Work in progress

We have finally had someone working on the house and to my disbelief, they think they may be finished by the end of the week! The roof is done and the drywall and plaster are up. All that's left is paint and carpet. Yea! I had lost confidence that everything would be complete by Halloween, but that is starting to become a reality. So a month and a half and $9,000 later we are back to normal!
This week it rained so much in one day that the streets in our neighborhood flooded. I watched the water praying it wouldn't reach the house because wouldn't that just be the icing on the cake! Luckily it never got higher than the sidewalk, but you can sort of tell from the picture how high the water got by looking at the tires on the jeep. The crazy thing is that I called Jason to tell him not to bother coming home from work because our Jetta never would have made it and he had no idea how bad it was!

Fun with Kate

We have taken Kate to some fun new places lately. I'm so glad she is finally getting old enough to go places that she can enjoy instead of us just dragging her around with us when we go where we need to. We went to a nearby farm/petting zoo and she had so much fun petting the animals, especially the dwarf goats! They were so cute! Then I took her to the children's museum with some friends from church. The kiddos are a little too young to enjoy the whole museum, but there was a special toddler section that they LOVED. But beware, the cafeteria doesn't have high chairs. Why on earth wouldn't a children's museum have high chairs? Oh well. And this past Saturday we walked in the Race for the Cure. This was Kate's second Race for the Cure, but she was asleep the whole time for the first one. I got pretty emotional near the end because they have a special section for survivors to walk to go across the finish line. I was just thinking how much I wished my mom could walk that section. But it was great to see all the survivors walk it!