Our new Basement Office/Bathroom

In January we (I) decided to gut our nasty office & bathroom in the basement. It has been a long project but so worth it. We still have a few finishing touches to complete but at least we can be downstairs now and not be in a construction zone. Before construction David was the only to use the downstairs and it was his man room. Now that the area has been re-done, Parker and I love going down there to play in his new playroom. We still have the pool table that came with the house and hopefully soon we will be able to find a buyer for it. Right now I have put Parker's Geo Trak trian set on it.

Parker loves his new potty and has to go down here all day long to use it. Anything to make him potty train faster, is great with us.

The view looking into the den with the big TV. We put in french doors to make it more open and love it.

We were able to put a long sofa in the office, so if anyone wants to spend the night down here they can and have a great working bathroom.

Parker's 3rd Birthday Party

Parker had his 3rd birthday party this past Saturday and had a lot of fun playing with his school friends and of course his best buddy Aaron Seewald along with Grandaddy & Grandma Crossman.
The theme was "Lighting McQueen" from the Cars movie. Parker got a lot of cool gifts and of course more Cars themed toys. Parker posed for me to show off his new t-shirt that he got from Aunt Holly. He wanted to wear it to bed as well and keeps asking for it. I have to wash it today.

Parker was so thrilled that everyone was singing Happy Birthday to him!! Love the crazy hair due to the fact that his hat was on his head while outside playing on his Gator and Jeep.

Parker trying to blow out all 3 candles on his cake! I can't believe is 3 years old. He told us that he is getting older in a sad voice and we just chuckled!!!

We even had a pinata filled with candy. At least it was a new version and you pulled the strings on the bottom to find the one that opened the trap door. So now more swinging a bat around to break it open.

Parker driving his school friend Brant around in the Jeep!!

Aaron driving Parker, Gavin and Taylor around in the Gator. All the kids loved riding on these outside and the parents had some good laughs with the crazy driving that some kids did like driving into trees or bushes.

Parker and Aaron the best buds or brothers. Parker was thrilled to have Aaron at his party.

Playing in the leaves

This weekend we needed to rake the leaves to the road for the leaf pick-up this week. Parker had a lot of fun playing in the leaves. He looks really cute in his new hat & mittens that he kept asking me to buy him some for last few weeks. We laugh that he holds up his hands when he walks, it is like he thinks that the mittens will fall off if he puts his hands down.

2nd Doctor's visit

Yesterday I had my second doctor's visit and everything went really well. I was there for over 2 hours with baby Jace, while Parker was a school with Daddy having their Thanksgiving play and feast. They were able to hear the heartbeat and it was 176 beats. So things look really good and the doctor told me that I would probably start showing this week and feeling lots of pains since it is my second child. Which of course I have already been noticing that I am in more pain this time around. In about 8 more weeks we will be able to find out the sex of the baby. We are anxious to know what we are having and we have no clue what to name this baby. Parker's name was easy, but we are having a harder time this go around.

Halloween

I am a little late in getting these pictures posted. Sorry!! It has been a busy few weeks with candle shows.
Parker wanted to be Lighting McQueen for Halloween. The best part of the evening was Parker driving around the neighborhood on his Gator. He would stop at the mailbox and then run to the door and push the doorbell. He loved trick or treating this year and wanted to do it again the next night.