Nicholas Kenner Sykes was born April 26, 2007, to Brandon and Kristen Sykes of Wilsonville. Nicholas weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces.

He is the younger brother of Cole Sykes; the grandson of Mike and Rhonda Sykes of Wilsonville and Hal and Linda Hand of Alabaster; and the great-grandson of Bruce and Jerry Bates of Calera, Geraldine Holmes of Wilsonville and Joe and Mary Sykes of Calera