Coopers big trip!

About a year ago maybe, Renee mentioned that she wanted to take Cooper to a Tennessee Vols football game. She lived in TN for about a year, a few years ago, and fell in love. She has now gotten Coop excited about Tennessee things. So then a few months before, she said she was going to TN in Sept and wanted to know if she could take Cooper with her. Bret and I talked about it a lot but never really made a decision until just before she bought plane tickets. We finally decided that it would be ok for him to go. Renee drove down here from Utah and then they flew out of El Paso the next day. They were gone for a week. We missed Cooper like crazy but man did he have a BLAST!!! Renee was so good about sending us pictures through out the day, calling and we even skyped a couple times. He has now been to South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. All in that week. He also got to go to a zoo, birthday party at a petting zoo, water park, and of course the football game! His favorite part of the game was doing the wave. Cooper is a pretty good kid and Renee said he did great while he was there and it sounded like it every time we talked to him. 

Here are a lot of pics from his trip not in chronological order.

Renee made him a calendar to mark of the days until they went to TN.

This was visiting one of Renee's friends that lives on a farm in Virginia.

They stayed with the Gold family in South Carolina for a few days.

Renee had the camera ready when she told him they were in TN. This was his reaction.

The water park. The little girl was one of Renee's friend's kid.

Who they went to the game with.

He really was excited about being there.

This was us here in NM while they were at the game in TN.

With Papa Gold at the Zoo.

He fed a giraffe! This kid is usually scared of things like this.

With Mama Gold

He got to ride a train! aka: the tram from one part of the airport to another

In the car they 'borrowed from the airport' (rental car)

Exhausted at the end of a busy, fun week! Their flight got delayed so he just fell asleep on the floor at the airport.