Long Time No Post

I have to apologize for the lack of posts. I have been busy with house stuff and getting ready for the girls to go back to school.

We went and checked on the house today and it is pretty much all framed in. I have ordered all the lights and some have already arrived. This is what we picked for the interior lights. These are the exterior lights. This week we also picked out siding colors and cultured stone. We will be using the siding colors just like in the picture - siding in desert tan and shake in natural clay. The cultured stone will be in the aspen color. We will use this on the the garage and one part of the front of the house.

It has been crazy trying to get everything in order to get the girls registered for school. Where we are renting Morgan would go to one school, but where we are building Morgan would go to another school. I fill our extra paperwork to get Morgan in the school where we will eventually be living. I have to take her to and from school until we move. Preschool is filled all over. Dubuque received a grant in which all 4 year olds will receive 10 hours of preschool paid for a week. Carmen is 4th on the waiting list at one preschool and has a spot at another preschool. We toured the preschool that has an opening and I am going to send her there. It is held at a methodist church and has a montessori program. Carmen will go 4 days a week in the afternoon.

This week the girls had a doctor's appointment so that Iowa schools would let them attend. I went there telling them that they would just have to be checked out by the doctor. I was so wrong.... they needed chicken pox boosters and blood drawn for lead testing (an Iowa requirement). We decided to use a family practice instead of a pediatrician. I like the idea of everyone in the family going to one location and seeing one doctor.

Gotta go... David just came home with Panchero's (Iowa's equivalent of Moe's or Qdoba).