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Seasonal Fun

Raspberry Picking with my other mom friends. My friend Sierra opted to leave her daughter at home, I was only just getting brave enough to bring Jadie on such an outing :).

My friend Miriam and I. Her daughter Elizabeth is one week older than Jadie, and is in a pack on her back in this picture-unfortunately not visible.

Because Rusty missed out on the raspberry picking, we decided to go back the next week to do some apple picking this is the hay ride out to the orchard. Note Jadie's love of her snugli-it is the perfect level for her to suck on. No breaks necessary!Jadie showing off her muscles-I couldn't do that at her age!

So she wasn't interested in being a cow, the snugli was far more interesting to suck on. But really the funniest part of the petting zoo was when a sheep "baahed" at her and she began to cry. Rusty and I had a good laugh. It was a mean scary sheep after all!

Jadie enjoying the fall leaves.

A big thing out here is to go to Cider Mills in the fall season. Fresh cider and homemade doughnuts are hard to beat. We visited one and took some cool pictures with their decor.

Halloween time! Jadie was a ladybug for her first halloween. Fitting since her nickname is Jadiebug :). The first one is Rusty with Jadie and some friends at the Halloween mutual. Rusty is the Priest Quorum Assistant Advisor (teaches on Sundays) and I am now the Laurel advisor. This means family mutual every week!
This is at our ward "trunk or treat" that was moved into the building due to rain. Yes we have had a baby boom in this ward, with another wave on its way. It's a lot of fun to have so many other moms with babies to talk to and relate to.

From left to right we have Elizabeth Franson (baby in the pack from the raspberry pic.) who is a week older than Jadie, Camilla Kesler (flower baby from the picture right above this one) who is a week younger than Jadie, and Jadie! It was so fun to get a picture of these three girls together! What cuties!

Grandpa's Sweetheart!

If Mom says no...ask Grandma!

Jadie makes a fashion statement with bloomers on the head :).
I can't help myself when it comes to photo shoot fun...

Tutu courtesy of Aunt Rachel and Uncle Randy: thank-you!!!

9/11

I was thinking about the original 9/11 today as I'm sure many other Americans are as well. I first found out what was happening in my high school library and saw the footage of the first plane crashing into the tower and then the second one live.

I remember that things were somber and then began to get panicky as kids couldn't reach their parents who worked in NYC and didn't know if their parent was alive still or not. Everyone went home. I remember that my dad had a meeting in Stanford that day so he wasn't in the city. I don't think he's ever had another meeting either before that day or after in Stanford. I'm so glad he wasn't there and that he was okay!

Months later I sang at a wedding for my teacher's son. The song I sang was a tribute to his best friend who died in 9/11. It was an experience I will remember for a long time.

Ligers

Rusty is embarrassed by this but I think it's pretty funny.

One day a while ago-before Jadie came-Rusty and I were at the grocery store together. We had gotten all of our items to purchase and were standing in the line. As a gentlemanly gesture Rusty always insists on unloading the groceries onto the belt, loading them into the cart, and then into the car. He was especially insistent about these procedures when I was pregnant.

As we were standing in line I began flipping through some silly magazine to waste the time and so I wasn't really paying attention. When I looked up it was our turn to start loading groceries onto the belt. In fact the belt was almost empty from the last person and I looked at Rusty wondering why he hadn't started putting our groceries on the belt. His eyes were glazed over because he was completely lost in some thought. I snapped him out of it and he began loading. Needless to say I was curious what he was thinking about.

When I asked him about it on the way out to the car, he said in seriousness, "Okay. Well I was trying to imagine what I would do to protect you if a liger walked into the grocery store. "

To which I replied, "Are you being serious?"

And he said, "Well you have to be prepared for emergencies right?"

And I said, "Do you really think that is a likely emergency? Okay, so if a liger did walk into the grocery store what would you do?"

And he said, "Well I was thinking I'd go for a broom and make some kind of spear."

At this point I was either holding the stitch in my side or wiping a tear from my eye due to laughter. But then again it is nice to know my knight in shining armor thinks about these things and is prepared to protect me from the ligers in the world. :)

A Series of Events

The best attempt of a family picture on our 4th of July outing. Yay for fireworks! Boo for the picture.


Jadie took her first plane ride on July 13th. We made it! Traveling solo with a baby is not my favorite thing to do. Thank goodness for angels like Mary who sit next to you on the plane and are nice to you since they have their own grandchildren and understand.


Jadie snuggled with Aunt Chelsea.
Jadie snuggled with Aunt Natalie.
Jadie attempting to snuggle with Grandma Lora but being challenged by Uncle Tyler.
Jadie getting some prime time with Grandpa Jeff.
The Ty Guy getting ready for Hollywood.

Jadie trying on a swimsuit that happens to be Megan's first swimsuit. My mom saved it and pulled it out. I think the look suits her-ohhhhh very punny! Ok, I'm lame sometimes.
The two compadres.
Tyler enjoying a birthday present. Apparently it works better if you blow in both ends.
Jadie meeting her Great-Grandpa Jack and Great-Grandma Nathel. Between the grandparents and the very kind nurses we all had a great time.
Two great grandchildren having a playdate in Michigan. While I was in Mesa apparently Amber and her fam decided to visit Michigan. Luckily Jadie and I got back in time to see them one afternoon and this is Addie holding Jadie. What a cute pair of girls!
Jadie showing off her dimples.
Jadie's first playdate with a box.
Some Sunday lovin'. I like photoshoots!

Jadie's Baby Blessing

Jadie with Grandpa Jeff at our favorite pizza place-Benito's! Gotta love deep dish.
Jadie with three very important men in her life. Dad, Grandpa Jeff, and Uncle Wayne Tew.
Jadie with all the visitors that came to her blessing. Left to right: Wayne and Patrice Tew, Jeff Davis holding Jadie, Rusty and Megan Curtis.
Jadie with Grandpa Jeff again-he got some good smiles out of her. Note that her dress isn't actually on-which is why her arms are missing. She screamed with that dress on. Yes that does mean she was crying almost the whole blessing.

It wasn't all her fault though-she had her first shots a few days before and was still feeling awful. Add lots of strangers suddenly appearing and wanting to hold her often and an uncomfortable dress and you'll have a sad little girl and a stressed out mama.
Because I didn't get good pictures of our little bright eyes the day of...these are pictures I recently took. She was unhappy to be in the dress again, but we got some better pictures of her.
It was a wonderful event and we were so blessed to have Grandpa Jeff and Uncle Wayne there to be a part of the blessing. After the blessing we had several jabs about her crying. For example: "Well you didn't need to bless her lungs!"

After the blessing we had a delicious steak dinner together and took some pictures. It was a lovely weekend!

One Cute Girly

Jadie after her first real bath.

Sleeping on Dad after a busy day at Church.

Putting up with her Mom and her incessant picture-taking.

Smiling for the camera-yay!

Grandma Lora's Visit

Photos from Lora's visit to Michigan.




The Jadie / Tyler photo attempt wasn't working out.