A Rite Of Passage

 Seeing the players come on to the court

 Enjoying "game food"

 Cole wanted to video the Razorbacks "scoring a goal" with the new camera Grammy gave him for his birthday.

 Calling the Hogs!  Woo Pig Sooie!

 At halftime the football team received the Cotton Bowl trophy

Walking around campus after the game

One thing I learned very soon after moving to Arkansas to go to college is that the people here love the Razorbacks...no matter what.  Several years after living in Arkansas we moved to Fayetteville, home to the University of Arkansas and I learned even more what it means to love the Hogs!  I grew up in a smallish town in Michigan...we had lots of colleges there and everyone had their favorites.  Here....everyone loves this one team....a lot.  And living in a college town has proved to be very fun and very exciting.  You can't help but get into it.  Well, Rhonald has been thinking about taking Cole to a game since, well, he was born.  We really wanted him to be old enough to enjoy it.  After talking it over we decided it would be a great thing when he turned 4.  So, about 2 weeks after his 4th birthday we headed over the Bud Walton Arena to watch the Razorbacks take on the Michigan Wolverines (pretty funny huh?).  It was so much fun!  We had great seats and great company.  Cole was a tad overwhelmed at first...it was so loud and so crowded but he quickly warmed up to the idea and began cheering along with everyone else.  We wanted to make it super special so we let him try out lots of the different foods and boy was he in heaven with that!  By the end of the game he was asking Rhonald is we could come again soon and if we could go to a football game when they played again (he is a Southern boy for sure folks!).  It was truly the best experience for all of us....I could see Rhonald beaming with pride as our boy stood up to call the Hogs!  I'm sure it is something we will both remember for a long, long time.