What's Going On

Well...the time I usually spend blogging has been consumed with house hunting. So my blog hasn't been very interesting lately, sorry! I am amazed how hard, and emotionally exhausting it is to look for houses. I don't feel like we're being uber picky, but we do have a few things that we need/want in a house. I thought it would be a breeze in this market. Boy, was I ever wrong. I currently feel like there is nothing out there that will meet all of our requirements, and so I'm left with trying to decide which items I am willing to compromise. The biggest challenge seems to be location. Is there nothing for sale in Springville? Seriously? I've found plenty of gorgeous houses in our price range in Payson, but the husband doesn't want to be in Payson. I found some beautiful homes in Spanish Fork, but the lots were TINY, like there isn't even enough grass surrounding the house for a dog to poop on. Are people ok with this? I don't want to be packed into a neighborhood like a sardine. I'm not asking for acres here, I'm asking for some personal space. Sheesh. And I've found plenty a house on a decent spot of land, but they don't come close to the square footage we need. If I wanted to spend the rest of my existence in 1600 sqft, I'd stay here. And it's not that I have any major problems with where we are living now, I really like the house we're renting, and I couldn't hand pick a better neighborhood if I tried. But at some point in the next five years, we want to complete our family, which means having 1 or 2 more kids, and 1 or 2 more kids just aren't going to fit here. And if we're going to do this homeschooling thing, I need a school room to put it in. One wall in the living room for school is rapidly becoming too small. But enough...my brain has spun and re-spun this problem from a million different angles, and it's making my head hurt...so enough.

We are currently in the middle of a snowman unit for school, and I'm having a lot of fun with it. When we finish I'll do a big post about it, but if you want a preview, you can look at my board on pinterest.

PS- Have I mentioned how much I love pinterest yet? OH. MY. GOSH! It is soooooo nice to be able to have a place to organize all of my online searching. Putting my snowman unit together has been a breeze, because I don't have to keep track of where everything is. Fabulous. I'm so glad I converted. It's funny, because I don't even look at things that other people have pinned all that much, and I really don't find many ideas that I want to use for school using their search, but just having the other things I'm looking at on the web all in one spot is so handy, I'll never go back to sticky notes and blog post drafts again.

Have I mentioned Ivan's milk allergy lately? I didn't think so. Well, awhile ago we started feeding him cheese. And he was fine, so we added yogurt, and he was fine, so we added things with milk baked in, and sour cream. And now he basically eats everything except straight milk from a glass. Halleluiah! We still monitor what he eats and try not to let him have a lot of dairy in a day. But in small amounts here and there he is doing great! Yay. I wish I could say the same for potty training. Ugghhh. We won't go there.

Aaron's parents drove out to spend New Year's with us. (Aaron's dad is a home inspector, so he was the one that did the inspection on that other house for us.) Chuck had to drive back a few days later, but Debbie stayed here and will be with us for a few weeks. It's been great having her here. The kids, of course, love having Grandma around, and I love having another adult here to talk to during the day. Plus, she's way more fun to house hunt with than Aaron is ;) Maybe I shouldn't say fun, maybe I should say willing. Yes, willing is a better word. She's way more willing to house hunt with me than Aaron is. :)