Easter

Yes, I'm a little late on an Easter post, but I figured late is better than never! Right?!

This year, we went down south to celebrate Easter with Garth's family. We had a blast. Usually we are up north at my grandma's, so the warm weather was a nice surprise!

On Saturday night, we began the fun with cookie decorating and egg dying:

Thank you Pinterest for the amazing idea of using a whisk to dye eggs. I will never do it any other way! It was so easy and the boys loved it!! Next year, Sienna will loved this. This year, she watched for a couple minutes before heading to bed.

Kimu and Karson's creations:

The next morning, we woke up (surprisingly before the boys) and as soon as they were awake, we all headed outside to look for Easter eggs. This year the Easter bunny was so smart and filled white and pink eggs with puffs for Sienna. The rest were filled with candy. Smart Easter bunny....

I LOVE this picture! She cracks me up. She loved her Easter egg hunt! She kept asking for "mo," so Kimu, kept hiding more for her, over and over (what a good big cousin!!). I think this could have gone on all day...seriously! She had so much fun.

Then we had a wonderful lunch with all of our family (thank you Auntie Heather and Uncle Kimu--our amazing hosts!). We ate such yummy food and we were excited my brother came over to join us! Fun times.

This was the best picture of the cousins:

because Sienna kept doing this:

She wanted NOTHING to do with taking pictures!

Later that day we went swimming. She also went swimming the day before (we loved the weather!) with daddy. She loved the pool and it makes me so excited to take her swimming in our new pool this summer :)

What an amazing Easter, spent with our amazing family. We are truly blessed!

I don't know how Sienna grew so fast and how she's already 19 months, but it happened. A year and half old!! Yikes!! It feels like it happened over night.

She says so many words now and she tries to copy most words you say. She loves to say thank you (which melts my heart), she says: 'tay-too'. 'Tay-too mommy' are some of her sweet words that make me want to scoop her up and kiss her all over!! She also likes to say 'Amen' when we're done praying. But she says: 'Men.' Pretty funny. She also learned to say 'No' recently and says it all.the.time. Even though we know that sometimes she says it correctly in context, she doesn't do that a lot. Lately, it's just the opposite. She says it for anything. For example, the other day we were reading a story and this was our conversation about the book:

Me: Wow, Sienna. Look at all those animals! Do you like the zebra?

Sienna: No! (she says it in a high pitched, sweet way)

Me: Do you like the giraffe?

Sienna: No!

Me: Do you like the monkey?

Sienna: No!

Me: Do you like Daddy?

Sienna: No!

Me: Do you like Mommy?

Sienna: No!

Daddy chimes in: Sienna, do you like anything?

Sienna starts to walk away, turns around and pauses for a few seconds and then said: No!

All with her high-pitched, sweet 'No'! Someday, I'm sure I will not think it's cute when she's telling us no, but for now we think it's pretty cute. We think it's pretty funny.

Shout out to Uncle Tyler @ Boise State!! Woo-woo!

Sienna is at such a fun age. She mimics everything we do and she is obsessed with necklaces and purses. She has many child purses, but they're not good enough. No way. She wants mommy's purses. They are about the same size as she is, but she will still carry them around-one on each shoulder, and constantly empty them or put things in them. She is definitely my girly girl.

Look at her curls!! Her hair is really starting to grow and she has little curls on the bottom that are beautiful!

Got this power-wheels on Craigslist, brand new for $40. I was stoked. Sienna fell in love (YAY!) and would ride with a huge smile plastered on her face. The blissful rides didn't last long...she won't even sit on it lately. She loves to look at it and pat it, but not sit on it (Boo!). Maybe she'll sit on it again soon...

A recent favorite toy-a piano from Nana! (with a microphone and everything)

Last month, our nephews came to stay with us for the weekend, along with Nana. We had a blast. We went on a walk, rode bikes, and went to the park. It was wonderful. Sienna is obsessed with her cousins and love to watch them and copy them. She has so much fun being around them.

Some other fun news for our family is that we bought a house! It is currently in escrow and will close in the middle of May. We are very excited!! We are currently renting our home from my parents and as much as we love it, we're ready for our own place. I will definitely miss this home though, as it was the home I grew up in. So many memories were made here, as a child, and as an adult. Sienna's room used to be my room when I was little, which I think is pretty cool. But, having been here for so long, I wanted something different, a place of our own to make new memories. Here is the new place:

The new house is on the other side of town and is also a two-story home with a pool. Guess what else it has?? An UPSTAIRS laundry room!! Anyone who has a two story home can appreciate how annoying it is to have to carry laundry up and down the stairs constantly! It is such a pain! I couldn't be more excited about this feature. I literally gave out a squeal of excitement when we were walking through the house and I opened that door to find that laundry room! We can't wait to move in and start painting, pulling out those horrible bushes in the front yard, and getting it ready for us. We anxiously counting down the days!!

Bubbles

Who knew this little $5 bubble blower from Michael's would make Sienna so happy?

I have to admit, I was pretty impressed by the amount of bubbles this little guy produced! They were beautiful and in the right light, the bubbles were all different colors. It was beautiful.

Sienna was AMAZED by them. We played with them for a long time. The look of amazement and wonder melted my heart. She was so excited.

She would try to catch them, touch them, or just watch them slowly fall to the ground.

Then after a while, she tried to eat them. It was awesome.

How is it February already? Seriously?

Man, I have not been good about blogging lately!! Yikes.

Here are some pictures from December:

On one of our daily walks to go see the blow up Christmas figurines on their lawn

Sienna is obsessed with her cousin Karson

And her cousin Klaire...who she always wants to hug and kiss to hug and ends up taking her down most of the time

(and yes, Sienna's Auntie Heather and I love to dress our girls in matching clothes...they aren't going to want to do this for long, so we're soaking it up!)

Family time at the park in front of Nana's house

Christmas morning

Sienna got a new rocking horse and by the look on her face, you can tell she was not so sure of it at first. She has definitely grown to like it, but it took a while.

Sienna got a recliner from Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas. She LOVES it!

January pics:

We took Sienna to the Fresno zoo in January. It was awesome. The zoo is small enough so that we were only there for about an hour and a half, but she still got to see some amazing animals. She loved looking at the animals and really enjoyed watching the elephants, orangutans, giraffes, and the seals.

She especially loved the orangutans. She would say, "Ooohh, Oooohhh," like a monkey, while watching them.

Sienna's first pony tail. I had to put mine in one too, in order for her to let me touch her hair. It was short lived. The moment I took mine out...so did she. This little one doesn't like me touching her hair!

That's going to be awesome as she gets older :/

watching Baby Signing Time with her baby...she knows over 20 signs now! It's so much fun and I attribute that to this awesome DVD series that my friend Heather introduced me to. She LOVES signing and it is so fun to be able to communicate with her about certain things!

Sienna and I with my oldest nephew, Kimu, who we both adore!

Our little rockstar