My Precious Niece has arrived! Claire Abigail Tucker 6 lbs. 11 oz. April 18, 2009

A visit from David's sister

Krysta and the new boyfriend, Greg and their combined 5 kids came for a visit during Spring Break. It was so great to meet him and see that he was truly a gentleman with 2 very sweet and well-mannered little girls and he treated Krysta wonderfully! We did a few of the typical tourist type things to do. We went to the Aquarium and the Zoo and had a lot of fun watching the kids soak it all in. Apparently everyone else had this same idea because these places were packed. It's so neat to see the world from a child's view!

A vacation to the Goodrich home

The Annual Easter Egg Hunt at my Mom's House

Austin is a natural born hunter. He had his mind set to win this thing until he saw the hill. Once he noticed that, it was all over... every Easter egg went down the side of it along with some other rocks and logs!

So Sweet!

Dave's 7th graders are so cute! Austin had strep throat and David stayed home with him. While he was out, they all made him a get well card. Austin really got into it!

A Relaxing Weekend in Gatlinburg with the Family

This kid can make a mess in no time!

We turn our backs for a minute and he's got the bathtub filled with household items, the dryer is filled with pantry items, and anything that he could dump and smear is dumped!! He's an explorer to say the least.

What a big boy!

Austin made himself at home in our classroom reading corner. Who would ever know that he's not one of the big kids?

Thing 1 and Thing 2

Feeding the ducks

Our new family thing is to go and feed these crazy ducks (mostly geese actually). Austin could stand here all day and throw bread to the ducks. Dave could throw bread AT the ducks all day!

What a little man

Austin is always wanting to brush his teeth and dress up in Daddy's accessories. He found this hat and put it on by himself. This is a typical Austin look! Can't you just squeeze him?

Austin's Class Valentine's Day Party

He's loving this fruit!









Austin passed out all of his Valentines just like a big boy. This was the cutest thing ever!!!

"I got all of my goodies and I'm ready to go eat it!"

What a night!

A very sweet Birthday

So every year when my birthday is about to roll around again, I hint to David that I love Baskin Robbins Birthday cakes and that I'm not that into regular cakes, and every year he doesn't get it and I do get a regular cake. Not this year! I never even said anything this year because I thought, "What's the use," and low and behold he came home with a Cookies and Cream Baskin Robbins Birthday cake. Way to go Babe!

Imaginations... why didn't I think of a place like this?

Create Your Own

Our Family in Michigan

Building one ugly snowman!

"Well, I'm supposed to be helping Daddy build a snowman but instead I'll last about 5 minutes in this same position before I get really mad!" -Austin

Christmas with Snow?

Obviously us Georgians are not used to a snowy Christmas, and I gotta tell you, it is not all its cracked up to be! Yea, its pretty, but your feet get soaked when you walk outside even for a second and then your shoes have this gray film across them, the driveway must get shoveled each time someone wants to come or go, all of the windows of your car have to get scraped with a credit card in your wallet, the roads feel as if you are constantly crossing railroad tracks because they are so destroyed from all of the snow, the cars are all a dingy gray color from all of the salt, and the crunching noiseyou hear as you walk across thesnowis equivalent to running your nails across the chalk board! Next time you hear the joys of a white Christmas, you too can laugh and say, "Thank goodness I wasn't there!"