Today, March 24 2016 TOMMY CLAPPED for the first time!!! Adorable!!

He LOVES being sung "If You're Happy and You Know it Clap Your Hands." He smiles real big.

WE love our Tommy.

Emily says we can now call Tom "Clap Clap boy".... perhaps  he has graduated from "spit spit boy"

We love our happy clapping baby!

THREE greats!

1. Emily loves games. So they are played often. Today we were playing "Disney Pictopia" She was ahead of me in the game (like she often is) and said, "I am always beating you up." It made me giggle.

2. TODAY, March  11th, at 6 months - Tommy went on a swing for the first time. Pure cuteness. HE. LOVED. IT.

3. Tommy also starting riding in a shopping cart in the seat!!! So exciting :) His first time was Monday, I believe!

Being a mother brings about the most sweet and tender moments that can not be replicated in any other way. Just a minute ago I had a tender and sweet moment like those. Those moments that make me cry and thank my Heavenly Father that I am a mother - a most divine and important calling.

Carolyn, Angela, and Emily had just worked for an hour cleaning their room. They worked together so amazingly and worked so hard. Their room completely transformed in an hour. After that is when my amazing moment happened. I was in the kitchen holding my cute and sweet Baby Tommy...in one room next to me was Carolyn playing "I love to see the Temple" - she on her own took it upon herself to prepare to play that for FHE. In the next room to me (also without me asking them to do so) was Angela and Emily preparing together to share a Family History story for FHE. It was one of the most tender moments. So grateful to be a mother.

I am a mother.

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!

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