Zoo Trip!

We've been waiting for it to cool down so we could finally take Easton to the zoo. He loves animals almost as much as he loves his cars and trucks. Almost.

Anyway, he got to go with his friend Kennedy and had his cousins Hunter, Callie, and Daniel in town as well. It turned out to be a very fun morning and we are excited to have passes now so we can take him back again and again throughout the year. We'll have to take advantage of it before baby brother comes and the heat returns!

I think the Rhino and Lions were his favorite, he cried when we left the Rhino. We also saw a Tapir, to which Easton said "Bappo" (aka Hippo). He loves Hippos, so we just went ahead and told him it was a Hippo. Haha 

  

 We spent quite a bit of time at the "Eeebras" too (One of mommy's favorites)

Lil miss Kennedy and Nancy

They both were being silly with their sunglasses...

Can you tell he was having fun or what?

The "Ir-Raffes" were another one of those things Easton liked from a distance, but didn't like when we got too close to feed them. It must have to do with their size because he warmed up to some smaller animals later on...

 Hunter got licked by one... YUCK!

Oh and we can't forget the choo-choo train! 

He loved going for a ride on it more than looking at the animals along the way. 

Now this I just don't understand.. One of Jameson's co-workers at the office has a pet turtle. Anytime we stop by for a visit I try and get Easton to pet it, but he's scared of it and won't go anywhere near it. That turtle is normal size, but this turtle here is huge and yet somehow Easton was willing to pet it. Weird.

One of our last stops was the petting zoo. Easton was freaked out at first because this ugly goat came over and was jumping up on me.

I personally like to feed the deer, they are a lot less aggressive and this little baby one it just so cute!

He finally warmed up to this little baby goat. He fed it a little bit and petted it even!

So happy we can go whenever we want now!

Halloweeeeen!!

This year for Halloween I wanted to take Easton to a pumpkin patch, I wanted to put up spider webs with him, and I wanted to carve a pumpkin with him... But I was just so darn busy I didn't have time for any of that. Maybe next year. 

We did take him to our ward trunk or treat party and he loved it. He kept the eye stickers he has on in the picture below just long enough to take the picture. Haha I think they're so cute

He loved carrying around that baseball bat and dragged it around almost the whole night. I think he thought this was the funnest costume we could have ever picked for him. 

The main reason behind the costume was all of us doing a family theme this year. We figured we had everything we needed for Jameson's and didn't want to end up going out shopping the night before to try and figure out what he should be like years before. Plus, I was trying to think of a clever pregnant costume for myself. So thus you have ... the two baseball players and the baseball :)

Here is again all dressed up to go trick or treating.

 He liked it even more than going from car to car. He would point out all the pumpkins and loved the lights, but not so much the scary masks and occasionally the skeletons. In the beginning when someone would answer the door he did what he thought he was suppose to do and walk right inside, but eventually got the hang of it, would grab his candy and say "Bye!" 

Towards the end he tuckered out and sat in his stroller for the walk home. Then all that sugar must have kicked in because right before we got home he got a second burst of energy and started yelling "House, Daddy, House!" Like how dare you skip that one dad! I guess you could say he had a good time :)

Happy Halloween everyone!

(Now it's November, Holy Cow!!)

A CAR themed birthday party for a car loving little boy!

We knew this year the theme of Easton's birthday party had to be Cars! He is absolutely obsessed with them so we couldn't have it any other way. For the decorations I wanted it to have a "race car" feel, but most of the stuff I found at the store was Disney Cars themed. I did add a few touches myself to make it more "race car" though. Starting with the checkered flags at the door...

Cars goody bags for the kids filled with Cars stickers, Cars bubbles, and candy. 

Not pictured are the matchbox cars. Every kid got to pick one out when they arrived for the race track :)

I put away all of Easton's toys except for his cars of course. One of his birthday presents was this rug and we left that out for the kids as well. 

Next was the make-shift race track ramp 

(Taped together two science presentation boards, put yellow tape down the middle, and checkered flags on the side). I wasn't sure if this would be a big hit or not, but once the kids figured out what it was exactly it was enjoyed by all the little ones! 

 They all had fun letting their matchbox car go at the top and seeing it fly down to the bottom. Carter who is a little bit smaller than the other kiddos happily snatched them at the bottom for a fun little slobber toy :)

Some of the awesome friends and family who came to celebrate with us...

And of course present time...

 Easton actually knew what to do this year and enjoyed opening each present slowly one by one.

And we ended the night with cake and ice cream! 

The store bought cake was yummy , but would have been better if my go-to cake people didn't move out of state!! :) Especially since the black icing from the road was dying peoples teeth and lips. Oops! Should have gotten a picture of that!

And of course blowing out the candles. 

I'm sure some of you had a piece of cake with some spit on it from Easton ;)