family pictures!!

My friend Carrie did our pictures this year and I think she did a great job. (sorry alot of pictures to follow:)

My favorite (it hides my belly!)

Thomas' favorite (does not hide my belly at all)

my little diva!

look its my hand mom.

baby feet

Connor is 2 months old!!

This is a few weeks late he actually 11 weeks at this point but the pictures were taken when he was 8 weeks old. I am loving this little guy he loves to smile and coo at everyone when he is not sleeping of course. He is very happy even when he has Ainslee in his face all day long.


Tyler loves him so much and Connor has become a very good bribe for him to keep his room clean. All I have to say is Connor can't sleep in there if the floor is not clean and Tyler gets to work.

He is all boy already!

Connors Blessing

We blessed Connor on the 22 of November. We were very blessed to have alot of our family able to come and participate. His blessing said that he would be strong in the church he would go on a mission and one day marry in the temple. I am loving this little guy and his sweet spirit that he has brought to our house.

Everyone that came for the blessing

Sweet angel

Ainslee is 4!!

I can not believe that my little girl is four years old. She has grown so much this year. She is going to pre-k and is a great big sister. She is still a happy little girl and getting into everything. For her party the girls watched the new Tinkerbell movie and I let them decorate their own cupcakes. They loved it. When my parents got there they had their new puppy with them and we decided to play a joke on Thomas. I told him that the puppy(mocha) was Ainslee's present. She loves dogs and was sitting there hugging on her and playing with the dog. He looked at me like are you serious( he is not a animal person to say the least). I told him the truth and he was extremely greatful.


Mocha and Ainslee

Opening presents.

I love this little crazy, sweet, loving little girl. I am so excited to watch her grow and learn so much more in her life.

cute story!

I told the kids today that we were going to make some banana bread after I went to the bathroom. When I came back Tyler had already tried to make his version of banana bread. He had squished up half a banana and smeared it all over some bread. I think he is getting too smart for his britches. I showed them how to actually make it and they loved being the ones to squish all the bananas.

Halloween 2009

I just wanted to show everyone how warm it was this year for Halloween. Thats right this is my kids playing in the sprinkler on October 31st. I think the temperature was in the 90s that day.


For Halloween this year we had a Megatron(transformer) and a angel/pixie. Maggie their best buddie is a fairy I think.

they had alot of fun this year I stayed home while Thomas took them trick-or treating then I took them downtown. they showed Monsters and Aliens on a big screen it was like a drive in but we all sat in a parking lot. We had alot of fun and have so much candy still.

Tyler's 6th Birthday!!

Tyler kinda lucked out this year for his birthday. Since I was still in the hospital the day of his birthday he got two parties. My family was in town when I got out of the hospital with connor so we gave Tyler a party with them and he got alot of toys. Then I threw him a party with his friends a few weeks ago and he got even more presents then.


This is the birthday group. Don't look at the mess we were supposed to have it at the park but it started raining.

He had a transformer party. He is loving them right now. He likes to transform them and he is really good at it too.

I was planning on making him a nice cake but he told me to just do the sky and grass and put the transformers on it. Hey if he wants to make it easy on me I will let him.

The Connor story..

Okay, so I finally have a minute to write down everything that happened during the birth. I went into labor Tuesday around 6 pm. The contractions lasted all night long and they were about 10 minutes apart until 1 am where they got about 5 minutes. I called Thomas because he was working in Augusta. They got even closer and I called the Bishops wife Carrie. She suggested that I call my neighbors, the Rainey's. I called Renita Rainey and she took me to the hospital while her husband slept on my couch to watch my kids.

We got to the hospital around 5am and they said that I would be having my c-section around 7am. I only had one problem Thomas was not going to make it. They could not wait for him because the next opening was at 9am and I could not wait that long with the contractions. So I had the surgery all by myself and had the nurse take pictures for me. Thomas did show up about 20 minutes after he was born when I was in the recovery room. I was able to choose the name because Thomas wasn't there!! I chose Neil after my Grandpa. I called him first when we chose the name and he still hasn't stopped smiling form what I here.

I am very greatful to have my little Connor I love him dearly.

He's here!!!

Connor Neil Hood is finally here. He was born at 6:45 am on the 7th of October. He weighed 6 lbs 11.8 ozs. We are extremely please to have him in our home finally. Now for some pictures!!


Happy Family

Really little guy!

The kids think he is one of the stuffed animals.

Daddy approves of the sweet little guy

Me before the labor stuff. Please excuse the no makeup it was 5 am.

baby update!

I had another ultrasound on Wednesday and he is doing good. The lady doing the ultrasound said that he had some fluid on his left kidney but it was nothing to worry about. They are going to do an ultrasound on him when he is born to make sure nothing is wrong. He is also measuring about 6 lbs 5 oz right now. That is a big baby for us considering I still have 3 weeks till my c-section. I have been having contractions about every 10-15 minutes for the past week or so and they seem to be getting closer. I promise to post pictures of my big ol' belly soon for those that are interested.

FOR SALE!!!

Well it is finally here we are moving. Our house has been on the market for a few weeks and we are getting offers already. Thomas accepted a job in Augusta Ga. This works out great for us because my cousin lives out there and Thomas' uncle does too. We also will be alot closer to the grandparents. We hate to leave because this does feel like home to us but I guess it just wasn't in the plans to stay.



We sure will miss our house. Ainslee said that She doesn't want the house to be clean because then someone will buy it. So she intentionally makes messes and refuses to clean them. I think she really enjoys her pink room and having her own space.

Ainslee's field trip

I know that this was like a month ago but I needed to get the pictures on here. We took the kiddos to a aquatic museum(I guess that is what it is called.) The kids loved it the got to learn more about the ocean animals they were learning about in class and we got to talk. After the museum we took the kids to the pier on Tybee Island and had a little picnic.



Brooke, Ainslee and Gavin.

playing in the water

she actually liked the snake skin.

Tyler's first tooth!!!

It's official Tyler has lost his first tooth. He was playing spaceship with Daddy and Ainslee and it just fell out. He noticed it was loose a couple of days ago and was so excited that the tooth fairy was going to give him money that he has been trying to get it out on his own. Right now he is brushin his teeth to make sure that the rest of his teeth will be nice and white when they come out.

first day fo school.

Last week the kids started school. Ainslee is going to her friends house twice a week for pre-k. Tyler has started kindergarten (sniff).

Ainslee enjoying her cupcake with her friends.

Tyler's first day he went straight to coloring and had a great time.

Yummy cupcake!! They were so cute her teacher (Carrie) made them they had little chalk boards (cookies) and a tiny apple. They were also very yummy.

He would not smile for anything

Leaving the house!!

Now it seems he might be having another first day of school. Since we could be moving very soon.

visitors!!

My cousin and her husband/ Thomas' best friend came to visit us a few weeks ago. The kids loved it because their kids are the same age as ours.

Tyler and J playing with the transformers game. Tyler likes to be around his boy cousins (he doesn't have very many).
Our family picture for the year. I don't really want to get a professional one done when I am this size!

All the kiddos. Tyler, J, M A, L, and Ainslee

Just a sidenote I promised my cousin I would not post their names that is why I just put letters.