ALL smiles!

Tucker was so sweet tonight! He was smiling a ton and it is so hard to catch it on camera but here are a few attempts! It was much better in person :)

Happy Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope you're all having a great day! It has been a fun day for us... we hosted our first Thanksgiving at our house! We can't take all the credit because my mom has been here helping us cook for the last few days, but it was fun to make our own turkey, eat on our china (for the first time I think :) on our dining room table, and have our family here with us! We also got to have my dear friend Sharon and her little baby boy with us since her husband and daughter went to visit some relatives. Enjoy some pictures from our day!

Brad worked the last few days to get our turkey ready...it was SO delicious!


The fam


Tucker's first Thanksgiving!


Our boys!

Tucker Weekly

Tucker is 7 weeks! I could really tell he was growing this week... He is smiling a lot more and when you make faces at him he seems to be trying to imitate the face back to you. He is cooing and it is the cutest thing I've ever heard! And he is definitely growing...I don't think his 0-3 month clothes will fit much longer even though he's not quite 2 months old yet! He's sleeping well...only waking up one time between 11 and 8! He's gotten into a great routine and we are having so much fun!

In light of this Thanksgiving week, we are SO thankful for our little one...he brings me the most joy without saying a word and although this hasn't been the easiest journey, I'm completely content to hang out with him all day long! We're so thankful for his great health and these 7 sweet weeks that we've gotten to spend with him!

Do they look like best buds or what?

Meet Bosten... He's automatically best friends with Tucker because we're best friends with his parents, Ryan and Sharon :) He was born 2 weeks after Tucker, although by the difference in head size, you would think it was more than that! They had their first playdate and thanks to Sharon, we have cute pictures to show for it! And we didn't even plan the stripes for this cute photo shoot!
Cute boys...

Toast and Jesus

Well, Tucker had a few more firsts today! We finally made it to church! It's funny because we started going to our church, Life Fellowship, back in the Spring, so I've never been when I wasn't pregnant! We all made it out the door and were only 5 minutes late! It was great to be there and fun to introduce Tucker to some friends there! He slept through the whole thing of course :) After church, we headed to one of our favorite local restaurants, Toast! They have great b-fast, brunch, lunch...we love it all! Tucker, I'm sure you'll spend many more weekend mornings at Toast!

Tucker meets the girls!

Tucker and I had such a fun weekend! My college best friends got together at the lake to hang out and celebrate Jen, who is expecting her first baby in January! This was also the first time most of them had met Tucker so we had a lot of fun reasons to get together! Tucker and I hung out last night and then went back this morning to spend the day. It was so fun for me to watch my friends love on my boy! These girls have faithfully prayed for Tucker before he was ever here and they are some of the most constant friends in my life--I'm so thankful for them! I'm so excited for Jen, who is having a little boy also--we can't wait to meet little Micah! Rebecca also has a little boy, Luke, who is almost two...so, we are working on a basketball team! Thanks for a fun weekend--Tucker had fun with the girls!







I think we wore Tucker out!

Tucker Weekly

So, I'm getting a little slack on the weekly update... forgive me my faithful blog stalkers! :) Well, Tucker was 6 weeks old yesterday! I just mentioned to Brad that he might be having a growth spurt since that is common for 6 weeks and he replied, "Doesn't he have one of those every other day?" That's about the rate our little guy seems to be growing! He is more and more in tune with what's going on around him...staring at you and things around him and even starting to smile! Hopefully we can catch a smile on camera soon! I think he has a dimple or two...and he usually lifts one side of his mouth much higher than the other--this smile melts me! He loves to lay on his blanket and watch his DVDS in the morning and he's still a champ when it comes to being in his car seat and "on the go"! We had a fun photo shoot with Sharon this week for our Christmas cards so that's where this cute red striped picture comes from...you'll have to wait to see our Christmas card of course :) Gigi got to come visit the last few days while Brad had to go out of town so Tucker has been spoiled once again and gotten lots of Gigi love! We have a fun weekend ahead since Tucker and I are getting to hang out with my best friends from college...we'll be sure to share pictures from that!