15 Years Cancer Free - World Wish Day 2025

 

4/29 is when we celebrate Charlie's Make a wish and his official "Remission Day."

Here he is 15 years later on the same (modified) playset - 18yrs old & Cancer Free!

  

Original Make A Wish Pictures 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/q5SxLBn35QkLhv9z5

 And Blog post

https://charliehooper.blogspot.com/2011/04/?m=0

My little Bar Chart

As Chad said, we had to break out the extra pants last week and size everyone up. By the end of the year they usually are well above their shoes! This is the last year they will all be at the same school. Charlie is going off to Denver Academy while the three littles will stay at all souls.

All Souls Yearbook 2017-2018

All Souls Yearbook pics 2017-2018

Another year on the books at All Souls! Take a look at Chad's (It's not scrap booking) pages. https://photos.app.goo.gl/jixxXpDX4RkFn4Yp2 I love how he takes the time to remove the background on some of the pictures and places them strategically on the kids' pages. Garney, Granddan, Megan, Cooper, Kayla, Alyssa and many others made the yearbook this year.  

Charlie's Confirmed! 5/26/18

 

Congrats Charlie on your confirmation into the Catholic church! Special thanks to Michele and Mason for coming up as his Confirmation Sponsor!

Daniel's First Communion - All Souls

We celebrated Daniel's First Communion & Cinco de Mayo! Very blessed to have our Parish Priest, Father Sam give the sacrament. I always loved looking at Chad's first communion picture with all the little faces that we grew up with. I hope Daniel gets that same opportunity....

Tooth Fairy is going broke

Its that time in our lives when none of the kids have teeth and none of the parents have 1$ bills! I think these two look an awful lot alike here.

Happy New Year - Selfie Silly-ness

Some Silly Shots from New Year's Day. Chad had the Stomach bug and was pretty much down and out for the whole holiday :(

Check out the Album for more pictures https://photos.app.goo.gl/T1MEXiaqiTkrxxQv2

Ice skating - Keystone 2017

Keystone has a great little iceskating area! in the Video Ana and Mom carefully skate around while uncle Clay pushes Mikey around on the sled on the ice (at FAST speeds!) It was a beautiful day to skate. Sunny and over 40 degrees!!!

Tiny Skiers - Keystone 2017

Action shots of Daniel and Ana skiing Keystone the week after Christmas. Ana is in the Pink helmet with bunny ears and Daniel has a grey helmet cover with dragon wings and a black coat. Michele and other cousins make small appearances as they all skied together on this trip. Ana and D are getting really goo!

Christmas Card 2017

Taken in front of Grandan and Garney's fireplace over Thanksmas.

Royal Gorge - Santa Train 2017

 

Check out the Pictures form The Santa Train with the Crew of Cousins!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YjNvgcJCAXwbJRyy2

Next year I think we need to do Durango....

Yellowstone Vacation 2017

Yellowstone Landscapes	Camping and People

Ana is Movin' on Up

Ana's Moving up Ceremony today at All Souls Catholic school. Every child that will enter Kinder next year "graduated" and told all of the parents what they wanted to be when they grow up. Ana will apparently be a Gardener? She really like flowers.

All Souls Yearbook Pages : Designed by Dad

 

All Souls Yearbook Pages : Designed by Dad! 

Click Link or picture for more

Our little Lector

Daniel was asked to do the reading at the School Mass this week. Chad and Daniel practiced for about a week. Play the video and see how his hard work on "The Prayer of Azariah" from the book of Daniel (3:25-45) came out. We are pretty proud of our 6-year-old and his oratory skills.

Let's Do This!

Mulch is on sale and we have a back corner that needs some serious work.
I can do this . . . Mikey can help!  Gotta collect the supplies.

Mikey sure is pushing hard on that cart.  Not sure I could've lugged around 15 bags of mulch without him.

A New Thing

So something that I have been waiting a long time for has finally happened.  We are all able to take a family bike ride!  With the exception of Mikey (riding in the trailer) all the kids are comfortable and reliable enough to ride on the neighborhood streets.  Even though she doesn't show up in any of the pictures, I even got Mom out to ride with us.  A true family adventure!  We did "The Big Loop" as Daniel calls it and even snuck in a side trip to visit our old neighbors, John and Tonia.
 

First day of school 2016

Mikey's new 'Do

Styling with the side part and faded undercut! - Dad, remember it s a 3 on the sides now......

Renovation!

Welcome to week 14 of the Hooper bathroom renovation extravaganza!!!! It was time to update the master and kids bath upstairs. Instead of 2 baths, we hired a designer and Chad carved out three full baths upstairs to help with the through-put of children as they grow. Take a look at the pictures. I'll post progress to the web album. Today was cabinet installs!

Bath Remodel