Firsts

First car ride home from the hospital

First big trip to the cabin!!

It snowed the time we were at the cabin. Brex did awesome and loved all the attention from Grandpa and Grandma

First car accident

This is just a ridiculous story. We were driving to Twin Falls yesterday and came up a hill when a stupid washing machine was just sitting in the middle of our lane. Both of us saw it at the same time (which was too late) and Brady luckily swerved enough to not hit it straight on. He kept it under control and we are so lucky that we didn't roll or that another car didn't hit us or the washing machine as it flew across the other lane. This is a picture of the demolished washing machine and compared to the damage on our car I think that we won the battle. At least our car still runs!! I hate it when washing machines just pop out of nowhere!

First bath at home - did not like it!!

Second bath at home - loved it!!

He was so cute, I can't wait to take him swimming!

First Christmas presents

First Christmas Tree
we celebrated our little family's first christmas way early.

First family picture at home.

I love all of his happy little firsts!! (not the car accident of course) He is so much fun and we do the craziest things to kids, like dress them up in tons of clothes and make them pose over and over again when they can't even smile or hold their head up. Good thing he is such a good sport about all of it!

Random Pics

You can see his little billi light glowing on his backHe looks so little in his swing

Our little avatar baby. He was a little too jaundicy when we took him home from the hospital so he had to wear this biliblanket all day and night for 7 days. We were just happy to have him home instead of under the light in the hospital.

Grandma stayed with us for a week which was so Wonderful!!! It would have been hard to take care of him and the biliblanket with just one person.

I'm sure we'll have many more random pictures to come!

Meet Brexon!!

Brexon decided he loved his mommy so much that he sent me into labor the day after I stopped working. We had him on Thursday Dec 2, 2010 at 6:41 am. He was 7lbs 1 oz, and 19.5 inches long. He is so perfect and had great timing!His full name is Brexon Scott Tucker

Daddy's got the magic calming touch.

Here his is right after birth trying to exercise his little lungs.

This is my favorite picture. He has such big puppy dog eyes that make mom and dad just melt. I love every little wimper he makes, they are just such cute little noises. He's doing great and eating and sleeping like a champ.

We couldn't be more happy! He is just the cutest thing we've ever seen, and makes us smile every time we look at him. The hospital has been so great and now we are ready to face the going home challenge. Wish us luck!!!

Thanksgiving Fun

This year we stayed in Boise and had a Tucker family Thanksgiving before rushing to Twin Falls on Friday to celebrate with the Renchers. The whole weekend turned out really great!
Here I am relaxing with the boys.

Brady didn't even make it past dinner before he took his long Thanksgiving nap.

Here are a few more belly pics (and hopefully the last before the baby comes!)

Now we are ready for Christmas!! Well as ready as we can imagine without a screaming baby to give us a reality check. But I say...Bring It On!!

Nursery

These are a few pics of our nursery so far. I finally finished making the bumper, crib skirt, mobile, pillows, and curtains. Now i just want to make little decorations, a diaper holder, and things like that. My sis Jaylynn gave my the cute poka dot pillow, which matched everything perfectly. Even the back of it is a fuzzy material the same color as the bumper.

I love this picture frame that Amy gave me, and I am so excited that Debbie found some matching wall hangings. I have the best sister/sister-in-laws!

This is a sweet pic of Brady rockin the empathy belly. What a good hubby to come with me to birthing classes!

Happy Halloween!

Our ward had a joint Halloween party with the other married student ward on Friday night. It turned out really well. They had carnival games, a costume contest, pumpkin contest, dancing, and tons of yummy treats. Brady and I blasphemously went as a pregnant nun and a priest or as Brady would say, "sister mother, and father father." Sorry, I can't make the pictures bigger.

For FHE we got together with some friends and carved pumpkins. We decided to carve what we thought our child would look like.

Here is Logan carving with a power drill. Its what we call extreme pumpkin carving.

Like mother, like son

Our little monster! Well ours will probably have less hair.

The Final Rencher Wedding!!

My brother Jeff got married this Saturday and everything went really well. They were sealed in the Twin Falls Temple by her Grandfather which was soooo neat! Here is Jeff and Mikaela walking out of the temple.Just a quick pic while we were waiting for the bride and groom.

Classic open mouth smile

We went to Boise that night for their reception which was at a gorgeous clubhouse that was a two story cabin on a river. Brady and I took the liberty of decorating their car.

My friend has been begging for a belly pic, so after taking a million pictures and hating every one I will finally post this one and be done with it.

It was so much fun to have my whole family together since it hardly ever happens. We are so proud of Jeff for getting sealed to an awesome girl like Mikaela. We just love her and I'm so glad that they live in Meridian so that we can hang out all the time!!!

New Car!!!

Brady and I went to Utah this last weekend to look for a car and get out of town. It was such a fun weekend and luckily was productive. First we found Brady's favorite restaurant from California and Hawaii, L & L Hawaiian BBQ in Salt Lake by accident which made him happy. Then we ate there again in Provo the next day which made him really happy!We found this Santa Fe in Salt Lake after looking for the last few months and we love it! We just wanted a little SUV for our little baby with less than 100,000 miles. And this one only has 70,000 miles, 4 wheel drive, and a tow package. Hopefully it will last us the next few years til Brady is out of school.

We were able to spend some time with Carlie and Coleman in Provo. They made us delicious pasta and we ate tons of caramel corn while watching Conference. I can't wait til we have little babies to play together. She found out on Friday that they are having a girl so now the pre-arranged marriage begins!

We had such a fun time which was nice since this was probably the last little vacation we'll have before we become parents. I can't believe we only have two months left. We still haven't picked a hospital, taken a class, or have anything we need! Hopefully we get better at this parenting thing when our little boy comes.

Day 2

Activity 1...Success
We took the boys to the park and had lunch. Cade first ran to see the giant ducks.
It was such a nice day and the boys did great. It also helped that there was a cage around the park with only one opening so Carson couldn't run off.

Plus there weren't many kids so they had the playground almost to themselves.

Activity 2...almost a success.
We played in the back yard with the hose which went really well until grass started sticking to Carson's feet. He didn't like being wet after that.

So after awhile I dried Carson off and took him to pizza hut to get a pizza while Brady and Cade partied in the water.

Activity 3...Success
So at least the day ended really well with pizza, popcorn, and Toy Story 2.

Earlier while we were driving to the park, we sang Elmo's song three times, and it was so cute I had to record some of it. They know the words so well and would get really loud at their favorite parts. The rest of the ride Cade pointed out all of the mazdas, jeeps, and hondas, plus they would say the colors of the cars. Such smart boys!!!