The Tucker Times

Great family!

2009-03-04T22:18:00.001-08:00

I wanted to share with you some pictures of our family. We have a great family!! We all get along and have a great time when were together. There are nine grandkids total in the family so it is starting to get louder when we are together under one roof. My parents still live in the house we grew up in and we all live within 30 minutes of their house. Grandpa and grandma enjoy when we visit and sometimes they enjoy when we leave if the grandkids are running crazy!!

The whole Tucker family, everyone is there!!

Rach and Brett

Ryan and Holly

Natalie and Dave

Jen and Ryan

Happy 10th Birthday Porter!!

2009-03-01T20:10:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Porter!! Porter's birthday is tomorrow, March 2nd, he will be ten years old. Porter is a great kid to have in our family, he is obedient and takes pride in being the oldest. I can't believe that ten years ago we were having our first kid, how time flies!! Let us share with some good things to know about Porter:

1. He is named after Ryan's mission companion, Dan Porter

2. He was my longest labor before he was born, about 15 hours!!

3. He loves legos and can build about anything

4. He loves his cousins, ecspecially the boys around his age

5. He s cheese but he loves cheese crisp for lunch

6. He is very organized and knows every toy that is his, down to the smallest lego

7. He is a great student at school and does very well in math like his dad and grandpa

8. He has an excellent memory

9. He loves basketball and his favorite player is Steve Nash

10. He loves to tease his sister Hallie

11. He fell out of Grandpa Flake's truck and had to get stiches on his 1st birthday

Porter and his cousin Tucker

At the beach in Cali, Porter loves the beach!

That was a good chocolate strawberry

Coach and son during Little League

Handsome!!

New legos for Christmas 2007

My new suit for Christmas 2007

First day of 2nd grade

Scout day camp

2009-03-01T16:16:00.001-08:00

I am the leader over the 11 year old scouts in the ward and recently we had a day camp. The boys did a great job!! I have a wonderful group of boys and they all are eager to learn in scouting. 11 year old is a fun age because they are still excited to learn new things and look forward to the troop meetings each week. Porter is 10 years old so he will be in my troop next year.

Grant Driggs and Kaden Fulps

Ammon Davis

Coda McLaws

The Rattlesnakes: Troop 136

Hallie's baptism and snow trip

2009-02-21T18:47:00.000-08:00

I know it is hard to believe but the Tucker's are blogging again!! It has been a while since our last post so I am sure you are all in shock to see a new post. We are not going to back track all the way to last July but we will start with the new year of 2009!

Hallie was baptized on January 17th and it was a great day for her. She was so excited to get baptized and looked beautiful in her baptism dress. Hallie always has a smile on her face and makes friends with everyone she comes in contact with. The day was special for Hallie and we are excited she made the decision to be baptized.

After the baptism, we headed up to Show Low to stay at the Tucker's cabin. We wanted to enjoy the three day weekend and the snow. The kids loved the snow!! We went sledding at a golf course nearby and everyone had a great time. Rachel and Brett were there with their kids. It is so nice to get away once and a while and enjoy a family trip with the kids.

Hallie and Ashlyn, her we go!!

The whole family in the snow, we had a great time

Jen and Ryan, 11 years together!

Porter just wiped out in the snow

Brodee on the sled down the hill

Hallie with her Grandma and Grandpa Tucker

Jen made the dress for the baptism, what a talent!

Porter, Hallie, Brodee, and Ashlyn

Hallie and her dad in their baptism clothes

Hallie and her dad on her special day!

Hallie, her mom, and Ashlyn...the three cutest girls!

Paisley Blair

2008-07-07T17:29:00.000-07:00

Shelley had her beautiful baby GIRL yesterday. She weighed 7lbs. 13 oz.

Not the best picture of me, but our 2 hour trip home from Heber turned into 4 hours because of traffic.

I love the little tongue so cute.

The only sad part about this is not having our Mom around to celebrate with. Mom I am giving Paisley lots of kisses for you and wispering in her ear how much you love her.
Congratulation Shell and Rusty she is beautiful!!!

Cali

2008-07-01T22:16:00.000-07:00

Last week we went to Oceanside with the Tucker's. We do this every year and always have so much fun. We have the traditional walk every morning. Then we go to the beach and usually out to dinner at night. We all love the beach and we are so sad to be home.

This is the girls on the little puting green just outside our room.

Here are the boys aren't they hansome.

Lana brought everyone out popsicles one day. Perfect for a hot day on the beach.

Here is everyone on the pier. You can't really tell, but there was so much fog. It was so crazy. Look at Nat's hair it looks like it is wet. It wasn't wet before we left it was just from all the humidity in the air. Everyone elses hair is like that too you can just see it better at the bottom of Nat's hair. It was Crazy!

This is also on one of our walks. The whole fam.

The funny guy

2008-07-01T21:05:00.000-07:00

We always knew Brodee would funny ever since he was little. He would make this face. We would call it the funny face and when we told his to do the funny face he would amuse us and do it. So here is another funny from Brodee.
We were at Grandpa's house swimming with cousins. Brodee had gotten out of the pool and was shivering in a towel when Grandpa said
"Brod why don't you go lay in the sun and get warm."

Brodee then goes and lays down on the cool deck.

Then Grandpa says "Brod why don't you lay on the chase lounge"

Brodee goes and lays on it.

Then Grandpa says "Hey Brod how do you like it"

Brodee says "I gotta get me one of these."

He comes up with the funniest things. We love you Brod!!!

To the best husband I could ask for

2008-07-01T00:30:00.001-07:00

Thanks Ryan for making it such a wonderful month. I don't know how you will ever be able to top this one. You put so much time and effort into making Mother's Day and my Birthday so great. I am so lucky to have you as my husband. I love you!

Brag time

2008-06-30T22:53:00.000-07:00

I know this has taken me so long to post but I am finally doing it. I really have the most wonderful husband in the world.

For Mothers Day he surprised me and got me a Bosch. I have been wanting one for a long time. It was a total surprise and I was so excited I used it the next day.

Then the next weekend he surprised me and took Friday off of work and arranged for our amazing friends ( the Payne's) to watch our kids and we went to Scottsdale and stayed at one of our favorite resorts and did lots of shopping and eating.

Then on Saturday before my birthday he threw a surprise Birthday Party for me. I did know something was going on but I had no idea how big it was.

These are my amazing sister in laws that help Ryan with the party. They helped so much with the invites and food and games. I am so lucky to have such a great family. Thanks for all your help Lana Holly and Rach.

You can see on my face how shocked I am.

This is my brother James and my sister Shelley. Thanks for coming and bringing the yummy salsa and Rice crispy ice cream. (my favorite)

This picture doesn't even do it justice. Our house was soooo hot because there were so many people there. I am just so lucky to have such wonderful friends and neighbors who came to help me celebrate. Thanks to all you who came and made my birthday so much fun and memorable.

Emma Shelley Blair

2008-06-06T10:33:00.000-07:00

Yesterday would have been Emma's 4th Birthday. So I just wanted to post some pics I have of her and somethings we remember about sweet little Emma.

Emma always had the cutest little smile.

Emma was so good with her passy. She always had it on the little ribbon so she could find it easy. She would grab the ribbon and slide her hand down to the passy so quick. It was the cutest thing.

Hallie always wanted to hold Emma but because of her condition she only got to hold her once. Both of them loved every minute of it.

Emma loved all the kids she would get a huge smile and start waving her arms when she saw any of the kids.

Brodee loved Emma but he couldn't get too close to her to often. You can see she loved him too as she leans in for him to give her a kiss.

My favorite memory of her is at church. When we would walk in to Sacrament Meeting she would see us and get the hugest smile on her face and stick her hand up in the air and wave to us. I loved that. Our first Sunday after she passed I walked in and saw Shelley and Rusty and broke into tears because I didn't see Emmas bright shine face and her little hand waving around at us. We had the great opportunity to spend alot of time with Emma and Shelley because they just lived down the street and I am so greatful for the time she spent with us. She just had the sweetest little spirit. I can't wait to see her again. I just pray that all the people I love will remember her and try harder everyday so that we all can be with her ,and all the other loved ones we have, again.

Thanks Shelley and Rusty for bringing her sweet little spirit into the world that touched so many lives.

Clean Car

2008-04-25T11:36:00.000-07:00

The other day I was vacuming out the suburban and Brodde wanted to help. So I let hin help me. He did such a good job. I few days later we were in the car taking Porter to basketball practice. Porter was eating ers and Porter is not a very neat eater crumbs usually end up all over. As he was eating Brodee said "Porter stop dropping crumbs every where I just cleaned this car." I was in heaven. I wished all my kids would realize that it would make my life alot easier.

Happy Birthday Porter

2008-03-02T22:24:00.001-08:00

Today was Porter's bithday. All he wanted for his birthday was to go to a suns game. So Ryan took him to the game last night they had so much fun.

Porter is such a great kid. He already has such great integraty. Porter knows he is not to watch PG-13 movies. A few years ago he watched part of one at a friends house and I found out about it. We had a talk and he has never watch one since. He will go to a friends house and they will want to watch a movie and his first question is "is it PG-13?" I even had a babysitter one time put one on and he stayed inthe other room and told her he couldn't watch it because it was PG-13. I have had friend call me and tell me that he refused to watch a movie because it was PG-13. I am so greatful for him and his desire to make good choices. Thanks for being a GREAT son and a wonderful example to your yonger brother and sisters. I love you Porter!

P.S. for some reason it is not letting me put pics in righ now so pics to come soon!

Fix me

2008-03-02T22:01:00.000-08:00

The other day at arobics Brodee had a little melt down. I have found recently that the best way to get through to him is to sit down and reason with him. I sat down with him and dtarted to talk to him. I then said "what am I going to do with you" (which I should have never said) and he said to me "just throw me in the trash can" I felt horrible. I told him I didn't want to throw him in the trash can I just didn't like his actions sometimes. I talked to him a little longer when he took my hand and put it on his back and said to me "fix me" As I tried to hold back the tears I realized he didn't like to get into trouble just as much as I liked him to make bad choices. How do you help your kids have self control and with stand the temptations to make bad choices at this age? When I tell him not to get in the mud to be able to control himself no matter how fun it would be to squish his finger through that mud. Right now it is mud but in a few years it will be much scarier things I am trying to keep him away from. As I have thought about this the last few days and as I have listened to parenting talks and talked to friends I came to the realization that I need to build him up more. I need to focus on the posative instead of the negative all the time. All he hears from me is don't do that don't get into that, why did you do that. I need to praise him and tell him all the good things that he does and help him have the confidence to know that he can make better choices. Not only with him but all my kids. I focus way too much on the negative instead of the posative. So my new goal is to uplift my kids, praise them for all the good things that they do instead of nit picking all the bad or not so good things they do. I just pray that it will help me be a better parent. It is so scary to be a mom. Maybe this will help "FIX ME".

Darth Vader

2008-01-07T11:09:00.001-08:00

Brodee found this old picture of our family and colored it. When I asked why he did it He said to me I just wanted to be Darth Vader. He comes up with the best excuses so he doesn't get in trouble.

Happy Birthday Hallie

2008-01-03T15:33:00.000-08:00

Today is Hallie's 7th Birthday. This in this morning her Birthday breakfast request was waffles with strawberries and whipped cream. She is such a great daughter she is always willing to help out with whatever I need. She loves her friends and has so many because she is so nice to everyone. Last year her teacher told me that she was one of the popular girls at school, because she is so nice to everyone so everyone wants to be her friend. She is a great big and little sister. Her teacher last year wrote in one of her report cards Hallie is like Mary Poppins Practically Perfect in every way. We love our Hallie Girl. Hope you have a great Birthday.

Family Pics

2008-01-03T11:20:00.000-08:00

The day before Family Pics the nurse at Hallie's school called me and told me Hallie had fallen of the slide and got a little scrap in her face. She didn't want to come home she just wanted to go back to class. So when she got home and I saw her "little scratch" I was so sad because we had family pics the next day with my whole family before my parents leave on the mission. Hallie was so sad too. She cried and said I don't want to take pictures tomorrow. She is still so cute with the scratch though.

This is Porter and his two cousins Trey and Kyle. I love this pic of Porter you can see what a cute little personality he has.

I loved this pic but Ryan didn't like the cracker in Ashlyn's mouth.

And this is the one we sent out on our Christmas Card. I will put up some more of my whole family when I get them.

Thanksgiving

2008-01-03T11:01:00.000-08:00

Grandma Tucker and Ashlyn.

All of Ryan's family came out for Thanksgiving except Nat and Dave who were back east with Dave's Family.

Lana brought out these fun Thanksgiving treats for the kids to make. Thanks Lana the kids had so much fun with them.

Happy Birthday Shell

2007-12-16T21:55:00.000-08:00

It is late but I wanted to make a quick post for my sister Shelley. Happy Birthday Shelley. She was the best little sister. I was always a procrastinator and I would always take forever doing my Saturday chores. I would know that I couldn't go out until they were done, but I never seemed to get them done soon enough so I would beg her to vacuum for me because I didn't have time and my date would be there. She always would do it for me so I could go out. I think this happened at least once or twice a month. She was the best. Then we moved done the street from her right after she had Emma. It was so fun to live so close to her. Brodee would ride his little scooter down to her house sometimes without letting me know he was going. We got to spend alot of time with Emma. Brodee just loved her. It was so much fun having you so close we miss having you right down the street. Thanks for being such a great sister. We hope you had a great Birthday.

Sorry for the delay

2007-12-12T17:50:00.000-08:00

The Tucker blog will be updated shortly. We have fallen behind due to the "busy life" syndrome. I have been busy looking for a new job and Jen has been busy working on a Christmas present for a family member. We apologize for the last update being on November 19th. I know my sisters (Rachel and Holly) are not to happy. They do a great job of updating thier blogs.

You may not have heard but my department at Chase is closing so I am in the process of finding a new job. This came as a suprise but we are sure that it will turn out to be a good thing when all is said and done. Blessings come in all different ways when you least expect them. Thanks for your patience.

Happy Birthday Big T!!!

2007-11-19T22:39:00.000-08:00

I know it is not his Birthday for much longer, but I just wanted to wish Big T a Happy Birthday. Thanks for being a Great Father-in-law, Grandpa, and Dad to us. Your the Best!!!

I hope they call me on a Mission

2007-11-10T14:31:00.001-08:00

My Mom and Dad got their mission call the other day we are so excited. I have mixed fealing. I am so excited for them and so sad all at the same time. They will be going to Nauvoo. I can't even tell you how excited I am about were they are going. My Great Grandparents were the first Senior missionaries called to Nauvoo and my Grandparents went there too. So maybe Ryan and I will be going there some day too. I can't wait to take my kids there and let them take tours of all the wonderful places from their Grandparents. I love the pics I got of this it is totaly play by play. It is so funny.

They are both reading the call.

My mom read the call and sits back and starts crying.

My dad looks at her then...

jumps up and yells NAUVOO!!!

Then my mom runs to her dad (who served in Nauvoo) and gives him a big hug.

This is everyone after listening to my dad read the rest of the papers.

This is Ryan and my sweet Hallie she was in tears.

This is my mom my Grandpa Crandell and Aunt Barb.

This is Hallie and Grandpa Great Crandell.

Brodee's Birthday

2007-11-10T13:41:00.000-08:00

These are all Brodee's friends that came to his party at the park.

We decided to let the kids frost their own cookies in stead of cake.

Look at he cute little buddies.

Brodee is so shy that when we started to sing Happy Birthday he sunk under the table. Crazy kid but we love him.

Halloween Neighborhood Party

2007-11-10T11:59:00.000-08:00

Porter was Darth Maul. He was so excited to paint his face. Ryan did a great job painting it for him.

Hallie was a fairy.

Brodee is Luke Skywalker he had to put some make up on because Porter's face was painted.

Ashlyn was Tiger. This is her and Grandma Flake.

I love our neighborhood. We started a tradition last year of having a little pot luck with all the neighbors before we all go trick or treating. This year it was amazing how many people came. There was tons of yummy food and even more neighbors to talk to and get to know. It was great !!!

10 Wonderful Years

2007-11-09T09:23:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was our 10th Wedding Anniversary. I can't believe it has been ten years. It seems like we just got married. I couldn't have found a more perfect person for me. Ryan is a wonderful husband and we have great chemistry together. When I am out of patience and am so frustrated at the kids or just anything he takes over and vice-versa. We make a great team!

Jen is the best thing that ever happened to me. (We are writing this together) She is so talented with her sewing skills, cooking skills, taking care of the kids and all the other talents she has. It gives me peace to think that I married the person that was right for me. We always know that we were meant to be together.

We met at Deseret Book when Ryan worked there after his mission. Four kids and 2 houses later....here we are in Queen Creek enjoying life and making the most of each day.

We want to give a special thanks for Amber Payne for watching our kids while we enjoy a nice anniversary. She is a great friend and is always there for our family. We are having fun shopping, going to movies, eating out, and enjoying time together.

The Flake Family Cruise

2007-10-28T22:05:00.001-07:00

Mom and Dad thanks for a wonderful week with just the adults. We had so much fun! Next year we will be visiting you were ever you are. Thanks to everyone else it was so much fun staying up late laughing and eating I can't wait to do it again.

The Best of Friends

2007-10-26T14:40:00.000-07:00

A month ago I went on a cruise with my family and my amazing friend Juliette watch Ashlyn and Brodee for my those of you who know about Brodee know what a sacrifice that is. He is the cutest thing ever, but he is a hand full. So we drove the kids up to her house on Sunday and these are the pictures from that day. They are all the best of friends and we miss them so much. Ashlyn just loves Nixie and gets so excited when she sees her. After we got home I kept asking Brodee if he missed me and he kept saying NO. So after about the 5th time asking him this I said but Bud I missed you so much and his reply to me was. But I... But I... But I just Love Malloy. How cute is that. I know you just left but, Hess's Hurry Back we Miss You.

Cali

2007-10-01T20:51:00.000-07:00

This is the Cali Vacation we take every summer with the Tucker cousins.

It is one of our favorite places to be. Havin fun hanging out with cousins on the beach.

What could be better than that!!!

This is Porter boogie boarding with help from his dad.

This is Hallie havin fun jumping the waves.

This is Brodee and his cousin Walker
playing in the sand looking for sand crabs.

This is everyone on the morning walk around the Marina.

This year on our walk we found the fattest

Squirrel just look at him!

This is the girls on the morning walk.

This is the typical pic of T.T. on his way

out to the beach for some fun in the Sun!

This is what Ashlyn looked like the whole time

on the beach, sand all over her face even

when she wasn't touching the sand.

This is our family when we walked out to the pier.

This is one of the Best vacations ever!!!

The Tucker Fam

2007-09-10T15:14:00.000-07:00

This is my family Porter is 8, Hallie is 6, Brodee is 3, and Ashlyn is 1. Ryan and I have been married for almost 10 years. We live in Queen Creek and we love it. This picture was taken in Cali. this summer.

Inspired by Brodee and Malloy

2007-09-10T14:19:00.000-07:00

So I am finally joining the blogging world. I keep up on everyone else I guess that it is time for me to share what I am up to. I was really inspired by my friend Juliette Hess who just moved to Flagstaff for school. Our boys Brodee and Malloy are the best of friends and we thought it would be fun for them to see each other on the blog. So Juliette it is now your turn. Here are the cute boys swimming this summer.