Thursday, July 31, 2008

Emily Celia - 6 Months Old

Could we get some more drool please?

Elizabeth Claire - 6 Months Old

What pretty blue eyes!

The Fabulous Five

This was the best family shot, it is not my favorite picture of all of us, but it is pretty difficult to get everyone to look at the camera all at once when you are dealing with the Ralphs crew. I wanted to put this picture in my blog heading, but I couldn't figure out how to, the picture kept showing up huge. Any suggestions?

Everyone Is Growing Like A Weed

Darin and I took all of the kids to the doctor yesterday for their well check-ups and immunizations. Everyone is growing wonderfully and each kiddo endured 4 shots and I made it (barely) through all twelve. Good thing Darin was there for all of his girls. Elizabeth - 6 months old
Weight: 16 lbs 15 oz
Height: 25 3/4 inches
Head Circumfrence: 17.9 inches

Emily - 6 months old

Weight: 19 lbs 9 oz

Height: 26 1/2 inches

Head Circumfrence: 17.6 inches


Sitting with support. Aren't They Cute!


Abigail - 4 years old

Weight: 35 lbs

Height: 40 inches

Abigail - 6 months old

Weight:16 lbs 4 oz

Height: 27 1/2 inches

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

We're Back From Texas


It has been a while since we have blogged cause we have been in Texas for the past three weeks visiting friends and family. We had great fun and soaked up lots of Texas sun. So, since we haven't blogged in a long time, we have a whole bunch to post.

On The Road

The girls did great traveling 24 hours in the car to Texas and 24 hours back from Texas. Just a few moments of chaos, which is great considering what it could have been. Elizabeth
Abigail
Emily

4th of July

We spent the 4th of July with the Stocker Family.
Independence Day Dresses
We watched fireworks at UNT.

We Are Family

Unfortunatelly, I kept forgetting my camera when we would go visit cousins and friends, but here are some of the shots we got because Darin remembered to take pictures. Grandma Mimi & Emily
Grandma Mimi with Emily & Grandpa Del with Elizabeth
Cousins Victora & Savanna Mitchell with the twins
Aunt Tracie with Elizabeth & Aunt Sheralyn with Emily
Big Laughs with Papa Carl

Swimming

I have decided that the thing that I miss the most about Texas besides family of course, is swimming. We made it a point to swim almost every day while we were there. Abigail took swimming lessons at the Stocker Swim School of course and I taught the twins in a Water Babies class. She is doing much better because of the lessons. Now, I have to find a pool in Idaho that we can practice in, so she doesn't forget everything that she learned.
Abigail was fortunate to have Grand Nan as her teacher.
Abigail is floating all by her self for Sherry, a swim school assistant.

Birthday Parties Galore

With 18 grandchildren on the Ralphs side of the family, you are bound to attend a birthday party or two if you stick around for a couple of weeks. Abigail's cousins Brendan & Triston (yes they are twins) turned 5 while we were in Texas. Abigail had a blast at their Batman birthday party.

Abigail turned 4 on July 19th and her birthday wish was to have a Little Mermaid swimming party at Grand Nan's house. This is abigail's pre-party present. Abigail was Ariel for a day in this gear.


Abigail had so much fun with her Texas friends and cousins and grandparents. Thanks to all that attended, you made her day very special.