February so far has been amazing!!! Here are some highlights!!!

First and most importantly, we got to celebrate our Emily's birthday!!!

Emily would give a hug after opening each gift. Here she is hugging Carolyn.

The last gift opened was a gift to all the kids...they had to solve the riddle on the poster...lots of wrapped gifts were a part in the poster they had to put together....

HARRY POTTER WORLD, DISNEY WORLD, FLORIDA BEACH, RESORT STAY....coming to us May 2016!! :)

Let the countdown begin! 106 days...also happens to be Carolyn's birthday!!!

The girls looking at the Florida agenda....

Emily making her birthday cake with me...she kept switching what she wanted the cake to be decorated like...in the end, she choice a Snoopy cake. Yes, we are obsessed with Tommy...so much that we make him the design of our birthday cake.

Best. Expression. Maker. EVER.

So blessed this sweet spirit came to our home 5 years ago. Definitely one of the best days of my life. And she's made every day since then better. In her blessing as a baby, it would said she would bring peace to our home. She does. We love her. And she is amazing.

She got a baseball bat and ball....guess what Emy and I did in the basement for a while on her big day? Yup, played ball :)

She got to choose something to do on her birthday night, she kept changing her mind. First, icestaking. Then movies...a whole bunch of other things. She ended with going to Chuck-E- Cheese :)

BRONCOS parade! It was insane getting there. But we got to see Peyton Manning live and got to be a part of a historical day of a million people gathering in Denver to celebrate SuperBowl 2016!

Some nice ladies let Carolyn sit up with them. They were very nice.

I love the cards Emily constantly gives to me.

Tommy is 5 month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So squishy!! So cute!! So sweet! So happy! So snuggly! So smart! So good! We love this boy!!!

VALENTINES DAY! Andrew made us each a spot on the table to get Valentines stuff from him :) Angela gave Daddy a spot back :)

Andrew made a cup with things he loves about each person. So awesome.

Daddy gave us Mouse Trap.

....we had friends over for a valentine get-together. Andrew made these delicious and beautiful sugar cookies :)

Ethan and Tommy.

Annie and Emily!

Annie, Emily and Seth.

Out of all the students of orchestra at Mortensen Elementary School, her teacher picked CAROLYN to play at a huge orchestra event!! Tons of kids playing to represent their elementary/middle/high school. she did great...the music was amazing!

FEBRUARY 20, 2016....TOMMY ROLLS!!! YAHOO!!! He was laying on this mat and then rolled over to take a look in a mirror!!! We were all freaking out!! GO TOMMY!

Tom Tom and his Nana Blankey.

Angela is rocking gymnastics. Her coaches have to give her different stuff to do than the rest of the class because she is awesome. We love this girl. We love that on Saturdays, we all get to go watch her do gymnastics! She is awesome and makes me smile. She is ALWAYS doing gymnastics...during dinner...during homework....etc.

We have been prepping this boy for Florida!! in the tub and getting splashed like crazy!! hopefully he is Florida ready!

Emily's birthday (again) - getting letters from her awesome loved ones.

Sonja and carolyn at a birthday thing for Sonja.

Broncos win superbowl 2016!

Everyday we count down to the big day we get in a plane! We started the countdown at 106!!!

Emily spending her Grandparent bday money. I didn't take a picture of it, but on Emily's bday party we invited everyone from her primary class over to our house. we had cupcake and sang to her and played. it was so fun to celebrate this special girl!

For Valentines day, i got to go see the girls in their classes...so fun!

more orchestra pictures!

One of my favorite pictures:

This Past Week....

Angela celebrated her 100 days of school. Her 100 Day book was so awesome!

 If I had $100...I would get a beautiful dress. I would wear it. It would have a bow on it. I would wear it all the time. It would be fun to wear and (I'd) wear it a lot."

 "When I am 100 years old...I will not know as much as I do now. I will probably not know how to do gymnastics then. It's probably not going to be that fun when I am 100."

SNOW DAY!!! This past week we had a snow day. The girls slept in their PJs inside out and it worked...snow came and no school. I think the highlights were playing Monopoly, watching a Christmas show (with snow - what else is there to do?:) and just being together. Having Andrew around (although working hard) was amazing.

 For FHE this week, we took on a 14 Day Challenge. When we began our lesson, we shared experiences of when we felt that someone loved us and how that made us feel. The spirit was so strong. I know that as we try to follow our Savior's example and love others we can feel that amazing spirit that was felt when we were sharing experiences together.

 Emily picked out a wonderful Ponderize scripture for our family for the week. How amazing it is that we have been given wonderful things we can do like ponderizing to take our minds to the word of God amongst the craziness and hardness in life. I am so grateful for prayer and that we get to ponderdize "Ye must pray always."

This girl. I love this picture Emily made for Angela on our snow day. Such a great picture with pretty flowers and stayed in the lines amazingly!!!

 Too much prettiness!

More snowday fun :) 

 TOMMY TURNED 5 MONTHS!!!! And this is what this loveable boy is up to....besides being so loved and kissed and hugged and kissed and hugged more than explainable:

- He is such an AMAZING sitter!! Look at the pics :) Carolyn started something with Tommy on Sunday where she would count how long he could sit and then congratulate. His longest time on Sunday was a minute and 7 seconds...and he gets better every day. Oh, don't you just want to kiss those cheeks!!!!! 

 I love this picture below for many reasons. The cute cheeks. The little smirk I can see him making. Oh, I love this boy. Emily has a way of coming up with family jokes. For instance, she loves calling people (especially people that are funny) "Bobby Peyton." It makes us laugh and is used ALL the time. It's random. She started calling Tommy "Spit Spit Boy" about a month ago. It doesn't sound as funny as when she says it. Because...see that face she is making in the above picture? That is sorta the look that describes her passion when saying "Spit Spit Boy." We sure love our Spit Spit Boy.