Friday, February 27, 2009

Ryan's Name Game

This is a fun thing to try ... cut, paste and erase my answers and fill in your own!
1. YOUR REAL NAME: Ryan Matthew Hooks
2. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother and father's middle names) Thomas Ann
3. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad) Bobby Paul
4. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name) Hoory
5. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) Blue Dog
6. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, town where you were born) Matthew Henderson
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning) The red diet dr pepper
8. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name) Ryks
9. STREET NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie) Pralines n Cream Oatmeal n Chocolate Chip
10. ROCK STAR NAME: (current pets name, current street name) Cooper Tomas
11. PORN NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on) Amy Parkview
12. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle) Ryaizzle
13. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets) Black Charley
14. STRIPPER NAME: (name of your fav perfume/cologne, fav and candy) Allure Twix

Thursday, February 26, 2009

25 thing I bet you didn't know about me!

1. When I was born my father told the nurse that my name was going to be Tiffany so that is what they put on the baby bracelet. When my mother saw it she freaked. My dad was so excited that he forgot that we lived on Tiffany Lane and my name was supposed to be Brittany.
2. My freshman year of college I swore off dating for a year because of some bad choices I had made and my mother thought that I was never going to marry so she called my childhood youth minister’s wife and had her convince me to date again.
3. I never dated anyone more than 2 weeks until I met Ryan and we dated 4 continuous years until we married and now have almost been married 2 years.
4. I have never had a speeding ticket in my life. Yea for being a granny driver! I had never had a wreck until I moved to San Antonio.
5. I have never missed a Baylor Homecoming in my whole life. 26 years and counting!
6. Not one single thing when wrong at my wedding. It was the most perfect day of my life and I would never change a thing about it! I married my best friend and true love.
7. I have been to the same resort in Cabo San Lucas Mexico on vacation 5 times.
8. I alphabetize all 200 of my DVD’s and am very anal to keep them that way.
9. I never planned on or wanted to be a teacher even though I have many teachers in my family but, I have come to love it!
10. I spent 1 week out of 5 summers in High School and College to re-roof homes for needy families with World Changers! I am a pro!
11. I had 2 knee surgeries in High School to fix my “dancers knees” and my friends took my everywhere in a wheel chair so that I could enjoy my senior year.
12. My guilty TV pleasure is Big Love on HBO. I am totally sucked into polygamy. (Don’t agree with it but am fascinated with those involved)
13. I am an English teacher and I stink at grammar and spelling.
14. My junior year in college I almost ruptured my appendix while on a Baylor Student Foundation recruiting trip in Little Rock, Arkansas. I thought it was food poisoning and called my mother in the middle of the night from the hotel room bathroom floor and she told me to go ask the front desk clerk for 7up and crackers! Yeah, that will fix it! When I got back to Waco I had my roommates take me to the Baylor clinic and of course they did not know what to do with me so they sent me on to the hospital. I had an emergency appendectomy a few hours later and still have the scar to prove it!
15. The summer after my sophomore year in college I worked at Camp Buckner in Burnet, Texas and somewhere in the town I picked up Pertussis (sp?) (Whooping Cough) and infected half of the staff with it. We were all placed in detox for a week to protect the children we worked with. Later I read that there were 84 cases of Whooping Cough in that county that summer. Yikes!
16. I have had the same best girl friends since 1st grade and the 4 of us still get together every summer for a get a way! I hope we keep this tradition going forever!
17. My best friend and Maid of Honor, Lyndsey, set up Ryan and I on a blind date in March of 2003. Man can she pick them!
18. As a child I ate tomatoes like apples, with a little salt.
19. I sang “I saw the light” at a church children’s choir talent show when I was in 6th grade. If you don’t know the song is about a woman seeing her husband in the window of their house with another woman and they were not being shy. Why would my mother let me sing that song???
20. If I could have any job in the world it would be to be a radio talk show host about love and relationships or being a photographer.
21. My mother and I could totally be wedding planners! It would be a great team! We planned my wedding down to the last candle!
22. I became a Christian and was baptized at the age of 9. I grew up in a wonderful faith focused home and feel blessed to have the childhood that I did.
23. I have never been to a real concert of any sort.
24. I want to live on a beautiful ranch in Oregon, but I want that ranch to be in Texas!
25. I married for money! Just Kidding, I am the sugar mamma in this relationship!

The Name Game

This is a fun thing to try ... cut, paste and erase my answers and fill in your own!
1. YOUR REAL NAME:
Brittany Lynne Oates Hooks
2. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother and father's middle names)
Lynne Ray
3. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)
Jack William Dalton
4. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name,
first 2 letters of your first name)
Hoobr
5. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Green dog
6. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, town where you were born)
Lynne Longview
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)
The Red Tea
8. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
Brks
9. STREET NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)
Cookies n Cream Oreo
10. ROCK STAR NAME: (current pets name, current street name)
Cooper Tomas
11. PORN NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on)
Sadie Tiffany
12. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)
Briizzle
13. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets)
Black Charley
14. STRIPPER NAME: (name of your fav perfume/cologne, fav and candy)
Burberry Tootsie Roll

Our baby is all grown up!

Today is Charley's (our puppy) 1 year birthday. I am so glad that he is getting out of the puppy stage but I will miss his super cute puppy face. I will get pictures on here of our 1st year with him later. I am at work now, but I wanted to let everyone know that Ryan and I are wishing Charley a Happy 1st Birthday!!

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Valentines Weekend!

It's that time of year again! Time to bust out the choloclate covered strawberries, roses, and cards. My take on it is that if my darling husband isn't treating me to all these things through out the year then we have serious problems. This year consisted of dinner at a favorite Greek restaurant of ours and a movie (The International- it was kind of slow for an action movie). Then we played games and ate chocolate dipped strawberries from Godiva (BTW- not worth the 40 bucks I shelled out). Today we went to the SA rodeo to see my cousin, Will, show his pig. It was so stinky but great to see family and learn all we did about pig showing. If my child one day wanted to show pigs then I think that I would be ok with it. They are pretty darn cute! Well, here are pics, mainly for the family that was not here for it. His pig today did not make it to the judging but we are pulling for his pig to win tomorrow. Good Luck Will!
Swagger the Pig