Happy Birthday Caden!

The night before Caden's birthday I hung streamers from his doorway that he would have to walk through when he woke up!

Here he is when he first got up!

 Of course I had dessert for him for his birthday breakfast!

Coming down the stairs to see his surprise!

 He was so happy!

He loved his chocolate cupcake!!

 He got to open one present that morning.  It was a Minions shirt!

I also met him at school to have lunch with him.  He was so proud to wear his birthday hat Mrs. Troutt gave to him!

Summer Days with Cameron

Although I spent the summer looking for a job, I did have fun being at home with Cameron.

We may have a future Vet on our hands! Here he is checking out his horse with the stethoscope.  

'It's okay horse, you'll be just fine. Dr. Cam is in the house!'

We enjoyed our walks through the neighborhood too.  He of course ate while I walked!

Stopping along the greenway to throw popcorn to the fish!

 We had a play date with Melanie (her family lives in our neighborhood) at the park!

 Love me some Cameron cheeks!

Here his is playing with a Handle Hauler that the Sarratts got Caden for his birthday when he was little!

TN Wildlife, Golf, Birthday, and Tieing our Shoes!

Each weekend we drive around looking for the neighborhood we will live in once our lease is up in March.  We enjoy seeing all the deer and turkey here in TN!  Here are some deer pictures!

We cannot believe Caden will be 6 on the 22nd! :(  where has the time gone?  Here are the invites we sent to our friends here in TN.

Here are the treat bags I sent to school for Caden to give to his friends.

We have been waiting for the Planes movie to come out for over a year.  Given how much Caden loves the Cars and Cars 2 movies he was super excited to see this one!  We took both boys to the movie and had so much fun.  The pictures we took in the theater were too dark so I just posted this one!

Caden and Daddy are 2 peas in a pod!  They have hit the golf course a few times (the range actually) near our house and this time Cameron and I decided to join them!  I had so much fun watching Tim teach Caden the swing techniques

The week of Caden's birthday he learned to tie his shoe!  He was so excited to finally 'get' it!  We sent this picture to Poppa because he told us if we sent the picture he'd get GiGi to send Caden $5!!

 Love these 2 sweet boys!

We all got silly on this one!

Cameron's First Day of MDO

We enrolled Cameron in the MDO Program at our church Long Hollow.  The program is called Treasure Creek and we were so excited for him to start!

I got him a monkey backpack, of course!

 I think Caden was more proud than we were!

 Ready for school!

 Heading out the door!

 Giving hugs!

We got to school and he sat his backpack down ready to go in for his first day!

 He is showing you all his new backpack!

Ready for class!  Here he is with Mrs. Barbara.  Mrs. April is in the background!

He enjoys going to 'school' twice a week!  Some days he'll say church, other days 'school'.  For him they are the same! :)

Read All About Caden!

 Caden had to complete a 'Read All About Me' poster for school and he had so much fun doing so!

His favorite things!

 Facts about him!

 This was by far my favorite entry.  He wrote 'I Love God'.

To continue with the theme, this is a picture from the pizza place where the Iron Pigs had their end of season party.  Here is Caden with his Coach, Brian.

Date Night with a Younger Man!

I got Caden some new Reeboks and he was so excited he wanted me to take a picture of him so we could send to cousin Lane who loves shoes too!

That night (you'll notice he changed shoes) Daddy suggested that Caden and I have a date night!  We headed to the movies to see Despicable Me 2!

 He was a little excited about it!

 Love my Caden and had so much fun hanging out with just him for the night!

First Day of 1st Grade

Caden was super excited about 1st Grade starting!  We got back from vacation on Saturday and he started school the following Monday!

Here he is with a thumbs up for 1st grade!

 We cannot believe how fast Caden has grown!  We are so proud of him.

 

Here he is with his new teacher Mrs. Troutt.

 

 He found his seat quickly and sat down to begin his day!

 He had a great first day and was so glad to not be a 'little kindergartener' anymore!

Disney World Here We Come!

Well the Iveys decided to go on a trip, and we did it big!  What started as a vacation in Florida at a 'beach' turned into , 'Well we will be so close to Disney World, let's do that too!'

So after Caden's last Iron Pigs baseball game, we came home, showered, changed, ate and hit the road!

Here 'We4Iveys' are leaving our neighborhood!  You can barely see Cameron peeking around the corner!

First stop Georgia! 

It was late at night when we pulled into FL.  They boys did amazingly well for such a long drive.  They napped off and on and I had plenty of snacks to keep us going!

Here's Cameron happy to be nearing FL!

Caden was pretty tired!

Finally made it to Florida.  We stayed in a hotel just inside Florida and I left my entire overnight bag there and had to have it shipped to Orlando! :|

Tim will have to correct me if I mistakenly have these out of order.  We did A LOT during our trip, so I'm trying to keep them in the order we did them. 

First stop was Animal Kingdom.  We had a lot of fun and were well versed in WALKING  A LOT!

Our first show was the Lion King show.  It was so much fun!  Caden and Cameron both enjoyed it!

 We also went on a 'Safari' through the jungle to see animals (fake).

 Although, how real does this elephant look?!  It was as if he were charging at us!

 I don't remember this character's name, but Caden saw him and ran over to get a picture with him!

Giant Rhino!

The next day we headed to Magic Kingdom.  We visited this park twice, so some pictures you will notice we are in different clothing!

 The famous castle!

 Love this picture!

We got to meet Mickey Mouse!  Cameron was not a fan of any of the characters.  Look at his left foot, he would dig it into my side!

 Goofy!  Or as Cameron calls him 'Goo-Ray'

We met Donald Duck too!  They were all so nice to us!

 

 This is what Cameron did the entire time we were in FL.  EAT!

 This is Caden on our last day which was the 2nd trip to Magic Kingdom.  We were all worn out!

 Cameron would fall asleep on Daddy's chest at the end of every park visit.

See?  Such a cutie.

 And again on the ferry ride.

 Caden would fall asleep in the car on the way back to the hotel.

 This was at Downtown Disney! 

 Caden had his face painted like a bear!

 Ooooo scary!

He even scared Daddy!

 Cam just sat there and had his water!

 We loved Hollywood Studios too.

 Again, the sun was crazy bright!

 Fake scenery in the background that looked super real!

 We all got to meet Mike and Sully!

 After that we headed to Epcot.  It was very cool to see the different countries represented.

 Daddy and the boys!

 We go to go on a Nemo adventure and  see a show which was great!  Here we are outside of the show.

 Love my Caden!

 We also went to Blizzard Beach which is a water park designed around the idea that a blizzard hit it!

Poor Cameron!  I'm not sure what he would have done without Daddy's chest to sleep on!  He napped here for a long time before we moved on to the next thing!

After we said goodbye to Mickey Mouse and Disney World, we headed for Treasure Island, FL for a few days of beach and relaxation!

The view outside our hotel room.

 Cameron enjoyed hanging out!

The boys loved the sand as you can imagine!  

While at the beach Cameron was eating cheez-its and dropped one on the sand and started to pick it up and eat it.  I grabbed it and threw it behind me.   As soon as I did we had a Hitchcock 'Birds' moment!  Cameron had a blast chasing all the birds!

Daddy buried Caden in the sand!  I'm so surprised that he didn't freak out!

We walked around the strip that night before turning in for the evening.  Caden had to sit down by the pirate!

 Both boys took a little nap on the beach which I thought was so cute!

Sleepy Caden.

 and Cameron!

We also drove to a little pier near Tampa and saw manatees!  We thought this was so neat!  Cameron kept calling them walruses! 

 Here is Cameron modeling 2 of the souvenirs we got at Disney World!

We had such an amazing time and cannot wait to go back when Cameron is a little bit bigger so he can ride more of the rides with us!