The First of Many...

I feel like I need to have a preface for this post:
Sienna LOVES her Aunt Rachel! I was blessed to have Rachel watch Sienna when I needed to go back to work. Unfortunately, we don't see her that much now that I nanny for my sister in Rocklin but that hasn't changed Sienna's feelings. If you remember Sienna wanted to sit on her lap to open presents on her birthday! Even Mommy is chopped liver compared to Rachel. Fortunately, Aunt Rachel loves Sienna just as much.

The first of many babies to steal Sienna's thunder is here! (I say this in the best way possible...the girl could use a little of her thunder stolen...) Rachel had her sweet baby girl a couple of days ago and Sienna and I got a chance to go to the hospital and visit.

Sienna did a lot of staring at baby Evelyn and was very interested in her. She asked Aunt Rachel to pick her up about every two seconds but was content with just sitting on the bed next to her. Her favorite part was probably when she was finally able to sit on Aunt Rachel's lap while I held Evelyn though. We are so excited for the Riddle family and thankful that even though they have a beautiful new baby of their own they still love my silly baby just as much.
Congratulations Riddle family!

A tree and some ugly sweaters...

We had a very busy Saturday! The first Saturday in the month of December is set aside every year to head by to Apple Hill for a Christmas tree hunt. Nick and I have a fake tree so we usually just go to hang out with my family, lend our opinions and get a free meal out of the deal (Thanks Dad!) Unfortunately, Nick didn't go up this year so that he could get in plenty of study time before the evenings festivities. We sure did miss him but I'm glad that he was able to get things done so that we could actually hang out as a couple.

Sienna and I had a great time though...well, I had a great time. Sienna hated the trees, hence the reason she was crying in the picture with Aunt Katie. Silly Aunt Katie kept trying to put her in them. All Sienna really wanted to do was crawl and play rocks with Lucas. After everyone found their tree, Sienna and I shared a cake pop on our way over to the train! She LOVED the train! The family then stopped by High Hill for some treats and then to Round Table for lunch. When we got home Nick surprised us by having our tree up and ready.

That evening Nick and I got a chance, thanks to my wonderful Mother in Law, to go to our friend's house for an ugly sweater party. We had a great time hanging out with our friends that we haven't seen in awhile and hanging out with each other. We even got to have fancy mocktails! We didn't win the ugliest sweaters but we did make out pretty well in the white elephant gifts.

Next on the list is sending out cards and finishing the pesky shopping...

Family Pictures

A couple of weeks ago we took some family/ Sienna's one pictures. We were lucky enough to have our really good friend, Erin take them for us. She is amazing! She has kind of become the unofficial family photographer. (She has taken Sam's wedding pictures, Andi's family, Kate's family, Sienna's newborns, Megan and Bubba's engagements and more!) She took our family pictures at a local park and Sienna's one year pictures at the studio in her house.
Here are some of my favorites:

If you are looking for a photographer definitely check her out. Her website is erinnoelphotgraphy.blogspot.com

Sienna's One!

I can and can't believe that my silly baby is already one! It feels like it's gone by so fast but she definitely is getting to be a big girl. My next post will be my favorite pictures from our recent photo shoots and some of the awesome things Miss Sienna can do now. We started off the morning going early to Grandma and Grandpa's house to set up and take a nap for the birthday girl. I decided to try and make cute cupcakes for Sienna and a big thanks to Nick for helping me at 10 o clock at night to make them. I think they turned out pretty cute, however the kids had semi permanent joker faces due to the red frosting...lesson learned for next time.

We started the party but eating Costco pizza and hanging out with all the family and friends that were able to help us celebrate...and we sure did miss the ones that weren't able to be there!

After lunch we opened up a lot of presents. Sienna was very well loved and she loves everything she received. She started and ended opening presents with mommy, but in the middle she decided that she needed to have some Aunt Rachel time. I love that she loves Aunt Rachel so much! The others kids were sure to do their best to help open and then play with all Sienna's toys afterwards. :)

Once all the presents were opened we sang Happy Birthday and ate the cupcakes. She was not a fan of the candle and then mommy accidently blew a little wax on to her finger so I had to console her a little before she dug in. I'm thinking the drama before kind of made her hesitant to go crazy but she ended up thinking it was pretty delicious.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl. We love you!

Trunk or Treat.

Apparently our bishop hates halloween so our ward didn't have a party of any kind...sad. Since I'm not taking Sienna trick or treating this year I invited myself to my parent's ward's trunk or treat so that Sienna would have a place to wear her costume. Nick invited some friends from our ward to come with us because they were also bummed about not having a place to show off their little one.

We had fun hanging out and tasting the different chilis and cornbread. Our cornbread went fast because it's delicious and let's be honest practically made by Marie Callender herself. :) We checked out all the trunks but didn't participate in the treats. We have plenty of candy at home since I bought a huge bag before Grandma told me we only get about 20 trick or treaters.

Sienna was a trooper and kept her headband on almost the whole night and didn't seem bothered by her giant spider body. She especially loved seeing Aunt Rachel and even cried when I took her away so that we could go home. She was pretty much the most adorable spider I have ever seen.

Pumpkin Carving.

On Monday we had our friends, The Ricks, come over for some pizza and pumpkin carving. We started with pizza and then got to work on the jack o lanterns. The boys took off there tops and got out all of the guts for us and then Kathryn and I carved out the faces. While we carved out the faces, the boys were nice enough to frost and sprinkle some sugar cookies for us....such good guys.

The finished products and the girls with their jack o lanterns.

All the girls.

We had a great time hanging out and letting the girls play together.

Starting her early...

Nick has been dying to take Sienna to a drum corp show pretty much from the time she was born. He's played music for her on the iPod and I believe she has seen some videos of different shows. A couple of weeks ago we decided to go to Roseville to see a marching band show some different high schools were participating in. It's definitely not the same as drum corp but it was a good way to have a test run to see how she would do.

She liked it. I want to say she loved it but I'm pretty sure the only thing she really loved was the caramel popcorn she tried to steal out of some ladies purse..true story. She did really enjoy the music and sharing mommy's dinner. When the bands where performing she was interested so I'm going to call it a success.

I don't think she's ready for the big time ye,t so Nick will just have to keep finding these little shows for us for a while.