The Sparks Family

Photo session giveaway

2012-01-25T16:03:00.004-07:00

My friend Erin is doing a giveaway for a free photo session. "Like" her on facebook to enter. I'm already thinking about Carter's 1 year pictures. If you're in or going to be in the Gila Valley and you need pictures she does a great job! She did Sienna's 1 year pictures and they're so good!{http://erinhouseholderphotography.blogspot.com}

8 Months

2012-01-25T09:44:00.004-07:00

This little cutie is 8 months old! We went to the park and he got in the swing for the first time. He loved it. He almost fell asleep. He's such a happy guy.

He got his first tooth at 7 1/2 months. He's not crawling yet but he's getting more mobile every day. He rolls all over the place. He's in size 4 diapers now! He's a really happy baby. He's a tough boy and it takes a lot to make him cry. He got a flu shot and he acted like he didn't even notice. Me and Sienna were surprised that he didn't cry. That's one way that Sienna and Carter are very different. I love having a sensitive girl but it's nice to have a tough boy too.

He likes to play with his toys. Grandma and Grandpa Moore got him this basketball toy for Christmas.

He likes to play with his sister and she helps me out a lot with him.

Riding Sienna's horse before bedtime.

Sienna's a Sunbeam!

2012-01-08T17:18:00.002-07:00

Sienna is a sunbeam now. She really liked her new class. Her teachers seem really nice. It was really no big deal for her to go to a different room with different teachers. I thought she would be more nervous about it but she just sat in her chair and said bye like it was nothing. I freaked out a little as I walked out and just pictured her as a baby when we taught our primary class and now she's in primary. She's just growing up so fast. She's gotten a lot more independant. She's a great kid. I just wish my kids wouldn't grow up, but I know that's not how it works. I just love them being little.

They're best buds.

Happy New Year!

2012-01-08T17:13:00.002-07:00

On new years eve we got some sparklers and smoke bombs for fun. Sienna and Carter liked it. We didn't quite stay up til 12:00 though.

Snow

2012-01-08T16:55:00.003-07:00

The day after Christmas Garrett, Sienna, my mom and dad went to the Graham mountains. Me and Carter stayed home because I was afraid it would be too cold for Carter and I don't want him to get sick again. It turned out to be a perfect day and they weren't cold at all. Sienna had a snow suit, gloves, and boots that Garrett's dad had found for her at his house.

Pretty cute.

They said she had so much fun and was fearless. She was tubing by herself.

Christmas

2011-12-31T21:56:00.004-07:00

We were in Thatcher/Safford for 10 days for Christmas break. Sienna had so much fun playing with her Grandmas, Grandpas, cousins, aunts, and uncles. We went to a Christmas Eve party at the Sparks' house. Sienna had fun playing with Jaxon.

Playing cards at Grandma Moore's house.

The stuff Santa brought after Sienna's stocking got emptied out. She got her jump rope and she got a drum. Sienna left cookies and chocolate milk and a note for Santa. Santa ate the cookies and drank the milk and wrote her back a note that said thank you and Rudolph loved the sprinkles from the cookies. She was pretty happy about that.

From her Grandma and Grandpa Moore she got a Leap Pad, roller skates, clothes, a train set, a suitcase. Carter got a basketball hoop, a chair, a book, cars, a suitcase. From Grandma and Grandpa Sparks they got a CD player and CDs and clothes.

He had fun with the wrapping and the toys.

Trying to get a good picture of them before church was not easy.

We went to church with my family then went to eat at my Grandma's house in Pima. That night we went to the Sparks' house for a while then went back to my mom's house where we were staying. Sienna was so exhausted. She was asleep when we got there but ended up getting up to play some more. We had a really good Christmas.

7 Months Old

2011-12-31T21:45:00.003-07:00

We were down in Thatcher when Carter turned 7 months old. He's such a good boy. He has some crazy hair. It's grown way faster than Sienna's did when she was a baby and it sticks straight up. The above picture is him in the morning before he got his hair cut. Marlene trimmed his hair up for me and it looks much better.

After his hair cut. He still doesn't have any teeth. He's started taking really good naps but he wakes up a couple times at night still. We're working on that but it doesn't bother me much right now as long as he just eats and then goes right back to sleep. He's happy most of the time unless he's tired or hungry.

Temple Lights

2011-12-31T21:41:00.003-07:00

We had fun looking at the temple lights. It was me and my kids first time actually walking around looking at them.

Our gingerbread train

2011-12-31T21:37:00.001-07:00

Thanksgiving 2011

2011-12-03T12:44:00.002-07:00

We went to Safford for Thanksgiving. Me and the kids ended up staying almost a week. We all had fun. Garrett could only come down for Thanksgiving day because he had school and work. I didn't take many pictures but here's Sienna and Dooney. She loves that dog. She bosses him around and feeds him all kinds of stuff.

Carter was really interested in my mom's necklace. He stayed like that for about 10 minutes playing with it. He wasn't even putting it in his mouth. Carter is 6 months and 19.5 lbs.

We took the kids to Merry Main Street the day after Thanksgiving to see Santa. Sienna was super excited to go but as we got closer in line she started to get nervous. She was scared by the time we got to Santa and she wouldn't look at him or talk to him. She says she wants a jump rope for Christmas but we can't get her to tell Santa. She wants us to tell him for her.

Sick Carter

2011-12-03T12:34:00.002-07:00

Poor Carter has had croup. On November 15 I took him to the e.r. at 11:00 at night because it just came on really bad and he was having a hard time breathing. They gave him some steroids and breathing treatments but he still had to be admitted. He slept a lot in the hospital and we got to go home the 16th around 3:00. It was a long day. Luckily my dad came down to watch Sienna while Garrett went to school. Sienna was sick also with a cold and ear infection. The dr. said Carter probably got sick from Sienna. He started feeling better then we went down to Safford for almost a week during Thanksgiving. When we got home he started coughing again. On December 1st we had to take him back to the e.r. for more steroids and a breathing treatment. He wasn't as bad this time so he got to come home that night. He's doing better but he's still has a cough and runny nose. I just hope he gets over it and is not sick for a long time. I feel bad for my sweet baby.

Carter's 6 Months Old

2011-12-03T12:16:00.004-07:00

His first time trying rice cereal. He didn't like it too much.

Sienna got a turn feeding him.

This was his first time trying real food. He had squash. He thought it was really weird. I made him squash and sweet potatoes so far. The foods he's tried so far are squash, sweet potatoes, avocado, and apples. He's liked the avocado the best.

He sits by himself really good. He likes to sit and play with his toys.

He plays in this toy that was Sienna's when she was a baby. He usually only plays in it for a few minutes before...

he gets mad. This is his mad face that he does.

He's such a sweet boy.

Lyndsey's Married!

2011-11-08T21:44:00.005-07:00

We went to Safford for Lyndsey's wedding this weekend. It's weird that my little sister is married!

The kids had fun playing Candy Land at Grandma Sparks' house. Sienna actually played a couple times but Carter tried to get in on a game.

Sienna sat on Tate and Tanner's new pony Teddy.

Sienna was the flower girl in Lyndsey's wedding. She looked so cute of course.

Carter looked cute in his pink tie that his aunt Melissa made for him. She made them for all the little boys.

Carter and Sienna with my dad. I tried to get one of Carter and my mom but it was later on and my camera wasn't working so good in the dim light.

Sienna did awesome as a flower girl. She wanted to walk by herself and throw the flower petals. She had fun even though the whole time leading up to the wedding she was mad that her dress was going to be pink and not green. Green is her favorite color right now. My mom told her she would get her a green dress for Christmas so she was happy.

Sienna and Bryden really love each other. They're both sweethearts and like to give lots of loves.

Carter chewed on his tie the whole night. Lyndsey looked so pretty in her dress.

Sienna, Harlee, Tate, and Tanner had fun running around together and playing.

We came home early Sunday morning. This picture isn't very clear but on the drive up and the drive back Sienna would grab Carter's hand and they would hold hands for a long time. Sienna's always so sweet to him and he loves her.

Halloween Fun

2011-11-06T14:17:00.005-07:00

Our first fun thing we did was a neighborhood carnival. They blocked off the street where our friends live and had a carnival.

Trying to get a picture of both kids was not going so good. Carter was hungry and trying to eat Sienna's costume.

Batman

Sienna had fun playing games, and riding a little train, and we ate hotdogs.

Me and my boy.

His cape.

Then on the Thursday before Halloween we went to a farm that had a fall festival. Sienna loved riding this little train. She rode it 3 times.

My boys.

Silly girl. She was in the hay maze.

Seesaw.

This was a big bouncy air pillow thing to jump on.

Sienna's pumpkin she picked out.

We carved pumpkins.

Then on Halloween night we went back to our friends neighborhood for trick or treating. We walked down a few streets. Sienna got a ton of candy. Garrett would take her up to get the candy and they thought she was a cute pirate so Garrett told her to say argh! then they gave her extra candy.

Carter just had fun hanging out.

We came home and lit our pumpkins. Sienna was wired for a while from all the candy she ate.

2011-10-29T22:42:00.000-07:00

5 Months

2011-10-26T21:11:00.006-07:00

Carter is 5 months! Time is going by way too quick and I want it to stop. I don't want him to get big. Half of the pictures we have of him from this last month he's sleeping in different places. He's a good boy.

Sienna was a little upset that he slobbered all over her horse. She's really such a good sister though and is good about letting him play with her stuff. Which really just means chewing on it. She can usually get him to laugh every time she tries. She gets him to laugh much easier than anyone else. I love seeing them laughing and having fun together.

He can almost sit up all by himself. He's so strong. Makes me sad cause I just want him to be my baby forever. He rolls over but not very much. He doesn't like to be on his stomach very long.

At 5 months he's 18 lbs 9 oz (90%) and 27 in. tall (90%). He so big he looks older than he is. He's a tough boy. He gets shots and he only cries for a second. It's so funny how we can already tell how he's so much different from Sienna. I guess that's because he's a boy. I love having a boy.

Dentist

2011-10-03T18:10:00.002-07:00

Sienna went to the dentist for the first time on 9/27. She was such a big girl. She did everything they told her to and wasn't scared at all. I was really proud of her. She thought it was great because she got a balloon and a goodie bag when we left.

4 Months Old

2011-09-25T14:40:00.004-07:00

Carter is 4 months old! He had a dr appointment a couple weeks ago and he weighed over 18 lbs! He's off the chart in his weight.

He loves his sister so much. She makes him laugh all the time. He smiles whenever he sees her and he always wants to know what she's doing.

He's such a sweetie.

Our trip to the gila valley

2011-09-03T14:01:00.004-07:00

Garrett finished his first semester of school and had a week break so we went to visit our families in Pima, Thatcher, Safford. We were there from Sunday night to Friday afternoon. It went by really fast. We had a lot of fun and we got to spend a lot of time with our families. We went to the mountains and relaxed in the cool weather, visited family, got pedicures, went out to eat at all of our favorite places, Sienna swam at my parents. Sienna got lots of attention from Grandmas and Grandpas and got to have sleepovers with both sets of grandparents. She played lots of games, built forts, and read books.

Carter sucks/chews on his thumb a lot. It's cute. He won't take a binky.

Big boy chillin with daddy.

Carter and my dad watching tv.

Me, Sienna, my mom, and Lyndsey went to get pedicures. Sienna just got her toes filed and painted. She wasn't sure at first if she wanted to do it but she decided to just get her toes painted. She picked out red and she got sparkles on them.

She got really dirty of course at the mountains. We had lunch, made smores, went for walks, rode the rhino. She played with a beach ball with Grandma. It was in the mid 70s on the mountain and so nice.

Right after we got to the mountain Carter leaked out of his diaper so he had to be naked for a while and he took a good little nap. Carter's stomach always gets a little messed up when we travel down there. He always explodes his diapers at least once a day while we are there and he doesn't do that as much at home. Poor Grandma Sparks got exploded on more than a couple times. It's a good thing he's such a cute little boy. We are excited to go visit again. Sienna especially has a blast when we go down there because she is never bored. She has plenty of people to entertain her.

3 Months Old

2011-08-30T15:41:00.003-07:00

Carter is 3 months old!

He smiles a lot and has laughed a couple times.

He's almost too big for his 3-6 mos. clothes.

He loves to check out his hands and try to figure them out.

He does tummy time and is getting pretty strong.

2011-08-16T17:03:00.002-07:00

At 3 years old Sienna is 3' 1" and 34 lbs. She in the 50th percentile for height and 75th percentile for weight. She told the dr. that her favorite colors are purple and green. She also told the dr. that her favorite food is carrots and broccoli. The dr. asked Sienna if she could jump and Sienna tried to show her how she could hop on one foot. She asked Sienna what we do when we cross the road and Sienna said when we cross the road we get our mail. We don't even have to cross the road to get our mail so I don't know where that came from. The dr. told her to hold mom's hand when she crosses the road. She's funny. She's really growing up.

At almost 3 months Carter is 24" long and 15 lbs. He's 50th percentile for height and 95th percentile for weight. At 1 month I think he was 25th percentile. He's so big and chunky. He's adorable. He had to get some shots and he was pretty tough. He only cried for a minute. Then he was cranky that evening after he woke up from a nap. The next day he was fine though.

Carter's Blessing Day

2011-08-08T14:16:00.003-07:00

Yesterday was Carter's blessing day. It was really nice. We had tons of family there. Our ward is normally kind of small and yesterday there were so many people there that they ran out of water for the sacrament. There was Carter's blessing and they were changing out the Bishopric so there were a lot of extra people there. Carter looked so cute. He was so good as usual.

After sacrament meeting. He was hungry and ready to go. I love that cute face.

Look at his red cheeks. It was hot!

Carter talking to Lyndsey. After the blessing we all went and ate at Pancho's. We had about 35 people. It was nice to get to see all of our family. I'm glad so many traveled to come to the blessing. Our families are very supportive. I meant to take more pictures but I forgot. It was a nice day.

My little chubby boy. His outfit was 6-9 months and it fit him just perfect.

2 Months Old

2011-08-01T11:06:00.004-07:00

It's a little late, but on July 20th Carter was 2 months old.

Sienna loves him. Sometimes she reads him books. Most of the time he really likes her attention.

He's gotten so chubby! He has such a big belly and little rolls on his arms and legs. On his 2 month birthday he weighed 12 lbs 12 oz.

He's a good boy.

He sleeps pretty good at night. Usually only waking up once or twice. During the day when he falls asleep though, I can't put him down or he wakes right back up. He likes riding in the car and usually falls asleep. I took the kids to Safford by myself and Carter slept the whole way up and back. He smiles a lot and talks to us. In the picture above you can see that Carter's right eye is almost half brown, half blue. The outside half is brown. I noticed it before his 1 month appointment and Garrett wanted me to ask the pediatrician about it. So I asked her and when she was looking at his eyes she said that the coloring was normal. His eyes might change color more anyways. Then she noticed his pupils are different. In both his eyes he has what is called a coloboma. It means his pupils are elongated at the bottom of his eyes. His irises, the colored part of the eye, didn't develop all the way at the bottom. It's a birth defect that happens in the first part of pregnancy and happens in 1 in every 10,000 babies. It's not really easy to see right now unless he is looking up but it is noticeable. Colobomas can range from causing blindness or just being cosmetic and not affecting the vision. We had to take him to an eye specialist and he said that he will be able to see but right now we don't know how much his vision will be affected. We'll just have to wait and see. He also has a heart murmur so we had to take him to a cardiologist to get it checked out. It is normal and he should grow out of it so that is nothing to worry about. The eye specialist wanted to get an MRI to check out his brain since the brain is closely related to the eyes. So on his 2 month birthday we had to take him to Phoenix Children's Hospital to get an MRI. It went pretty well considering he couldn't eat four hours before it and was starving. He usually eats every two hours. They had to give him light anesthesia for it. He came out of anesthesia just fine so we only had to stay at the hospital for two hours afterwards then we were able to go home. The results of the MRI were good. There is nothing wrong in his brain. One coloboma is worse than the other so we'll just keep getting his eyes checked and see what happens. Right now he seems to see fine so we're not too worried about it. We're just glad that everything came out alright and we're lucky to have two healthy kids.

4th of July

2011-07-11T15:10:00.003-07:00

My parents were here for the 4th of July and my mom's birthday on the 3rd. We had a lot of fun with them here. Sienna stayed at there hotel for one night, she swam at the pool there. We did some shopping and went out to eat.

Sienna's 3!

2011-07-11T14:47:00.008-07:00

Sienna turned 3 on July 9th. Her birthday started out with getting one present. When she woke up we told her happy birthday and she asked, is it 5 yet? She knew her birthday party was at 5. She was really excited for it. So we gave her one of the presents that we bought her. It's a baby alive doll that she wanted.

Getting ready to go to Chuck E. Cheese.

Sweet girl.

Carter slept most of the time.

She had a lot of fun playing games with her cousins that came. They brought out the cake and did this big birthday song and Chuck E. Cheese came out. It was fun. She wanted the vanilla cake. Vanilla with sprinkles is her favorite.

Blowing out her candles.

They put a crown and medal on her. She was the birthday star.

She really likes playing with Boe.

She got to go in the ticket blaster for her birthday. They turn it on and tickets fly everywhere and you grab as many as you can. She wanted Garrett to go with her. So they both got there goggles on and did it. It was pretty funny. Garrett grabbed all the tickets and Sienna just was trying to hit the tickets away from her.

She got lots of fun presents. She got a wagon, binoculars, a telescope, a firetruck, clothes, a movie from Grandma and Grandpa Moore. She specifically asked for the binoculars, telescope, and firetruck. She got a scooter and cd from Grandma and Grandpa Sparks, we got her a doll, shirt, water toy, and camera. She got some other fun toys too.

Papa was making her laugh. She was looking at him through her binoculars.

She got a ton of tickets. She got a couple prizes. Her favorite was her lollipop.

Getting ready to go with her haul of presents.

Princess Sienna being pulled by Brad out to the car.

Carter was finally awake and we were going home. Sienna has grown up so much. She says really grown up things sometimes. She's really sweet most of the time but she can definitely have an attitude. She loves her little brother. She's a good helper.

One month old

2011-06-22T16:57:00.003-07:00

On Monday Carter was one month old. Time has gone by really fast since he's been here. He weighs 9 lbs 4 oz and is 21 3/4 in. long. He is such a sweet baby. We all love him so much. Sienna is really protective and sweet to him. He's a really good baby. Life has been good with two kids. Sienna has grown up a little bit in the last month. She does more stuff by herself now and is really proud when she learns how to do something.

Sienna loves Carter

2011-06-18T16:45:00.000-07:00

What Sienna's been up to

2011-06-05T15:14:00.003-07:00

Sienna had a lot of Grandma time after Carter was born. The day after he was born she went to Safford with my parents. A couple days later her and my mom came back. My mom stayed with us for a few days and helped out. Then Garrett's mom came and stayed for a few days. Sienna loves her grandparents. She kept her Grandmas busy while they were here. She got spoiled. I'm glad she was able to have them here because I can't entertain her much. I'm pretty much stuck feeding Carter all day. Here are some pictures that her Grandma Sparks took while she was here.

2011-06-05T14:55:00.004-07:00

One week old.

She loves to be in her underwear. She walks in the house and the first thing she does is take her clothes off.

Carter's Birth Story

2011-05-30T15:41:00.003-07:00

I want to write down Carter's birth story, but if you don't want to read it you can skip it and just look at the pictures from that day. I was scheduled to be induced on Friday, May 20th. I was 39 weeks. My dr. moved from Safford to Goodyear so I just kept seeing him. I wanted to be induced so we could plan to have everyone here and so I didn't have to drive that far if I went into labor. So Thursday night my parents and brother came down and picked up Sienna. They stayed at a hotel near the hospital. Friday morning me and Garrett got up and got ready to go to the hospital. We got to the hospital about 7:45, I was scheduled to be induced starting at 8:00. It took forever to get checked in then I had to get set up in the room, get my IV started (it took 3 times for them to get it in), then we had to wait for my dr. to get there. He got there around 10:00 and checked me. I was a good 3 he said. That's the same that I was the week before, and the head was still pretty high. So he gave me cytotec to get my contractions started. I had to be monitored for an hour and then I was able to get up and start walking. So we walked the halls of the small 2nd floor for a while. I couldn't really feel the contractions. We took a break to eat lunch and then kept walking. I started to feel a few contractions but they weren't hurting yet. A lot of our family got there including my parents, garrett's parents, my brother, Grandma Liz, and later my Grandma and Grandpa. I had to lay down to get monitored again and I was having some contractions close together but they didn't really hurt. We walked some more and then it had been 4 hrs since I had got the pill so the nurse checked me and I was a 4. She called the dr. and he anted to come break my water. So we let the nurse know that after my water was broke, I wanted the epidural. I had started to feel my contractions and they were really close. So she started giving me more IV fluids so that I could get my epidural right after my water broke. We were waiting for a while for the dr. I was getting a lot of fluids and I told her my bladder was really full and I had to go to the bathroom. So she helped me up and my water broke. So I went to the bathroom and got back in bed and the contractions started getting worse. The anesthesiologist came in to give me my epidural and by that time the contractions were hurting bad. She had to poke me twice to get the catheter in the right place so it took a while to get the epidural. I was having to tell her to stop while I was having contractions. Garrett was there with me and he could tell they were painful and when I was having one because I was squeezing his hands. So I finally got the epidural and the pain started fading. It was really nice. I was still getting a lot of fluids in my IV and it was cold. I started shaking really bad. I'm not sure if it was from being cold or just from the epidural. The nurse checked me again and I was at a 6. I could still feel my bladder and it was really full and uncomfortable so the nurse had to give me a catheter. After my bladder emptied I started feeling a lot of uncomforatble pressure. They said that was normal but it was really bad. It was only about 20 minutes since I had gotten the epidural and she had checked me but I had Garrett go and tell the nurse how I was feeling. She checked me again and said I was ready to have the baby. The dr. got there and I pushed about 8 times and Carter was here. I felt everything but it didn't hurt very bad. It was different from when I had Sienna. He had a sweet little cry and has been such a good, sweet baby. He was born at 4:39 pm. I didn't start feeling contractions until about 1:00. My water broke and I got my epidural about 2:30-3:00. After that things went really fast. It was a smooth delivery. I'm thankful because I was a little worried about being induced. My family was there with me most of the time but right around delivery it was just Garrett, my mom, and his mom. Sienna was there running around the hospital, entertaining everyone. She didn't think to much of Carter at first but now she loves hugging and kissing him. She's my helper. The recovery has been easier this time compared to last time. I tore in the same place as last time but it's healing faster. Carter has been such a good baby. We've had a lot of help from our families. Carter weighed 7 lbs 3 oz at birth and then lost some in the hospital. At 5 days old he weighed 7 lbs 4 oz so he's already gaining. He likes to eat so I think he'll put on weight fast. We love our little boy.

Carter Garrett Sparks 5/20/11

2011-05-28T18:13:00.008-07:00

Morning of 5/20/11 ready to go to the hospital. 39 weeks.

Waiting for induction.

After epidural, almost time for Carter.

Carter with his Grandma Moore

First time holding Carter after getting him cleaned up.

Carter with Grandpa Moore.

After his first bath.

Carter with his Great Grandma Lynn.

Carter with his Great Great Grandma Liz.

Sienna checking him out.

Sienna and Brad

Getting ready to go home.

First time in his carseat, going home.

37 Weeks

2011-05-09T11:01:00.002-07:00

We went and saw our dr. and things are going good. We were telling Sienna we were going to the dr.'s office and she kept asking if it was time to get Carter out. We told her not yet but she just kept saying, let's just go to the hospital and get him out. She's getting excited to have him out of the belly.

Here's Sienna's pose picture.

Loving on Mommy.

Easter

2011-05-05T10:04:00.004-07:00

Silly girl. It's hard to get a picture of her normal smile. Easter was our last weekend in Thatcher before we moved to Mesa. We dyed eggs at my parents house.

Lyndsey got a bunny and Sienna loves it. She loves to feed it carrots. She calls it Bunno.

On Easter morning we were at Garrett's parents house. The easter bunny came and Sienna was bummed that she was asleep and she didn't get to see him.

We only got a couple of pictures of her in her dress before our camera battery died.

Her new silly face for pictures. In the afternoon we went to my grandma's house and the kids did an easter egg hunt and we ate a good dinner. The kids had fun playing outside.

33 Weeks

2011-04-14T16:57:00.002-07:00

Here I am at 33 weeks. Everything's going good with the pregnancy.

Sienna saw me taking the picture so she said she wanted to try. So this is her belly picture. She's funny. She's excited about being a big sister and loves to talk about Carter and loves to look at all of his stuff.

Baby Shower

2011-04-08T12:25:00.006-07:00

They had a little baby shower for me at my mom's house last Saturday. The cake was really cute and tasted really good. Harlee and Sienna. I was trying to get these two to smile at me and this is what I got. Sienna swam all morning in the little pool that my parents got her and she had a lot of fun at the baby shower. I got a lot of cute boy stuff.

Dot face

2011-04-08T12:24:00.001-07:00

24 weeks

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Just some pictures of my cute girl before we went out to eat for my Grandpa's birthday in January.

Our baby boy

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Baby feet

His leg

His face with his mouth open and his hand.

We found out a few weeks ago that our baby is a boy for sure. We got to see all kinds of stuff on the ultrasound. It was cute to see him opening and closing his mouth. When I was pregnant with Sienna she was always doing that in her ultrasounds. We got to see his cute little fingers and toes too. We're excited to have a boy!

Super Sienna

2011-01-06T16:20:00.003-07:00

Sienna likes to pretend she is a super hero sometimes. She says, super Sienna to the rescue! She has us tie the blanket on her back as her cape.

Sienna on Christmas Eve

2011-01-06T16:18:00.001-07:00

Christmas 2010

2011-01-06T16:08:00.004-07:00

These were the best pictures I got of Sienna in her Christmas dress.

I didn't take too many pictures of Christmas but we got some video too. She had fun opening all of her presents. This was definately the best Christmas with her so far. When she woke up she saw her stroller that Santa brought her and she said, I think Santa brought me a stroller. She loved all of her presents. She got a stroller, books, puzzles, a little dollhouse, a battery powered scooter, a trampoline, and more. We got to see all of our family that was in town on Christmas. We had a full day and it was fun. Sienna loved it.

Here she is riding her scooter that my parents bought her. She rides it pretty good by herself as long as she has enough space to not run into anything.

Sparks Christmas Party

2011-01-06T16:01:00.002-07:00

Sienna had a lot of fun at the Sparks Christmas party.

She hit the pinata pretty good. She's usually very dainty in everything she does but she hit it as hard as she could a few times.

Breakfast with Santa

2010-12-28T09:59:00.003-07:00

Me and Shelby took Sienna and Bryden to have breakfast with Santa at the Manor House. My dad came too. We ate breakfast and then had to wait in line for a little bit and Bryden wasn't liking waiting in line.

He did good on Santa's lap though.

Sienna didn't want to sit on Santa's lap so I had to.

Gingerbread House

2010-12-28T09:54:00.002-07:00

We made a gingerbread house this year. It was the first time for all of us. It turned out a little crazy looking but Sienna had fun making it and she liked it so that's all that matters.

Christmas Decorating

2010-12-28T09:46:00.002-07:00

Sienna helped me decorate the Christmas tree and she had fun looking at it when it was all lit up and she would redecorate a little bit. We took all the ornaments off and she thought it looked pretty funny with nothing on it.

Sienna and daddy had a little picnic in the carport when Garrett was taking a break from putting up Christmas lights on the house.

Light Parade

2010-12-28T09:37:00.003-07:00

At the beginning of December we went to the Main Street light parade. It was Sienna's first time seeing Santa this year. She would barely sit on his lap and she would ignore him and look the other way. That's how she was all the times she sat on Santa's lap this year.

The parade was pretty short this year and it wasn't too cold outside so it was good.

Sienna had fun.

Sienna's 1st fashion show

2010-12-28T09:20:00.006-07:00

Lyndsey and Sienna walked for H&S Feed Store in the fashion show at Ladies Night Out. It was at EAC. The whole time Sienna didn't want to do it but she did it anyway. She looked so cute. She got her hair done before the fashion show at Images just like the other girls. Her and Lyndsey had matching outfits on.

Thanksgiving 2010

2010-12-01T14:24:00.003-07:00

14 weeks pregnant

Baby #2

2010-11-16T13:22:00.003-07:00

Baby #2 is due May 27th! This is an ultrasound at about 10 1/2 weeks. We're so excited we get to give Sienna a brother or a sister. She's going to be a good big sister. This pregnancy hasn't been too bad so far. Everytime we go the baby has measured a little bit big. I started feeling the baby move really early. It's crazy but I know that's what I'm feeling. It's nice to feel it and to know there's actually something in there.

Halloween

2010-11-05T09:31:00.003-07:00

Garrett carved the scary pumpkin and I carved the happy face pumpkin. Sienna didn't really like the scary pumpkin.

On Saturday night we went to our trunk or treat. Grandma and Grandpa Moore, Grandma Lynn and Grandpa Stan, and Terry, Kristen, Shelby and Bryden went with us. We let the kids get a little bit of candy then we went and ate at Denny's. After that me, Garrett, and Sienna went to the Sparks' house. Marlene's brother and sisters were there so we stayed there for a while then went home. When we got in the truck to go home Sienna said, "I had a great day." We didn't do much but I was happy that she had a good Halloween.

Sienna was a fairy and Bryden was a ninja. Sienna and Bryden are buddies. Bryden loves to hug her.

Fudgecicle Mess

2010-10-29T12:55:00.000-07:00

Setting the Table

2010-10-29T12:53:00.001-07:00

Sienna can set the table all by herself. She loves to help me.

Picture Overload

2010-10-14T21:39:00.008-07:00

We got some pictures taken by Amber Halverson. They turned out good even though Sienna wasn't too excited about it.

Big Lake

2010-09-03T13:37:00.004-07:00

Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday we were in Big Lake with Garrett's parents. They took their toy hauler up there and we brought up their rhino. They go fishing up there a lot.

We were riding in the Rhino and Sienna was holding one of my hands and one of Garrett's. I had to get a picture. It was sweet.

One of her favorite things to do was throw rocks in the lake. Or in any other puddle we found.

We took a drive to check out another lake close by and on the way I spotted this waterfall so we went to check it out.

There were these little chipmunks outside of the trailer. Sienna loved them. She called them squirrels. I'm not sure what they're supposed to be called. Sienna would throw crackers and they would come and get them. She was always looking out the window for squirrels and she would get so excited to see them. There were some birds that would come around also that she would feed.

It was so cold while we were there. In the morning when we went fishing it was around 55-60. On top of that it was windy so we were freezing! It's ok though cause fishing isn't really my thing.

Cutest thing ever. She didn't really like the life jacket.

Fishing with her Dora pole in Grandma and Grandpa's boat.

We did a little fishing from the shore. I didn't get any pictures of the fish that Garrett or Ron or Marlene caught. Sienna liked to look at them went they brought them back to the trailer. She helped Ron put the fish in a bag. It surprised me that she touched them. We had a lot of fun. Sienna liked it. She really liked staying with Grandma and Grandpa Sparks in their trailer.

On our drive there were sunflowers on the side of the road for a long time. They were so pretty. We would've taken a picture of Sienna in them but she was in a bad mood when we were driving by them. The rest of the drive she did pretty good.

She's Amazing

2010-08-27T14:29:00.002-07:00

This post is a few weeks over due but oh well. I wanted to get a cute picture of Sienna with clothes on but it was harder than I thought. I never think to take a picture before we leave to go somewhere then when we get home she asks to be naked. When she was getting potty trained she was only in her panties all the time so now she never wants clothes on. And whenever we're home she takes her hair out. I couldn't get a picture of her smiling normal but I was lucky just to get her to be still for a second. Anyways...the title says she's amazing because about a week after she turned two she got potty trained and gave up the binky. She caught on to potty training really well. One day during potty training she was looking for a binky and we couldn't find one anywhere. So she went down for a nap without it and slept as long as she normally does. I thought, maybe this will be the time to take away the binky. So we did. We later found a couple around the house and hid them before she saw them. She asked for it for a couple weeks after we took it away and we just told her that it was lost. She's done really well without it and knows that she doesn't have one anymore. She likes the fact that she's a big girl now with no diapers or binkies. She's such an awesome kid. So far her being a two year old is the funnest stage yet. She's so smart and talks so well. She has a really good memory too. Her favorite is Dora. She says a lot of things in Spanish inlcuding hi, friends, stars, up, delicious, and probably more. She can also pretty much count to ten in Spanish. I'm going to make my blog into a book instead of scrapbooking so I try to put everything on here that we want to remember. She always says stuff to us that we say to her all the time. She says, you're sooo cute! And I love you sooo much! She gives good kisses and hugs and usually likes to cuddle on the couch while she's watching tv. She calls me sweety and sweatheart and cute girl like I call her all the time. She has a really good imagination and pretends that her toys are all kinds of different things. She loves to take care of her babies and feed them. She loves real babies too. Every time we're in public and she sees a baby seat she wants to see the baby. If we ever get her a little brother or sister I know she'll be good with it. She really does help me around the house a little bit. She throws things away and puts clothes in the hamper and she loves to help me transfer the laundry. She also likes to take care of us. If I hurt myself she'll kiss it for me. The other day I got in the car and hit my shoulder on the corner of the door because I always do dumb stuff like that and I said ow, I hurt my arm. She said you hurt your arm? When we get home I'll kiss it for you. She likes to ask a million questions about anything and everything. I try to be patient and answer them but sometimes like when I'm trying to get out in a crowded intersection I just have to tell her to stop with the questions for a minute. And she'll ask the same things over and over again. Every day she asks me where all her family is. Where daddy, grandmas, grandpas, alan, lyndsey, jaxon, etc. is. Ok, this is getting long. I guess I should blog more often then it won't be such long posts. All I every post about is Sienna anyways so I don't know how interesting it is to anyone else but she is our life. She'll like looking at the book of my blog because it will be all about her! I put all of her pictures that we've taken of her so far in photo albums and she loves to look at them. Ok, the end.

Sienna's 2!

2010-07-12T16:38:00.009-07:00

*Lots of pictures*

Sienna turned two on Friday, July 9th. Garrett was off so he got to spend the day with us. We started her birthday off with blueberry muffins (her favorite).

Around lunchtime we went to the ice cream shop on main street to have ice cream with Lyndsey.

I brought home her cake later that afternoon and she loved it. She said, "thank you momma, soo much. Soo sweet." I'm not kidding, she's the sweetest kid ever. All she wanted to do is look at her cake and she asked if she could lick it. She couldn't wait to eat it.

This is her being silly before we left for her party.

It was so humid all day.

So we planned to have the party at the park. My mom had a lady bring a bouncy castle and it would've been really fun but it looked like a storm was going to come in and the lady was a little wary about putting it up. She started putting it up anyways and right when she got the thing up a big gust of wind came through and she kind of freaked out and took it down. So we were afraid it was going to be bad weather so my in-laws were nice enough to let us all crash their house and have the party there.

It turned out to be lots of fun for her.

She loves the Dora, Boots, and Diego characters that came on her cake. She was dipping them in her cake and ice cream and licking them off. I washed them and she's been taking them everywhere we go.

She got lots of presents.

The weather turned out to be nice but it was still a fun party even though we couldn't have the bouncy house. I can't believe two years has gone by since I had her. She's the best kid. She's super sweet. Of course she still has her two year old moments too though. She likes to take care of everyone and loves babies. She's been talking really well this whole year. She communicates like she's much older and she remembers everything. She's known her colors for about 6 months now and she can count to 12. She likes to sing songs like popcorn popping, sunbeam and twinkle twinkle little star. We love her so much!

3rd of July

2010-07-05T13:34:00.003-07:00

The 3rd of July is my mom's birthday so we went out to eat with the family then went back to my parents house to have cake. Sienna and Bryden really like each other and I think they'll be best buds soon. They're a year and three days apart in age. Sienna loves to take care of Bry but soon it's going to seem like they're the same age. Me, Garrett, and Sienna and Shelby and Bryden were outside at my parents before the fireworks started doing sparklers. We thought the kids might like them but they weren't too impressed.

Garrett always has fun doing his own fireworks. I'm always afraid that he's going to get hurt or light something on fire.

We had fun with my Papa and his wife Linda who were in town. They live in Utah and we don't get to see them much. My papa was dancing around with a sparkler to entertain Sienna. She thinks he's hilarious. We all do. He also did a roman candle thing that Garrett gave him. But it wasn't a normal type of roman candle. It was shooting out these big blasts of firecrackers and it shocked us all. He was just sitting in his chair shooting them then he thought they were done so he turned to look at us and the roman candle was pointing towards my parents wall and another one came out and shot right at the wall. I was a little scared the whole time but we were all laughing so hard and Sienna thought it was awesome. She told him to do it again.

Then the fireworks started and Sienna liked them but only sat and watched them for a few minutes. After that she just wanted to go up and down the slide.

This is her saying cheese!

Sliding down.

And back up again. It was a little different having the fireworks and celebration on the 3rd of July but not too much. Yesterday on the 4th we had pie at Garrett's parents house and sang happy birthday to the USA. Sienna's all about the birthdays now and says happy birthday to everyone. She's going to have so much fun on her birthday I hope. It's coming up soon!

Sesame Street Live!

2010-07-05T13:22:00.005-07:00

About a week ago my parents and I took Sienna to see Sesame Street Live! She loves Elmo and she loved the show. At first only Big Bird came out and Sienna was saying, "Elmo, where are you?" At first she was waving to all of them. The whole time she was clapping and dancing and she was just hooked on it. She was really good.

My camera battery died during the intermission but at the end I think all of the kids were getting kind of restless and they all started standing the isles and Sienna was out there dancing and jumping around and hugging kids. I didn't get any pictures of it though. She still talks about when she saw Elmo dancing. She's so lucky she has grandparents that will take her to do fun things.

Our trip to Mesa

2010-06-22T15:18:00.004-07:00

I didn't get a lot of great pictures because I couldn't get Sienna's face because she was too busy looking at the fish. Last Thursday and Friday we went down to Mesa. We stayed at Garrett's parents condo and my parents and Lyndsey and her boyfriend stayed at the Buttes. The condo was kind of under construction because it got flooded and so there was only flooring in two rooms and the furniture was all over the place so we could only go in one bedroom and the adjoining bathroom. It wasn't too bad because we weren't there very much. Sienna did really good staying in the two rooms with carpet. The first day we were there we shopped and went to the Arizona Sea Life Aquarium in Arizona Mills Mall. It was pretty cool. Sienna liked seeing all of the fish.

This is Lyndsey and Cole in the part where the whole tunnel was glass and there were fish swimming all around us.

They had different places where you could stick your head in to look like you're in the tank with the fish.

Later that day Garrett, Sienna, Lyndsey, and Cole went swimming at their hotel. Me and my mom went shopping. We met up that night and had dinner. The next morning Garrett and my dad went golfing bright and early. Me and Sienna headed over to the Buttes and picked up my mom and Lyndsey and Cole and went to the Chandler mall. Me, Sienna, and my mom rode the little train on the bottom floor of the mall. She saw it and had to ride it. She really liked it. Garrett and my dad met up with us at the food court for lunch then I did some more shopping. My parents took Sienna on the train again. She was very spoiled by her grandma and grandpa while we were there with chocolate milk, candy, ice cream, cookies, and train rides. After that Garrett, me, and Sienna went back to my parents hotel and went swimming. Sienna got more and more used to the water as time went by. At first she was scared just to get in the pool with us holding her. Lyndsey, Cole, and my parents met us by the pool and we just had fun and relaxed. They had a water slide that was fun. Sienna was scared but went down with us a few times. Lyndsey, Cole, and Garrett went down a lot. Garrett and Cole were trying to find every way to go down to make it faster and more fun. The lifeguard was letting them go down head first. We stayed out at the pool for a long time. I think it was almost four hours. It was nice. Then we had to head home so we went to Jack in the Box and came home. We had a fun time. It's the closest thing to a vacation we're going to have for a while. Now Garrett's gone to Black River with his brothers, mom, and three nephews. We can't wait til he gets home tomorrow.

Golfing

2010-05-30T15:04:00.004-07:00

On Friday Garrett got off work early so we went golfing around 5:00. Last summer/fall we took Sienna out to the golf course a few times and then once this year Garrett took her out there with him while he chipped and hit balls and she loved it. So we bought her her own golf clubs at Wal-Mart and when we told her we were going to go golfing she was so excited. She carried her clubs out to the car and was ready to go. So the first hole she got out and wanted to do golfing with daddy as she says it. This is how she hits the ball.

She had a lot of fun throwing rocks and stuff in the water. She was eating a carrot and threw it in the water so the fishies could eat it. She would not leave her shoes on the whole time we were there. She saw a bunny, squirrel, and some birds. She liked riding in the golf cart and pushed the pedal down on her own one time after Garrett got out and we were sitting in it. Whenever we would stop she would get out and explore or golf with daddy.

She loved it the whole time and this is what she did when we were at our car and it was time to go home. She didn't want to get out of the cart.

Some funny things

2010-04-29T14:04:00.004-07:00

There's some funny things about Sienna that we don't want to forget. When she gets excited about something she puts one arm up and says woohoo! It's so cute. She's really sweet. She's called me, Garrett, and our dog Maggie her friends. She's usually hugging us when she says it. She's always concerned when we get hurt or cough or choke and says mommy ok? ok? And she says be careful because that's what I always tell her. When we sneeze she says bless you. We were in Walgreens and a girl who worked there was sneezing and Sienna told her bless you. I play city league volleyball and Sienna usually is there watching me and she cheers and says go mama! When we hit it she says boom! That's all for now but I'm sure as soon as I'm done with this post I'll remember something else that I wanted to write about.

Easter

2010-04-05T17:08:00.004-07:00

Saturday we dyed eggs at my mom and dad's house. Sienna loved it. She wanted to hold all of the eggs and she was mad when we put them in the fridge. My mom got them out a few times while we were there because Sienna wanted to look at them. When we left she was crying for her eggs.

Everyone was helping her. Lyndsey and Brad dyed some too.

On Easter with her basket that she got from her Grandma and Grandpa Sparks. After the morning Conference session Sienna did an Easter egg hunt in the Sparks' living room. She figured out the Easter egg hunt thing and had a lot of fun. They "hid" the eggs for her about five times and she loved finding them.

This is at her second egg hunt at my parents house. She was so into it and wanted to carry her basket around on her arm by herself the whole time. She played with her eggs all day yesterday and so far today that's pretty much all she's done. She was pretty much the only one at both houses hunting eggs. Bryden was at my mom's and he got a couple. I'm afraid when there's more kids and she has some competition she's not going to like it very much.

Sienna and Lyndsey hanging out with Lyndsey's bunny she got for her birthday April 1st.

Grandma Jean

2010-03-29T10:50:00.008-07:00

My great Grandma Jean passed away on March 17. She was almost 87. She had cancer for about 20 years I think. She fought for a long time with it. Nobody expected her to make it as long as she did. Recently she got a lot worse and was ready to go. I'm glad that she's not in pain anymore. We will all miss her though. I'm lucky that I was able to get to know her so well and she was able to get to know Sienna a little bit. I was Grandma Jean's first great-grandchild and Sienna was her first great-great-grandchild. My middle name is Jean after her. Even though she was sick a lot she was the perfect example of a grandma. She was the best cook and baker ever. She was also the sweetest lady you'd ever meet. She was married to my Pop for almost 70 years. May was their anniversary. They eloped on the night she graduated and she was 16 almost 17 and my Pop had just turned 18. Below is a picture of Sienna and Grandma Jean and I when Sienna was about 2 weeks old and we took her down to Pima to see Grandma Jean for the first time. She really liked Sienna and was always talking about all the "tricks" that Sienna knew.

Sienna's Easter Dress

2010-03-29T10:16:00.004-07:00

It's so hard to get a good picture from Sienna anymore. She won't hold still long enough for me to take it and she always gives me cheesy smiles. So these were the best ones I could get. She looked really cute in her Easter dress that my mom got her with the matching shoes and bows.

Sienna got measured this month and she weighs 26 lbs (90th percentile) and I can't remember how tall she is but it was like the 22nd percentile. So she's a little short and chubby. She knows a lot of her colors, she can count to 3. She's really interested in colors but not much in counting. Every time she has some candy she wants to tell me the color of each one she eats. She loves Dora. She just keeps us entertained all day long.

Update

2010-02-20T17:07:00.005-07:00

Not much has been going on with us. Sienna has been going to nursery for a few weeks now. She does really good. Garrett stayed in there with her for the first couple of weeks and now she stays in there all by herself. She's getting so big! She's usually really sweet. She's always yelling at us through the house, "mama, ove you!!" She tells everyone she loves them. Even Spongebob and the cat and her binky. She's really smart and she picks up on things really quick. She has these little puzzle peices that she carries around everywhere and she knows what they all are. She knows horse, cow, pig, goat, duck, chicken, sheep. She plays with her toys a lot more now. We always have to take a baby or Elmo to the store with us and they sit by her in the basket. She likes to talk to everyone in the store and the first thing she tells them is HI, HI! Then she tells them "mama" and points to me then "nenna" and points to herself. Garrett has started working at the Sparks Homestore. He's really liking it so far. It should be a good change.

My little helper.

2010-01-22T16:44:00.003-07:00

Me and Sienna on my 25th b-day, Jan.8th.

Free Stuff

2010-01-11T16:27:00.003-07:00

This is all the free stuff I've gotten in the last week. I'm waiting on some coupons to get some more free stuff this week. I LOVE saving money and getting stuff for free.

Sienna in her Christmas Dress

2010-01-04T17:00:00.001-07:00

Christmas

2009-12-30T16:21:00.003-07:00

So for Christmas this year we were all sick. It started with me being sick the Saturday before Christmas, then Sienna got sick and then Garrett. The Monday before Christmas I was feeling a little better so we got to go to Mesa and do some last minute shopping and we went to the Suns game. On the way home at about 12:30 am is when Sienna started throwing up. We didn't go anywhere for Christmas Eve because we all 3 weren't feeling good. We did go drive around and look at lights late that night. Then Christmas we went to my grandma's in Pima for lunch and then to the Sparks' for dinner. It was a good day even though we didn't feel too good. Sienna got a lot of stuff including a cozy coupe car, an elmo doll, dora doll, dora guitar, clothes, shoes, my little ponies, and some other stuff. She loves playing in her car and she gets some of her toys and puts them in her car with her. She liked all the Christmas stuff this year so it was fun. She sat on Santa's lap at the Sparks Christmas party and she liked him. She loved the lights, trees, snowmen and Santa. When she would see Santa on tv she would say ho ho.

Us at the Sparks Christmas party.

Santa!

On Christmas morning taken by Garrett's mom.

After a long Christmas day she was able to play with her car.

Things about Sienna

2009-12-06T21:20:00.003-07:00

I just wanted to write down some things that I want to remember about Sienna. She is talking pretty well for her age and will try to say pretty much anything you tell her to. She is really sweet most of the time and when I give her something she always says, "Thank you, mama". And she nods her head when she does it. She also throws some pretty good fits though. She wants to be really independent right now and do everything herself and just run everywhere she wants to. She tells me no, mama. She's starting to say no more now instead of mo. When she's saying no to something or someone she shakes her shoulders and upper body when she says it. I guess that's all for now. I just don't want my little baby to grow up!

Light Parade

2009-12-06T21:11:00.003-07:00

Last night we went to the light parade in Safford. We had never been before and we thought Sienna would like it so we decided to go. Me and my parents went early to get a spot. We got all bundled up and took blankets. Garrett and Sienna got there shortly before the parade started. Before it started all Sienna wanted to do is run. My dad was following her around. She did sit down and watch when the parade started. I think she liked it. She was tired so towards the end of the parade she fell asleep on my mom's lap. Afterwards we went and ate at Denny's. Sienna got to have hot chocolate for the first time.

Thanksgiving

2009-12-03T22:31:00.005-07:00

This year we spent Thanksgiving with Garrett's family. All of his brothers and their family's were here so we got to spend a lot of time with everyone. Marlene had a lot of fun things planned for us to do. I didn't get a lot of pictures. There is a new toy at the Sparks' house that all the little kids loved. It's a battery powered ATV. Sienna would've rode it the whole time we were over there if she could've. She can't steer by herself so some has to help her the whole time. She loved it. I couldn't get a picture of her face while she was riding it. This one is on Thanksgiving.

On Saturday after Thanksgiving we went to Pima and the kids got to ride horses. Marlene had it set up so this lady and her husband would help the kids and teach them how to ride and everything. It was really fun for the kids. Sienna loves horses. This picture was of her before we left to go eat with everyone at R&R. After R&R we went to ride horses. She wouldn't smile for me.

Sienna and Boe. It was Boe's 3rd birthday.

Amanda rode with Sienna since she was too little to go by herself. I didn't want to ride. Sienna loved it of course. Amanda said that she kept trying to grab the reigns.

They also had chickens and dogs. Sienna loves animals. Sometimes she gets scared of little dogs that jump on her but if she gets used to them she likes them. I've never seen her scared of a big dog though. Maybe it's because she's used to our dog Maggie.

6 Years

2009-11-22T14:41:00.004-07:00

Today is our 6th Anniversary! Garrett brought me home these pretty flowers from work yesterday afternoon. We celebrated last night. Sienna went to her Grandma and Grandpa Moore's and spent the night. We went out to dinner at the Copper Steer steakhouse then Garrett said he would go with me to see New Moon. So we went home for a little bit and then went to get in line at the movies. We only got there about 35 minutes early and the line was pretty long but we got in it anyways. So the line started moving and by the time we got towards the front of the line they had to check to see how many more tickets they could sell. We knew we didn't want to sit in the front row or crappy seats so we just decided to go see The Blindside instead. We wouldn't have got tickets for New Moon anyway. I'm going to try to go see it soon. The Blindside was really good though. I'm glad we saw it. Today we went to stake conference and then went and picked up Sienna. I don't know what we did before we had Sienna! Life would be really boring without her. We had almost 5 years by ourselves and I'm glad we did. We've had some pretty crazy times the last 6 years growing up while being married. It all worked out great though and I have a great husband and we made this cute kid. Six years down and forever to go...

Halloween

2009-11-02T16:25:00.003-07:00

My camera has been taking really blurry pictures lately. I think it's time for a new one. In the picture above is Sienna in her Halloween outfit that my grandma bought for her. I think it's so cute. It has little skulls on it. I can finally put a bow in her hair. I'm so excited. She's finally getting some hair. She kind of has a mullett going on though because the back is growing faster than the top I think.

She was a kitty for Halloween. We had dinner at my grandma's in Pima then went to trunk or treat in Pima with my parents and Chris and Melissa and their boys. Then we went to Garrett's parents house and hung out for a while and Sienna got to see all the trick or treaters that came to their house. When Sienna saw herself in the mirror she was really worried about her little brown dot on her nose. She started whining and saying, "nose". Even the next day when we were looking at the pictures she didn't like them because she was mad about her nose.

Here's Sienna and her cousin Tate.

2009-10-27T09:02:00.002-07:00

Sienna has been sleeping in her crib in her room for 4 weeks now. I'm so happy. Me and Garrett thought it would never happen. It wasn't actually as bad as I thought it would be to get her to do it. Last night she slept all night but she's been waking up once or twice and we just have to go in there and give her her binky and she goes back to sleep. It's so nice to sleep in our king size bed with just the two of us. Sienna used to be all over me and grabbing my hair all night. She's getting to be such a big girl. She hasn't had a bottle for a couple months and now she's sleeping in her room. The next thing to break will be the binky. She calls it her bimpy. I'm not sure when that will happen.

Pumpkin Carving

2009-10-22T17:06:00.006-07:00

Last night we carved a pumpkin for Sienna. We did one last year too but she was 3 1/2 months old so she didn't care about it. This year she was very interested. She helped Garrett get the insides out, then we took it inside and carved it.

She really likes her pumpkin. I think only in Arizona you can carve a pumpkin and be outside in shorts. It's starting to get colder at night though. Not much has been going on around here. Sienna just keeps us entertained. Some things that she loves right now are babies, popsicles, horses, and SpongeBob. Everytime she sees babies she says awe, and makes a funny face. Here she is with her cousin Bryden that she just loves. She calls him Bry. We babsat him yesterday and she loves taking care of him.

She's started saying no a lot. It's kind of cute though because instead of saying no she says mo. It took us a little while to figure out she meant no. She's a really sweet girl though, always wanting to give kisses to everyone. She's really smart and is talking better every day. She puts two words together like hi mama, thank you mama, mo (no) mama. She can also follow directions really well. She understands a lot of what we say.

San Diego

2009-09-21T17:59:00.007-07:00

There are LOTS of pictures in this post. Last Tuesday we went to San Diego with our friends Jace and Erin and their little girl Ellie who is 6 weeks older than Sienna. We drove to Tucson then stopped at the mall and did some quick shopping and ate lunch then we were back on the road. It seemed like it took us forever to get there. We had to stop a lot because of the babies. They were never cranky or poopy at the same time. It was ok though. Sienna actually did really good until about the last hour. She was just screaming! After trying everything, Garrett finally got her settled down. We stayed at a really nice hotel in downtown San Diego. We all stayed in the same room so me, Garrett, and Sienna all slept in a double bed. After the first night I was so tired that Sienna and I slept good but Garrett not so good. The pictures are kind of in the wrong order. We went to the zoo the first day we were there, then the temple and the beach the next day. On Friday we decided to get up and leave early so the girls would sleep most of the way home. So we woke up at 2:45, we already had most of our stuff packed, so we just got up and left. The first hour of the trip, we regretted waking up so early. Sienna could not go back to sleep in her carseat. She was just whining and trying to move around to get comfortable. So I climbed in the backseat with her to try and help her get to sleep. She was rubbing my hair because thats what she does to go to sleep. So I had my head in a weird position and I wasn't really looking at the road and I got car sick. I couldn't handle Sienna anymore because I was sick so me and Garrett switched and I drove and he finally got Sienna to sleep. I was so happy when she went to sleep. So they slept and I drove until we got to Gila Bend. I was so tired so my eyes were bloodshot, I didn't have any makeup on, my hair was a mess, and we had to stop at the Border Patrol checkpoint. Before we pulled up to the guy I told Garrett they were probably going to think I was on drugs because of how I looked. Then the guy asked me some questions about my citizenship and I could barely understand him or answer him and Garrett is just in the back laughing so the guy just laughed and let us go by. Sienna did good on the way home and after she fell asleep and slept for about 3 1/2 hrs I was happy that we left so early. We got home around 12:00 and we all took a long nap. We had a lot of fun. We found out that vacations are definately different with babies. It wasn't quite as relaxing but we had a good time together. The little girls had fun together and gave each other lots of hugs and kisses. Here's some pictures from the trip--

Sienna and Ellie chasing the birds. They both loved the beach.

Sienna really loved the sand.

She wasn't so crazy about the cold water. She's kind of a scaredy cat.

Walking on the beach for the first time.

All of us at the temple. It was my first time seeing the San Diego temple. It's so pretty. It would be cool to go inside someday.

Kisses.

Buddies.

We let the girls run around a little bit.

Watching a movie nicely in the bed together. That didn't last too long though. Sienna can't sit down and watch tv. She's not that into it yet.

At the zoo, taking a nap.

I love her eyelashes when she's asleep like this. And her chubby cheeks. She fell asleep while on a tram ride.

Jace, Ellie, Garrett, Sienna, and a hippo.

Some of the things Sienna did on the trip to keep occupied, playing with phones, eating snacks, sleeping, and looking at her book. On the way home I tried to play a DVD for her on the laptop and she just ended up turning the computer off. That didn't work as well as well as I thought it would.

Update

2009-09-09T21:56:00.003-07:00

Garrett started school in August. He's taking one morning class and one online class. So far, so good. I'm trying to start working out. I'm sick of this belly that's leftover from being pregnant with Sienna. So hopefully I can keep it up. I've realized that I'm really out of shape! And this is what Sienna has been up to...

...making messes! She loves to tear up stuff and pull all of our shoes off the shelves. She does it every chance she gets. It's a good thing she's cute.

How can you resist this face? She knows if she does something wrong, she puckers up and gives us a kiss. It's so cute. She amazes us everyday at how smart she is. She is always trying to say new words and copy everything we do. Tonight we were watching So You Think You Can Dance and she saw the people tap dancing and she started tapping her feet on the floor. She also puts everything on the floor in her toy box.

If we can't find something, it's usually in here. Today she's 14 mos! She has been sleeping so bad lately. Last week she had a stuffed up nose so she couldn't breathe at night and suck her pacifier. So she was waking up a couple times a night and I had to rock her back to sleep because she couldn't go back to sleep on her own. Now, the last couple of nights, she's been sleeping bad and waking up for no apparent reason! We've been only letting her take one nap so she'll go to sleep earlier. If we let her take two she doesn't want to go to sleep until almost midnight. So she's been going to sleep in between 9 and 10. Before we go to bed she wakes up at least a couple times and we have to go in there and comfort her and she goes back to sleep. Then the rest of the night she's all over me and needs my hair to fall asleep. Last night, or I guess this morning, she woke up at 4:30 and didn't go back to sleep until 6! I tried everything I could think of and at 6, she finally went back to sleep. She wasn't crying or anything she was just awake. And we don't usually wake up until at least 8. I don't know what her deal is. I know I need to get her to sleep in her crib at night. She takes naps in there during the day just fine. It's just so hard. I guess we've created a nighttime monster because she sleeps in our bed and she can't go to sleep by herself. Being a parent is just so hard sometimes! I guess I needed to vent a little about her sleeping! I wasn't planning on this being such a long post. If anyone has any advice, it's welcome.

Fun Day Together

2009-08-28T12:03:00.003-07:00

On Garrett's day off this week we had a lot of fun. The weather was so nice. It was around 90 degrees. In the morning I did housework then in the afternoon we went golfing and Garrett played 9 holes. Sienna likes to be at the golf course. She mostly rode in the cart with me but sometimes she would get out and walk around. A couple of times she would walk over and steal Garrett's golf ball. Then we came home and had dinner and it started raining. So we sat outside and listened to music on the ipod to see if it would stop raining because we wanted to go play tennis. It finally started only sprinkling so we went to EA to play. It was still sprinkling but we started playing and Sienna was all over the court playing with the tennis balls. After about 20 minutes she was done and she was just walking around whining so we came home. The next night we went and played without her. I didn't have my camera all day so I only got one picture with my phone.

Sienna is walking!

2009-08-14T12:21:00.004-07:00

A few days ago Sienna decided she wanted to start walking. She could do it before, she would take a few steps here and there but she really didn't want to do it. So now she walks all around the house. She looks so cute doing it, but then again we think everything she does is cute!

Pictures

2009-07-30T16:53:00.011-07:00

Erin Householder took these pictures for us a couple weeks ago. We wanted to get Sienna's one year pics and we got some family pictures too. It's taken me this long to post them because I can't narrow them down and decide which ones are my favorites. I have like 40 favorites. So here are some of them and you can see some on her blog www.erinhouseholderphotography.blogspot.com. She just recently started taking pictures for people and she's so good! Sienna wasn't even being very happy and she still got so many good ones. I hope she continues to take pictures for a long time so we always have a good photographer to go to.

Shhh!

2009-07-23T18:00:00.003-07:00

This is how Sienna says shhh! She either puts her finger like this or in the middle of her nose and instead of saying it with her mouth, she blows out of her nose. It is the funniest thing. She wants to copy everything we do. She does fake coughs, laughs, sneezes. Last night she pretended she was putting nose spray in her nose after she saw Garrett do it. The lid was on and she blew air out of her nose instead of breathed in. She is one funny kid.

Happy Birthday Sienna!

2009-07-10T10:00:00.006-07:00

Yesterday was my baby's 1st birthday. We had a big party with all of our family that lives here. Sienna got a ton of new toys and clothes.

She wasn't quite sure why everyone was singing.

She really didn't even like the cupcake. She ate a little and then her daddy fed her some ice cream. Funny girl. She shook her head no when Garrett would try to get her to eat the cupcake.

She didn't really help open the presents but she had fun looking and playing with all of them. She went around to every different thing and played for a minute and then moved on. She was excited with all of the new toys. She had a good party. Thanks for everyone who came and thanks to my parents who always let us have parties and stuff there.

I can't believe my baby is one. A year ago she was just a little helpless newborn and now she is so big and smart. So much has happened in just a year. She says dada, mama, uh-oh, hi, boo, woof woof, meow, she sings boom boom boom to the black eyed peas song. She loves to dance, she takes steps, she shakes her finger and tries to say no no. She gives the best kisses. She loves cats and dogs. She also is very spoiled and knows how to get her way. But that's ok, we love her so much! I'm just so thankful to have her in my life.

4th of July

2009-07-05T19:10:00.008-07:00

My mom's birthday was the 3rd so we had dinner at our house. This is a cute picture of Sienna and my Papa. He was left to entertain her for a few minutes. She was trying to put his hat on.

On Saturday, I put this clip in Sienna's hair just to see how it looked and to take a picture. It was barely hanging on by one little hair. It looked so cute though. I can't wait till I can put bows in her hair. She always pulls her headbands off now.

Garrett went golfing early Saturday morning like he usually does. I got woke up early by the fire trucks and sirens like I usually do. I really just don't know why that has to be a tradition. I hate it! The first year we lived here I just thought there must be a really bad accident or something. Then Garrett told me they do that every year. Last year it really irritated me because I was already overdue with Sienna and I wanted to get all the sleep I could. At least this year it didn't wake up Sienna. I just don't get it. It's so annoying! Anyways, we had a cookout with my family at my parents house Saturday night. Dooney had a 4th of July shirt on and he wasn't very happy about it.

Sienna got to try out her birthday present a little early. She got a swingset at my parents house. We watched the fireworks from my parents backyard. They have a good view. Sienna liked them but fell asleep before they were over because she had only had one nap that day. We had a good day...except for being woken up by the sirens.

I have to add the picture of Sienna before church Sunday because she looked so cute! She didn't really like the dress though because she couldn't crawl in it.

Chicken

2009-07-05T19:03:00.002-07:00

This is the 15lbs of chicken I canned the other day. It took me ALL day long. Garrett got home around 3 so he took care of Sienna while I did everything. It was only my second time canning by myself. I'm not that good at it yet. It's nice to have once it's done but it is a long process.

Mess

2009-06-25T22:14:00.003-07:00

Sienna was eating mandarin oranges. She loves them but they're pretty messy and sticky. She decided to rub them all over her head. She also threw a bunch of them on the floor, which is what she does with all of her food. Whenever she is full she just plays with her food and drops it on the floor.

She was so sticky and gross, she went straight to the bath.

11 Months

2009-06-13T09:50:00.004-07:00

Sienna is 11 months old. She still only has 2 teeth. She loves to dance. She dances to anything that has a beat. I think her favorite is Black Eyed Peas. She also dances in her car seat. She loves to be outside. Her favorite is to play in the rocks. She will stay outside forever if we let her and she never wants to come back inside. She hasn't tried to walk yet but she stands up anywhere. I think she could take a step if she wanted to but she's not really interested yet. Her new thing is waving to EVERYONE. She's been waving for a while now but now when we go to the store she loves to wave to everyone we walk by. She sees someone and gets all excited and starts waving and smiling, trying to get their attention. Usually she does. The old people really like it. They talk to her and she just shows off, smiling and talking. So far she really doesn't have stranger anxiety. She's a funny kid. Me and Garrett were saying the other day, I think when we have another kid we're going to be disappointed because Sienna is so cute, sweet, funny, and naughty all at the same time. We don't know if there can be another one like her. That's probably stupid to say, but we were both thinking it. She's the best.

Golfing

2009-06-12T14:43:00.005-07:00

Last week me, Garrett, Sienna, and Garrett's dad went golfing. We went around 3 so they were only going to play 9 holes but ended up playing 18. It was okay though because Sienna really liked it. She likes riding in the golf cart and being outside so she was really good. We mostly just stayed in the golf cart. The weather was nice and we had a lot of fun.

My little golfer girl.

So cute. She didn't leave the hat on very good.

Me and Sienna looking beautiful in the wind.

Memorial Day Weekend

2009-05-29T16:26:00.006-07:00

This was Sienna Saturday in her cute red, white and blue outfit that Grandma and Grandpa Moore got her. That day we hung out with Grandma and Grandpa Moore for a while, then came home when Garrett got off work and Jace, Erin, and Ellie came over for a little bit. Then Chad, LeMae, and Ecksen came over to visit. Then everyone went home and Garrett cooked some steak on the grill for us. Sunday we ate dinner at Garrett's parents house. Sienna tried out Grandpa Sparks' hammock for the first time. You can see a picture here: http://www.ronaldsparksfamily.blogspot.com/

This was Monday. Chad, LeMae, Ecksen, Jace, Erin, and Ellie came over again and we barbequed some burgers. The weather was so nice all weekend so we spent a lot of time outside and the kids got to play on our grass. We are loving having grass this summer. Sienna really liked Ecksen. She just wanted to take his pacifier out every time he had it. She wouldn't try to suck on it, she just wanted it out of his mouth. We were trying to get a picture of the kids together but Ellie wanted to crawl over and play with the rocks instead so that is why this picture is just Sienna and Ecksen. Ellie was loving the rocks.

This is us trying to get a picture of the guys and the kids. Ellie and Sienna took off.

This is the best picture I got of them. These guys grew up together so it's fun having babies that were all born the same year. They have really cool wives too so we all have fun when we get together. We had a fun Memorial Day weekend. I always have a 3 day weekend but it was fun to have Garrett off for 2 1/2 days.

D-Backs Game

2009-05-14T16:44:00.005-07:00

Last weekend we went to the D-backs game. We had front row seats. Garrett got the tickets from his boss. The D-backs are not doing too good this year but we figured since it was front row seats it would be fun anyway. The game was kinda boring but we still had fun. Sienna was better than we thought she would be. She was so good the whole time. She was clapping and yelling, entertaining everyone around us, and trying to play with the kids sitting by us. When the game was over one of the Dback coaches was walking by and he gave Sienna a baseball. So overall she had a good first Dback game. We had a really fun weekend. We did some shopping, ate at Olive Garden, and stayed at Garrett's parents condo.

She also turned 10 months old that day. She's crawling really good now, pulling up on everything, she gets our cell phones and pretends she talking on them. She has the funniest personality.

These pictures are a little blurry because she was moving. In this one I was tickling her to get her to smile.

She gives kisses all the time now. It's so sweet. I had to show this picture because it's the only one we have of her giving kisses. She just grabs my face and gives me long slobbery kisses. I love it. She did it a few times during the game. Tonight her mouth was hurting her I think and I thought she was giving me a kiss and she bit down hard on my cheek. That was not so sweet. Hopefully she doesn't do that again.

Animal Crackers

2009-05-03T22:36:00.002-07:00

This is how Sienna was eating her animal cracker. It was funny, she just let it hang out of her mouth and she would suck on it. I had to take pictures.

Her and her daddy watching basketball. Unfortunately the Suns didn't make the playoffs this year but Sienna is still supporting them with her Suns tank top. My mom got it for her before she was born. For some reason it kept riding up all day and her belly would hang out.

Pets

2009-05-02T22:18:00.004-07:00

Sienna loves her pets. Lately the cat has been getting on my nerves but Sienna loves her. The cat lays on the bed most of the day and she loves to play with her. She thinks it's funny when her tail hits her. It usually only lasts a few minutes before the cat takes off.

A couple of days ago I took this picture. She was chasing the cat. The cat would just stay far enough away so Sienna couldn't get her. Sienna was trying so hard but she's just not fast enough yet.

These are some older pics of her with our dog Maggie. We've since got another boxer. He's smaller than Maggie and brown. Sienna loves them both. Sometimes she just watches them through the back window and sometimes she goes outside with her daddy to see them. I think she would stay outside with them all day if she could. She laughs when they lick her feet and hands. She loves the pets. The dogs love her too. I'm not so sure about the cat though.

9 months

2009-04-13T12:54:00.003-07:00

Our baby is 9 months old! She went to the dr. and she weighs 18 lbs 10 oz and she's 27 1/2 in. long. She's finally started really scooting around. She doesn't crawl on her hands and knees though. She can get around pretty good though. We thought she was going to be immobile forever. She has two teeth. She also has all kinds of new funny tricks.

Garrett's Birthday/Easter

2009-04-12T22:42:00.008-07:00

Yesterday was Garrett's 26th birthday. He hasn't gone back to work since his surgery so he was lucky to have the day off. Friday night we had dinner at El Charro with my family. Saturday we went to a party for Chase, Garrett's nephew who turns one on the 14th, then Garrett, Darren, Alan, and Ron went to fry mesa to fish even though it was really cold and windy. Sienna and I went to my mom's and dyed easter eggs with my Mom, Dad, and Lyndsey. Sienna liked the eggs. When she would hold them she would squeeze them and they cracked. Then that night we had dinner at Garrett's parents. Also there were Darren, Ashley and kids and Alan. It was such a good dinner and Marlene made Garrett's favorite German Chocolate cake. Then today for Easter we ate at Garrett's parents before church and my Grandma's after church. We had a weekend full of good food, family, and watching the Masters. I've learned quite a bit about golf this weekend. Garrett had a good birthday and a good weekend before having to go back to work Monday.

Sienna checking out the stuff that Grandma and Grandpa Moore got her for Easter.

Her Easter dress.

Garrett's surgery

2009-04-06T17:56:00.002-07:00

Last Monday Garrett got surgery to fix his torn acl. It had been over 2 months since he hurt it. We had to be at the hospital at 6:15 and he finally got to leave around 2. The first few days he was in a lot of pain but now he's doing better. He still has to use his crutches to walk. He mostly sits in his recliner to ice and elevate his knee. It has been hard trying to take care of him and Sienna at the same time but we've had a lot of help from both of our moms. Garrett has been able to help me with Sienna by feeding her and she hangs out with him in his recliner. She has become such a cuddler lately. She just lays her head down on us all the time. She is such a sweetheart.

Phoenix Zoo

2009-04-03T19:45:00.005-07:00

Garrett's brother Camron and his family came down to Mesa last week from Oregon so we all met up and went to the zoo. We went up Wednesday night and spent some time with Camron's family and Garrett's parents at their condo. It was getting late so we went to find our hotel. It was in south Scottsdale, kind of close to where we used to live, but it took us a while to find it. Garrett went to check in and it took him a long time so I figured something was wrong. He came back to the car frustrated and told me that they didn't have any king beds available and we would just have one queen. We already know that we all 3 can't comfortably sleep in a queen bed and they won't let us upgrade because we got the room on priceline. Then we get in the room and it gets worse. The room was really small, smelled like a smoking room, everytime you got on the bed it made a really loud sound, it just wasn't a nice room...at all. When Garrett was checking in he told the lady that we have an 8 month old and we need two beds or at least a couch or something. Her solution was that Sienna could sleep in a drawer! Yeah, then she brought us some extra blankets and pillows and offered us a box that we would have to tape up, for her to sleep in. She also suggested putting her in the closet to sleep. I think she really was trying to help, she was just crazy! She must not have kids. I hope. It ended up not being that bad even though Garrett ended up sleeping on the floor and everytime I moved during the night it made a really loud noise. We got up early and left anyways. We met the family at the zoo and had a fun day. Sorry this post got really long but I had to write about the hotel. I just kept laughing that night because I felt like we were in a movie or something. It was a funny night to remember. Sienna's first night in a hotel. We said no more 2 star hotels. There is a time to be cheap and that wasn't it.

Swimming

2009-04-03T19:25:00.004-07:00

A few Saturday's ago it was really warm and Garrett gets off work early on Saturday's so we decided to try out Sienna's swimming pool. We had just got grass a few days before so we had a place to put her pool. It was her first time in her swimming suit so of course we took lots of pictures.

Sienna

2009-03-16T16:06:00.006-07:00

Sienna's 8 month old pictures

She's not crawling yet but she can kind of scoot around. She can also stand up and hold on to something for a while. She's getting so big. She learned how to clap a little while ago. It's so cute because she holds one hand still and hits it with the other hand.

She's getting pretty chubby. Her legs are so cute. She has the fattest knees I have ever seen. I actually haven't seen this kind of knee fat before, it is so funny. We love her so much.

This is what happens when Daddy gets Sienna dressed

2009-03-13T10:21:00.001-07:00