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. :)

Umm...

Sienna hated Santa...

...but loved the candy cane she got from Mrs. Claus.

I'm not surprised.

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!