field trip and family pics

A post with Easton's first field trip and family pictures=prepare for picture overload. :)Yesterday Easton had his first ever field trip! :) It was a great time. He was very excited to ride the "big school bus" We went to Sonshine farms. I took a half day off from work and followed the bus to the farm. 

 They rode the tractor ride, went down slides, went through the corn maze, fed ducks and played putt putt. 

 ♥ Easton and his love

It was a fun day and it's always nice to see Easton with his friends and teachers and feel like I know a little more about the people he spends all day with while we are at work. 

Today I came home and our CD from out shoot at the fair was here. :) Here are some more of my favorites in addition to the previews I posted a couple weeks ago. Love these boys so much! 

Halloween

Halloween was a success this year :) Thursday evening we met my brother and Rose downtown and did some trick or treating there with Georgia, er Lois Lane. All of the businesses and restaurants were handing out candy to the kids. 

 Last night we did our yearly party at the Lynch house. Trey's parents really do so much for all of the kids, it's a lot of fun and they have yummy Halloween themed snacks. 

 We ate and the kids ran around the backyard playing until it was time to head out. 

 I can't believe how big everyone is getting. Easton was into trick-or-treating for the first time this year so it was really fun to watch him. He loved going up by himself to ring the doorbell and would say "tick oh tee" and would get so excited about what he got and quickly come back to us and say, " more andy" 

He definitely loves the lollipops the most. We had a good night :) 

ready!

My brother just finished press passes for Clark Kent and Lois Lane. We are ready for Halloween! :)

cherish

This past Monday was a special day....well first let me jump back a bit. I always try to do a family photo shoot sometime near Easton's birthday. This year I decided to wait until October so it wasn't miserably hot, which turned into me deciding to attempt a photo shoot at the fair. :) Since I decided on the fair, we set a date for Monday just because it would hopefully have the least amount of a crazy crowd. The closer the day got, I realized that Monday would be October 20th, exactly one year since Easton's seizure. That night a year ago we watched Easton stop breathing with his little body just limp and purple as we were rushed in an ambulance to the ER...and here we were, a year later...watching him play, ride rides, eating caramel apples and loving life. ♥ These pictures will forever be so special to me! 

After we finished our pictures, we met up with my family to ride some rides and hang out. 

 Easton loved the rides this year! :) 

It was such a great day with the people I love. ♥ 

Grandad Frank

Drake's Grandad Frank passed away today and will be missed by so many. Drake will be flying out in the morning to be with his family through the weekend. RIP Grandad Frank, we love you!

Saturday

 Hey guys! This week was filled with some of our normal routines and we also mixed in our rotation so we each had a day to do whatever we wanted again :) I got a massage and went shopping Wednesday and Drake went golfing Thursday. 

This morning was Easton's last game of the soccer season, but we had to miss. :( Poor guy was up three different times last night screaming and crying so hard, so this morning he slept in past his game time. We will have to go next week to pick up his team picture and metal. :) Awww 

After sleeping in, you would have never known he was up all night. He was ready to go! I'm glad he was feeling okay because we had a busy afternoon getting ready and going downtown to Kim and Lance's wedding. It was beautiful and Easton had a blast on the dance floor with James all evening. ♥ 

Happy Saturday!

farms and fishing

I could really use some extra hours thrown onto this weekend. Maybe for extra sleep, or extra time to actually start AND finish cleaning the house...but it's just not happening. I have been busy working and having fun the last few days and am dragging before the work week even starts. Uh oh. :) Friday I went straight from work downtown to shoot a wedding all evening/night. Everything went great, but I hate missing that time with my guys. They went to the football game and Easton had a great time! 

Saturday Easton had a soccer game and his team pictures. :) I can't wait to get those back next week at his last game of the season. Crazy. After his game we met up with my family and went to sweet season farm. I planned to go later since it is still hot here, but Kylie was in town so we had to go. :) It is supposed to rain tomorrow and Tuesday and bring fall weather back Wednesday this week so I am excited...and hopeful that it sticks around since next Monday I have family pictures scheduled with outfits that include cardigans. Gah. 

Anyways, so sweet season was a lot of fun minus that fact that we almost melted away. 

The year to year of course! 

 My brother and Rose asked me to grab a picture of them in the sunflowers to use for their Christmas card this year...this my friends is dedication to a Christmas card :) It was like 90 degrees but they busted those sweaters out for the picture. haha

 Pop and Nanny♥ 

 The corn popper!

 They added a few games this year too!

 Easton was finally big enough to ride the cows this year by himself and he loved it! I am hopeful he will enjoy the fair more this year too. 

 thumbs up with Kylie

 cousins

 After we left there we came home to shower and grab some food...then I was off again to shoot a retirement party. Luckily I only worked an hour which flew by after working for hours the night before. 

Finally today we have been hanging at the house, doing some laundry and things prepping for the week and Easton went to a free fishing clinic this morning! It was a cute little event. Free t-shirt, food and fishing pole! 

 It's been a good weekend. xoxo

Fall weekend

We literally were outside almost the whole weekend. It was so nice! Saturday was filled with soccer, playing outside, football and I ran a 5k. Drake was working on and off all day again but luckily got Sunday off with us. He is in charge of the annuals at work right now, so he has been working a good bit. 

 Sunday we had a great day as a family. Bike riding downtown, grabbing lunch, playing baseball and golf outside, and grilling out for dinner. :) 

Back to work today blah. It's beautiful again which makes it even tougher to be at work. But hopefully it's a good week and then Kylie will be here this weekend and we have some more fun fall outings planned. ♥ 

school update

I wanted to update about Easton's school. It is going awesome! He is there from 8-1:45, one of only 4 students in his class and gets so much help with speech, does PE and gets a nap everyday. He is thriving! 

I can't even list all of his words because I think I would miss some, there are a ton of word approximations where probably only we can tell what he is saying, but he has added a handful of words since school has started. He signs with the words and is mastering goals that we set for him. Just a lot more attempts at repeating everything he hears. 

We still have a VERY long way to go, but having progress is so exciting! He had his first 4 word sentence the other day! Before school started he could barely say 2 words together and it was only when he was prompted to do so. Now he will say, " I want more cookie (gummie, cracker)" 

I am so grateful that things are going the way they are and that our morning routines are good...I even get a couple minutes to sit in silence before he wakes up! :) It wasn't long ago he was waking up about 5:30-6 everyday...now it's 7:00 or 7:30. ♥ 

Happy Friday eve!