Utah and Baby Blessing

Here is Rocky at I think 2 months, he is growing so fast.

Nap with Daddy

We blessed Rocky in Utah while there for Seth's parents mission farewell. It was so much fun seeing all our family and getting to see Rock and Terri one last time before they left for Africa on their mission. I didn't get many pictures from that day but here are the few I got.

Grandma and Baby Rock.

I love this picture, this is my Grandma Przybyla and Rocky. He was so cute snuggling her.

Random Picture:

Here are the girls after their Twist and Shout performance... such cuties

This week has gone by WAY too fast...

We are LOVING having such a precious new baby in our home... I get so sad thinking about how fast this time will go by. Rocky has been such a good baby, he pretty much sleeps and eats. He rarely cries, he only cries when you are changing his diaper or he has a bubble. He LOVES to be snuggled, which is a good thing since all of us love to snuggle him :)

Our Baby is Here!

Rock Benjamin Ballstaedt

arrived on Saturday April 2, 2011 at 5:37 pm

He weighed 7 lbs 0 oz and was 20.5 inches long

here are a few pictures from his birth

Sienna's December Performance

Sienna has so much fun in her little singing group... they preformed at the Henderson winter festival.

Cute little Sienna posing

Sienna is so good and remember the words to songs... it cracks me up because some of the words are so big that it sounds so strange coming from her little body.

A few More December Photos

Meika and puppy taking a nap by the fire..

This picture is actually from November in Utah, Seth and the girls found some huge icicles.

We had fun buying our tree in the local Vons parking lot... It was pretty cold, but Sienna didn't seem to mind. I tried to convince Seth of going for a fake tree but the he wouldn't go for it. Maybe next year.

The girls got some darling paper dolls for Christmas, they were customized to look like the girls. I think I may have enjoyed them more than the girls, but they have been a great thing to play with at church.

Seth Turned 31!

Seth's birthday always seems to come so soon after Christmas that I never know what to get him. So this year we made him a delicious homemade chocolate cake, went out for a yummy birthday dinner, and gave him a week of homemade lunches.

Sethie, is such a great guy and all of us girls in the house LOVE him to death. Every year that goes by I feel more and more blessed to have convinced such an awesome guy to marry me.

We hope you had a great birthday week!

Christmas at Home

This Christmas we decided that we would like to stay home and enjoy time together with just our little family. We were SO excited about being able to relax and lay around home.

Cookies for Santa... and Meika left a note for Santa.

Daddy and the girls reading The Night Before Christmas.

Here we are in our Christmas Eve pajamas...(Seth will probably never wear his again, he's too manly to wear a matching set :)) We had the girls buy each other gifts and it was so fun to see how excited they were to give their gifts to each other. It made me so happy to feel their love for each other. Do you like how our tree is totally tilting?

The Girls Little Christmas Party

We had so much fun at Sienna's birthday party that I wanted to do another party with the girls for Christmas. We invited a few of their friends and they watched a Christmas movie and did a gift exchange. The girls were all so good and looked so cute in their pajamas.

They had fun playing... little girls are so fun!!

We had fun decorating little graham cracker houses

The girls had so much fun doing the gift exchange

Eating and watching Barbie a Christmas Carol.

Sienna turned FOUR!!

Opening her presents in the morning..

Cute girl by her FOUR balloons

She wanted to have a late movie night with her friends, so thats what we did. It was so much fun! All the little girls came in their pajamas and were so good. we ate dinner, watched a movie and ate cupcakes.

Blowing out her candle

Meika's Nursery Rhyme Program

A few Months ago Meika's Kindergarten class put on a little nursery rhyme program. It was so cute, they each memorized a nursery rhyme and they also preformed a bunch as a group to song. They were so cute!

Meika & her teacher Mrs. Dove

Some of her friends and teacher

I woke up to this on my floor...

A couple months ago I woke up and saw this on the floor next to me, at first I thought it was just some clothes thrown on the floor. Then I realized it was Meika, she has put on Seth's sweat pants and my sweatshirt and made her self comfy. I thought it was so cute.

Baby Bump @ 19 Weeks

Between Meika and Sienna this was the best picture I could get...Maybe I'll have Seth take a better picture.

This pregnancy my body has been a lot pickier about what I can eat than I remember it being with the girls. At the beginning of my pregnancy I was pretty much living on oranges, orange juice, string cheese and prenatal vitamins. Now I am back to eating a normal diet of real food which is so nice.

This little guy is so busy, I have been able to feel him moving for the last couple weeks. This week I also put away my normal size jeans and bought some bigger stretchier ones so that I can actually go through the whole day without having to unbutton the top button in order to breath and I'm totally loving the stretchy jeans!

Monday at my appointment with my midwife I weighed 124.5 pounds (I've gained 4.5 pounds now... whoohoo) which I was so excited about because at my last appointment I had lost a pound and so she asked me to keep track of what I was eating for a week which is kind of a pain. So I was glad I wouldn't have to do that again.

I'm sorry, this is a really boring post... but I just wanted to get up a picture of me at this stage.

Its a BOY!!!!

This little guys is such a busy body, it took a long time for them to get pictures of what they needed. He kept rolling around, kicking, waving, yawning, rolling some more. Here are two cute little shots of our skinny little man. They actually look a little freaky, because he has no fat on him yet.

It looks like he has a little pointy chin and his Daddy's pointy top lip.

He kept his hands up by his face for a while... his little arms and hands are so cute!

Random Pictures

After a few weeks of silly looking teeth, they finally both fell out. Her toothless smile is the just the cutest thing. I'm trying to soak up all the cuteness before her GIANT big girl teeth grow in.

I'm not sure where Sienna learned this, but during our prayers she has been doing this with her hands and I think it is the cutest thing ever. she looks like a little angel.

I created a reading corner for the girls a few months ago and I find Sienna over there all the time with all the books scattered around her. I think it is so fun.

Fall Fun

I love when Fall comes, everything about it so fun. The candy, smells, pumpkins, rides, costumes, leaves its all just so much fun!

We carved pumpkins last Monday for family night, and it was a lot of fun.

Here's Meika making a silly face as she grabs the slimy goo out of her pumpkin.

Sienna would not have anything to do with cleaning the pumpkin out, how cute is she!! It was so funny how grossed out she was. So sweet daddy did it for her. Once it came to cutting it though, she drew her face and started cutting... it turned out really cute.

I forgot that the finished Pumpkins are on Seth's phone, so I will have to get those and add them to this post... sorry.

We went to the "pumpkin patch" and here the girls are learning about different pumpkins and how important it is to use a pumpkin carving knife and not a normal kitchen knife.

They went on a giant slide and spiny cup things which totally make me sick!

Here are the silly girls, I was trying to get a cute picture of them by the pumpkins... and this is what I got... I do love Meika's front teeth, or the missing of her front teeth.

Meika Turned 6!

I can't believe how fast she is growing up, its seems like just yesterday that she was born and I was putting her short little hair in pig tails... She is such a sweet little girl and we love having her in our family. She is always asking the cutest questions. She loves her little sister so much a usually will do anything for her.We celebrated meika's birthday at Bounce U with some of her friends, it was so much fun. Probably the easiest birthday I have EVER Done.

Sienna and Daddy

Her cute little friends

Birthday girl enjoying some pizza

Meika picked out a marble cake with chocolate frosting and pink and yellow flowers. It was actually a really yummy cake.

Meika got super spoiled by all her friends, she had so much fun opening all her presents. I think she had a great day. Thanks to all the family who called and left messages for her we loved getting all the musical messages, very fun!