Author: Cindy

Billy’s Christmas recital is fun.   His teacher has students practice playing with singers by having the audience sing a long.  And it is always nice to recognize all the songs being played!  I’m really pleased with how well Kathy works with Billy – he may not like practicing the piano, but he does enjoy […]

One of my favorite Hooper traditions is the Santa parade.  It isn’t even a city sanctioned event – just a family that loves Christmas and loves sharing that joy with its neighbors.  This family has millions of lights and a huge display on their house and then, one Sunday evening, they parade through the neighborhood. […]

My niece had a beautiful baby boy on September 22 in Australia.  She named him Sonny Timothy MacBeth.  Melissa brought him to the US for the holidays and we got to meet him the beginning of December. He’s a cute little thing and Kevin immediately assumed his favorite baby boy holding position! Sonny was wearing […]

How cute is this boy? Bobby insists on having a toy (or 5) at the table with him during most meals.  We started by fighting it and soon decided it wasn’t worth the fight.  He eats more than he plays … usually.  There are the times when his toys eat way more of his food […]

We felt like we needed to spend Thanksgiving in California this year, so we set off as soon as the boys were out of school the Tuesday before.  After running into horrible traffic and struggling to find a place to spend the night last May, this time we booked a room in Cedar City before […]