Happy 3rd birthday Kaden!!

3 years ago today, me and Keenan headed to the hospital VERY early to finally meet our little guy, Kaden James. After a rough start, he has grown up to be such a big boy and such a love bug! He can always make his mom and dad laugh at just about anything and has the biggest heart for a little 3 year old I have ever seen. He loves his best friend, cousin, Boston but can fight just like a brother with him. He can always make me smile when I have had a rough day at work, just seeing him, makes my day! Now that our next adventure is soon going to begin, Kaden is going to be a big brother, I cannot wait to see him with his little brother Kline. He already talks to him, rubs my belly and gives him a little "pound"... :) I love this sweet boy more than I could have ever imagined and I am so thankful God has blessed us with this sweet boy. Thank you God for giving us this blessing on this very special day! Happy 3rd birthday sweet boy. We love you -
love, mom and dad

Here are some pics from the past 3 years...

Happy 3rd Birthday Kaden!! We love you!!!

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Spring Break

Here are a few pics to start out of Kaden and Keenan... Kaden is getting so big!!

My sweet niece Emmerson Dawn Ladd arrived on February 18th, 2010! She is already 1 month old! She is the sweetest little thing and I just love holding her and talking to her! Here are a few pictures of sweet Emme!

We also have been working on Kaden's big boy room and getting Kline's nursery put together! My sister Heather came over and helped out a lot! My mom came over and painted Kaden a chalkboard wall in his room!!! He loves it. They both helped clean out closets and clothes since we have so many between Mason, Boston and Kaden hand me downs and then just the cutest new things Gamma just had to get! :) But we got it all done and organzied and I feel so much better!!!

Kaden loves his new big boy bed and big boy room! Here are a few pics...

Now that spring break is coming to a close, that means that the end of school is closer and Kline's due date is closer! Yay!!! Hope everyone has had a nice and relaxing break!

We are...

having a sweet, wonderful little boy!!! :) Kline Jackson looked amazingly perfect in our last sonogram and is due July 10th! We were so thankful for our blessings and how God has given us so much! Kaden was not to excited about having a brother at first, (he wanted a sister just like Boston!) but he has warmed up to the idea and now calls him Kline in my tummy! So now that we know that he is a sweet Kline we have got to get Kaden moved out of his room into the extra bedroom and get it all ready for Kaden's big boy room!!! With Gamma and Aunt Heather's help over spring break, hopefully we will be set. We are also being given a twin bed and toy chest from my aunt and uncle from Arizona. We are meeting them the first weekend of spring break to get it all and we are so thankful!!! This is such a blessing for us as we prepare to bring our 2nd little member of our family into our lives! :) Lots to do and only 4 MONTHS until he will be here!!!! OMG!!!

My sweet neice Emme will be here THIS Thursday!!! My sister is being induced with her last little bundle of joy on Thursday morning and we are so excited. I cannot wait to meet her. It will be such a special time!!! Pictures soon!!!! :)

Here is a sono pic of sweet Kline Jackson...he was not very cooperative with the pictures but we got one, kind of. :) have a blessed week!!!

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...:)