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.

The Hill of Apples.

I LOVE fall. It doesn't quite feel like fall here yet, but it's getting there. I like the idea of snuggling in a blanket, watching a movie with cold air blowing through the window while you eat a bowl of soup. Nothing says fall though like a trip to Apple Hill. The weather was perfect and the apple juice was just as delicious as I remember. We went up with my parents and had a very low key trip. We looked at all the craft booths, fed the fish, ran into some friends and my sister Katie, ate lunch and brought home an apple pie. Sienna even got to try some of Grandpa's apple donut, mommy's sandwich and some berry apple pie! We didn't take a ton of pictures but here are a few of us enjoying our day.

I'm so excited for the rest of this year... all the fall holidays, Nick starting school, the Idahoans coming to visit AND Sienna's first birthday!

Teeth!

Miss Sienna thinks that teeth are funny for some reason. She has five now! Whenever she gets the opportunity she loves to stick her finger in mommy or daddy's mouth and touch our teeth. She is so weird... I haven't figured out if it's actually teeth or the word teeth that makes her giggle. Anyway, for Labor Day we went over to the Langstraat's for some swimming and lunch. While we were there Erin took a couple of pictures that I loved and wanted to share.

Playing with Mommy's teeth.

I just love this picture...it's so Sienna.

Showing off her top teeth with her monster face smile!
I just love this silly girl!