LUKE's FIRST BIRTHDAY!

 Lukes first birthday was a success! On his birthday Luke, Kyle and I went to Tahoe for a short visit to the beach.  It wasn’t the warmest day so we weren’t there for too long. His party the next day was soo much fun!  We had a BBQ out at our pool.  Not too many people were able to come because it was a Friday, but it was perfect! He got spoiled none the less.  And he is having a blast playing with all of his new toys!!

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1 year old

d luke loves peas, pancakes, applesauce, and blueberries are his FAVORITE!!

d He loves to SWIM, and take baths!

d Luke has one tooth and it was a it was a nightmare breaking through!! More any day now

d He is saying mamama and dadada on purpose.. well he more like yells them to get our attention, but it’s really cute!

d Luke walks on the back of his Lightening McQueen car.  Not really close to walking on his own yet.. I’m ok with that.

d He weighs 25 lbs and is 30.5 inches long. In the 70^th percentile.  His head is still in the 13^th. 

d Favorite toys at the moment are my chap stick, plastic Easter eggs, bouncy balls, and hot wheels cars. 

and this table can have nothing on it.  whenever something is he knocks it down right away. 

We have a healthy, happy, growing boy!!

(Speaking of healthy little boys, Kyle can now feel Soren kicking.  I’ve felt him since I was about 16 weeks, and I am now 22 weeks.)

daddy out BBQing 

2 of my siblings 

Grandma Sara

Grandma Teri took Luke swimming and he was loving it!!!

The cutest little guests. Logan, Rowan, and Eli

Kyle, Bill, And Christopher

The Stewarts came all the way down from Auburn.  We love them!!! And Melisa, we love her too!

Some of the spoils

Loving the water!

Daddy and the boy

Us in the Hot tub.  It's nice because it's so big it never really gets hot

Karly, Tonya, and I love these girls!!

Luke's birthday cake

He kinda loved it!!

Such a cute little baby!!! 

After the mess!

He kinda got in to opening his presents.. mostly Logan, Rowan, and Eli helped. 

It was hard taking the toys away to open the next one!

He loves getting pushed around in his cars!

Playing with Rowan! 

It's a boy!!

This last week we also found out for sure that we are being blessed with another baby boy!  We are so excited for Luke to have a brother that will be so close.  

I have been able to feel him move around in there since I was 16 weeks along, but I'm now feeling him a ton!  Kyle is going to be able to feel his little buy kicking around soon!  I am feeling really good, nothing to complain about during the pregnancy at all!  I'm excited to see what Soren is going to look like!  But I am not in any hurry for him to get here like I was with Luke.  So that means it's going by really fast! 

Soren Brett Sipherd

Clearly he's a boy!

Birthday weekend in Auburn

For the Sipherd family there are a ton of birthdays in June... TONS!  This last weekend we went to Auburn to celebrate Rowan's birthday, but we got to have a little celebration for Kolvin and Luke also.  

Rowan's birthday was lots of fun, with swimming and slip and sliding.  Luke love love loved the slip and slide I couldn't believe it!  Rowan looked adorable as a little princess, and it was great to just be with family.  And a big bonus Karly is visiting from Utah so we got to see her.

Princess Rowan.. I got this off of Facebook.. as you can tell!

All by himself!

The happiest baby!!

Fun day!!!

Santa Barbara!!!!

We got to go and a very spur of the moment trip with Kyle's dad and family to Santa Barbara!  It was such a blast!  We left Thursday night to go to Auburn and got a very early start on Friday to beat the traffic.  We made it in really good time, but we took the worst way through a mountain pass, I was super car sick the whole way.. no fun.  But Luke did so well on the drive, we turned his car seat around so he wouldn't be miserable.  

The town we stayed in was actually like 30 miles from Santa Barbara it is called Ojai, and it was soo pretty!  It reminded us a lot of Auburn.  It was so close to the coast, and it was just perfect!  We stayed in a little guest house with the whole fam bam in one room, but it was fun.  That first night we went to the beach for a couple of hours, and Kyle got to surf again.  It's been about 7 years since he last surfed but it was just like ridding a bike.  I have a sexy husband.

This is the amazing little stretch of beach just off the highway.  

Luke's first time in the sand

Kayla and Katera

Luke absolutely LOVED the water.  We had to watch him like a hawk!

But it got a little chilly..

My sexy husband surfing

After that we went to get some tacos in Ventura at a food truck.  They were sooo delicious!

Mmm first time for me

Luke and Kovlin chowin down on some watermelon!  

The next day me, Kyle, Katera, Kayla, and Luke went into Santa Barbara.  We didn't get to stay long but just enough to fall in love with it!  We wen to a farmers Market and then walked along a pier and went to a couple of surf shops.  One called J7 and the owner is a good friend of Kevin's, Kyle's dad.  It was a beautiful city and I kinda fell in love with it!  Plus Psych is set there so we loved it even more!

On our way to Santa Barbara we came across this lake, which made us love Ojai even more.  

The farmers market.. and the brat Katera :)

All of us

Just off the pier 

Luke wore these sun glasses all day, people could not get enough of him.  Everyone we passed made a comment about this cute little guy!

Me and my boy

Luke and his daddy

Love my boys!

After this we headed back into Ventura to go to the beach again.  We stayed there until like 9:00.. it was crazy!  But so much fun.  

Can't get enough of these two!!

The next day was Sunday and we got up went to church, which was lots of fun.  They don't get to many young people in their ward, as it is a pretty pricey area to live, so everybody came up to us and asked if we were moving in.  It really is one of the only places in California that I would want to live.  But then we went back to the beach, and we got to meet up with Rick and Sara who were on their way back home from visiting Erin and Rob.  

Papa

Eating a handful of dirt.. Mmmmm

Grandma

Checking out the situation with grandpa 

Kinda love this picture of Luke!

Man I am one lucky woman!

We do love the ocean!

The next day we had to leave, we took a different route home, it took longer, but I wasn't sick the whole last hour and a half.  We got to stop and Wahoo's fish tacos.. mmm and a really amazing road side fruit and veggie stand with the best oranges ever!!

It was quite a trip!!  We already are dreaming about going back!