Warning: LOTS of Pictures!

Our New Home

Back View

Entry

Living Room

Living Room

Living Room (new sofa)

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Utility Room

Half Bath (off the kitchen)

Half Bath

Half Bath

Avery & Kenadee's Bedroom

A&K's Room

A&K's Room

Play Room

Play Room

Play Room

Play Room

Play Room

A&K's Bathroom

A&K's Bathroom

A&K's Bathroom

A&K's Bathroom

Master Bathroom

Master Bedroom

Master Bedroom

Master Bedroom

Kenadee, Avery in Pool

Avery, reading her Elmo book

Avery & Kenadee, watching TV in their Elmo chairs

Kenadee, eating her "big girl" food (chicken, pork-n-beans, goldfish, fruit)

Avery, thrilled about her "big girl" food

We are all doing very well. Summer is FLYING by. But, we're having a good time with friends and family. We are loving our new home, and the girls are loving their new swimming pool! :) We put their bath toys out in the pool and they play and play and play. In fact, it's a fit when we try to get them out! Last week, Avery got her stomach button out and although she was in major pain the day they took it out, she has been perfect ever since. It left a little darkened circle on her belly, but it gets lighter and smaller each day. It has already healed up nicely. :) She may not ever want to wear a bikini, but Daddy says that's just fine with him! :) Avery & Kenadee had their 15 month appointment with Dr. Everett, their new pediatrician, and everything was wonderful! They love their new doctor, and their appointment went great. Kenadee is nearly two inches taller than Avery. Avery was in the 25th percentile in height (30 inches) and Kenadee was in the 95th percentile (31.75 inches)! Dr. Everett said Kenadee was the starting center on the 15 month old basketball team. :) As for weight...Avery weighed 21.4lb and Kenadee weighed 25.5lb...which puts Avery in the 25th percentile again and Kenadee in the 75th percentile (both of which he was thrilled with). They both eat like little pigs and are eating big girl food now. They are not eating ANY baby food anymore, and they are completely off the bottle! Wow! :) Sure makes life easier!! Okay, I am in a hurry (as usual) so I am putting this to a close. But, we are all doing great. We love hearing from you, so please email us any time! And, I'm attaching pictures of the girls and of our new house! Enjoy! :)

Quick Update...

This is going to be QUICK. I'm on a borrowed computer & time is limited. My camera batteries are dead (and I keep forgetting to recharge them) so the pictures of our new house will have to be in a later post. Things have been good. We are all settled into our new home in Van and we LOVE IT! We are doing great & the girls have adjusted well! The humidity, which many would complain about, has been wonderful for the girls. When we lived in Henrietta, we had to run the humidifier every night so they could have some peace! But, in Van, the humidifier is no longer necessary! The girls have been doing GREAT since the move. We all have. We're still waiting on the delivery of our new sofa, so when that gets here and I get some pictures of the house, I'll be sure to update. The thing is...we have no home internet. We only have internet on our phones because there's no decent internet service in our new area. So, we can still do email, facebook, etc, but it's all from our phones. The updating of the blog has to be done on a regular computer, so we can only do that when we're at someone's house or at the school. I'll try to get it updated as I can, but it's going to be few and far between for a little while. But, we are doing great & enjoying our new home! Sorry there aren't any pictures this time...I'll do better. Gotta go charge my camera batteries! Later alligators!

March for Babies & Ryan's Graduation!

March for Babies: Team Davis Doodlebugs

Ryan Mark Hood, Graduate of Texas State University

"Ry-Ry" and his girls

Jenn, Kenadee, Ry-Ry, Avery, Jason

Jenn & Ryan

Again

It's been pure craziness around here so I apologize for not updating sooner. Two weekends ago, Mom, Jason & I participated in the March for Babies put on by March of Dimes. This is the first year we had ever participated in a walk, but this one hit home with us. It helps the millions of babies born prematurely every year who have to stay in the NICU. We were a team of only three, but we raised a whopping $1,030.00!! What an accomplishment!! We would like to thank each and every one of you who donated to this very worthy cause! We will most likely be hitting you up again next year, so beware! :) HAHA

This past weekend Ryan graudated from Texas State University with a Bachelor of Exercise & Sports Science (BESS). He is going to coach and teach history. We are VERY proud of him. He is currently looking for a job, preferably within a fairly close proximity to family in East Texas. He has two job interviews set up already. Congratulations, Ryan! We all love you & are so proud of your accomplishments! :)

We have been incredibly busy around here. We've been trying to pack up here and there when the girls allow us to. We have a lot of it packed, but still have plenty more to go. We have also been having to pack up our classrooms as well, and that's a LOT of stuff. Plus, Jason's been gone for Regional Track Meet this week so Ryan's here to help out (Thank you, Lord!)...Ryan is great with the girls & they love when he's here because he'll sit in the floor and play with them for however long they want! They already have him wrapped around their little fingers (all 20 of them)! :)

I guess that's it for now. The next time we update the blog we probably will have already moved. Our last day of school at Henrietta is Friday, 5/29, and then we have a teacher work day & luncheon on Saturday, 5/30. We will be packed up the night of 5/29 so that when the luncheon is over on Saturday, we can leave immediately. We'll update again when we can! Until then...take care! :)

Going once, Going twice, SOLD! :)

Avery & Kenadee (During the garage sale)

Avery, Kenadee

Avery & Kenadee playing with their musical table

Avery, Kenadee

We had a garage sale yesterday and it went great! We sold out completely! We sold everything we intended on selling (all the big stuff and a lot of the small stuff), and then a very nice man came by and paid us for everything we had left AND hauled it off for us! YAY! We were so excited that we sold out, had everything cleaned up, and were eating lunch by 1:30pm! Yippie! Thank you, Lord! The girls enjoyed their weekend as well, even though they haven't felt great lately (Pink eye, fever, and tons of snot...it's been a blast, lol). Gran & PawPaw came down to help with the garage sale and the babies so that's probably why it went so smoothly! Avery is a BIG PawPaw fan! She teared up when I got her to give her hugs and kisses after she woke up. She started crying and reaching for PawPaw...made me feel sad, lol, but it sure made PawPaw's day! Anyway, we had a great weekend, a great garage sale, and now we're looking forward to another super crazy & hectic week! They've all been that way lately! I'll update when I have more to report...but that's it for now! :)

Family Update & Easter Weekend :)

Avery & Her Easter Basket

Kenadee & Her Easter Basket

Kenadee, Avery

Instead of Waldo, .... "Where's Avery?"

Playing Sweetly (This has been happening more lately!)

First of all, some updates. We are moving to Van, Texas! Van is a 3-A school in East Texas where we have LOTS of family (and friends)! YAY! Jason will be teaching Biology, coaching the secondary in football (like he does now at Henrietta, which is a 2-A school), and coaching track in the Spring. My job is not completely nailed down yet, but we're pretty certain it will be Freshman English (which is what I'm teaching now). We have already found a house and are in the process of buying! We will close on our new house at the end of May! We're really excited for several reasons. One: It's our first home to buy! Two: It's a brand new house (only been lived in for 2-3 months).

We went to East Texas this past weekend for Easter, but also because they were doing our home inspection....a great excuse to get to go back to our new house and look around (and plannnnn, lol). Being Easter weekend, we were excited to get to spend the weekend with Gran & PawPaw, get to see Uncle Ryano, and go to church! We got to do two of the three! We got up Sunday morning, got completely dressed and ready for church, got one baby loaded into the car, and realized we had a flat! Gran had already left for church in her car, PawPaw had to drive his company truck because he was on-call, and could have been called out....which left us STRANDED. On Easter. Two years in a row that we didn't get to go to church on Easter (last year we were at Cook Children's with itty bitty babies)...it seems so...strange and sacrilegious to not be in church on Sunday...but what can you do? :) We were grateful that the flat happened in front of Gran & PawPaw's house though, instead of on the road somewhere! And, we were able to get it fixed that day and get back home safely, so it turned out okay.

Regardless, the Easter bunny (not that he's sacrilegious at all, LOL) did come and bring Avery & Kenadee some goodies :) And, before I close, Uncle Ryan found out today that he passed his teacher certification test! We're sooo excited for you, "Ry-Ry". We love you! Ok...that's it for this one! Hope you enjoy the pictures!