my girl...

is TWO!!

Here she is the morning after she was born-- our perfect little baby girl!

Here she is one year ago today at her 1st birthday party!

Here is the little crazy girl this morning! She refused to take off her pj's for half the day, she wanted them unzipped, her elmo slippers over them, her backpack on, and one pigtail in and one frowing from sleeping on it last night-- and I didn't even fight her to change because it is her birthday!!

Sienna is our little fire-cracker! She is the typical two-year old already! She knows what she wants from the what song we listen to in the car to what shoes she will wear and what foot each will go on. She plays hard, she laughs hard, and she pushes hard! She makes us laugh, she gives great hugs, she folds her arms so cute for prayers, she loves to learn letters and numbers, she loves wheat pasta with anything on it, she is obsessed with elmo and her stuffed animal Leo the leopard, and her favorite color is pink!! We love our spunky, strong-willed, silly, sassy little girlie!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL!!!

my little turkeys

Malachi watching James' school parade

Sienna the turkey

grandma & grandpa's trunk or treat

grandpa & Mac are best buddies!

the turkey and the vampire attack

on our way to trick or treating

Sienna was not scared by the spooky stuff and loved getting the candy to put in her bag-- she did not even care to eat a piece she just wanted to fill her bag.

love that daddy




vampire turkey love

a turkey with gas possibly???



my cute little turkeys

Grandma's Sugar Cookies!

My mom makes the BEST sugar cookies and as kids we always made holiday sugar cookies with my her. So this year we started the tradition with the kiddos!

Sienna, Maddie, and James

Sienna loved the spinkles and emptied more than one bottle!

The naughty cookie decorators!!


Sienna stealing a taste-- every time I looked over she was popping a chocolate chip in her mouth-- mommy's little girl!

me and the kiddos-- poor Mac couldn't even pretend to help because of his allergies!!

after cookies the table was turned into a fort-- Sienna played on her cell phone and Malachi would not stop laughing!!

Random cuteness missed in my absence!!

I'M BACK!!!

Things have been crazy lately but now that I am getting e-mails from my father-in-law about being a blogging slacker, I am back and committed!!

how cute are my kiddos??

Is that where a Bakagun goes?

Lovin the kitchen


third eye??

LOVING elmo!! Omar will not love this when he sees it- he hates her face plastered against the screen!

a peaceful moment!

she is not a baby anymore!

wee witches

Last weekend we kicked off October by going to Gardner Village for Wee Witches Weekend.

the cousins-- and yes they actually had fun even though this picture gives NO proof!

our little fam

Sienna is getting so big she just marched around and checked it all out-- she would talk to the witches but did not want to be touched!

there was a cute little petting zoo, Sienna liked the caged pigs

she thought it was cool that Malachi was into petting but...


when she got up close she was the victim of a goat attack!! Poor girl is slightly wussy when it comes to live animals so this was traumatic for her :)

just had to add this picture of my cute boys!


and here is a less than fabulous picture for proof that we were at a witch festival

bliss...

Three years ago today this was us outside the Salt Lake temple just after our sealing...

three years for us=

3 states

2 kiddos (so glad not 3 :))

1 fun, challenging, rewarding, happy adventure

and here we are today outside the Salt Lake temple-- what a great place to celebrate and remember!!

I love you babe, I am so glad you will be my companion through it ALL!

the GREATEST show on earth

Our life is kind of like a circus so when the circus came to town why wouldn't we be there??

the attempted family shot-- Mac looks frightened, Sienna is clapping and I am not sure what O is doing!

mommy squashing her baby in the bjorn all for a picture!

Sienna was 100% entertained- we were so glad!!

Malachi on the other hand was not! Yes that is him sitting on THE GROUND!! I know... I am a bad mom but it was the only thing that made him happy!!

Sienna would not cooperate for a picture so this is the best we got-- don't you love Sienna's acrobatic move to get off my shoulders??

the lighting is horrible in this picture but it had to be added purely because Sienna looks hilarious standing so seriously against the wall!

here is the "better lighting" shot of Grandma Vawdrey with her great-grandkids!!

Thanks Mom for taking us all to the circus-- we loved it!!!