September with Alivia, part 3

Haha he is just so cute

It's a little early in the season (and was still high 80s) but we went to the pumpkin patch right by our house to welcome in fall. We'll have to go back and actually buy some pumpkins as it gets closer. Easton loved the hayride and tractors that go "vroom"

^"How come your pumpkin is bigger than mine?!"^

I LOVE fall and pumpkins and everything that goes along with it. 

I had never seen so many different kinds of pumpkins and gourds.

(Notice the outfit changes? Yes, we went again when my mom was here for the weekend)

^So rare for there to be a picture of the two of us^

^This is the cutest, happiest boy I've ever seen. He got to sit in a tractor and say "vroom, vroom!"^

^Looking at the chickens and bunnies^

^Milking a cow... kind of^

Easton liked sliding down the slide, but this time things got a little crazy. Don't worry. He was fine.

Alivia, being the hairstylist she is, was able to practice a lot of pretty new hair-dos on me ;)

Check out her blog: http://theiincreativity.blogspot.com/

One Saturday we went to Bass Pro Shops downtown for their Hometown Festival--

plus we had to pick up Blaine's bow that was being fixed

^"buck!"^

^"vroom, vroom"^

My mom was only able to stay for a couple days, but it was nice while it lasted

Easton won't sit on my lap on the piano or let me play while he plays??? 

^Jake found it relaxing as well^

September with Alivia, part 2

One Saturday we played volleyball with the stake young men and young women at, ahem, the OFFICIAL training facility of the Thunder girls 

Then we came home and caught the end of Blaine's workout, so Alivia did her first squat

Alivia watched Easton one night so Blaine and I could go out to dinner for probably the 5th time since Easton was born... we got a bunch of snaps like these

We also took advantage of someone else being around by squeezing in 

another family of 3 photo after church

^ These two love her ^

We can't feed Easton when Jake is in the room anymore because Easton inevitably feeds all of his food to him... he's just so selfless ;)

Another sewing project we worked on was matching jammie pants for Easton and my dad

I wanted to make them for their Christmas presents last year, but messed up, got frustrated and quit. Luckily Alivia bailed me out. 

She made these all by herself and didn't even have a pattern for Easton's.

^Jake was very supportive^

Easton has started to give hugs, but only when he feels like it. Liv sure did get a lot though

Helping Dad with the dishes

One of our picnic lunches on the back patio

One Monday we went to Top Golf for a little family activity, but really, it was just for Easton. 

He's become obsessed with golf and we've recently bought him his own clubs (plastic) since he was scratching up Blaine's everyday

He is the funniest little boy. He would cry and fuss and have real tears when it wasn't his turn, but then we'd let him take a couple strokes and he would just giggle and light up. 

The worker guy even brought him out his very own kids size (still too big, but better than Blaine's)

^There he is modeling his new jammie bottoms^

We also went to the brand new Cabela's a couple days before it opened because we're card holders. Blaine was so excited. There were even people lined up and camping out for the grand opening.

^ "Daaaaaaaad, pick me up! Let meeeee see it!" ^

 Thats how his face looks when he says "ba-droom" 

(which is sounding more and more like "vroom")