Brian & Kristi Harper are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Lauren Olivia Harper, born on June 17, at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Little Rock, Ark.

Lauren weighted 7 lb. 5 oz. and was 20 inches long. Lauren is welcomed by grandparents, Gerald and Betty Tuckness, of Llano, Sharon DeLoach, of Amelia Island, Fla., Robert Harper, of Hayesville, N.C., and numerous aunts and uncles. Great-grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. D.K. Strickland, of Lawrenceville, Ga., the late Harold and Vernell Tuckness and Raymond and Martha Umfrid, all of Llano.