1st of MANY Daddy/Daughter Dates

Terrel got to take Tegan on her very 1st Daddy /Daughter date. He promised her that if she did a really good job through her surgery and all that just she and he would go to the Braves game. They went on Friday, May 15 and watched the Braves take on the Arizona Diamondbacks. They got there kind of early to watch some batting practice and throwing and every once in a whil eone of the players would throw a ball in to the stands for teh fans, and Tegan kept saying to her Daddy that she wanted a ball(**Remember this for later in the post**). They sat down the first base line into right field about 3 rows from the field, so they had pretty good seats. Terrel said Tegan was great, she behaved so well and just had a blast and never got bored. To add to this exciting date, Terrel caught a foul ball and was on TV as he was handing it to Tegan--- what a priceless evening in my opinion.Once Terrel caught the ball and handed it to Tegan , Tegan said to her Daddy-- WE DID IT!!! They gave us ball!!! (She thought the players finally through a ball to her). The evening went on and the Braves went on to win after some very exciting basbeall activity with scoring runs and homeruns, etc. On Fridays at the Braves home games they have Friday Night Fireworks...so of course they had to stay at watch those-- and Tegan was in heaven...she absolutely loved the fireworks. They got home after midnight and my little miss Tegan was still WIDE awake when they got home--- she was so excited to tell me all about the game. I am so glad that she and her daddy were able to spend some special time with just the two of them. What a great father my girls have. I am so grateful for him and the time he wants to spend with our girls.

WHY DID YOU NAME ME THAT?

I read on a few people's blogs about why they chose their child's name. I didn't do the link up that some of the other's did, but it's always fun to talk about baby names.... **NO WE ARE NOT PREGNANT**

Our first bundle of joy came to us in June of 2006. We chose the name Tegan from my name and Terrel's name. We took the TE from his name and the GAN from my name and formed Tegan. We had never heard the name when we decided to name her that, but then I started to hear it more and more. It's still not too popular of a name, but every now and then someone will say, ohhh my niece or grandaughter is named that....usually the spelling is different but again every once in a while the spelling will be the same. Her middle name is Brook, which is my middle name also. We never had any other names picked out for her...this was the one. If she was going to be a boy...I liked Jackson, Parker, & Landon

Carley was born in September 2008. We decided on her name one day while I was looking in the baby name book and found it.... I would sit at home with Tegan and look through the baby name book then email Terrel at work with the names I found that I like...he always said NO for every name I would pick out and would have some crazy reason...but then one day he was looking back at some names and said what about Carley and I told him I had picked that name several weeks ago and emailed you about it and you had said No.... but we decided together that we liked Carley. Her midddle name is Jordan after my great-grandmother...it was her last name. Other names I liked when I was pregnant with Carley were--- Avery, McKay, Conner, and Braelynn--- I know there are more but these are just a few.

We're so grateful for our two little girls that we have and hope to one day have at least one other little one join our family.

UPDATE...

Tegan at home after surgery (5.3.10)








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Having fun playing dress up--- Tegan says she's Cinderella and Carley is the fairy godmother

Snow Days

We have had a very COLD and snowy winter this year in the Atlanta area. It has been very pretty to see, but after a day of seeing it we're glad it goes away!!! Tegan & Carley aren't quite sure what to think about the snow....they're not big fans of it b/c it is so cold and wet. We had one snowfall that was the 'GOOD' snow, nice and fluffy.... they got out and played in it then, but I have no pictures because they were at my(Morgan's) parents house that night to spend the night. It has snowed several times this year and here are some pictures from our winter wonderland :)

The Terrel Hood Family...est. 9/6/2003

A friend of mine posted on her blog how she and her husband met, fell in love, and got married. I thought this was a really good idea because my posterity will one day read these blog entries. So here it goes....
It all started when Terrel and my brother, Bryce, became mission companions in the Utah Salt Lake City South mission. They became good friends and have remained friends ever since. Terrel and I wrote a couple letters.... I was still a giddy teenager just loving getting letters from missionaries. I saw a few pictures of him that were sent to our house and I thought he was HOTT! I met Terrel once at a members house in Utah when my family went out to pick Bryce up from his mission. Bryce came home from his mission in August 2002, then it was time for Terrel to come home in October 2002. Some friends from Utah, Rachel and Jo, wanted to come to the south to visit when Terrel came home. They flew into Birmingham, AL where my family was living at the time and stayed with us for a few days then Bryce, Rachel, Jo and I jumped in the car one day and headed to Waycross, GA...where Terrel lived. We got there, and all his friends and family were there and we all just hung out and had a fun time for the weekend. There was some flirting going on but nothing major...again I am only 18 at the time. We got in the car to head home on a Sunday afternoon(actually it was Nov 10--my bday) and there was a bad storm that came while we were traveling home... so Terrel decided to call to make sure we got home alright, and we pretty much started our lives together after that phone call. We started calling each other every day talking for hours. We met in Macon over Thanksgiving at my Nanny & Papa's house and hung out over the weekend. He surprised me a few weeks later and came to Birmingham to visit. We started visiting as often as we could...every few weekends. Then it was getting harder and harder to leave each other everytime we had to say goodbye on Sunday afternoons....so Easter time came and he sent me on an Easter egg hunt(the sunday after easter) and that's how he proposed to me. I was soooo SURPRISED!!! I of course accepted and we were engaged for just over 4 months. After we got engaged we didn't go any weekend without seeing each other. We took turns driving back and forth between birmingham and waycross(6 hour drive) every weekend. Some weekends we met in Macon, but we mostly met in Bham or Wayx. On Sept. 6 2003 we were married in the Atlanta Georgia Temple for time and all eternity.

Accident Prone?

Our poor little Carley has had sooo many accidents this week. It started off on Tuesday when we were at a friend's house for playgroup. She kept climbing up and down the stairs, I got her off the stairs probably 20-30 times(it feels like). We were all just sitting around talking and we here a loud boom/crash whatever the sound was of her falling followed by my sweet baby screaming. I jumped up faster than I ever have to go get her. She had fallen pretty far, I think. She was ok though, no concussion or anything like that, just a tiny bruise on her cheek, a scratch across her upper lip, and a little bit of a bloddy nose, and a small carpet burn. The next accident came last night when she and Tegan were playing in the recliner(oh I forgot to add, carley can now climb up into the recliner). They were playing in the chair just having fun then we hear the noise of a loud bump into something and she had fallen on the chair arm towards our fireplace mantle(the side of it) and hit her face on it and scratched her little nose up. Her poor face this week has taken a beating, bless her heart. The final accident to date this week was this morning. I was taking a bath and she walked into the bathroom with me like she does every morning and she tripped over her blankey and fell. During her fall, she bit the side of her mouth causing a gushing of blood to come out of her mouth. Luckily, that fall didn't cause as much crying as the others, and her mouth is already better. I hope she doesn't have these accidents next week!!!!!

Atlanta Hawks

Terrel & I were able to go to an Atlanta Hawks game on Wednesday, Jan 13 with Bryce and his friend Chad. Mom watched the girls so we were able to go and actually get to watch the game and not have to chase little ones up and down the stairs. Thanks MOM!!! We had a great time. Our seats were great, they were 4 rows from the court. we were basically right behind the Hawks bench. The Hawks were able to pull off a win, but not without struggle. They played the Washington Wizards, so apparently they should have beat them by a lot, but they didn't. It was a fun night, and we hope to go back soon!!!