Our Weekend Happening

So Ryan was able to be home for the weekend. He left again early yesterday morning and won't be back until Friday.
But he was able to tackle a hard task in putting a new floor in our guest/Parker's bathroom. I am very happy with the results...especially now that it no longer smells like cat. And it will be much easier to clean.

He also, this Summer, he did some other great projects that have made our yard and home better and safer. So....I attached pics of all his great projects.
The Rock Wall to our Front Garden Area....stones from Freecycle.
A railing to our back steps so that Parker and I don't fall down them anymore :)

He also did a brick pad for our garbage can which has been great and free because the bricks also came from freecycle. Have I ever mentioned that I love freecycle.org?

Also this weekend, we did some birthday party prep. I'm trying to pull some clown get up out of costume boxes to dress Ryan up to help out with the party. So, Parker has been very pleased with everything I have found. Very depressed that we can't find a clown wig, but I'm still working on it. So of course he had to try on the stuff.

He is just a bit excited for his party. I can't believe it is a week from today!!! I'm not quite ready yet. And I always feel a bit out of my element and out of control when Ryan isn't home, so I hope that I can pull it off. And everyone....be kind to me....taking the invites around to your homes....without Ryan home to do it for me....is horribly hard due to my anxiety and I'm not sure why I'm freaking out about it, but, well, I just hope i'm not bothering anyone by heading to your door this week.
Parker also found a cool hat that my mom made my dad once for a costume he had to have for Barbershop Chorus concert. Parker is very excited that now he has a hat that matches his good friend Pablo. Pablo is from the Backyardigans. That is Parker's favorite show in the whole world.

Lastly, we received his Halloween costume in the mail today. I have been fretting about Halloween because he usually can tell me what he wants to be and I couldn't find a cow pattern with utters or "Squeezers" as he calls them. I also didn't want to spend a ton of money, so I was just going to throw his firemen jacket on from his dress up box and call it good. But I came across a penguin costume online and he fell inlove with it and it wasn't a bad price, so I ordered it and now I have no worries. I know...I would have loved to sew him one like last year, but this pregnancy isn't being kind to me and I needed a quick fix. And he loves it so all is well. He tried it on for me. The feet wouldn't cooperate because he didn't have shoes on, but you get the idea.