Bed Head.

For someone with so little hair that is some serious bed head.

Fake Coughing....

...and other silly things that I want to remember. I have been pretty good about blogging the big things that happen to our small family but after looking at a friends blog I realized that I was missing all of the everyday stuff that makes me laugh or makes me crazy. This post will be my attempt to journal all the stuff that Sienna is up to and then I hope to blog more about the everyday crazy as well as the bigger stuff.

1. Fake Coughing. The girl is out of control. It started a couple of days ago and she thinks that she is so funny. I think she is just silly.

2. She LOVES music! Sienna is a dancing queen but since she doesn't quite stand on her own yet mostly the dancing consist of "rave hands", furiously waving her arms and a big cheesy smile. She appreciates any music from Beyonce to Brad Paisley to church hymns. She also likes to sing which sounds alot like screaming but she stops when the music stops and to me it just sounds awesome.

3. Speaking of screaming...she also does her fair share of that. Last week Nick took her to Target and almost felt like leaving because she was screaming so loud. I should mention that most of the time the screaming is purely to hear the sound of her voice and is not because she is upset. This also means that we have the noisy baby at church (see #2 as well)

4. Like any other baby she hates her toys. Ok, not really. However, she would rather play with golf balls, the laptop, the remote with batteries in it, shopping bags and the laptop cord. I have no idea how she knows if a remote does or does not have batteries but if it doesn't work, she doesn't want it.

5. Not so awesome...she throws fits. Full on throwing her head back, arching her body, holding her breath until her face is red fits. Someone forgot to tell her that she's supposed to walk before she gets an attitude...seriously. We definitely have our hands full!

Day Trip...

On Saturday we woke up with no plans and ended up headed to San Francisco for the day. We figured that Pier 39 would be good for lunch and my salt water taffy fix, but not necessarily something we could do all day with Sienna. We decided to go to the Zoo since neither one of us had been there and we heard it was a pretty cool zoo. I LOVED it! I loved how many things they had for young kids, that animals that lived together in real life got to be together at the zoo (i.e. zebras and giraffes), random peacocks, and how close you seemed to be able to get to the animals...seriously, it was crazy. They had some awesome animals too! Here are some pictures of our favorites.

We also saw a Bald Eagle, a Hippo, Lions, Bears, Sea Lions, Monkeys and so much more including a HUGE anaconda. I literally stepped back when I saw it. Sienna did great! We stopped a couple of times for snack breaks but for the most part she just soaked up everything and even put up with Daddy putting on some silly animal ears at the souvenir shop.

I told Nick that I definitely want to go again when Sienna is bigger. We then headed to the Pier for lunch, taffy and the traditional picture at the end of the pier. Sienna was pretty much done by that time so none of those pictures are awesome, but good enough. It was such a fun day!

Smoothies...

Recently Nick went and bought us the Magic Bullet with some extra money that we came into at Aunt Sam's wedding. It has been awesome! We especially love making smoothies with it. Sienna especially loves sharing with mommy and since there is nothing in it that she can't have mommy is willing to share a little.

Unfortunately for mommy, strawberry banana smoothie is apparently baby crack and Sienna often tries to steal the whole thing!

The Long Weekend of Awesomeness and Stuff

The craziness started on Wednesday for us this week! Wednesday after work Sienna and I went over to Grandpa and Grandma's house to help make Sam pretty for some pretty wedding pictures and then spent the rest of our night playing with the Gibson kids so that Aunt Katie could go enjoy a night out with her friends, we even got to spend the night! Unfortunately, Aunt Rachel wasn't feeling well the next morning and couldn't watch Sienna. Daddy drove out to Elk Grove and picked up Sienna and the two of them got to spend the whole morning together. Sienna was very excited....

On Thursday night we had the opportuntity to go to the temple to be there with Sam when she went through for the first time. Sienna got to spend that time hanging out with Grandma Hudson and Great Grandma Swanson!

Friday, I left my favorites in bed as I went off to work. Right after work though we celebrated Baby Jett's first birthday. I can't believe that he is actually one already! We celebrated with some swimming, opening presents and pirate cupcakes. We love that little/big guy and were so excited to be able to celebrate with the Esslingers...we sure miss them... Friday night we had a bachelorette party for Sam at Chevy's on the River...sorry no pictures Andi took them all.

Saturday, we started our day back at Grandpa's house helping Aunt Sam get ready for her big day! Sienna decided doing hair isn't that exciting and played with Miss Jenny instead.

After everyone was pretty we went off to the temple for the sealing. After the sealing we took some pictures and then went over to Olive Garden for a luncheon with the two families. We got home with just enough time to get Sienna ready and head over to the church for more pictures and the reception. Some of my favorite pictures of the day for you:

We were definitely tired by the end of our weekend but we are so excited for Aunt Sam and Uncle Jake. We had alot of fun seeing lots of our friends and being able to celebrate this special day. We can't wait for them to get home from their honeymoon so we can hear about how awesome the cruise and Alaska was!

State Fair

My mom was nice enough this year to purchase a bunch of tickets to the State Fair for the family this year. Mom and Dad decided to go on first responders day since they could both get in free and everyone decided that we would go with them. I took the day off and we packed up the baby and off we carpooled to the fair. Mom really wanted to see the Moto Cross show so we definitely hit that up. Sienna hated it...mostly because she was exhausted when we got to the show and partly because it was loud...so I missed most of it. However, Nick took a ton of pictures of all the cool tricks for me.

Dad also took Katie and her kids on the Pirate boats and after coming back laughing and soaking wet persauded Tracy, Chad, Sam and I to go on them as well. It was a lot of fun and thanks to Chad and Tracy's broken cannons Sam and I looked like we had peed our pants but our hair stayed dry and when you have natural curl, that's the important part :)

We also saw all the exhibits, including the Big Bugs, the farm animals, and caught part of a concert. We didn't try any crazy food, but enjoyed the standard of corndogs and fried zucchini. Sienna was such a good girl! She took little naps through out the day and the only time she got upset was trying to take a nap at the Moto Cross show.

It was fun getting the chance to go to the fair with our family. I can't wait until Sienna is a little bigger and can actually enjoy some of the stuff instead of just dealing with it.

Fourth of July Weekend

We had a very big fourth of July weekend. On Saturday we went over to the Langstraat's house for a BBQ and some swimming. This was Sienna's first time going swimming and she was not a fan! She clung to daddy like her life depended on it and her little heart was beating like crazy but I tell you what...she looked so cute in her swimsuit.

She decided that lounging by the pool was more her style...

On Sunday we went to the Bacchus' house for a BBQ and fireworks across the street at the park. Sienna did really well during the fireworks. I don't know that she loved them but she didn't cry and watch very intently. On the actual fourth we went to a pancake breakfast in the morning and then headed to Grandma and Grandpa's house for some more swimming and round two of BBQ and fireworks. Grandma and Grandpa had heard about our swimming fiasco earlier that week and went out and bought a small perfect Sienna sized pool...she LOVED it!

These are some of my favorite pictures from the many, many pictures Daddy took of her. I like that you can see her earrings that she got the weekend after camping and those two silly teeth she has. Afterward we had round two of fireworks...

I don't know if you can tell but she's freaking out a little. I think they were too close, she was too tired and she did NOT want me to cover her ears. Overall, we had a great weekend and loved being able to spend time with our friends and family while celebrating our independence.