A Letter

Dear Idaho,

For a long time you and I have had a love/hate relationship. When we first met you froze me to death and made me work at Arbys. You also made me sleepy and I'm pretty sure gave me a case of seasonal depression. However, you also gave me some treasured memories and an awesome friend. To be honest I held no ill will toward you but lately you're killing me. First, you took the Nelson family. I forgave you for that hoping that you would leave everyone else alone. BUT you didn't. You went and snatched up my little sister. Sure, it's for a good cause and temporary but I was really looking forward to working with her and having her fall in love with my baby...rude.

Then you went and got cocky and surprised me by stealing my second set of parents...before they had the chance to meet Sienna. I was going to ask Dave to be in her blessing circle, you big jerk. Just when I think that you've taken all that you can...you go in for one more time and take them:

SERIOUSLY?! Yeah, I know it will be great for them and they are excited for their new adventure but haven't you taken enough people from me? Who is going to take Sienna shoe shopping now? You are making it hard to keep my distance from you. The very least that you could do for me is take care of them and not make them too cold. Oh, and by the way if you talk to your friend Utah anytime soon tell him he made my list for taking my favorite visiting teacher away...

You guys have some nerve....

~Marianne

Two Months

My baby girl is getting so big...very fast. Last week we went to her two month check up and she did really well. She was a little bit mad about having to get her shots but was more than happy to snuggle with mom for the rest of the day. At her appointment she was 9 pounds 12 ounces and almost 22 inches long. Perfectly resting in the 25th percentile for both height and weight. We had an appointment today to get one more vaccination and she is now 10 pounds 2 ounces...she's finally as big as the biggest grandchild was at birth!

Evidence of her growth:

The first picture is of her first bath and the second picture is earlier this week.
She's big time now.

End of December

We had a great Christmas this year. It was a lot of fun having an extra little person with us to celebrate. Sienna had a great time hanging out with her girl cousins on Christmas Eve and Christmas. Luckily, Braelynn and Jill both seem to like having her around...at least for now.

We sent Christmas Eve with Nick's family and Christmas day with mine. Sienna got the chance to meet her the rest of Nick's family and was very spoiled. We had Christmas breakfast at my parents house and the cousins exchanged gifts. We then spent the day relaxing until we headed over to Aunt Katie's house for a delicious dinner. We are so grateful for our families and how much they took care of us this year. My favorite part of Christmas though was Christmas morning with just our little family. Santa came and even filled up Sienna's stocking. She was very excited about her new movie!

This is one of my favorite pictures from Christmas Eve. As you can see all the love was a liitle overwhelming :) She actually really liked the mirror on the snail after mom fed her.

On New Year's Eve the family went over to Mom and dad's house to say good bye to Aunt Sam who left a couple of days ago for BYU-Idaho. We miss her already and are so excited for her to start this new adventure.

Update: One Month

I can't believe that Sienna is already a month old. Most of the time it feels like she's been here forever and sometimes I am amzed that it was only 30 days ago that she was in my belly. She is a pretty good little girl. She's still a little confused by the whole night and day thing and is trying to figure out how to get rid of all the gas that she accumulates. She loves bath time and sleeping like a big girl on daddy's pillow....

One of our favorite silly things that she does is lifting her arms up in the air while she's sleeping for no particular reason. Nick calls it her zombie arms.

We've been trying to make sure that she is having tummy time. As well gaining an appreciation for drum corp (notice the I touch next to her...)

We even went to church on Sunday for the Christmas program. She was very irreverent during sacrament meeting. She filled her diaper loudly during the sacrament and then got the hiccups during our friend's solo. :) She didn't ever cry though and slept through sunday school.


She is getting so big to me. I feel like she is looking less like a newborn everyday and we even tried on some 0-3 month clothes tonight...not just yet. We hope everyone has a good holiday and we will be sure to post more about Sienna's first Christmas.

First Photo Shoot

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Sienna is Here!

Early friday morning around 4:30 I woke up and thought that my water might have broken. I wasn't sure because it wasn't a gush, all of our baby classes made sure to tell us that only 10% of women actually have their water break before they go to the hospital and I still had 12 days until my due date. I called labor and delivery about an hour later and they told me that I was probably right but to call back in an hour and let them know how it was going. By the time I called back my contractions were about 7 minutes apart and the back labor was killing me. We got to the hospital about 7:30 and went into triage. Unfortunately by this time I was feeling faint, nauseous and like ripping my hips out. They checked me to find that I was already at 5cm. Afterward my blood pressure dropped really low, I was dehydrated, Nick was looking concerned and the smell from the oxygen mask was horrible so I threw up :) They decided to admit me and very quickly hooked me up to an IV and a blood pressure cuff which took my blood pressure about one billion times that day. By 10:15 I was blissfully epiduraled up and was feeling 100% percent better.

Mom, Nick and I all took bets as to when she would finally get here and unfortunately we were all a couple of hours off the target. Sienna was doing what she had done my whole pregnancy...whatever she wanted when she wanted to do it. She was facing up instead of down and kept trying to escape the heart moniter. When they checked me again I was at a 9 but Sienna was still not facing the right way so they had me lay on my side to convince her to roll over. She eventually did but no one is really sure when but it wasn't then. Around 4 I started " practice pushing" which eventually lead to real pushing. After two long hours and one crazy black lady yelling at me she finally arrived at 6:03 pm.

Sienna was a surprise to me in so many ways. I had convinced myself that she was going to be a big baby, over due and bald. However, Miss Sienna showed up 12 days early weighing in at a "whooping" 6 lbs 12 oz with a beautiful baby mullet of blond hair. Everyone is doing well besides some jaundice and lack of sleep. She's wonderfully cute, so here are some pictures to reward you for sticking through the story.

Sienna Kate Hudson
11/19/10 ~6lbs 12oz ~19inches

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.