A baptism and a blessing all in one weekend!

Well it was a pretty amazing weekend in October this year! We had all grandparents converge at our house in Mesa for Janie's baptism on Saturday, and Lukey's blessing on Sunday. Grumpy arrived first on Wednesday morning, then Grandma and Grandpa Tanner came in Thursdy afternoon, and then Grandy came in Friday afternoon. Friday we were able to take the boat out to the lake with everybody and Luke for the first time! He did great too.

 Jonah and Curtis dabbing off the cliff

Saturday was Janie's big day. She was so excited. I am so proud of her for so many reasons. She is such a good friend, unselfish sister, helpful daughter, and loves Jesus!

One memory I have of this day is how sparkly clean and beautiful Janie looked after her baptism. Bishop Wood commented that he could feel the love the Lord has for Janie. I could too, it was a special day for all of us to feel that and be together.

 Our special neighbors came to the baptism and to our home afterward. Janie is their friend and she goes next door to show them a tooth she lost, or to tell them some very important news, or just to get a chocolate chip cookie that Susan always has in the freezer. We love the Mannings!

Sunday morning Sacrament meeting starts at 8:30, so we knew we would need to get up early to be there on time. Well somehow in the night I set my clock ahead an hour, so as we were getting ready I thought we had plenty of time (my clock said 6:30 am), but then Curtis looked at the clock we have in our bathroom and said- wait it's 7:30? Whaaa??  We had wanted to be at the church at 8 am. I had wanted to take pictures of getting Luke into his little outfit etc. Well all of that went out the window, but luckily we were still able to be a few minutes early. We just had to roll! haha! We have watched Hotel Transylvanie too many times. All was great and Curtis gave Luke a beautiful blessing.

It was a beautiful weekend. We were so grateful to have all our grandma's and grandpa's together. So special.

Lukas Tanner LaClaire is born

Why do I have to stay up until 2 in the morning to get a blog post written?! It seems like I have to do everything else first! So we had our little baby on August 2! It seems like a long time ago! We named our little boy Lukas Tanner LaClaire. We love him so much. I can't believe the love I have for this boy. It is so much fun having him around. I was looking at him last week and I couldn't help but notice how familiar he looks to me... like I have known him for a long time. I feel like I am holding all of my babies again when I hold him and that is a special treat. I forgot how much I loved holding and smelling and cuddling those babies.  So special having a baby again in our home. All of us can't wait to hold Luke and talk to him, and make him smile. He has the sweetest little Agoo. He went in for his 2 month check and he was already up to 12 lbs, 2.5 oz, from 7 lbs 12 oz when he was born! Also he sent from 20 inches to 24 inches. It is unbelievable how much he as grown!

39 weeks

The night before Luke was born, we went for a walk over to the park.

And here he is! 7 lbs, 12 oz of little elf man!

 And a squished, blue nose!

My sweet girls love their brother!

So do my boys. They can't get enough of this baby.

 And thank goodness Grandy came too!

Getting ready to leave the hospital!

 The best dad a baby could ever ask for!

He is so small in his carseat! His clean, undefiled carseat. Just wait carseat, adventures are in store.

Precious Lukas Tanner LaClaire

Teeny Tiny butt crack. 

Tanner Family Pictures 2015 and Class of '95 Reunion

It was kind of crazy what we did for pictures this year! 6:30 on top of Chinks Peak! We had a photographer and then I got a few with my camera. My eyes were burning and felt kind of sick but I'm glad we were able to go and get these fun pictures of all of us together.