Two separate ER visits in one day

Poor little Jade. She had a rough day. It all started Thursday night. I went to visit Juliann in the hospital because she had her twins. And by the way they are adorable. Annabelle looked like a little doll. So perfect. Anyway, while I was gone Dan took Jade and Stevie down to play on the grass. They were playing some game when Jade tripped over Stevie and smacked her chin right on a brick. I got home later that night and Dan had already put Jade to bed with just a band-aid. He said it looked fine so I didn't worry. The next morning I took a look and thought it was pretty bad. Not too deep but just wide. I took a picture and sent it to Dan's dad (who is a doctor). He told me that we needed to bring her in. Luckily, with Dan's hook ups at the hospital we got to go in the back door and were brought immediately into a room. It still took awhile but they decided to glue her cut back together with a special glue.

We were finally done and ready to leave the ER and go to Underwood farms. Stevie had been looking forward to it all week. Dan was taking care of the copay while Stevie, Jade and I got the car. To pick up our car we had to go down an elevator. When the elevator reached our floor the door came open. Jade's hand was on the door and got sucked into the wall. The entire elevator door was in the wall with Jade's hand. It was horrible. I had to pull with all my strength to get her hand out. Jade was screaming, Stevie was bawling, and I was ready to cry too. I did not know what condition her hand would be in when I pulled it out. It looked pretty bad. Immediately swollen with lots of blood. We went right back up the elevator and back into the ER and into our same room. After some x-rays and another copay we were finally able to go home. No broken bones, but a nasty cut. Who would of thought that you could visit the ER twice in one day. It's healing nicely but still looks so gross. Here are some shots.

Waiting the first time for her chin to get fixed. It was good to have Stevie there with us.

Here is her poor hand

It doesn't seem to bother her at all. She even got up with the primary kids and sang the Father's day songs with them. She sang every word perfectly and stole the show. I'm glad she's not as shy as I was. It was so cute, I wish I got it on video.

To the BEST DAD EVER!!!

I decided that because it's Father's day that I would take some time and post some great memories that I have with my dad and all of the reasons why we love him so much.

Best Memories:

When we were little and we asked him if we could go to ice cream to get double scoops he would always say, "In a blue moon." That meaning NO. One night I remember he made a scavenger hunt for us to do. Each stop was another puzzle piece. At the end of the hunt we put all of the puzzle pieces together and it was a big picture of a blue moon. Right away we knew that we were going to Thrify's to get double scoops!! Best night ever.

On April fools one year he sat all of us kids down and told us that he was getting rid of the TV. We were devastated. Best april fools ever!

I remember him slaving away in our backyard building us the most awesome swing set and jungle gym. One day when he was working it was pouring rain and he just kept going. It ended up awesome! It even had a 3 story swirly slide. He also dug a hole for our trampoline two different times.

I always remember when it was time to say a pray he would tell us to fold our baby arms, bow our baby heads, and close our baby eyes. When he wanted us to give him a kiss he would tell us to kiss him quick I'm double parked.

Both of these I now say to Jade daily.

He would stand on our diving board and lift us on his shoulders so we could stand and do a high dive.

He taught us all how to do flips on the trampoline.

I remember that some days he would let us go to work with him at Subway. We were able to make our own sandwiches and put whatever we wanted on them. It was the best.

I loved when we went to Colorado last year and we were able to see where he grew up and all the crazy mountains he has skied down. We even got to see the jail that he was in for a night. He was at the same jail at the same time as the serial killer Ted Bundy.(don't worry it was nothing too bad. He was just in there until his girlfriend could bring the fine money for having an open adult drink while riding his bike, he wasn't a member then)

He forbade the word CAN'T.

Dan's favorite memory: Staying up all night in Austria laughing uncontrollably at the stupidest things in a chalet in the Alps.

He came to pretty much all of our swim meets which was every weekend and all weekend long.

Taught us all how to swim and taught us all sign language

Why my dad is so awesome:

First of all he had to live with 8 women. He deserves major credit for that.

He is so talented. He can play almost any instrument, published 3 books, mastered editing and making movies, can talk his way out of anything, can also talk his way into getting whatever he wants, knows sign language and Spanish, runs a cool website, and can do pretty much anything that he tries.

Still plays in a band and has music on Itunes

Best skier I know (maybe second to dan ) :)

A very good cook (best fajitas, sushi, stew, and bbq chicken)

Can skateboard on his hands and with someone standing on his shoulders. (we had a half pipe in our backyard in Colorado)

Great at taking pictures

Used to rock a mustache

Best papa EVER. (that's what Jade says)

We love you dad!! Thanks for being the BEST EVER!!!!!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Disneyland with Stevie

We just got home from a great day at Disneyland. It was probably our last visit before the summer block out dates. My dad and Stevie are in town and spent the day with us. We were able to go to Ariel's Grotto for lunch. It was super yummy food and all the princesses come out and say hi. Today Jade won the heart of Cinderella. Jade leaned in a gave her a kiss and she said it almost made her cry. Then after she made the rounds to the other tables she came back to sit with Jade and said that she wanted to take Jade home with her. It was so cute. They said that they are all not used to having someone so young know who they are and can talk so well to them without being afraid. On her own Jade walked right up to Snow White and said, "How's the seven dwarfs?"

We were also able to ride the brand new Little Mermaid ride. It was a lot of fun. Today we spent a lot of time meeting the characters which was fun because we don't usually wait in the lines to meet everyone. Cruella was super funny. She did not like Jade hugging her. We had so much fun and so glad that aunt Stevie gets to stay with us all next week!

Jade playing hide and go seek with Ariel!

Memorial day in Sactown

We decided last minute to drive to Sacramento and visit my family for Memorial Day weekend. We had just been in Utah the week before so we were not planning on going anywhere. We didn't tell my mom or Stevie that we were coming and it was fun to surprise her. We didn't get in until super late Friday night. When we arrived Jade woke right up and was excited to be at Grandma's house. We had Jade walk into my mom's room and say SURPRISE!! It was so cute. The next morning Jade woke up extra early and we were sleeping in the room next to Stevie's room. When Stevie woke up and heard Jade she just thought my mom was skyping with us at 6am. Hahah! She was so happy to see us.

Jade's actual birthday was on Saturday so we got to celebrate again. We went out to breakfast, saw Kung Fu Panda 2, and went to Round Table pizza for dinner. (the best pizza ever!!) Here is everyone at Round Table.

Jade and all of her presents!

When she opened this princess gift from Taryn she said, "OH MY GOSH!!!" It was for sure her favorite!

They play so well together. I love it. Stevie entertains her all day!

Dan let me sleep in one morning and I came downstairs to these cuties watching a movie together. What a great Auntie Stevie is.

We had to get some swimming in while we were near a pool. It was pretty cold though. I didn't get in, but Jade still loved it.

Ahoy!

We just got home from a quick weekend trip to Utah. We decided to go because it was our last time that Jade would be able to fly for free. It was a very short trip but we managed to do lots of fun things. We were able to celebrate Jade's 2nd birthday with Dan's family. I'm not throwing her a party here in LA, so I'm glad she got some celebrating in. Jade loves pirates so we decided to start the festivities off by going to Pirate Island. It's a fun pirate restaurant that has pirate everything.

Waiting for the pizza!

Jade really loves her Grandma Peterson

The entire gang!

The pirates came out and sang to Jade and gave her ice cream! She loved that part.

Jade and T having a sword fight. They were so cute playing together!

These are the delicious cupcakes Dan's sister Lisa whipped up the day of the party. This was by far Jade's favorite part. She always associates birthday parties with CUPCAKES!

All the cousins ready for their cupcakes!

Dan made a pirate treasure map with clues that took us all around the house. It ended in the playground in the back yard where we had to dig up the buried treasure.

Happy Birthday!! Her real birthday is this Saturday so we will for sure be doing some more celebrating. We are taking her to Goofy's kitchen at Disneyland. She is going to LOVE it!

New Trick!

Espanol

One of Jade's toys got switched to Spanish and now it's the only way she likes it. I switched it back to English and she was not happy. Here she is showing off her new Spanish skills!