Beachin' It

And now presenting the most adorable creature at the beach!

Laying out like Mama
Pop and Nan!

" Where's Daddio?"

Curious George Goes Fishing

Ready for School

Thanks to Aunt Betsy (& Uncle Casey, I'm sure!) I have now taken the cutest picture of Tucker Ryan E-V-E-R. They sent this precious gift for his birthday. I can barely stand it. He put the backpack on and started strutting around like the Big Man on Campus that he is going to be. Southside Methodist Preschool - here he comes!

What do you want to do today? "Kick Kick!"

Tucker's favorite activity of the summer has been swimming ("Kick Kick") lessons. He goes twice a week with Miss Cara and he is almost as obsessed with it as he is with Mimi's car. He squeals when we pull in to the neighborhood and throws his arms up and yells "Yah!" when we get to the pool. So cute...Where's Cara?

Waiting as patiently as possible...

Technique

He mostly just swims to the side and climbs out, but he loves it!
That's a lot of swimming pictures, but I had to document the thing most talked about this summer.

Happy Birthday!

Happy 1st Birthday sweet Olivia!

I love you!

Your friend, Tuck

30.

Bill, Julie, Deena, Darin and us.
Phenomenal trip to Hilton Head without children with two of my very best friends from high school, Julie and Deena. The girls all turned 30 this year. We love that the guys all get along so incredibly well... You might notice that our husbands all look very similar. We have noticed that, too. It is sort of weird.

And Happy Birthday to Deena yesterday (7-7-07)!!! My OLDEST friend (as in friend for the longest time) and the sweetest person you've ever met. We have been true friends for 28 years. Love you Deen!

A Day in the life of Tucker...

is never complete without some good car time. I thought about how much time this child sits perched in his throne back there and wanted to make sure I recorded it with the camera. He loves it back there. Before we leave the house he always asks whether we are taking "Mama's caw or Daddio's twuck". Then he makes sure I have "Mama's keeeeeeeys." Then he sits in the back chirping away the entire ride -- mostly pointing out every car that he knows someone owns. He usually sweats. A lot. Fun times.

4th of July

We had a bunch of friends over including Isabella. She and Tucker both love the camera so they are easy to photograph!

Our sweet Goddaughter, Kathryn. Check out this precious 4th of July dress! Tucker was not in the mood to pose with her.

"And this is my cheesy Daddy-O with his koozie" -- Tucker

Various shots of the child

Sesame Street. Always holds the knees.


Check out those curls.

Male model pose.

A girl!

We have a niece! Congrats to Betsy & Casey on the birth of Katharine Celia McCormac. She was born Thursday, June28th and is going by Celia or Cia. We are hating not being there to meet her in person, but we will hopefully get there soon.

The final hours

The last day Noah was in Jacksonville was spent playing with Tucker. They laughed. They wrestled. They did Legos. It was heart wrenching to say good-bye!

Tucker's Friends

We are so blessed to be able to raise Tucker alongside so many Godly, incredible friends. Tucker is always cute, but he is MUCH cuter when playing with one of his friends!!

Welcome Baby Anna!

We also want to welcome baby Anna Kelley Sims in to the world! Congrats to our dear friends Greg and Gina on their first child born yesterday... you can see pictures of her on their new blog. Love it!

Tucker and Tucker and Cameron

This is how Tucker spends most of his days. Over at the Post Street house - home of Sharp & Sally stationery company! For a couple weeks, he had constant entertainment with baby Cameron and big sister Tucker Sharp to play with. As you can imagine, it is quite confusing to have 2 two year olds (one boy, one girl) with the same name! Tucker Sharp RULES Tucker Ryan! She tells him where to sit and when to go and he takes it :)

Remember when...

May 1 Tucker (10 months old) and William Gituku (16 months old)

The almost-final product

Visualize a nice pale yellow in the kitchen and ocean blue in the bathroom - we haven't gotten that far. We are now close to finishing. As I write, the pedastal sink is being installed. YEAH! We can brush our teeth in the bathroom instead of the kitchen!

There is absolutely no way to thank my Dad and brother. They drove these cabinets and countertops down from St.Louis in a UHaul and worked ALL day and all night until the minute they left. As my Dad said, "What a vacation." We are forever grateful.

Why we haven't blogged

Just a picture of what the chaos was like.
Tuck loves his Pop.

Hanging out with Isabella while the Daddies work.

7 Years of Bliss

Working woman

Adding to the excitement/stress of the past month, I have started working "part-time". It will be part-time soon, hopefully. I am going to "run" our friend Sally's stationery company out of Jacksonville while they live in Atlanta. She and Mike and family have been in town this week and we have literally been there from sun up to sun down getting this thing going.

This is their adorable old house in Riverside, across the river from us, that we have turned in to an ugly warehouse. It looks much worse in the house since these pictures were taken (b/c we have added WAY more stationery and started sending out orders...), but this is where I spend A LOT of time these days.