Tucker's first Easter

Tucker's first Easter was pretty busy, but unfortunately for him, didn't involve any egg hunting or candy eating.

Instead, we spent Saturday eating lunch and watching the cousins hunt eggs at Green Tree

Then Easter sunday we went to sunrise service with Granny, Gramps, the other Langes and the Kruegers. Then we went to church with Grammy, Peepaw, Aunt Cristin & Hallee. THEN we went to brunch at Green Tree with Taylor's family

Then we came back to Lubbock, and recovered from all the festivities! Mommy, Daddy, & Tucker all slept VERY well when we got home!

Playing catch up!

Due to my lack of blog updates since the new year began, I figured I would throw in a little (hah!) synopsis of what has been going on in our lives the last few months!

January brought snow, the new year, and lots of new experiences! We rang in the new year and a new neice for Taylor & I (and cousin for Tucker)! Hallee Tatum Coulter was born January 1st weighing 5 pounds and 5 ounces! A full 4 pounds lighter than her big cousin! Which also broght Grammy & PeePaw to town!

With the new year also came a new experience for me as a working mom (even though I ended up working from home a lot and even going into the office a few times during my maternity leave), I went back to work at the hospital the monday after new years and although it has definitely been challenging for me to leave my little guy all day, we have been lucky that Taylor is able to stay at home with him until he goes back to school in July! Tucker turned 3 months old at the end of the month and was already busy trying out his vocal chords (he had to start practicing early to be able to get a word in edge-wise with all those big cousins around)!

February brought MORE snow and of course a couple of trips to Midland for Tucker to visit with family! He also started sitting up in his bumbo chair and actually rolled over for the first time, which I was fortunate enough to actually catch on video! What can I say, its my motherly intuition! :) Tucker turned 4 months old which also unfortunately meant a trip to the pediatrician's office for his 4-month check up and shots :( Luckily our little guy is a trooper and took all 3 shots like a champ! He was a little sad when he got them, but was fine once his mommy picked him up! He was 17 lbs. 4 oz. and 26 in. long and we were given the green light to start our big guy on solid foods!

March has brought EVEN MORE snow to Lubbock but also a few nice sunny days! It is nice to finally be able to take Tucker out and let him play in the sun and get to know his puppies! The nice weather has also inspired us to start tackling some of our home renovation projects! We have been eager to get started but since moving into the new house in September and then Tucker's arrival in October, we haven't really had time to start on them until now! Taylor started working on expanding & enhancing our back porch while Tucker and I have started working on the inside of the house! It has also brought LOTS of visitors our way! The Kruegers came in town one Sunday, Tucker had a big time watching his cousins Wyatt & Hannah do silly things to entertain him and then we all went to the Midland College Lady Chaps playoff game and to dinner! It was a fun day and we were so glad they got to come up and hang out!

Grammy also came up just to visit one Saturday so Hallee T & Aunt Cristin came over to play and visit with Grammy! A couple of weekends later she came up again, this time with my Aunt Stacy and 3 cousins! Tucker had a big time getting all the attention from all the girls!

We waited until the beginning of March to start Tucker on solid foods and he has LUH-VED ALL OF IT! We started him on rice cereal, then a week later started veggies with green beans, then onto sweet potatoes! And let me just tell you, he is a BIG fan of sweet potatoes (if he thinks he likes them now, just wait until he tries the sweet potatoes his grandmas make)! He has recently "found" his toes (which tend to distract us when we are trying to eat) and has perfected the grab-object-insert-into-mouth "reflex", he is even working on rolling over from his back to his tummy, which apparently takes a little more effort than rolling the opposite way. Surprisingly he has turned into quite the little chatterbox! I wonder where he gets that from! ;-)

Our little guy is TRULY a joy and we are SO VERY thankful for every minute with him! It seems that every day brings new discoveries for our little boy and we love just watching him grow and interact with the world around him!

Rolling over for the first time

Trying out some sweet potatoes!

Green Beans!

Weekend recap!

So it's Monday again, booo.... I hate when that happens!
Especially after a fast and furiously fun weekend like this weekend we spent with the Beelers!
Brian and Michelle came up on Friday to see Tucker (and maybe Tay & I too)!

After Brian & Michelle got to town, we had a delicious dinner that Taylor made (smoked brisket and homemade BBQ beans! ::MMmm:mm: And I made homemade Peach Cobbler, courtesy of my favorite grandma Paula Dean! ::I wish::)

Saturday morning it SNOWED (again!) and Taylor made breakfast burritos, then Michelle, Tucker & I went shopping while the BIG boys stayed home and watched basketball and monitored their respective brackets! Then saturday night we had delicious fajitas and Soapapilla cheesecake and hung out!
Sunday morning Michelle, Tucker and I set off shopping again while the BIG boys went golfing!

Tucker got some ADORABLE little spring/summer outfits from Children's Place

These shorts and a white polo onesie

This hat and shorts and an orange polo onesie

and I even managed to actually buy some stuff for myself:

a new pair of RED shoes for work,

 a couple of cardigans and some SUPER cute jewelry!

Overall it was a very eventful weekend! We had fun hanging out with the Beelers and showing them the new house (hopefully it will be slightly more IMPROVED when they come and visit next time!

This Friday our little man will be 5 MONTHS OLD!

(Seriously?! Did I just type that?!)

Then I'm leaving Sunday for California for work.

But hopefully while the little guy is napping on Friday, I'll be able to get some blog time in to update on all of the fun new things he is doing!

Eh, blogging...

Blogging is such a wonderful tool for keeping those close to you (and in some cases, not so close to you) updated on life's adventures, but I'm weighing whether or not to keep up with this thing anymore due to everyone and their dog (seriously, ever heard of dogbook?!) being on facebook nowadays.
So, I'm taking a straw poll (?) on whether or not I should keep blogging (not that I've been that good at it recently anyhow!), so if you think that I should continue with this thing LET ME KNOW! Leave a comment so I know that someone in the world actually READS this silly thing, and I will keep doing it, but if not -- bye bye blog! :)

Time flies!

WOW! I have been REEEEALLY bad at the whole blog thing, but I guess that's to be expected with a newborn! Tucker turned 12 weeks old on Monday! I can't even believe it! I LOVED being at home with him for 10 weeks, but now I'm back at work. :-( It's been a crazy couple of weeks, but it really does make me cherish my time at home even more! I miss my little guy so much but I'm so lucky that Taylor is getting to stay home with him, at least for the time being. To make a long story short, we haven't gotten into daycare at Covenant so we made the decision for Taylor to take the semester off from welding classes at SPC and do some coursework online through Tech and take care of our precious little guy.

Here are some pictures of our little (big!) guy over the last few months! He's growing like a weed!

Halloween - Our little lobster - 5 days old

Tucker & PeePaw ready for the Cowboy game!

2 weeks old

Tucker's 1st Christmas card/birth announcement

Christmas Eve with Paw-Paw

Mommy's little cowboy - 2 months old

Tucker's Baptism - December 20, 2009