This week I can feel us slowly sliding back into a routine of sorts. However, nothing can be too routine when you are still in the middle of trying to get into a house while living in a camper with school about to start in 3 days. (THREE DAYS!! EEK!!) Fortunately Maddy is really excited to go to school. She had to meet with her teacher on Wednesday since she is new to the school. He gave her some sheets to do just to kind of see where she was academically. She was kind of scared to go into the classroom because she is not used to having a man for a teacher and because everything is just new. She cried just a little bit but was fine once she was done. Mr. Langford told her all about the class and the students that would be there and did a great job of just helping her feel really comfortable with her new situation. On Thursday we went back for kind of an open house in the classroom and then the PTO had a taco dinner for the school. We met several families, several new like us, and Maddy got to meet most of her classmates. She got to pick her desk and go play in the gym with some of the kids after eating so she was feeling really excited about school after we were all done. She has been asking when school starts and saying she is ready to go. I hope she will have a really great first day on Tuesday. They go half a day Tuesday and then full days the rest of the week. It will be an adjustment for her to go full days, 5 days a week, but I think it will be really good for her. Kelsay might be a bored little girl for awhile. Her school doesn't start til Sept. 7. She will go 3 half days a week. She doesn't want to go to school. She is very against it. Every time we go to Maddy's school she starts pouting and saying, I am not going to school! She is just different than Maddy. She always likes school and class but it just takes her longer to feel comfortable with the teachers or being away from mom and dad. She loved her program last year so I know she will like it this year once she understands the different fun things she gets to do when she goes.
In other news, we are still working on figuring out if we'll purchase the house in Divide. The inspection was supposed to be yesterday but got delayed because the acquisition company did not complete the paperwork in time. So we've been pushed back to Tuesday for that. We'll have septic inspection on Thursday so it will be a busy week for us. We've had a carpet company come out to quote for new carpet and we'll get Lowe's to go out this week and give us a quote for carpet and linoleum. We just keep hoping this place doesn't have any unexpected issues and that we'll be able to move forward and be in the place late September at the latest.
We've been keeping Theyben and Dustin overnight some for Amber. She's been able to pick up some more shifts at her overnight job as well as getting a place at a spa. Hopefully she can build a good clientele there before winter hits. The kids have loved having their cousins over but it has made for some tight quarters in the camper. Aaron ends up on the floor when we have them so it is kind of wild. Mostly they stay outside and we eat outside but sleeping, we can't work that out. They are supposed to be over tonight and maybe tomorrow night.
We had a great dinner with the Meyer's yesterday, prepared by Tric. We came into the Springs to go to Lowe's and do laundry. It was also great to sleep in a real bed. I think I made up for several rough night. Even when the boys don't come to stay, I sleep bad. The beds are getting to me. The bed rolls to the middle and kills my neck and back. The bed that makes down from the dining table is a little better but hard. At least I don't wake up with a crick in my neck when I sleep on that. So we've switched beds with the girls. That will be good for school too because we can pull the curtain and kind of shut them in so they will go to sleep (hopefully!).
Almost forgot some of the most important news: progress on the house. They poured the foundation this week. The foundation is basically a wall and supports. They will put the floor in next an that will be at ground level. You can now see the outline of the house and kind of the shape it will be. I will leave you with pics of that and some pics of the kids playing in the stock tank this week:
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| Forms for the first stage of the foundation pour. |
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| forms around garage area |
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| I didn't mention above, but the Olympics have been a big part of our routine. The kids love watching. Maddy likes women's gymnastic and diving. |
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| For those of you who went through Woodland Park multiple times on the way to Victor, you may remember the Hungry Bear Restaurant. We tired it on Sunday. |
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| This is Kelsay's opinion of men's indoor volleyball |
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| Concrete truck for the pour. The mixer truck fed the concrete into a rubber hose that funneled it up into the crane looking thing which then poured the concrete into the forms. |
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| Stage 1 done |
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| center support |
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| Cleaning the stock tank |
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| Swim time |
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| Brrr!! |
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| More pictures of Kelsay exhaustion |
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| Forms for foundation stage 2 |
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| Stage 2 poured |
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| Unfortunately, one day, I will take all of the above scenes for granted, but not today. Can't believe how beautiful it is and that we get to live here. |
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| Stage 2 forms complete |
Forgot to say that I also enrolled Maddy in Girl Scouts this week. She'd been wanting to do that for a while. We will see how she likes it. It will be a good way to meet people.
Forgot to say that I also enrolled Maddy in Girl Scouts this week. She'd been wanting to do that for a while. We will see how she likes it. It will be a good way to meet people.
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