Cienna is 2 Years, 3 Months!

This month has been jam packed with excitement.  We are so proud of Cienna every day, she has adapted to so many situations with ease, and continues to learn and grow.

We were very lucky to fit it time with lots of friends and family during a quick trip to SR.  We shared in celebrating baby Walker's soon arrival which  brought so many of us together, and are honored to be June's god parents with the witness of her baptism.  June is adorable, and we loved every minute that we got to spend with her... and her parents!  We really got the most out of the trip with help from all the family in making time to share with us!

Cienna and Daddy have begun the first round of swim lessons which have been so much fun for all of us!  She looks forward to swimming with Daddy every lesson and her favorite part is the hokey pokey (It's Daddy's too).

We all got to share a huge cupcake while sitting on the kitchen floor for Mommy's birthday, and had a really fun Easter with the Easter Bunny coming for Cienna and a BBQ at the Geithman's including a very successful easter egg hunt.

The garden has been primed and ready for some spring vegetable harvesting!

As for the remodel... things have been great.  Of course there has been a lot to do and unexpected things do come up, but we've been able to work them out as we go.  After starting the project living in the kitchen and laundry room, Nana and Poppa saved the day and drove all the way down to check out how things were going and left us the motor home to expand our living space and make things more comfortable!  You can see by the pictures that progress has definitely been made this from starting at the bottom to a fully framed home.  There is still much more to do, but we're enjoying the adventure.

Mommy and baby are doing great.  We're down to the home stretch, just over 6 weeks to go!

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Cienna is 2 Years, 2 Months!

Finally getting the ball rolling!  All of us have worked hard this month trying to plan and organize our Remodel Project, but haven't forgotten to throw in a pary or two along the way.

After meeting with many sub-contrators and doing all the necessary research and budgeting we have began to choose our path forward.  We've moved out of most of our home consolidating to our kitchen/laundry/back bathroom and garage area as our living space and using storage containers for all the rest.  Cienna has been such a trooper so far with all the adjustments!  She amazes us every day!

Daddy continues to do fantastic at work and Mommy is keeping busy getting things ready for some time off come June.  We didn't have any green beer but did have Corned Beef dinner for St. Patty's day, then partied at a delicious Brazilian restaurant for Kim's Surprise birthday (Thanks Keith), and also helped celebrate Eric's birthday toward the end of this month as well.

Cienna's vocabulary keeps growing along with her personality, love for music; jumping; books; and bubbles, and curiosity.  She is so bright and beautiful we are lucky to have such a great daughter.

We've also included some pictures from Georgia's birthday party last month.

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Cienna is 2 Years, 1 Month!

We started the month off with a bang by throwing a 2nd birthday party for Cienna, complete with Elmo Jumpy.  Good friends, good food, and all around good fun as everyone enjoyed the big day.  Also enjoyed opening gifts throughout the month from friends and family.  Thank you everyone! 

We had fun around the house making chalk sketches in the driveway and painting on the new easel.  We also spent some days at the park and made Valentine treats for friends at daycare.

We are very excited to share that Cienna has a new cousin in the family, June Elizabeth Natal, was born on Feb. 2nd and is very adorable.  It is great to see her and her brother (Roscoe the dog) get along so well.  We can't wait to meet her at her baptism at the end of March.

We headed to Uncle B's new pad for a Super Bowl party and had lots of good times and food, except for the nachos!!

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Cienna is 2!

It's unbelievable how time flies!  Cienna is Two years old.  The holidays were especially good to us.  We got to spend lots of time with the entire family.  We also got to see some good friends who were around.  It was amazing watching Cienna truly interact and play with everyone.  Taking some time off of work we headed to Santa Rosa for Christmas where we finally got to share our exciting news of an addition to our family coming in early June!  Cienna is already extremely excited for her little SISTER to arrive!

Throughout the rest of January working our way to the big birthday we fit in some playdates, silly antics, began the makings of a chocolate oatmeal stout (which Cherie won't get to enjoy for a while), and a visit from the Kyles.  Cienna and mommy made trial peanut butter mini cupcakes with peanut butter frosting to share with friends at "school", which worked out well so more will be made for the Birthday party coming on Saturday.

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Cienna is 23 Months!

We started the month off with a quiet Thanksgiving dinner with just the 3 of us.  Cherie and Cienna made a wonderful dinner and pumpkin pie.

The next weekend we were glad to see lots of our family when we flew up to the bay area for Uncle RJ and Auntie Megan's baby shower.  We got to stay with them at their beautiful new home.  It was great to be able to spend some time with them and help get ready for, and enjoy a couple parties.  Our soon to be new niece is going to be lucky to be surrounded with so much love.

We were also invited to a Christmas party at the Geithman's with homemade everything to eat and great company including many kiddo's to keep us all entertained!

Cienna had her first trip to the snow for a day with less than ideal weather but we all had fun anyway!  We met Uncle Joe at the mountain for a wet and cold day of Boarding/Skiing and play time in the lodge.

After a smooth drive to Northern California we have just began our week vacation with family and friends and look forward to the rest with details and pictures for next month!

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Cienna is 22 Months!

We started the 22nd month with a quick trip down to San Diego to meet up with some good friends and help celebrate their new baby girl to be.  Little Whalen should be coming sometime around Christmas day!  The next week we spent preparing for Halloween, with costume making and pumpkin carving.  For Halloween, Uncle Joe came up and we all went down to our old stomp'n ground on 2nd street where we got to trick-or-treet at all the shops and check out lots of costumes!  Even the dogs were in costumes for the annual doggie costume parade.  Later that night we came home in time to visit the neighbors and hand out candy to all the other trick-or-treeters.

Towards the end of the month Daddy went to help Uncle B finally move into a fantastic place of his very own.  Congratulations Uncle B!  We also had a very nice visit with Grandad Rolland who flew down to see us for the holiday's.

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Cienna is 21 Months!

Another action packed month!  Cienna has enjoyed riding her "hog" that Grammy and Grandpa sent.  Can't quite reach the pettles, but man can she scoot along using her feet!  We helped celebrate Stephanie's birthday at their house complete with bouncy for the kids.  It's amazing how parenthood has changed our adult birthday parties.

Nana and Poppa came to visit and we started the weekend off with a "fry" party.  They brought their deep fat fryer down and we pretty much fryed everything that wasn't screwed down.  Veggies, fish, shrimp, onions, sweet potatoes, to name a few.  The next weekend we all packed up the bus and headed down to San Diego and stayed at the Los Coches RV resort that Shannon's parents own.  We stayed in the windmill house while the folks stayed in the bus just across the path.  What a beautiful place.  George and Shannon made their world famous chile rellenos and enchiladas.  We played horseshoes and picked up some burgers from "Hodads" that poppa was dying to try ever since he heard about it on the Food Network.  The next weekend we layed low, carved some pumpkins and tried to stay healthy.

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