Keeping busy!!

We have been pretty busy the last couple of weeks!  We spent Thanksgiving at my moms and Justin and Payton decided it would be a good time to rake her leaves.  She has some big trees in her back yard so her leaves were inches deep.  Payton was so excited to help daddy.  He actually did a pretty good job.  We have also gone to see Santa and Payton told him his very long list of things he wants for Christmas!  (Thanks to those kid grabbing commercials on TV, his wish list is out of control!!)  This week we attempted to do a gingerbread train.  We have never done one before, and I know why!  What a mess!  It didn't turn out quite like the picture, but not too bad for our first try. 

Payton absoultly loves all things Christmas!  He is fascinated by the lights on the houses and is very proud of the lights that he helped daddy put outside.  Whenever someone comes over he has to show them a surprise, which is taking them out the front door and showing them the lights.  I don't know if he realizes that whoever came over saw them when they pulled up!  He also makes sure that we always have the lights on inside the house as well.  He also told me that he really wants to see Santa when he comes to our house this year.  I am trying to convince him that he comes while we sleep and if we stay up and see him, he might not leave presents!

Just has been working, ALOT!  Thanksgiving weekend was brutal.  We pretty much didn't see him from Thanksgiving night until Sunday night!  While he has been busy working, I have been busy redoing our basement.  When we moved in 5 years ago, the people before us had put up walls and carpet in an attempt to start finishing it.  We then did a little more, nothing spectacular, added a ceiling and a lot of paint, but good enough for a bonus rec room of sorts.  It was then used as an office and room for an extra TV used for the playstation.  When Payton came along, it started turning into a playroom and just started accumulating lots of toys.  I have been wanting to redo it to make the space more usuable for a while.  So, after I moved Payton to his new room a couple of months ago, I started my planning!  I knew when the new baby comes next summer, I would want to get some new baby stuff, but I wanted to keep some of Paytons old nursery things.  So, the new playroom incorporates almost everything from his old room.  I even made cork boards out of his old sheets to hang artwork on!  I am so happy with the results!  I think it is going to be great when the baby comes too because I can sit in the rocker with the baby while Payton is playing.   I am so proud of it because I did the entire thing all by myself!  Justin helped to move the desk and TV, but besides that it was all me!!  I completey rearraanged it and moved the office area to this little extra space that used to have toys and the rest of the room is all playroom!  I added some before and after pictures to the photo album. 

 

Pregnancy update:

Things are going great so far with the pregnancy.  I had an appt and ultrasound on Friday and things are looking great so far.  (I added some ultrasound pictures to the pregnancy album).  I think this week I have finally started getting my appetite back which is a good thing.  I can't imagine going ino the holiday season not wanting to eat!!

 

I hope everyone is doing great and getting ready for Christmas!  Less than 3 weeks to go!