Baby Tucker Due October 5, 2008

The secret is finally out!! We are so relieved!! We are so excited to share our exciting news with our Family and Friends! We are expecting our first baby October 5, 2008 & we can not wait! We feel like it can not come fast enough! Deciding not to tell anyone until we were closer to the end of my 1st trimester was such a long wait & we are thrilled the news is finally out!
We are anxiously awaiting May to come around so we can find out what we are having! We will be excited either way but we have quite the number of people routing for a girl! Tyler's family has 5 grand kids right now 1 Girl who is the oldest and 4 boys who have come right in row! We are hoping to break the boy streak! Also my sister just had the first grand baby on my side which was a boy so it would be fun to try a girl out!
We ended up telling our families in two different ways...
For my family we volunteered to bring dessert to Sunday dinner thinking no one would ever clue into what we were up too. & they didn't! It worked out perfectly. We had a cake made with an Ultra sound picture on it! (THE PICTURE IS NOT OURS) The cake decorator did such an amazing job!
Tyler got dessert out and put it on the counter and then asked my mom to show him how he should cut it! she came into the kitchen where my dad followed. She lifted up the lid and closed it right away looking at Tyler and saying "No Way!" she started crying right off! My dad couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about so he went right for the cake. He opened the lid and starting celebrating! My family had NO idea it was coming! They are very excited!


Surprising the Strong family





For Tyler's Family we just couldn't wait any longer we wanted them to know so bad and couldn't wait till Sunday when we would all be together! So Tyler and I decided to fill a basket with Easter eggs and have them unscramble a puzzle. In each egg there was one letter that would spell out "Baby Tucker Due October 5, 2008" We filled 3 baskets and took one to his Mom & Dad and 2 sisters. We tried door bell ditching but our plan fell through once we got to his mom and dad's house and she opened the door as Tyler was walking up to it! :) ha ha! It was pretty funny! In the end it worked out perfect! They are just as thrilled to have Grand baby #6 on the way!!
Here are some fun things that were said by Tylers Nephews about us having a baby.

Jaxon (6) "Oh Man, You have got to be kidding me!"
Connor (4) " Amanda Who?"
Chandler(5) & Preston (2) Amanda is going to have a baby. "Is it Tage? (My sisters baby they have met twice) " Is she going to have Tage?"

Surprising the Tucker Family

Midway Getaway!

This weekend was a blast! We took Breelyn and Ryan up to Tyler's family condo in Midway! It was such a fun & relaxful day! We started out by grabbing lunch at Subway and then headed up to go sledding at soliders hollow! They had such a great time! I had to skip out on this one only because my doctor told me not to go sledding in my first trimester. I was pretty bummed! It looked so fun, but I had fun watching them and taking pictures! I made Tyler promise me we would go again! Our brother in law gave us two passes for Christmas! Thanks for the great gift Jared! Ty had a blast!








We then headed out to the bowling alley! We ate dinner there which was seriously the best food Next time we are up there I will be choosing that over the Dairy Keen! Sorry Jaime and Jared, but you have got to try it! We then played 2 rounds of bowling. The first game was boys against girls! Who ever won got to pick the movie to watch once we got back to the condo! My first turn I got a strike and I totally thought we had it! I kept thinking wow the Wii really pays off! THINK AGAIN!! I have never bowled so bad in my life!! We ended up losing so Breelyn and I decided to play another game All or Nothing! Yeah we got nothing the second game was worse than the first! I couldn't believe it!

I loved the whole weekend! its my favorite little getaway!! Can't wait to go back!

Valentines Day

I really have the best husband ever when it come to Valentines Day! He has amazed me the past 3 years we have been together! I am always so excited for Valentines Day because I know it is always going to be full of surprises and I am a sucker for romantic surprises! This Valentines Day Tyler planned quite the romantic night! He did such a good job keeping it from me. I seriously had no idea where we were going. We left straight from work that day and headed up to Salt Lake. He surprised me by taking me to the Melting Pot, I have wanted to go there for quite some time now! My second surprise was waiting for us at our table! It was my best friend Breelyn and her husband Ryan! I was so excited! After dinner the guys made Breelyn & I say our goodbyes to each other! We were both so bummed! We really wanted to stay and do something together! Ty just kept saying just get over it Bree & Ryan are gone I have something planed for just the two of us! I was so excited to just be with my husband, but couldn't help but think of what was coming next. Little did I know our next stop was to Ryan's mom's house on top of draper mountain! There house is so beautiful! The guys had a movie and dessert waiting for us! It was such a romantic setting the lights were dimmed and the fire place was going! It was perfect! Thanks for being such a great husband and planning such a great night! I love you!!