A New Year

Well it is 2010 and oh what a year it will be!! We have a few new additions coming this year to our family and the first will be here in mid February. :) My neice Emme will make her debute some time mid February and I cannot wait. We will also have Hooker #2 arrive sometime mid summer. We will find out what we are expecting on February 9th! Oh I am counting down the days!

We have been very busy with Basketball lately. Between Keenan's coaching the 7th grade boys at Westover and me watching the cheerleaders at Tascosa cheer the boys and girls teams on then to Keenan, Pops, Micah, Blake and some other older guys playing in an adult league and now Mason is starting his league that Pops and Keenan are coaching we are super busy with basketball games! At least I like basketball a lot, but I am getting tired! :)

Here are a few pics that we recently took...enjoy and hope your 2010 is starting off as good as mine! :)

Thankful

I have so much to be thankful as the holidays are here.
We recently went to Ruidoso for Thanksgiving with my sister Heather and her husband Micah and their 2 boys Mason and Boston (http://www.littleladds.blogspot.com/) and we had so much fun! It was a short trip but so nice to get out of town for a few days! We are so thankful...
Yesterday it snowed so much here in Amarillo (really not a TON but it snowed all day!) so we stayed in and got our Christmas tree and decorations up and got some closets cleaned out! We put stuff up in the attic and really worked hard...but I still think we have too much STUFF!!! :) It is crazy how much we consume and keep over a 4 year period...but we are thankful...
Teaching is going good for both Keenan and I but we are so ready for the Christmas break (even though we just got through with a short break, it was more like a teaser for the longer one!) :) Keenan tests out 8-12 next Wednesday, so please pray that he does to the best of his ability (more specific that he passes with flying colors! :)) He is ready to move on from junior high and get in to the high school level of coaching. We are so thankful...
We have been trying for around 7 months to add another small addition to the Hooker household and recently found out that we are expecting this summer!!! I am about 9 weeks along and have been sick for about 3 weeks now! I go to the doctor on December 16th, as Heather said, "just in time to see the little peanut before Christmas!" :) We are so excited and are so truly thankful...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving last week and has a wonderful Christmas in a few short weeks!

Thank you Lord for all of our blessings and the many more to come!

Halloween is amlost here!

We recently had a halloween party with a bunch of our friends and their kids out at Boys Ranch. The kids all dressed up in their costumes, they played, trick or treated to each of us and took lots of pics. Heather has them all posted on her blog, http://www.littleladds.blogspot.com/, but I wanted to share a pic of Kaden. :) he was not in the best mood that afternoon (I am blaming it on not getting a good nap earlier that day, but who am I to blame... :)! ) but we had lots of fun!


Football season has only a few weeks left and I have mixed emotions...I love football but we have been so busy these last few months, I am ready to slow down a little...basketball season just doesnt seem like so much, and I dont know why but it doesnt! :)

My sister found out she is having a GIRL and we are all so excited!!! She is the first girl on my mom's side of the family since me!!! Micah got to choose the first name and he choose Emmersyn! Which I love!! We are going to call her Emme! Heather picked her middle name, Dawn, which is my middle name. I am so honored for her to name her daughter after me! I am afraid my neice and I will be very close! :) I cant wait to have another one to love and spoil so much. Kids are such a blessing and I am excited Heather and Micah decided to have one more!!! Miss Emme's debute will be at the end of Februray and it cannot get her soon enough! we are waiting miss Emme!

Have a wonderful week ahead and stay warm... :)

Fall is among us!!

So fall officially blew in tonight...and it got chilly...Kaden said he was cold the whole way out to the car from Chili's...yes, over and over and over again! :)

We recently took some pictures with my mom, Randy, Heather, Micah and the boys. They turned out so good! :) My sister is truly amazing!!

We went to the fair on Saturday night and have some cute pictures from that as well...I will post soon!

So we have been super busy. I recently got done being a Chi Omega alumnae and helping out the WT chapter through a great recruitment! I love helping and only want the best but I am SO glad last week is over. It was a long week and being away from my 2 guys was hard.
Kaden rode the horse with his Gamma and Pops in the fair parade this last week! He absolutley loved it and could not talk about anything else!
Kaden has also teeteed in the potty! He has done it twice now... :) (anything is great!)...once at Nicole's (the babysitters) and the other time and Pops and Gamma's with Pops! He refuses to do it at his own house, but whatever, at least he finally went! Since we had promised him when he finally would go in the potty that we would get him any toy (now dont criticize us yet...for the longest time he would want a toy at the store, we would say okay if you go teetee in the potty and he would say no thank you and set the toy back on the shelf...stuburn kid...who knows where he got that from!:)!!!) but anyways, Keenan took him to the store after he went potty to get his toy! He came back with some "Car's" stuff and a Dora Book...yes a dora book. hey, he is learning spanish so whatever!

Well in the life of Tascosa cheerleading, that has been busy! We beat Amarillo High!!! Yay!!! The first time in like 4 years! It was such a good game and I am glad we came out on top. We are staying busy with games all week but have the weekend off so I am glad for that! Randall on the other hand is struggling but Keenan's JH football teams are doing pretty well. I just want those Raiders to win one! Come on!!!

Heather finds out what she is having very soon...I cant wait to find out if I am going to have another nephew or a niece!! either one will be PERFECT with me and so exciting!!!

So since fall has arrived that means the holidays are upon us...Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas! I just love the holidays especially when I get to spend it with my family! I am so truly blessed and could not ask for a better family!!

Everyone stay warm as the coldness blows on in...:)

OMG!!!!

Here are some pics before we started back to school ... and got so busy!

This last week of school has been the craziest, busiest weeks in a long time! From starting school, getting use to my new schedule, cheerleading, football, and just family time with the boys, today is the first day all week that I have got to just lay around! And it has been nice. Tascosa won their game last night and it was an exciting win! Kaden was with me and did rather good at the game. It ended up going into overtime and we left right before that but listened to the overtime on the radio and it was a good win!

This is Kaden on the way to the game... :)

Keenan has been busy getting back into the swing of things with school and westover athletics and then Randall football duties are just keeping him extra busy! He really likes the new coach at Randall and is liking his kids at school too! It should be a good year for him.

Kaden has been going through some ups and downs...He is not liking getting up early in the mornings and would love to sleep in more! But then today, Saturday, he woke up at like 7:45...a little later but I could have used more sleep! We had a donut date this morning, just me and Kaden since Keenan was at football. It was fun.

But the school year has officially began and we are back to our busy schedules!!!...I am already ready for Thanksgiving/Christmas/Spring/Summer Break! :)

Summer is just about over

So it is true....summer is just about over! It is officially over for Keenan (he went back last Friday) and I start back with the cheerleaders next Monday!!!! I cant believe it is coming to a quick close! Have I gotten accomplished what I thought I would at the beginning of the summer...potty train Kaden - Nope, I swear the kid will sit on the potty for an hour and do nothing, he hasnt found that button yet! clean out the house and get ready for the garage sale-kind of, but not completely finished (we are having a garage sale at my house on August 7th and 8th - TONS OF STUFF FROM MULTIPLE FAMILIES!!!) We were also going to update all of our hardware throughout our house...not done yet, as well as the light fixtures. Procastination has bit us in the rear!
But it has been a good summer, just gone by WAY to fast!!! A routine during the school year is nice but I sure like to sleep in a little, especially when Kaden doesnt get up until 10 or so. Those are nice days!
So my sister, Heather is pregnant and due in February!!! We are all so excited that there will be Ladd Baby #3 here soon!!! She goes to the doctor the first of August so pray that everything looks good.
Here is to the end of the summer...I will post pics soon! :) Lots of love...

Kaden Riding Teddy Bear

So Kaden went out to his Gamma & Pops house last night and he got to ride his pop's horse teddy bear... :) He loved it and was so excited he got to ride teddy bear because he had been asking for weeks now. :) Thanks gamma and pops!