daddy's boy

Drew's favorite words, outside, shoes, ride, tractor! He cries now when his daddy leaves the house without him. Soon he will be able to mow the lawn all by himself :)

Drew's haircut

Mitch decided it was time for him to cut Drew's hair. The first time was a little rough he just wouldn't hold still. So, the next time even more hair came off. Look how blond it looks!

Haircut #1 Haircut #2

brianna's 4th birthday

Brianna celebrated her 4th birthday on April 17th. She wanted a chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream in the middle and chocolate frosting with m&ms on top! Who does she sound like?? Grandma Smith made the cake. She loved opening her presents and ohh and ahh over everything. She even got what she wanted a Dora blanket. Thanks everyone for the great gifts.

(sorry forgot about turning the pics :(

Easter

Easter seems like alot of stuff to put into one day. We went to church I sang, Glory by Avalon, so we stayed for almost 2 services. Then home to cook dinner, served ham, beef, potatoes, green bean cassorole, red hot jell-o etc.... Then because the weater was awful we hid (matt and Mitch did) about 80 eggs downstairs for the kids (my four plus cousins Isabella and Jillian). It didn't take them long to find all of them. The came away with $ and lots of candy! Today I sorted it all and made one big tub. Then some played hearts, some watched golf and of course Grandpa Smith slept :) It was a nice day! He is Risen! Happy Easter!

Spring Break 07

Hi Abi! She is in Kansas visiting her new cousin Oliver this week. The rest of the Hootons stayed home. We had a fun week we went to the zoo with friends Rachel and Melissa, made sugar cookies, went shopping at Vinnie's and Steve and Barrys, had ice cream twice McDs and Wendys, went to storyhour at the library, babysat the Wykoff kids, cousin Bella spent the night, went to pizza hut. Today and tomorrow we are cleaning and getting ready for Easter. I will be singing for our Easter service. Abi we can't wait to see you.....

Happy Easter everyone and stay warm :)

Indy weekend

The Hootons go to Indy for the weekend. Saturday, we arrived at our Days Inn and found out we had a suite which made things nice because we had two tvs. One for the kids and one for Mitch to watch the ballgames. None for mom but mom is ok if everyone else is happy :)

We decided to have a total kids weekend and had dinner that night at chuck e cheese! Played some ski-ball and had a good time. The next morning we were at the children's musuem. Had a surprise (at least for the kids) and Dave, Karla and kids joined us for the day. The museum is awesome. I liked the dinosaurs, Abi liked the Eygptian tomb, Brianna liked the water play, Clara like the miniature dollhouses and Drew liked everything especially when we let him out of the stroller......

We left around 4:30 and made it home in time for bath and bed......

New Addition to the family

The Hooton family has a new addition to the family....... an old truck.

I told Mitch he looks like an old man driving it! But when you buy cars the Dave Ramsey way you get what you can get.

It is a 95 GMC Serria K1500 4x4 and a sweet ride (so says Mitch I have yet to ride in it or drive it) Should improve the business imagine over the green neon with the duct taped window.

Happy Spring