Update

I won't be able to post any pictures today as Jeff has the camera for Real Estate.

We have been very busy, here is a short recap.

School continues to keep me very busy, we just finished the first trimester so last night I was up late formulating grades, report cards go home today. Starting Friday-Tues. there are Parent Teacher conferences so I have to figure out what I am going to say to these parents.

This past weekend Jeff's parents came. They came Thurs. night. On Friday the girls school had their annual Veteran's Day program, it is quite good! The choir sings and the band plays; Jenna with her saxaphone, her first concert! She also played her guitar for one of the choir songs. Jeff's dad was in the Navy so he came for that. They show pictures of all the vets up on the screen and also their relation to the school. So my girls had a picture of their grandpa up there, but they also had a picture of their Great, Great, Great Grandpa. Jeff's mom's Great Great grandpa fought in the civil war. It was a neat picture and the crowd ooh'd and ahh'd. We had a nice weekend with them. Besides the fact that his mom was recovering from a sprained ankle and had trouble walking, and THEN she was sitting on our kitchen stool and it broke! (the stools fault, no reflection on her!) She went sprawling to the floor and hit her head. Not good!

Leah and her family were also home for the weekend for the Iowa Game. They came over, with my parents on Sat. night and we all ate pizza together.

Update on the building process. Well, they have finally dug the basement. We were ready several weeks ago and then we changed a bunch of last minute stuff with the plans, so that set us back. So finally they went and staked everything out and then Jeff went up to the site and discovered that the house was in the wrong spot, so they had to move everything over 15 feet. Which doesn't seem like a huge deal, but part of our house would have been in the woods! So that set us back. They finally dug the basement and yesterday were prepping it to pour concrete. I guess the soil tech guy has to come out before they can pour and he flunked our soil!!!! He said that he detected top soil in it! Sooooo....we have to see now if there really is top soil, how much, do we need to bring in rock to dump in the hole etc. I don't know, I don't get it all, but I do know you can't pour concrete in top soil. We are trying to figure out why there would have been top soil there as this used to be all woods. This could set us back a couple weeks, but at least they caught it. We are not stressing out. It's all good. God knows when our house should be done, in relation to when we are going to sell our current house. Each set back will only work into His plan.

I should go, I am at work, so I should work.