Party Like A Rockstar!

Bowling!

Bowling balls are heavy!

Both 5 now!

Yummy Birthday Cake!

Beaver hat from Auntie Rach!

An electric guitar! He's wanted one of these since last Christmas!
I see a Rock Star career in his future!

Alex is five! Wow.....five years old! His 2nd Birthday with us! So amazing! He had a rock star party with his neighbor boy friends and with Emmett. Had to limit the amount of boys he wanted to invite as the list was quite long and I wasn't up for 20 little boys running through the house. Then on his real Birthday Matt and Kristi were here. We went and had donuts in the morning and then went to a new family friendly (not smokey and gross) bowling alley here. He had a great time. Then we went out to dinner to a Hawaiian restaurant since he LOVES pulled pork and rice. After that we had cake. He had so much fun opening his presents and loved everything he got. He is the sweetest, funniest, greatest boy ever!!

Twin Stuff

Here's Avery in her new cute outfit that she got for her Birthday with her doll Lizzie. Not to be confused with the dark haired twin doll named Liz.

Here are our little twinners with their new Mickey and Minnie "stufties" as the like to call stuffed animals. They were quite shocked when they each received a letter from Mickey and Minnie with a little chart. The letters told them each if they could fill out all the boxes by accomplishing certain goals, that Minnie and Mickey would come to their house to live! It took over a month, but they both did it, and on the same day too. (Mommy didn't have to fudge on that at all to make it happen on the same exact day. She would never give one child a couple extra x's in the chart to make it work out that way. That would be too easy.) Anyway on the day the charts were complete, much to their surprise the doorbell rang. When they went running to see who was there, they were thrilled to find Mickey and Minnie! They now sleep with their stuftie every night. And Mommy almost never has to threaten to send them back for failure to comply with the rules. ☺

The Cuties

Karis just loves this picture of Stripes. "It's just the cutest picture in the world!" she said.

Here is our beautiful growing up girl! Our gorgeous Belle all dressed up for school!



And our adorable Karis Rach all ready to take on the day! I love that I can still coordinate the girlies outfits!
They like to pretend they are twins!



Halloween

Here's the littles before Preschool. And no you aren't seeing double, there are two Spider Mans!
Bet you can't guess which one is Emmett!

Hailey as a Dog

Karis as a Cat

Halloween was lots of busy fun. In fact, so busy that I forgot to take any pics of the girls, except these two! Darn it! It was getting dark and I didn't even get all of Karis' costume, which essentially was her Birthday outfit from Grandma.....the tutu skirt and cat shirt, and then the cat mask.

They all had parties at school, and then the Noel's came over for soup and trick-or-treating. Kiddos all got a ton of candy and had a great time. In fact, they went for 2 hours and kept wanting to go to all the "spooky, creepy" houses. Our neighborhood goes all out with lights and decorations, so it makes for a really fun time.

Bath Time Visitor

The kiddos were taking a bubble bath, when all of a sudden Tucker jumped in!! I yelled to keep him in until I could get the camera. Good times!

Tucker is a great little dog. Alex loves to give him treats and to snuggle with him. Here they are in the morning watching a show while Alex drinks his smoothie, sporting his necklace he made at Preschool. Cute!