Oct 26, 2009

2nd Year Pictures




I finally went and got Tucker's 2nd birthday pictures taken.  Our friends, Michelle and James, own a photography business and they took the pictures.  We are so thrilled with how they turned out!  Aaron keeps saying that our son is a model.  I have to agree, Tucker is really cute.








We took the pictures on campus in the Ricks Garden. Idaho isn't as pretty as Ohio in the Fall, but the Garden had a lot of pretty trees and colors.  Tucker had so much fun being able to run around outside.










Tucker did a great job smiling in the beginning.  If we asked him to say cheese, he would smile and scrunch up his face.  It was so cute.  He would do his charming smile when we asked him to smile.  After a while, he just ignored us and had fun playing with sticks.

I told Tucker that he reminded me of Papa because he went around stabbing all of the bushes with a stick.  As long as Tucker didn't lose to the bush like Papa had growing up, I was ok with it.

Sep 21, 2009

The Baby












I realized the other day that I didn't include a picture of our ultrasound from 2 months ago.  Here is the latest picture of our youngest child!

Sep 4, 2009

Tucker's 2nd Birthday

Tucker is in this Nemo kick right now, so I did a Nemo cake for his birthday.  It doesn't look exactly like Nemo, but I wasn't being a perfectionist on it either.  Tucker's favorite part was the icing.  He even tried scrapping the icing off of my piece of cake!




Elmo was talking, so Tucker was being polite and carried on a conversation with Elmo.  He is so funny! He enjoyed opening his gifts, but he enjoyed playing with them even more.

He really enjoys his guitar that Great-Grandma Starr got him.  Now he can play along with is Daddy.  Tucker looks so grown up sitting in his bean-bag.  He cracks me up about crossing his ankles when he sits.  He has done that since he was born.  Even when I nursed him as a tiny baby he crossed his legs.

Papa made the wooden horse for Tucker.  At first Tucker just wanted to "feed" the horse.  Once he realized that it rocked, he is on it all the time.  He even just sits on it while watching his movies.  What a cute kid!

 Aaron and I just celebrated our 3rd year Anniversary.  We went to a Chukars baseball game and had a great time.  We must have given them some luck because they actually won the game.  I still can't believe that it has been 3 years.  I guess it is a good thing because we have a 2 year old so I better have been married for at least 3 years. :)

Aug 26, 2009

Portland

Our vacation to Portland was really fun. Our car did amazing, thanks to Aaron and Grandpa.  We were really impressed with how well Tucker handled the drive.  He was so content just eating and looking out the window.
We learned a lot about Aaron's future Chiropractic school and about Portland.  We are so excited to move there.  The whole thing will be quite an adventure!
We took Tucker to a park in Portland because he deserved it from being in a car for hours on end.  Tucker is a great kid.  He makes friends where ever he goes.  He made a friend with a little girl named Bella.  
We stopped on the west coast at Seaside mostly for Aaron.  Aaron really loves the ocean.  Come to find out,  Tucker really loves the ocean too.  Mom, me, was being a whip and did not want to go into the cold water.  Aaron and Tucker on the other hand went right in.  Aaron actually boogie boarded and Tucker could not get enough of the waves.  Tucker laughed every time a wave came in and hit his legs.  He thought it was hilarious.  
On the way home we stopped off at a rest area and there was a small river right beside it.  Of course, Tucker being like his father, could not resist getting in the water.  We let him have his way because once again he deserved it from the long hours in the car.  He had so much fun in that river.  He was content just sitting in the water and throwing the rocks that were around him.  Aaron got in the water too.  He did not sit in the water, but he played in it too.  I just stayed on the land and took pictures of the two of them.  Tucker may look like me, but his interests are the same as his Dad's.

Jul 12, 2009

Anything with Wheels!

Tucker was able to enjoy two of his favorite things, playing with Grandpa and a toy with wheels!  He had lots of fun "steering" the lawn mower.  He also loved turning the key a lot. Grandpa probably didn't like that as much though. :)

May 9, 2009

Here is Baby 2 at 11 weeks!!! It has electric moves cause it was dancing something fierce. 
Tucker becomes a big brother December 2.