The kids and I have been back in SD/Iowa for three weeks now and we will be heading back to Denver on Friday. I have spent many days searching for a home and nothing yet, but I will keep looking. I have looked at well over 40 homes and I am just beside myself! Every home has had at least one big issue whether it was the roof, foundation, water problems, mold, or just way too much work for us. I can live with cosmetic issues but when we get into bigger problems I just don't want to have to deal with that.
Anyway, I just wanted to update you all on the house-hunting progress and I will let you know more when we get to that point. I am eager to get home and not have to worry about this for a while but we will try again in April or May.
We hope everyone is staying healthy and pray that this winter weather will soon be gone!

Kari

Eventually I will figure out how to do this whole BLOG thing! There are very large spaces in between the pictures so I apologize.

Regan had her last day of preschool yesterday since we will be gone for a while and who knows what will happen in the next few months. She attended a "Rodeo" at school last Friday and was suppose to dress like a cowgirl. She picked out her own clothes as you can see but she looked cute and had a great time. They made horses to ride, ate hotdogs and learned a new dance! Sorry I forgot to rotate the picture, I am so bad at remembering to do that.





















Kael's new 'favorite thing' is playing in the dryer. Everytime I do laundry he is pulling the clothes out(faster than I can get them) so that he can jump in! He thinks he is so funny.





















I cought Kael red-handed! He was playing Doctor and must have gotten hungry because he pulled the bread off the counter and was sitting on the floor eating it!






















Regan decided she would bring the firetruck in from the garage, so Kael was having a great time playing fireman. He figured out how to honk the horn and would giggle everytime it made a noise.




















This was Regan's last day of preschool wearing her Mt. Olive T-shirt. As you can see they love the firetruck but it is a little tight in there with two!

Not much new here, we are looking forward to watching the Super Bowl this weekend but I'm not really sure who I want to win. I really wanted the Packers to play but no such luck, Favre will have to put in another year. I thought a Super Bowl win would be a great career ending for him but oh well!

The kids and I are going to be traveling back on the 13th and will meet my dad in Omaha. He is going to take the kids to Paullina so I can go to Des Moines and look at houses. Hopefully within a week I can find something! We plan on visiting everyone for a while as we have nothing to get back for, besides Ryan but he is pretty busy! We will let everyone know where we are and when we will be around.

Ryan has been very busy on this rotation and we don't get to see him much. He has done so many interesting cases and is very glad he is at a hospital that has hands-on learning. It really is amazing the things he gets to do! I won't go into detail but he loves surgery! Iowa Methodist Medical Center is very similar to St. Joe's so he will get a lot of experience there also, which he is really excited about. It is hard for me to imagine him doing all of that (surgeries) but I guess that's what Surgical Residents do.

We hope everyone is surviving the crazy weather we have been hearing about. We don't seem to get much here and if we do it melts within a couple of days. Next year will be hard getting back into the swing of using a snowblower!

We love and miss you all!

Kael showing off all 6 of his teeth! Regan playing her guitar! Snuggling with Daddy! Kael blocking the football game from Daddy and Regan being her usual self!