Christmas in California

We celebrated our Christmas in CA the day before we left for Minnesota which was a week before Christmas.  It was a blast watching Sienna open her gifts while wearing her santa hat.  She is such a little cutie:)

Dada with his beard

Cali and I are buddies

Cutie Pie

I love my new purse and dog

Another picture mama

Mama and I opening presents

Helping Dada open presents

Magna Tiles are so fun

Getting Ready for Santa

Sienna had a really fun December waiting for Santa's arrival.  She made her first gingerbread house with mama at Treat Sweets by our house and went on a train ride with Oliver at the Paraiso Holiday Celebration.  Sienna also played in the snow with Logan at Amgen's annual holiday party.  She had fun watching everyone throw snowballs and playing in the snow saying how cold it was.  We all decorated the Christmas tree...Sienna placed the ornaments she could touch on the bottom third of the tree.  She did not have a fun time seeing Santa and cried with and without mama holding her.  But she liked waving to him from a distance and talking about him coming to visit with toys.  Maybe next year she will realize how nice and fun Santa is to all the boys and girls!

Snow Bunny

Decorating her gingerbread house

Contemplating eating the candy

My First Gingerbread House

Mama and I at Treat Sweets

Train Ride with Oliver and Christa

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Admiring the ornaments

Putting reindeer ears on Cali

Playing in the snow at Amgen's Holiday Party

It is too cold

Watching snowball fights

My best friend Logan

I don't like Santa

I still don't like Santa Mama

Thanksgiving

Nanna visited us for the week of Thanksgiving.  We made the traditional turkey dinner and invited our friends Tami, Richard and Luca over to join us.  We did some Christmas shopping, picked out and decorated our Christmas tree and took pictures on the beach for our Christmas card photo.  We really enjoyed our visit with Nanna and can't wait to see her again at Christmas!

I love Nanna

Daddy is the best

The family on Thanksgiving

Mamas with their babies

Richard, Tami and Luca on Thanksgiving

Sienna and Cali 

I love my dog Cali

Goldfish are so yummy

Christmas Family Photo

St. Louis Trip

Sienna and I visited the family in St. Louis for a week.  We spent a lot of time with her Grandma Stoops and Great Grandma Touzinsky.  Grandma Stoops actually threw a party at her boyfriends (Ron) house for the family and friends to see us and spend time together.  Sienna had a great time with everyone especially her cousins.  We miss everyone already but look forward to seeing Grandma and Ron in Phoenix in January.

Mama and I at the park

Playing at the park with Mama and Grandma

I love climbing up and down the stairs

Big girl posing for the camera

Grandma, Ron and I at the party

Great Grandma Touzinsky

My second cousins

Four Generations

My Grandma and I at the party

Halloween

Sienna picked out her first pumpkin at Underwood Family Farms.  We met a good friend Jen and her son Logan (Sienna's Best Friend) to go on a tractor ride, enjoy the petting zoo and ride on a train.  She had such a great time with everything but her favorite part seemed to be either the train ride or petting zoo with the bunny, sheep and chickens.  Sienna went to a halloween party with all of her friends dressed up in costumes....she actually let me put her hair in pigtails and left them in the entire party:)  We spent halloween at the park with Christa, Oliver, Lynette and Luke and then went trick-or-treating with them in our neighborhood.  Sienna loved looking at all of the decorated houses and kids costumes.  She practiced saying trick-or-treat and wouldn't let go of her bag of candy.

This one mama

Busy body

My first pumpkin

Logan and I petting the bunny

My second pony ride

First train ride

Halloween party with my friends

Cali and I on halloween

Luke gave me this flower

Christa and Oliver

Lynette and Luke

My friends Oliver and Luke

Best friend Logan