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. 

Curtis and Becky in Washington D.C.

Curtis had some meetings for work, so he took me along for a long weekend! It was an awesome getaway. What a beautiful, green, clean city. We explored a little bit together, and then while CJL was in meetings I went to the Museum of American History at the Smithsonian. 

I love old buildings smushed together.

The road in front of the White House was blocked off and there was some serious looking security.

Washington Monument

Ford's Theater

What a great man was President Lincoln. Humble, teachable, allowed others faults while he carried a unbearable load. A patriot.

I had been to Washington D.C. one time before, on a school trip in 9th grade. It brought back alot of memories coming back and visiting many of the same place almost 25 years later.  I was talking to one of the security guards at the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, about how faded the documents looked now. I remember taking pictures of them when I came before. She said that was probably one of the reasons they were faded, because flash photography was allowed for so many years. It was absolutely weird to talk about a memory I had from more than 20 years ago. In one way I felt like I had some credible life experiences, but it made me realize that I am closer to being 50 than I am comfortable with!! Time marches on!!!