V-O-L-S Go Vols Go

For Ricky's birthday I got us tickets to the UT vs Memphis game in Knoxville last weekend. We had a blast and cheered the Vols to Victory. Here are some pictures from our trip.

Orange & White Corvette (Ricky thought it was pretty cool)

Vol Walk. You can't tell very well in this picture, but the players are the ones dressed in black. Being my first experience seeing the Vol Walk I found it a little crazy. These college football players are like Superstars to these people. They are sought after like famous celebrities. Cool but also CRAZY!

Here is a picture of James Denton (the guy from Desperate Housewives). He was right behind us for the Vol walk and in this picture was posing with somebody for a photo.

We met up with some of the guys Ricky went to Med School with.

The Game. UT won...Big Time
For those of you looking for pictures of Caden (not Ricky and I). A picture of Owen and Caden playing in the backyard.

A Horse A Horse Of Course Of Course

Here are our Halloween pictures. Caden was a Horse this year.

Caden finding the Candy Bucket. You can see the candy scattered around.

Posing by the pumpkins outside in his Halloween shirt.
The carved pumpkins. Everyone got one, including Lilly.

A Family Picture

A cute horse.

A walking horse. And a good picture of the tail.

"What's this on my head??"

Caden dressed up for the Halloween party we went to on Thur.

A sleepy horse on the way home from the Halloween Party.

Boo Hoo

This picture is from Ricky's birthday (Oct 22nd) before Caden's bedtime when we were enjoying Ricky's birthday cupcakes. Ricky thought he looked like he had a Hitler mustache so that is why the picture was taken. But you can also see the steri-strips on his chin from is first "major" injury of his walking career. I'm sure it won't be the last nor the worst but it wasn't very pretty when it happened. Ultimately Ricky came home to assess the situation because I am not a nurse or doctor and I wasn't sure if it needed stitches or not. He determined he could just put some steri-strips on it and it would help hold it together and we could avoid the ER and stitches. It worked well and he is healing nicely.

More Halloween pictures to come soon, but here is a preview of our little Horse. Happy Halloween!

Hard Working Men

The other weekend Ricky was out in the backyard working on building a flower bed. After Caden woke up from his nap he pitched in to help get the job done. However, currently thanks to Caden and Lilly (mostly Lilly here) there is as much mulch in the yard as in the flower bed. Unfortunately Lilly doesn't understand that mulch is not small sticks for her to eat. So we are working on that. Oops, we knew she liked to eat mulch...guess it would have helped if we had thought of that before we put in a flower bed in the backyard where she plays. Anyway here are some pictures of my hard working guys and some of Caden playing in the yard.

Caden making sure the newly buried plant can withstand the piece of mulch test.

Playing in the yard.

Staying Busy

We have had a busy few weeks up here with lot of visitors and fun. Last weekend my parents came up to visit for the weekend. Then on Monday the Yauns (some of our friends from Memphis) came up for a few days. Then Friday Ricky's mom and his aunt came up for the weekend to visit. Not to mention the fact that Ricky, Caden, and I came down with a bit of a virus this weekend/today but luckily it was only a short lived one and we have recovered, well Ricky is still recovering, but he didn't truly get it until last night. We enjoyed everyone's company and Caden thought Drew Yaun was the coolest kid ever. It was very cute to watch them interact and to watch Caden try to do everything Drew did. Anyhow I have some pictures to share that we took while everyone was here.

Caden with Grandma and Grandpa Dewrock

Drew and Caden playing

Not the best picture of the boys but we went to a pumpkin patch one day while the Yauns were here. It was fun, just very chilly.

Little Doctors in training...Caden and Drew that is, not Jason. : ) The Doctor Kit was a big hit. And thanks to Dr. Drew none of us should have worms in our ears anymore.

Grandma Ogles, Caden, and Aunt Tracey

If you stayed with me through this long post I'll add just one more. Just to embarrass Ricky. We'll see how long it takes before he checks the blog and sees that I posted this. He grew his beard for a few days and then shaved it and left the mustache. He thought it was funny and was going to go to work with it, but he backed out and shaved it off. I was going through the pictures on the camera the other day and realized that he took some pictures of himself with the stache before he shaved it. What a Goof! So here is a picture of my hubby looking a little creepy. By the way Thursday is his B-Day so wish him a Happy Birthday if you see or talk to him.

Step by Step

Caden Walks!!! He has been taking a few steps here and there for several weeks now, but on Oct. 8th (which was by birthday) he walked clear across the room. I said it was his birthday present to me. He was in the dining room holding on to the table leg and Ricky was sitting on the loveseat in the living room. Ricky said Caden why don't you walk to me. So Caden let go and walked all the way into the living room. He was pretty proud of himself. And his face was priceless. When he had gotten about five steps into it his eyes got so big and he started shaking his arms like "Oh my gosh I'm doing it!" He was very cute and Ricky and I were both standing there to see it. Since then he has been practicing up a storm and is starting to walk more and more. But still if he wants to get somewhere fast he'll crawl, without a doubt. Here are a couple of videos of him shortly after he decided he could walk.

Yum Yum

Caden has decided that he is a big boy and can eat all kinds of things. Before he tended to gag (and then vomit everything in his stomach) if he didn't like something about what he was eating. Which in turn made us a little hesitant to give him a lot of new table food. But now he's all about table food. Today I was impressed when he ate a chicken salad sandwich for lunch (well really only half). He has taken a few steps at a time but his fastest and preferred method to get around is still crawling. He's a mover though. When he wants something he gets there fast! Oh and I should mention that Ricky shot a doe with his bow. Ha, Doe with his Bow, it rhymed. A big one at that...so he says, I didn't see it. And I haven't seen any pictures of it, I'm not sure if there are any? But that is probably because he went hunting after work last Tuesday, shot the deer around 6 (I'm guessing) and didn't find the thing until LATE (maybe 11ish) then they had to drag it back to the barn and do all the dirty work to clean it. He didn't get home until 1:30 that night. So 11 is kinda late to be snapping away pictures, especially in the woods. Well I think that is the latest with us, Ricky is working this weekend so Caden and I are just hanging out and getting some things done around the house.

Yummy Cupcake

Jammin and More Dancing

Caden has always been a big fan of music, just like his daddy. Even when he was only a couple of weeks old. Ricky tended to be in charge of Caden for a bit in the evenings before his last feeding of the night while I got ready for bed, etc (so we could all go to sleep as soon as Caden did). They usually spent their time listening to music. I must also add this was Caden's crankiest part of the day so Ricky would usually end up holding him and they would sing and dance to whatever Ricky was listening to online. To this day Caden loves when any music comes on. Nowadays he is a big dancer. He feels the rhythm and gets his grove on! Below is another video of Caden dancing. I also went to a consignment sale (might I add that I really like consignment sales). They are like garage sales for impatient people. You don't have to search through crap to find something good and you know they will have what you are looking for. Plus it is clean and you don't have to get up at the crack of dawn. Anyway all that to say that I went to a kids consignment sale up here and got Caden a leap frog guitar. He likes playing the music and dancing at the same time!

Here is the video of Caden dancing.

Displaced Vols Fan

Caden is supporting the Vols even up here in MO. He did have some people ask if he was a Texas fan when we went to church on Sunday but he knows that's crazy. Ricky is working on Caden doing a touchdown sign when he says Go Vols. He has a few more days to get it down pat before they start playing. Ricky says he will be sporting his Vols outfit when we go to Mizzou games. We'll see...

Here is a video of Caden dancing to Rocky Top. Ricky thinks this is pretty cool so he thought he needed to video it.

P.S. Don't tell Ricky I told you but Caden dances to any and all music. So it is cool that he dances to Rocky Top, but he also dances to Miley Cyrus, Kid Rock, Commercials on TV, whatever is on. : - )

Caden's 1 Year Pictures

For anyone who is interested Caden's 1 Yr pictures are up on the photographers website. Her website is www.triplewondersphotography.com once you get there you have to click on the pictures to enter into the site. Then on the upper right hand side it says "Clients." Click there and it will prompt you for a password. The password is caden (all lower case). Then it will ask for your name and email. Guess this is her way of knowing who's looking... and then you can view. Enjoy!

p.s. For Grandparents who might want to order she said not to order through the website we need to go directly through her.