Emily's Birthday

Emmy got to open a couple presents early at Grandpa and Grandma Alder's on Jessica's birthday.



The morning of her birthday; she is showing us that she is 2!!



Helping me make the cupcakes.





Crystal and Mike came for a fun visit the weekend following Emmy's b-day. They brought presents for the girls and they got to celebrate one more time!! It was fun to do a lot of birthday celebrating this year.



Videos of Emmy on her birthday:

Jessica's Birthday

We were still in Utah for Jessica's birthday. Aunt Janice threw a super fun Princess Party for Jessica and Emily (and went to all this work on her own birthday!) She even brought supplies and guided me through frosting a Cinderella cake for Jessica and a Tinker Bell cake for Emily. The girls had so much fun dressing up with their girl cousins and being princesses!

Christmas

Here it is 1 month later--I have lots of catching up to do!

Here's the way our Christmas Tree looked most of the time this year! The usual decorations were way too fascinating to touch and play with, but the girls had lots of fun coming up with their own decorations for the lower half of the tree (over and over again.)



We had a wonderful trip to Utah for the holidays to be with our families.



We met up with our friends, the Richards, who were in Utah for the holidays as well at temple square.



The Alder Family had an awesome Christmas Party.





We spent Christmas with Nate's family. Christmas Eve we went to the Martineau Christmas Party.





Jessica was very excited about her Cinderella dress...almost as excited as she was about the candy cane!!



Emmy and her new doll and stroller.



Trying out Grandpa's new drill press.



Jessica ate her lollipop from Alden and Kira in one sitting (she even took off her Cinderella dress for a few minutes so she could eat it!!)



We hiked to a missile crash site.



And to some Indian ruins.



Making ice cream for the New Years Party.



We had such a wonderful Christmas--thanks everyone for taking time and thought for us!