Happy 5th Birthday Twins

Pottery Barn Backpacks from Mom and Dad

The twins wanted to decorate for their party with balloons and crep paper.

Aprons for the twins Baking Birthday Party

Chef Hats to decorate for the twins Birthday Baking Party

Ceramic Cupcake Piggy Banks to paint for the twins birthday favors.

Hot Chocolate Bar complete with Chocolate Chips, Peppermint, Marshmallows, and Whipped Cream

Chef Hat Decorating

Birthday Girls

Chef Emily

Chef Elizabeth

All the party goers: Emily, Abigail, Dru, Lucy, Halle, Isabelle, Brookelle, Elizabeth, Tatem, Grace

Painting Cupcake Piggy Banks

Pin the Cherry on the Cupcake

Cupcake Decorating

Opening Gifts

Birthday Breakfast - Rainbow Pancakes, Scrambled Eggs, Orange Julius

3 Months Old

Time is flying by at turbo speed! Carson is already 3 months old. It seems like time goes by so slowly when you are pregnant, but as soon as the baby comes, boy does it fly by. Carson is such a good happy baby. We love him so much. He coos and smiles and gave us his first giggle.

We love the bowtie onesies that everyone made at the baby shower . Carson looks so daper in his bowtie ready for church.

Happy New Year

One of our New Years Eve Activities (see balloons below) was to go sledding up at ISU. It has been really snowy lately and we had to take the opportunity to play in the snow.

For New Years Eve, I filled each balloon with a piece of paper with an activity on it and the girls would pop the balloon each hour until midnight and we would do the activity as a family. I think they liked it and it may be an activity that we need to repeat next year.

2012 Christmas Festivities

Our Christmas Festivities began this year with cookie making. We made cut-out sugar cookies for Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Mark, and of course, Santa.

Watch Out - Misty Has a Rolling Pin!

We got a pretty good snow on Christmas Eve - Perfect for a Snowball Fight

Baby Claus

A Little Elf on her way to Grandma's House for Christmas Eve Dinner

Family Picture on Christmas Eve - All Six of Us

Grandma & Grandpa Ralphs with the Kiddos

 

Abigail, Emily & Elizabeth sang Silent Night for Grandma and Grandpa

After the Christmas Eve Dinner, we came home and got into our Christmas PJ's

Mommy & The Girls

Daddy & Carson both had footed pajamas this year.

Of course mom and dad had to gross the kids out with a Christmas Eve Kiss.

The whole fam in our blue Christmas PJ's

Christmas Morning - Elizabeth Opening Up Her Stocking

Emily discovers what is in her stocking.

Abigail could hardly contain her excitement about her stocking.

We had Reindeer Pancakes and Candy Cane Fruit Kabobs for Christmas Breakfast

And the traditional Stocker Family Christmas Breakfast Casserole

 

And Orange Julius' to drink

After Breakfast the kids opened their sibling gifts, they each drew names. Abigail drew Carson and got him a playmat. He was so excited he slept through the whole thing and Abigail had to open his gift.

Elizabeth gave Emily a Princess Cadence Pony

Emily gave Abigail a Lip Gloss Chemistry Lab.

 

Not Pictured - Carson gave Elizabeth a remote control monster truck.

The girls opened their gifts from Grandnan and Papa Stocker - American Girl Dolls - So Cool!

 

Also not pictured - Grandma and Grandpa Ralphs gave each of the girls Kidzoom digital cameras. What a fun, neat gift!

The Magic of Christmas

DSDS put on another fabulous Christmas show. The twins were in two dances, a ballet number called Jingle, Jingle, Jingle (which Abigail did when she was three), and a Jazz/Hip Hop Number called Poodle Party which was a mix of songs that used the word "dog". Abigail was in four dances, a tap number to Nuttin for Christmas (which I did not get pictures of because we were in a rush), a ballet number to Oh Come All Ye Faithful, and her competition dance to Cotton-Eyed-Joe, and of course the finale. We spend a lot of time and money dancing these days, but it is totally worth it cause the girls love it!