Baby Showers

Sienna and I are some seriously loved and lucky girls. We had two and a half baby showers. The half is the small reception that I had at work for any parents that wanted to wish me well on my last day of work...presents were not excepted but definitely came.

My good friends Erin and Stacy threw my first shower in October for all of my friends from the ward and work. Everything was wonderfully pink and brown. Erin and Stacy went ALL out with delicious food, tricky games, and a candy/dessert station. It was so much fun and I'm so grateful for all of the love that I felt that day.

My second shower was the weekend after and was put on by my sisters and cousin Rachel who has been adopted in recently. This shower was for my family members and friends in the Elk Grove area. It is always so much fun to see all of my family and it was extra fun to see some friends that I hadn't seen in a while. There were so many presents for Sienna that I seriously opened gifts for over an hour! My favorite part was all the awesome children's books that came with each gift. My sisters did a great job decorating, with the refreshments and the activities. I just love them and am so thankful for all of their hard work on mine and Sienna's behalf.

After a shopping trip today to Babies R Us and Target using our gift cards we now have everything that need! Thank you to everyone that came to the showers to help celebrate and spoil this crazy little girl as well as myself. A special thank you to Erin, Stacy, Andi, Katie, Tracy, Samsonite and Rachel who put so much hard work and love into the planning of the showers.

Annoying vs Awesome...

A little pregnancy update for you. President Monson wants me to be postive and full of gratitude so I'll do the annoying first and leave on a postive note so that the last thing you think about after reading this is awesomeness. I'm so nice huh?

Annoying things about being pregnant:

*Brick feet. more commonly known as plain old swollen feet...where your toes feel like they might shoot off of your feet...
*Congestion. I feel like I've had a cold for four months now...and I breathe really loud, just ask my husband
*Maternity pants...by themselves are awesome but mixed with the fact that they pull down my garmet top all the time, not cool.
*Alien baby making it hard to sleep and occasionally feels like she's trying to pry her way out of my stomach...Sienna mom does NOT like that.

Awesome things about being pregnant:

*I can get fat and people are okay with that
*Feeling Sienna kick and watching my stomach move...awesome and a little creepy
*My black maternity pants... I might wear them even when I'm not pregnant
*Getting to have parties and open presents when it's not my birthday or Christmas.
*Having an excuse to wear flip flops all the time (see swollen feet)
*Taking naps on Saturdays AND Sundays

There's more stuff for each catergory but those are what I got for now. Things are going well and I'm pretty sure that she is getting crazier by the day. I'll be sure to post more pictures after my shower on Saturday!

Happy Birthday Pretty!

Happy Birthday today to my favorite person EVER. He makes me super crazy sometimes but I'm sure that I return the favor frequently. This year Nicholas turns the big 3-0 so I wanted to do something a little more special than I have in the past. I decided to throw him a small party this past weekend at our friend's house complete with Buffalo Wild Wings (I'm so glad the new one opened in Citrus Heights because I was truly preparing to go to Reno to get them...they're the best wings EVER.) and rootbeer. I found some awesome beer mugs at the Dollar Store that I etched with the last intial of everyone that came and of course also scored a sweet pin the treasure on the map game.

We had a lot of fun stuffing ourselves with wings and just getting to spend time with our friends. We are so glad that everyone was able to come and celebrate with us.

Here are a few other pictures from the night including Nick opening presents and blowing out his candle. Oh and in case you were wondering what to do with about a 100 wing bones, you can spell out awesome messages with them. Gross? Yes. Awesome? A little bit.

Thanks again everyone and happy birthday babe.

Air Show!

One thing that we love about Rancho Cordova is that Air Show is so close to us. In years past we have just listened to the jets fly by our apartment and watch from right outside. This year Nick bought tickets so that we could actually go to Mather, check out all the airplanes, jets and helicopters as well as have front row seats to the show. Nick especially loves helicopters and I love Jelly Bellys so here are a couple of pictures reflecting our loves.

Besides seeing the cool displays we also enjoyed a Merlinos, the actual show and getting our own LiveCopter from the KCRA booth for Sienna. The guy handing them out must have really loved us because he was ONLY giving them out to actual children, but made an exception for us.

We loved that guy too, so we took our only picture together in front of the real LiveCopter 3...

We had a lot of fun checking everything out and talking to some cool people. We did however also learn somethings that we will definitely have to remember for next year: Bring an umbrella for shade, wear sunscreen and no matter how close you live paying the ten dollars to park is worth it over the long walk.

Crafty.

Nick got the chance to go to Shasta with his scouts this last weekend, leaving me at home by myself for four days. I'm glad that he ended up having a great time jumping off house boats, jet skiing, wakeboarding, seeing the sundial bridge, visiting the caverns and touring the dam but I was pretty bored without him. However, on Friday night I decided to go over to Erin's house, also husbandless, to see if she couldn't help me get in touch with my inner crafty-ness. I decided to buy some onesies for Sienna and spruce them up a little. Below are some pictures of the finished products.

I'm pretty proud of myself. I'm not going to lie, I had a lot of help from Erin who did all the sewing and cut out the stencils on her circut for me, but I did all the cutting, fabric choices and actual stenciling. Now to wait and see how cute Sienna will actually look in them :)

She's a Girl.

Nick and I had our ultrasound on the fifteenth and we're excited to find out that we are having a girl. At first Nick was much more excited than I was, but I'm warming up to the idea. We still don't have a place to put her but we do have some of the essentials and a name. Her name is going to be Sienna Kate Hudson. Kate, as in Katie my sister not the actress.

She is starting to become more active or just bigger so I can feel her more often. She does not like to be poked and is already proving to be a little stubborn like her mom.

We had a ton of fun with some of our friends this weekend up in Tahoe, and while my camera battery died, Erin was gracious enough to get a picture of Nick and I. Since she's so wonderful, as promised, here is the most recent picture of the belly and the shrinking husband (15 pounds in two weeks).

Tahoe 2010/Week 21

YW Sleepover

This past weekend my YW class was in charge of the Young Women combined activity and decided to have a sleepover at Sister Harlow's house. (Thanks!) It was a very eventful, fun night. We went to the park, played games as well as did girly things like painting toenails and facials. We had one mishap in the shape of a bedroom door that was accidently closed while it was still locked. Unfortunately even after youtubing how to pick a lock and a little bit of our own ideas the door still had to be opened by a locksmith the next day. It was so much fun getting a chance to ge to know not only the girls better but also the women that I work with in the YW program. Here's a few picture highlights from the party.

Stay tuned later this week for not only a recent pregnancy picture but to find out if this crazy baby is a boy or a girl. We find out on Thursday!