we're lazy). but we had such an awesome time with dave and jen and gavin. we also went to the byu vs. unlv football game. that was really fun, it was my and baby jade's first football game. well, here are a few more random pictures.

Baby Jade seems to be getting bigger, she even has a double chin now. We're just having another lazy night at home watching Blades of Glory. We've had some fun times with out little girl, we went and got j-dawgs the other day (a yummy hot dog place on byu campus). Nothing else really to report, babies are kind of boring. So i'll just add some pics now.

Daddy's day off

YAY!! no work today, tomorrow, or the next day!! Hooray!! And what do Jade and Daddy do on his day off?? Take pictures of course!!! I'm a little rusty behind the lens, but I think I pulled off some good shots. Photoshop skills don't hurt either.

No more for now though!!! The rest are going into her birth announcement.

Yay!! No more waiting. Things are going well, Jade and I just got back from the hospital. Her bilirubin count is going down so she got to come home with me. She's a totally chill baby, she hardly ever fusses. Here's a few more pics.

Baby Jade is officially 2!!!!

Two days of course!!!

She's been doing really good!! She's eating a lot more, and even smiling! She's making some good effort at breast feeding, even though mom's milk hasn't come in yet, and she is such good snuggler.

Today we let her lay naked in her basinet for a little while during changing since she's really lethargic all wrapped up, and she was rolling from side to side and sucking on her little hands. She even scooted herself all the way to the bottom of the basinet with her frog legs!

Her bili count is up a little (75%-ile) which means she's not excreting as much bili as she's producing which is common after birth, and they're just going to draw a follow up lab to see if she needs treatment (either extra hydration or photo-therapy). But we're excited at the prospect of taking her home tomorrow.

Thanks for all your love and support!

Dan and Tish.

Baby Jade is here!

Baby Jade was born last night at 10:20 after 8 hours of failed induction via C-section. Turns out mom has a really small pelvis!! She had us all worried during delivery as she had a nucal cord x2 and was really dusky and floppy. After 2 minutes her APGAR score was still a 2, and grandma even jumped in and did chest compressions!!! With grandma's loving touch, and some more vigorous stimulation, baby Jade started to cry and move around, and her color improved.

She looked like a total troll after being rammed into Mom's pelvic floor for 8 hours, and had some serious conehead going on. She's totaly cute this morning though!!! All I have for now are the delivery pictures, but I'll put up some better shots in the next days.

Thank you all for your prayers and thoughts!

Love Dan and Tish and Jade

still waiting!

unpatiently waiting!

well, our little girl should be here soon. (you hear that baby? take a hint) anyway, so life in general is great. dan and i are just enjoying being around to hang out with our friends and have midnight donut runs (i hope we're still on for tonight fromms).
so my sister threw me a rockin' baby shower, it was a blast! we have nearly everything ready for our little jade. i got a baby sling, we'll see how that works out. it seems really convenient and easy to use, i only hope i don't seem to hippieish using it. it does seem like the new thing though.
ok, well folks, i hope next time i post we'll have had our baby.