Today was a wonderful Sunday after a wonderful Saturday. Last night we went to eat at a Catfish Barn in Heber Springs. It is Cade's favorite part of summer camp for football but he had to miss it this year due to class. So, I decided to treat my husband to a wonderful meal of catfish. We went to Joe and Michelle's afterwards for some games and then headed to bed early.
This morning we got up for early service pretty easily. Enjoyed a great service with my favorite song leader leading singing. We then decided to try out a new class. It is a class for young married couples with kids up to age pre-k. We fit that category so we were excited (or at least I was). The class is using the book "In Their Shoes" by Les and Leslie Parott. We are doing another study Joe and Michelle using another book by the same authors and love it ("I Love You More"). They talked about small groups/ growth groups and we decided we would try it out tonight. Boy are we lucky. This group is great. We are really blessed to be a part of this and it is going to make leaving Downtown that much harder when and if we leave the area. (Cade really enjoyed all the down home cooking tonight). ** Church was followed by brunch and a 3 hour nap for myself and a 2 hour nap for Cade, we were tired people**
This is the start of my busy week at work with lots of reports due and lots of letters and post cards to write. Wish me and Cade both luck as we have a long week ahead of us. Its Game week! :)
Have a blessed week,
Ashton
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Scrimmage Continued
Here is a few more pictures and one more video....
Have a wonderful weekend!
Casey and Jason on Kickoff Look Team
Casey lining up
Casey on Kickoff Return Look Team
Jason on Kickoff Return Look Team
Just to prove that all the Caton men stand the same on the sidelines :)
Jason running a route (28 in the back to the left)
Casey running another route
I couldn't get good video of Jason because he was running away from me. :(
Hope you enjoyed the pictures and video. Looking forward to the season and more where this came from :)
**Here are a few pictures from picture day today at the field**
**Here are a few pictures from picture day today at the field**
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| Cade with his slots |
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| And with the redshirts |
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| Slots again |
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| Redshirts again |
Ashton
Football Scrimmage
As promised... here are the pictures and a few videos of Jason and Casey at the Fall Football Scrimmage last Friday night!
Coach Caton!! :D
Which one is a Caton?!?
Good Tackle Jason (28)
Resting after a lot of Special Team work
Jason after an offensive play
Cool Picture of Casey
Casey
Coach Caton
This is Casey running a route
This video makes me laugh every time, but Casey likes to point out that he got the guy down too.
Friday, August 27, 2010
We are boring people...
So, nothing exciting has happened in the past few days. Just working for both Cade and I. We both had to be up early this morning. So for the first time in a long time, we are just chilling at home together on a Friday night. I can imagine that it is going to early to bed for us tonight.
Tomorrow I plan on going to Searcy's farmers market. I am really excited about this, so I hope I find some good fresh food. Cade has football pictures and practice tomorrow, so I imagine I will be spending time at the pool or just relaxing and catching up on some sleep. Hoping for a nice relaxing weekend for both of us since its our last one before the football madness begins. We are hoping to go to Heber Springs and eat at Hensley's Catfish Barn tomorrow night if Cade's schedule will allow.
Have a great weekend. I will post pictures and video from the scrimmage last week tomorrow I hope!
Ashton
Tomorrow I plan on going to Searcy's farmers market. I am really excited about this, so I hope I find some good fresh food. Cade has football pictures and practice tomorrow, so I imagine I will be spending time at the pool or just relaxing and catching up on some sleep. Hoping for a nice relaxing weekend for both of us since its our last one before the football madness begins. We are hoping to go to Heber Springs and eat at Hensley's Catfish Barn tomorrow night if Cade's schedule will allow.
Have a great weekend. I will post pictures and video from the scrimmage last week tomorrow I hope!
Ashton
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
A "Coaches Wife"
Friday night I went and watched the fall scrimmage. It was very entertaining. I have a bunch of pictures of Casey and Jason playing and Cade coaching a few videos that I will upload Thursday or Friday because....WE ARE GETTING INTERNET AT OUR HOUSE THURSDAY!!! WHOO HOO!! We are coming out of the stone age. Ha.
Saturday I got to sleep in a little bit and then went and ran some errands. I found a SUPER cute pair of black boots (cowboyish style, but with a small heel) for $30, they were regularly $95. I was PUMPED (wore them to church on Sunday). Then went to the coaches wives luncheon. I will admit I was a little nervous and skeptical going into the lunch. I had a wonderful time. I loved getting to know all the women in a casual setting without the husbands there to destract us. It was a good time. We had wonderful food (chicken salad that is WONDERFUL and will be my new lunch routine :D) and great conversations. Coach Huck had bought all the wives Bison earrings, Coach Simmons wife made us all charms for a necklace, Peggy made us a magnet that says "I love my Bison", and bought me and Coach Chisms wife (both new to the coaching world) a book called "The Coaches Wife". It is a spiritual based book on how to be the best coaches wife and what to expect. It is a great read. I am almost half way done and have learned a lot. It has been a rude awakening in some aspects but a breath of fresh air in others. I am so excited to embark on this journey with my wonderful husband and cannot wait to have a family of our own to take on that journey with us.
Sunday was a wonderful service at church. I love our church home and will miss it dearly when and if we move from Searcy. The singing was PHENOMENAL!! Sunday was a lazy day for me and then back to work on Monday. Last night we had devo with Joe and Michelle and really dove into some things that were eye opening for both Cade and I. We had a wonderful talk after they left and I feel so much closer to him now that we had time to talk. Cade had his "last" first day of school as a student (I hope) on Monday and he is not a fan of the class at all. He had another class this morning and will have another one tonight. There is just one more he has to go to, but doesnt know when that class will meet because it is "TBA". Looking forward to spending this weekend with Cade as it will be his last weekend before all the football game madness begins.
Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Tuesday!
Ashton
Saturday I got to sleep in a little bit and then went and ran some errands. I found a SUPER cute pair of black boots (cowboyish style, but with a small heel) for $30, they were regularly $95. I was PUMPED (wore them to church on Sunday). Then went to the coaches wives luncheon. I will admit I was a little nervous and skeptical going into the lunch. I had a wonderful time. I loved getting to know all the women in a casual setting without the husbands there to destract us. It was a good time. We had wonderful food (chicken salad that is WONDERFUL and will be my new lunch routine :D) and great conversations. Coach Huck had bought all the wives Bison earrings, Coach Simmons wife made us all charms for a necklace, Peggy made us a magnet that says "I love my Bison", and bought me and Coach Chisms wife (both new to the coaching world) a book called "The Coaches Wife". It is a spiritual based book on how to be the best coaches wife and what to expect. It is a great read. I am almost half way done and have learned a lot. It has been a rude awakening in some aspects but a breath of fresh air in others. I am so excited to embark on this journey with my wonderful husband and cannot wait to have a family of our own to take on that journey with us.
Sunday was a wonderful service at church. I love our church home and will miss it dearly when and if we move from Searcy. The singing was PHENOMENAL!! Sunday was a lazy day for me and then back to work on Monday. Last night we had devo with Joe and Michelle and really dove into some things that were eye opening for both Cade and I. We had a wonderful talk after they left and I feel so much closer to him now that we had time to talk. Cade had his "last" first day of school as a student (I hope) on Monday and he is not a fan of the class at all. He had another class this morning and will have another one tonight. There is just one more he has to go to, but doesnt know when that class will meet because it is "TBA". Looking forward to spending this weekend with Cade as it will be his last weekend before all the football game madness begins.
Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Tuesday!
Ashton
Thursday, August 19, 2010
The Last Song and more
So, I read Nicholas Sparks "The Last Song" right about the time the movie was in the theater, but we hardly ever go to the movie theater so I have been waiting and waiting for it to come to RedBox. Ha. It finally came and Cade and I watched it last night. This was such a wonderful movie (10 times better than Dear John). It followed the main plot of the book while leaving out a few minor details, but it was sooooo good. I am so glad we got to watch it last night. And yes, even Cade liked it. However, (as I knew I would) I cried like a baby for like the last 30 mins or so. Just like I did the last part of the book. It was the saddest ending, but made the book. It got me thinking about life and how precious it is and how thankful I am for my wonderful family. I hate being so far away from them and am hoping that in the near future we will be closer to them. I am also very thankful for my wonderful husband and getting to spend the rest of my life with him.
The last few days have been stressful ones both at work and with Cade being so busy that we arent getting to spend much time together. Thankfully, he only has one practice today and NOTHING tonight. We get to have devo with our good friends Joe and Michelle and then hopefully just enjoy time with each other.
I have started working on my cardio workouts and man was I sore yesterday from doing sprints. It took me forever to fall asleep because my legs hurt so bad.
I have my frist Coaches Wives event Saturday. It is a lunch at Coach Huck's house with all the coaches wives. I am a little nervous, but a little excited too. Interested to see how this thing works.
I hope you all have a great Thursday. I am hoping to be productive like I was yesterday and that the day flies by.
In Him,
Ashton
The last few days have been stressful ones both at work and with Cade being so busy that we arent getting to spend much time together. Thankfully, he only has one practice today and NOTHING tonight. We get to have devo with our good friends Joe and Michelle and then hopefully just enjoy time with each other.
I have started working on my cardio workouts and man was I sore yesterday from doing sprints. It took me forever to fall asleep because my legs hurt so bad.
I have my frist Coaches Wives event Saturday. It is a lunch at Coach Huck's house with all the coaches wives. I am a little nervous, but a little excited too. Interested to see how this thing works.
I hope you all have a great Thursday. I am hoping to be productive like I was yesterday and that the day flies by.
In Him,
Ashton
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Football, Football, Football...
FOOTBALL...That one word sums up our lives right now. Cade is busy, busy with football practices, meetings, film, and more meetings. Our schedules right now do not line up at all. We get to spend maybe 2 hours (if we are lucky) together a day. I know that this is only temporary but it has been challenging for us. Trying to have dinner together has been a major scheduling chore, but we finally got to Sunday and Monday night. It was wonderful to spend time over dinner together. I even had Jason and Casey over for some Grandma Caton spaghetti. It has been great getting to see Casey and Jason whenever we want. They are such intelligent young men and I look forward to spending more time with them this fall.
My work hours finally changed at work. I now work 8:30 - 4:30 Monday - Friday. It is awesome, but it they changed just in time for Cade's schedule to change. Whats a girl goin to do though? We have really enjoyed spending time with our wonderful friends. Sadly though, Maggie and Jeremy AND Kelli and Aaron moved to Pensecola, FL. This was a sad time for us, especially seeing Maggs and Jer leave. We shared almost all of our firsts together because they got married 2 weeks after us. It was wonderful to have someone that was going through almost the exact same thing as you in the same town. We do wish them all the best and know that they will be friends forever.
We have started a new small group book with Joe and Michelle. It is called "I love you More". It is a WONDERFUL book for all marriages, new or old. I have really enjoyed reading it so far. We are just on chapter 2 and are already learning so much about our marriage and how to deal with conflict. We have really enjoyed getting to know Joe and Michelle on a much deeper level recently. It has helped strengthen both of our marriages I would say.
As I look back on the summer, it has been a whirlwind of a summer for my family for sure. We have had a couple deaths that have really kind of blind sided us (2 of my mom's coworkers whom I knew pretty well), my grandpa had major surgery, then was hospitalized again, mom got bit by something, and my in-laws moved. It is one that has tested me as a person, my relationship with God, and my relationship with my wonderful husband. All of which I feel has made me stronger and those relationships stronger. This was a summer of firsts, just like last summer was, only this summer they were more life lessons.
I hope to keep up with this more this fall as we embark on more firsts and hopefully find out where our journey will take us next. We are looking forward to what lies ahead: Cade's first season of coaching, Cade's last semester of his Masters, Cade's first job (hopefully), and many many more I am sure.
I want to close by thanking all of those that have influenced my life. I have the best God, husband, family, and friends anyone could ask for. I am so thankful for all of those in my life.
Have a blessed day!
Ashton
My work hours finally changed at work. I now work 8:30 - 4:30 Monday - Friday. It is awesome, but it they changed just in time for Cade's schedule to change. Whats a girl goin to do though? We have really enjoyed spending time with our wonderful friends. Sadly though, Maggie and Jeremy AND Kelli and Aaron moved to Pensecola, FL. This was a sad time for us, especially seeing Maggs and Jer leave. We shared almost all of our firsts together because they got married 2 weeks after us. It was wonderful to have someone that was going through almost the exact same thing as you in the same town. We do wish them all the best and know that they will be friends forever.
We have started a new small group book with Joe and Michelle. It is called "I love you More". It is a WONDERFUL book for all marriages, new or old. I have really enjoyed reading it so far. We are just on chapter 2 and are already learning so much about our marriage and how to deal with conflict. We have really enjoyed getting to know Joe and Michelle on a much deeper level recently. It has helped strengthen both of our marriages I would say.
As I look back on the summer, it has been a whirlwind of a summer for my family for sure. We have had a couple deaths that have really kind of blind sided us (2 of my mom's coworkers whom I knew pretty well), my grandpa had major surgery, then was hospitalized again, mom got bit by something, and my in-laws moved. It is one that has tested me as a person, my relationship with God, and my relationship with my wonderful husband. All of which I feel has made me stronger and those relationships stronger. This was a summer of firsts, just like last summer was, only this summer they were more life lessons.
I hope to keep up with this more this fall as we embark on more firsts and hopefully find out where our journey will take us next. We are looking forward to what lies ahead: Cade's first season of coaching, Cade's last semester of his Masters, Cade's first job (hopefully), and many many more I am sure.
I want to close by thanking all of those that have influenced my life. I have the best God, husband, family, and friends anyone could ask for. I am so thankful for all of those in my life.
Have a blessed day!
Ashton
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