Hello from cold Iowa!

Hello all- this week has gone by in a whirlwind. I can't believe it is already Thursday. Our life is full, busy, but fun. Jenna is the busiest these days with sax and guitar lessons, cheerleading practice and basketball practice. She really loves to be busy. Her first basketball practice on Tuesday night she sprained her finger really bad, it is blue and as fat as a sausage. She is still trudging on though, playing guitar and sax with it all wrapped up. The best she can anyway. Tonight she is determined to go to b-ball practice. She says she can learn to dribble and shoot lay-ups with her left hand this way! At least she is not a quitter!

House plans are moving on,,,going slow. There just seems to be one thing after the other. They finally got the backyard all dug up, trash and asphalt out and put back together. Then they had to redig the "footings" for the concrete to be poured. So...that got done, but then the land developer forgot to give the city inspectors some document saying that all the trash got dug up, so the concrete couldn't be poured. They went around and around with that all day yesterday until 4:00, and by then it was too late to start pouring. Because they couldn't pour the concrete yesterday they had to go and buy "pads" to lay down so the ground wouldn't get too cold and freeze. So...those cost like $600!!! Guess who has to pay for those?! That's right, us! We are going to see if the developer will split the cost with us. (He really should have to pay for ALL of it because it was his fault, but we aren't going to push it since they did dig up the whole lot for us at their cost.) They are supposedly pouring the footings today, then the plumber will come in and do his thing, and then they can pour the basement concrete. We are hoping to begin framing sometime next week! We are only about 1 month behind "schedule!" It is supposed to freeze rain this weekend, so that will probably slow things down again.

I am sure that is WAY more than you ever wanted to know. Oh well! :)