Whirlwind...

would be the word that I would use to describe the week we had. Anyway, Friday morning at 6:00 am, the kids and I headed with Mike on the truck, to PA. Earlier last week when Mike was gone on business they where at an auction and purchased a tanker and needed to be picked up. The kids were so excited that they could hardly go to sleep, but eventually did. Hailey was awake by 5:30 the next morning. We got to Hamburg, PA around 2:00pm and picked up the tanker and then stopped at Cabela's which was not far from there. We spent several hours there and then headed to Mike's Aunt and Uncle's for the night. After a good nights sleep and climbing back in the truck we arrived home around 4:30 pm. All I have to say is, I would not make a good truck driver, I can't imagine driving out, unloading or loading and turning around and heading to the next place right away. We had fun with Mike and stopping at Cabela's and Mike's Aunts, but we were all ready to be home.

Also this week, we potty trained Jace. I was not going to worry about that until we where done with house and all settled in, but he woke up Monday morning and wanted to try going potty in the big boy potty, so I wasn't going to miss my opportunity. He has been doing very well, which is very suprising, because I thought that he had interest or had any idea what it was. Blow me away.

Panic

Is what I did today after I realized that I had lost a savings withdraw slip that was signed. Mike is buying some beef cows tomorrow, so I was supposed to transfer from savings to farm checking and when I got to the bank, I could not find it anyway, so we ended up closing out our savings and reopening another one. FYI don't ever sign your withdraw slips until you get to the bank. I guess someone up in Wooster is thinking that they are a little richer tonight.

Today I spent the day cleaning the addition. No its not ready to move in yet, but the windows and a few other things can be cleaned and the windows in the existing house needed to be washed so bad, so that's where I started and worked my way into the addition.

Yesterday morning I spent in the Dentist office. I had a cavity in the very back and had been putting it off and at my last cleaning finally scheduled the fillings. I am reminded why I hate going to the dentist so bad. I can handle the numbing needles, its the sound of the drill that just about sends me through the ceiling, but it is a relief knowing that its finally done.

This weekend is more like all the other ones, working on the house. Oh joy, but every week end we spend on it just gets us closer to being able to move in. We keep wondering what will we do with our weekends and evenings when there is no house to work on. There's always something.

FYI

The carpet in our bedroom that is two post down, is NOT pink. It looks pink in the picture, but its called cocoa latte. Just thought that I would clear that up.

IKE

So Sunday was a very windy day because we were dealing with the remainder of Ike. So by 5:00 we had no power. We only had minimal damage, like several large tree branches down and a smaller tree snapped in half and all the porch furniture was in the front yard, but were very fortunate. I can't imagine being an actual hurricane. After attempting to put the kids to bed, Mike ventured out to help some neighbours to cut some trees from across their driveway. Our power finally came on around 3:00. There are still several areas that don't have power. So Hailey didn't have school Monday because one of the schools in the school district didn't have power. We ventured up to Target, which didn't have power either, but were able to half function thanks to generators.
Tuesday morning I had a meeting with Weaver's and had to go over some things for the new church and then Jace and I ventured up to Lodi Outlet Mall which is now, Lodi Station Outlets and it has this cute train running up and down between the isles. We had an all day pass and so we could get off and shop at a store and then get back on and go to the next. It was lots of fun and Jace was not really ready to go get his sister. Today is a day at home and then tomorrow its back to appointments that I have.
Hailey and Jace are excited about seeing their daddy again. He had been gone on business for the last two days and is supposed to be coming home sometime this afternoon. I'm excited too.
OK so much for my ramblings, not too exciting, but somethings that have been happening in our lives.

House

Lot of you have been asking where we are on the house? Not exactly sure how to answer that question, except for its coming. We are starting to see the end. I will post a few pictures, but keep in mind it still is a construction site.

Hope this gives you a little glimpse for those of you who were wondering. If your ever in the area call and I'll be happy to give you a tour.

Fair

Last evening we headed to Wooster with Gary and Jen to attend the Wayne County Fair. Kids had so much fun, riding rides to watching the lose pig running around in the pig barn.



Riding with Aunt Jen.

More Zoo Pictures

Top Left: Jace posing with the go-go (his word for train) signs. Top Right: They did not want to take this picture with the statue of an alligator because they were so tired and Jace was worried that the alligator would get him.
Hailey & Jace touching a live snake. Knock my socks off that they actually did it. Hailey couldn't wait to see the snakes.

Columbus

We headed to Columbus around 9:00am Saturday morning for our little week end away. Kids did very well traveling and after some very slow moving traffic we finally arrived at the zoo. Our kids were thrilled. They both had a list of animals that they wanted to see. We had a very good day, and by the time we left, we had two very sleepy kids and two very tired parents. We then headed for our hotel, were we just chilled. Saturday we headed for the softball tournament. Our plans where to head back Sunday evening, but the last game ended at 9:30 pm, so we decided to stay and camped out in Gary & Jen's room for the night and then headed for home after they played there 8:30 am game. It was very good to get away and out of house mess for a couple of days.