Summer is Coming!

We are so excited for warm weather!  It was so warm today that we headed down to the pool for some fun.  Sienna had a great time playing and splashing in the water with her cousins, mommy, Aunt Sam and Aunt Tracy.  I especially love that Aunt Tracy's housing development has a small pool perfect for little ones.

 

We have a lot to look forward to in the next couple of weeks including lots of playing in the water, baby William and camping.  We can't wait for summer to officially get here!

Easter

We had a such a good Easter this year.  We started our morning with the checking out the loot that Sienna received from the Easter Bunny.  She loved the sound that the eggs made when she shook them and LOVED the fact that there was candy in them so much that she was literally shaking. 

 Nick and I were cracking up how excited she was.

 

Afterward we headed off to church and heard wonderful messages about Christ

 and his atonement and resurrection.  

Miss Sienna in her Easter dress.

 

 

Family Picture in our new Easter outfits <3

 

 After church we went over to spend the rest of the evening with my family.  My mom had planned an egg hunt for the kids and even color coded the eggs so that each kid have their own color.  Sienna had the purple eggs.  Nick took so many cute pictures of her on the hunt it was hard to choose my favorites to post...

We had a great time at Grandpa and Grandma's house.  We are so grateful for our faith and family  and the opportunity that Easter brings us to reflect on both of these things.

Fairy Tale Town

 A couple of weeks ago Andi and her silly boys came to California for a quick visit and we were so excited to spend time with them!  The first thing that we did was go to Fairy Tale Town with everyone.  We did other fun stuff, but unfortunately I didn't take pictures and even more unfortunate is that the only picture I have to prove that the Esslingers were actually with us is one of the 2010 babies in a teepee...awesome...

I was Sienna's first trip and she loved it. 

 

Probably her most favorite part was getting to walk the crooked mile with Aunt Rachel while Mom played with baby Evelyn.

 

The picture of the 2010 babies...in a teepee...

We had so much fun not only at Fairy Tale Town but spending the whole weekend with Andi and the boys.  Hopefully, once Andi is able to catch her breath and get back to her normal schedule she'll email me some pictures she took of the rest of the weekend and I'll blog about that in the future.  Thanks for visiting Esslingers.  We sure do miss you.

Monterrey Trip

On Thursday Nick finished his finals for his first term of school AND did a great job! We really wanted to do something fun for his break. Lucky for us Nick's friend Ashley had the same idea and a timeshare in Monterrey! We were so excited when she invited us to go with her. One of the coolest things was that the timeshare was at the same place that Nick and I stayed during our Honeymoon!

The weather was crazy, but with a little planning we were able to do everything that we wanted to. On Friday there was a break in the rain long enough for us to take the kids to the awesome Dennis the Menace park. They had so much fun!

When we got back from the park and the kids had some lunch, we walked down to the beach. It brought back a lot of memories for me standing on the same exact beach as we had when we first got married. It was fun now to be able to be there with Sienna. It was cold, but we stuck our feet in the sand and Nick even put his feet in the ocean...crazy person...

On Saturday it was crazy rainy, but the good news was that we had planned to go the Monterrey Bay Aquarium that day. Sienna loved it! She would point at everything and say, "Fish, fish..." We got to see the penguin feeding, play in the splash zones and even touch some animals in the touch pools.

Our group at the Aquarium!

We had so much fun and it was the perfect, albeit rainy, way to get away and celebrate the end of Nick's first term.

A New Cousin...

Nick's brother and his wife had a new baby girl a couple of weeks ago! We were so excited to finally hear if it was a boy or a girl because she was apparently very stubborn and after three inconclusive ultrasounds they gave up trying to find out. We have been excited to meet her and were very excited when they told us that they were coming over the mountain from Reno to come show Miss Kalina off to everyone last weekend.

Sienna and her Hudson cousins

Sienna to a liking to Kalina and even wanted to hold her! She was so sweet and did a great job of touching her softly and even tried rocking her back and forth like she does with her baby dolls. We loved meeting Kalina and are now looking forward to meeting a new boy cousin on my side in May.

Kings win baby, Kings win...

It's been awhile since that has actually happened but I promise that it did a couple of weeks ago, and we were there! In the beginning of February we went to the Kings game with some friends of ours for Kathryn's birthday. We had so much fun! The only thing that wasn't awesome was that Jimmer didn't play at all during the game...so we just admired how well he warmed the bench instead. We were with a fun group of people, we won, and because we won everyone got free tacos!

Thanks Kathryn for getting older and inviting us to celebrate with you!

Catching up: Christmas...

Better late then never, right? We had a great Christmas. As per tradition we spent Christmas Eve with the Hudson side of the family. We had lasagna, a ton of dessert and opened presents. Sienna of course was pretty spoiled, but I think her favorite was her baby from Grandma Hudson. It so nice spending time with this side of the family especially before our new niece arrived (today!).
We woke up early on Christmas morning and did our own Christmas morning at home before church. She got another baby from Grandma Busath which she loved and I loved that she wanted to feed her baby and love on it right away. She didn't really get the whole Christmas thing, but it was fun for me to fill up a stocking that she actually went through this year. My favorite part was just getting to have our own time with just our little family.

We went to church with Grandma and Grandpa Busath and made sure to wear our Christmas colored pretties. After church we spent time with my side of the family and then came home and had Christmas dinner with Nick's mom.

I'd like to say that I have so much catching up to do, but this is pretty much it. I do have an idea for one other post, but mostly our lives have been revolving around school and work and we haven't done a whole lot. Here's hoping that 2012 picks up but I'm not going to lie I don't hate having some down time. :)