Sariah's First Photo Shoot

How cute is this little girl!

Announcing Sariah Pearl

Halloween 2012

Sariah Pearl Simmons

We are so excited to welcome Sariah Pearl to the Simmons family.  As many of you know, my labor with Grace was extremely quick and we almost didn't make it to the hospital so after many prayers and discussion with my doctor we decided to induce labor.  We reported to the hospital at 8am and the labor went quick and uneventful and she was born on October 22 at 1:24pm.  She weighed 7lbs 15oz and was 21 inches long.  We love this little girl!!

Beach Day

We took a great day trip to Drake's beach at Point Reyes with the cousins.  It was windy and cold as northern California beaches tend to be but we had a great time. 

Hannnah never gets cold and loved every minute of it.

Grace was not a fan at first.  She didn't want to walk on the sand and she didn't like the wind.  We thought she'd spend the whole afternoon on the blanket but to our suprise she was really excited to run in the waves. 

We even made a fire on the beach and roasted hot dogs for dinner.



Family Pictures

Our friend Erin Langstraat (http://www.erinnoeldesigns.blogspot.com) is an awesome photographer and took our family pictures on Saturday. Despite Grace not wanting to hold still for more than 2 seconds and Hannah's aversion to looking at the camera, I think we got some great pictures.

Halloween 2010

We had the best Halloween this year. Ever since Jake and the Neverland Pirates came on the Disney channel Hannah has become enthralled with pirates so it was no surprise that Hannah wanted to be a pirate this year for Halloween.

We then thought it would be fun for the whole family to get in on the act.


There were lots of fun Halloween activities. Hannah and her preschool group had a Halloween party.

We carved pumpkins at Grandma and Grandpa Sawyer's house.

Hannah named her pumpkin 'moony".

We enjoyed the ward's trunk or treat especially since cousin Sydney came with us. As you can see she was a pirate as well.

Halloween itself brought trick or treating. We started out at Grandma and Grandpa Simmons' house (mostly to show off our costumes).

Then we met up with the girls' friends for trick or treating in our neighborhood.

After trick or treating, our friends came over for some games. We played bobbing for apples
and eating doughnuts of a string.

We love Halloween.