Hello!!

Wow, it is almost 1 am....I really should go to bed!..but the guilt of reading the blog and never posting finally got the best of me! I figure...you all know what I have been up to ...the house! Just as exciting though, is having Tilly in kindergarten! She won't admit to me how wonderful it is but I can tell she loves it by how excited she is to go each day and how happy she is when I pick her up! It is really fun to have a kid in school....so far! Laila cannot wait to go to "pretty school" (pre-school). She met Mrs. Eardly today and saw her school and she did not want to go home! I have really enjoyed my time with her! ( not just because she encourages me to take naps everyday...and volunteers to help with the dishes and laundry when I wake up from my nap! :) ) but we really have had fun together. She misses Tilly a lot ...and asks "is it time to pick up Tilly yet"....20 minutes after we drop her off! Anyway, having a schedule is nice too.
Update on the house....hvac, plumbing, and electrical are all roughed in. We will be getting our insulation on friday and once we finish a few frame jobs, install central vac, and insulate we will be ready for sheet rock! We started our deck, finished the roof, and our stone is on-site waiting to be put up! It is all excited and very very tiring!! I am sure mom, Karla, and Fay Loy would all agree...having us doing the work is very very tiring for them as well, they all help out with the girls so much! THANK YOU!!! Oh, and we have our windows in and the doors will be here in 3 weeks! Yeeee Haaah!...what next? We think we have our lights picked out...the price will be the final deciding factor...and we haven't even started to look at tile yet..yikes! I change my paint choice by the hour....the lighting changes every hour ya know! Last friday we were cleaning up all the construction waste so we would be ready for a "dump-run" and we were trying to get the girls to help us...I thought a little competition of 'who can fill a box with trash the fastest" would motivate the girls! Laila got right on it. Tilly informed us that "I am a new girl and I am not made to work"! Ben informed her that she is a Crane and she will work till her fingers fall off! So for a bed time story I read 'The Little Red Hen'....when I finished explaining the symbalism..Tilly was in tears because "we won't let her live in the house when it's done because she hates to work"! Ha Ha Ha She is something else to raise! I am so in for it! Anyway, I really should go to bed and now I can sleep because the guilt is gone! LOL love you all, Wendy