My family and I decided to plan a family get-together before we move so we thought we'd go to the zoo, but when we found out it was going to be freezing we changed our minds and went with the aquarium.
My younger brothers love to help out with Jade, they wanted to help her walk all around and see everything.
We had some chocolate left over from fondue night so I figured Jade and I could have a chocolaty snack, we dipped pretzels and oranges into the chocolate. It was so delicious!
The picture below is of Jade signing 'more'. She's really learned quite a few signs. She can sign milk, more, baby, and potty, although, I'm sure she doesn't actually know what potty is yet.
This picture is the beginning of a semi-scary night at the hospital. Jade started getting a cough sometime around Saturday, it's hard to say exactly when it started because she hadn't been feeling well since Wednesday, so it's hard to say when it morphed into croup. 
We have been temping fate for the past year or so going without health insurance and fate finally caught up with us. Jade's cough sounded like your normal cough for a little while and then you could tell she was really having a tough time breathing, so, we decided to take her in to the doctor. Pretty much right away when he saw her his first words were "I'd like to hospitalize her". That's when I started to feel nervous. He was afraid that eventually her throat would become so sore that it could just close off, causing her to not be able to breathe. Seeing as how we don't have insurance though we tried to see what other options we had. When it came down to it though it just wasn't worth the risk so we went to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.
Jade was just so tired she didn't really seem bothered by people hooking her up to monitors and giving her breathing treatments, and she fell asleep pretty soon after her first treatment. 
She slept in this plastic humidifier tent. Her hair eventually became soaking wet, but she seemed to be sleeping much better than she had been at home.
In the morning she seemed better and we were able to leave early that evening, nearly 24 hours later.
Here we are watching her favorite show, Yo Gabba Gabba. She is doing better little by little even though I keep checking on her almost every five minutes. We just can't wait to get our fun loving baby girl back.
Jade's best buddy is Coleson. We get together at least once a week with Brian and Lindsay and Coleson (usually for The Office). Last Thursday we decided to have a crepe night! It was such an awesome dinner/dessert. Dan made the savory filings which included Buffalo Chicken, Chicken Curry and BBQ Chicken. Lindsay brought all the fillings for the dessert crepes, strawberries, bananas, nutella, whipped cream, caramel.
I found the most delicious recipe for snickerdoodle cookies on my go-to website for recipes (allrecipes.com), they were scrumptious. I decided to give Jade her own cookie and even though it took her about a half an hour to finish it off she really liked it.
Hope everyone had a lovely valentine's day and got to be with those you love.
For Dan's birthday I decided to make him a red velvet cake from scratch. It was fairly easy and uses a surprisingly large amount of red food coloring. (I knew it was going to be a lot, but a whole bottle?!) It ended up being delicious if I do say so myself!
Unfortunately, the only real pictures I took of Dan's party were of the cake process. What the pictures don't show though, are friends and family playing wii and watching American Idol. (Which Dan can hardly stand to watch. Thanks Dan.) :) 
We had to get a few pictures of Jade with these cute piggy tails. She's just getting so much older, and I love every minute of it.
This was Jade yesterday. She hasn't been feeling well, she has a fever and just seems miserable. After about an hour of her crying non-stop I heard a knock on the door and I was thinking, "great, who could that be?". Turns out it was my mom stopping by for a surprise visit. She couldn't have come at a better time. Thanks mom.
Uncle Mike came home from his mission on December 23rd and we got to meet up with him at the Salt Lake airport before he continued his flight to Idaho. We only got to chat for a little while but it was really fun.
Here we all are at the Pocatello airport. Mike's flight had been delayed for about an hour so we hung out at the airport with not much to do. Luckily the girls, (Jade and Rylee) had a lot of family members to entertain them.
Christmas morning at Grandma Lou's and Grandpa Doug's. 
This was Jade's main present this year, an inflatable bus with balls inside. She really had fun with it, climbing in and out of the windows and windshield.
My dad and step-mom got this princess castle for Jade and she has had so much fun with it. She loves that she can crawl in and out of there.
Jade LOVES to play outside! Sometimes she'll even just point to the door and do her grunt for something that she wants, meaning that she wants to go outside.
She's eating a wood chip here, she seems to seek them out, she always wants to chew on them.
We took Jade to see Santa at the mall. She loved the decorations and was even excited when she saw Santa, but as soon as I set her on his lap she lost it. I was sort of surprised at how fast she started crying. I thought it would take her a second to realize she was on Santa's lap and maybe look up at him and start crying, but it was pretty much instantaneous. I'd say she wasn't on his lap for more than 10 seconds. The people snapping the pictures were really fast.
We went to Idaho this year for Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun. This picture isn't actually of Thanksgiving day, it was just another get together over the weekend to celebrate us all being there.
We went to the light parade, it was very, very cold but fun. You could tell Jade enjoyed it because she would look down the street waiting for the next float to come by. There were several dogs in the parade as well, and if you know Jade, you know she loved that. I kept pulling her hat down so her head would stay covered but she seemed so fussy, then I realized I had pulled her hat over her eyes. :)
Jade and Rylee got matching sweaters for Thanksgiving day. They really had a lot of fun playing together, at one point Jade was riding Rylee like a pony! When Rylee left with Stef and Kevin to go over to her other grandparents house Jade was so sad! We went to the window and watched them drive away, I said 'do you miss rylee?', and Jade answered with a grunt and a sad face. 
Grandpa Doug helping feed Jade.
We have so much to be thankful for this year.