Halloween

Hello all,
I am sorry I have not updated this in awhile. Here are a few pictures. First is Tucker asleep on the couch. We came home after
church one Sunday and were running over to my Mom's for dinner in one hour. We didn't try to get Tucker to take a nap, he has been having a hard time on the weekends napping. We figured by the time we got him asleep it would be time to go to Mom's. We turned on Tom and Jerry for him (Ever since Caleb was here he has wanted to watch that a lot. I know it has been months but he loves it.) and he fell asleep.

Next is Halloween. Tucker told us about a month ago that he wanted to be superman for Halloween. He kept saying the same thing over and over again. I don't remember ever talking about superman or ever seeing a cartoon but he knew who he was and could pick out the superman costume from all of the other costumes.

I went out and bought him the 30 dollar costume with the built up chest. I was so excited to have him put it on and I figured that he would never want to take it off. He hated it! He would not even put it on. he was scared of it. He liked the cape and wanted to keep that, but wanted nothing to do with the costume. The next day I went to Old Navy and found a superman shirt. He loved it. I returned the costume and he was happy as could be. I was going to make him a cape but one of the girls that I work with said that she had a cape and that he could use it. It was great!
The hair is another story. We decided that Superman could not have blond hair and got some of the spray hair color. It took 2 times of going over it to get it dark and it rubbed off on everything. We had a black bathtub ring from the color. At the end of the night it was all over his face and he looked like he had been rolling in the mud.

Smiling happy Superman! He had a great night and was so tired. I was so grateful that it was daylight savings time so we had an extra hour to sleep in.

We hope you all had a great Halloween! Love to all Hunter, Brooke and Tucker

Zoo part 2

The monkeys were so funny! They kept holding there hands out for people to throw food out for them. This on actually took an animal cracker out of the water before the fish could get it. The koi were amazing! There were thousands of them.

Tucker and his elephant!

I loved this picture of the gorilla feet. It was in a tunnel that went over our walkway, it just looked like he was relaxing!

One of the trainers came out and was giving the big cats there meds in balls of meat. The cats loved it.
Love to all !

Omaha Zoo

Hello all
We went to the zoo in Omaha this weekend. It was the best zoo that I have been to. We left on Friday after work and came home on Sunday afternoon. It was a short drive and we stayed in a great hotel (thanks again Stacy). We spent the whole day there, we got there right when it opened at 8:30 and stayed until 4:00. It was a long fun day. There is a lot to be said about getting there early and beating the crowd. We did the aquarium and the bug house first thing we walked right thought with out a line and lots of room to stop and look. When we were walking back by at 3:30 to see the aquarium again the line to get in was out the door! Tucker wanted to go again but we didn't want to wait in line. We got in the car and he was asleep in two minutes!

When Tucker gets scared he covers his ears. Here the shark is swimming over the top of the tank. They had a tank that had sharks, stingrays, and all sorts of other fish that you actually walked through the center. It was about 30 feet long and10 feet wide. It was so cool! I should have gotten a picture of the walkway.

This was a big cylinder tank, so cool!

This was I think the coolest fish, it is a leafy sea dragon. Love it!

If you ask Tucker what his favorite animal at the zoo he will tell you a elephant, and his favorite part of the zoo was the train ride. We had so much fun and will have to go again soon . I will put more pictures up of the zoo.
Love to all! Hunter, Brooke and Tucker

Dino Tie

Hello all,
We have have had a busy summer. I finished my school and have spent some time just relaxing. Hunter is still working, the nice summer has not helped his business much. He has stayed busy all summer, so that is all we can ask for.

Tucker has been.... 3. It has been a fun summer with him talking and showing his strong wiled personality more.we are in the "why" stage right now. Everything is "but why?" Some times fun, sometimes.... He moved into a preschool class this week. He could have moved at the beginning of the summer, but I wanted him to be with a certain teacher so he waited until she had room in her class. He is doing great and loves the new work he gets to do. He is so smart and full of energy. He can count for 1-20 in English and 1-10 in Spanish. He can identify about half of the alphabet and in the store when we are picking fruit he wants ten of everything. I don't know why 10, but that is his fav. number right now. We had to walk out of the store one day with him yelling that he wanted 10 lemons, I only needed two and he knows the difference. He loves to dance sing the move it move it song (Madagascar) and Who let the dogs out. He loves dinosaurs! He can name the dinosaurs and can tell you the difference between a brontosaurs and a brackisaurs (he says a broccliesaurs).

Kathy sent him a new tie a few weeks ago and I had to post some pictures .He is in an Elvis smile stage. he needs a hair cut too. I love my little gappy toothed child, what a blessing!

Tucker

Tucker has been so funny lately. Last weekend we had a few adventures. First while Hunter was in Priesthood session of conf. I wen tot the store. I looked back at Tucker about half way to the store and noticed that he didn't have his shoes on. Not a big deal, he likes to take his shoes off in the car. When I got to the store I went around to look for his shoes on the floor of the car, but there were no shoes. I asked him where his shoes were and he told be that they were "bye bye" If you guesses that he threw them out the window of the car, you would be right. Luckily we were close to Moms' when he did it and we found them. The next day during conf. they were saying the closing prayer of afternoon session on Sunday he came in crying "ducky bye bye. " Hunter went it to the bathroom where he was pointing and yup, he flushed a little rubber ducky down the toilet. Two and a half hours later, one wax seal and the garden hose with a high pressure nozzle on it later the duck was recovered.

We are so blessed to have him in out lives. I told him on Easter that he looked cute in this new outfit (I need to take some pictures, he got dirty before I could take pictures) he looked at me and said "not cute, cool." He is such a funny boy!
Love to all!

Easter Part 1

I am sorry that I have not put pictures up in a while. We have had a lot of fun stuff going on, just not a lot of time. So this is Easter from this morning. We got up and Tucker came out, saw his basket and ran to the table. He got the movie Madagascar, he loves it! He calls it the move it move it movie. He also got a car, some cars tattoos, some I spy books(he loves to find the pictures in the books) ans some candy.

After the basket we have not had a chance to dye eggs so we did that tis morning. I read someplace about putting stickers on the eggs and then dying them and that it looked really cool. I will have to go back and look againg at the idea because the stickers that we have didn't really work. Tucker had fun sticking them all over his body!

Yesterday we went on an egg hunt at the lake. Tucker knew that there was candy in the eggs and he kept picking up the eggs, opening them and they trying to eat the candy. He eventualy figured out that he could keep the candy and that he just needed to pick up the eggs and put them in his bucket.

So my Mom has been telling me that I need to get pictures of myself and Tucker. Most of the time I am the one taking the pictures. So here you go Mom. I changed the color so you can't see that all of my makeup rubbed off, I had an early meeting. We have Stake Conf. this weekend and I had an early saturday morning meeting.

We will get more pictures up later today, I also have some fun stories to tell about last weekend. Tucker is so fun and we are so blessed to have him in our lives.

Love to all and Happy Easter!

My Shoes

Tucker loves my shoes. I think he likes the noise that they make on the floor. Most of the time that he is in my shoes he is in his underwear. I think that this is blackmail for later in life.
"Tucker you need to..... or I will show your friends 'the pictures.' "

Hope everyone has a great week! Brooke