Matt turns 31!

Last Saturday Matt turned 31 and we celebrated by attending the Rising Sun Art Festival in Indiana with both sets of parents! Despite weather reports, it ended up being warm and sunny, making it the ideal setting to walk around and enjoy ourselves. There were 3 Indiana wineries represented, one of which introduced me to my new favorite drink...a wine-a-rita!

Maddox was such a good boy that day...here he is with Grandma Hood!
Lana, our resident pastry chef, made Matt a twinkie cake for his birthday! Everyone absolutely LOVED it! There have already been several requests made for it to appear at our family Christmas gathering this year.
One of Matt's presents from my dad was a ticket to the Bengals game last Sunday. Here are my boys rocking the orange and black! Unfortunately, the game ended up being a wind-blown tragedy (both due to the weather and the skills of the players).

Fatherhood and Motherhood fly

Sept. 17th, 2008 Deb's old boss called and asked if we would like to fly and eat Tuesday night. We flew, with Debbie as pilot for 30 of the 60 minutes, across Indy. We ate supper at Crackbarrel in Shelbyville.

Jim and Suzanne Snyder picked us up at the Shelbyville airport when we flew then took time to eat before they left Shelbyville airport. We went home knowing we survived and new 'pilot in the making'

Cody

So, I want to introduce my new roommate, Cody! I met Cody at church and since then have had quite a few exciting adventures!! In one picture Cody is playing my guitar, another, we enjoyed some cigars on a Sunday afternoon. We went to family camp with the church, and found a tire swing to play on up in Payson, and then the last picture is of Cody and I at Renee's party intruducing her new roomie Rick! So, good times! Hopefully more are on the way!

32nd Birthday Party!

So my b-day was on a Thursday, so that night
my friends and I met at O'Donoghue's, an
Irish Restaurant/Pub, with live music by
Mark Zubia! What fun!!








Then on Friday night, I met up with my co-workers
at the Yucca Tap Room for some more live music!
The music left us happy to go, unfortunately, how-
ever, I had a great time catching up with every-
one!







Then, Sunday, my church family took me out to
lunch at an Indian Restaurant, very good for my
first time!


All in all, I had a very good birthday celebration!

More about Maddox...

On September 7, Maddox turned 5...months, that is! I'll tell you what, with all that goes on in the world today, every day, week and month that passes by is a celebration! Right now he's trying to master rolling over, and he devours his rice cereal like it's the tastiest thing on the planet! Next week we get to introduce baby food - starting with veggies (strained peas - ewww)! This is my life...and I wouldn't trade it for anything!

The whole family together was celebrating the wedding of David and Kylie. We had such a good time with the kids.

The Hood family

Matt, Amanda and Maddox at David and Kylie's wedding. It was a wedding and day.