Thank You Mortgage Crisis!

We received some great news from our salesman this morning. In response to the mortgage news as of late, KB homes has drastically lowered the prices of their new home builds. This will end up saving us quite a bit on our monthly payment and over the life of our loan. This makes us very happy as we are planning on doing IVF next summer, and extra money will come in very handy (when does it not?!).

We had our pre-drywall orientation yesterday and everything looks great. They are trying to get the house done before Thanksgiving, but we'll see about that.

Birthday Bash!

Happy birthday Aaron! Yesterday, my little boy turned 2! We miss everyone very much and wish we could have had you all here to celebrate with us.

We had a fun-filled day starting with a visit to the Dinoland exhibit at Zilker Park Botanical Gardens. They have a maze of trails through beautiful gardens and right now have an exhibit of life-size dinosaurs. We heard lots of "roars" from Aaron this day! Actually, right now he's pointing to the pictures saying, "roar!".

After the dinosaurs we went and had lunch at the park, fed the pigeons and played on the playground. Right now he's pointing the elephant on his shirt and making his trumpeting sound.

Lana Preshun came over to help celebrate and open gifts everyone sent. Sorry I didn't get a picture of you, Lana! But, she was kind enough to take this one :) And, kind enough to give us a very noisy toy that we'll be sure to bring to her house next time we visit!

I made him a "roar" cake and he couldn't wait to dive into it.

More progress

They are speeding along. The windows and exterior doors are in and most of siding is up. I can finally start imagining what it will look like. Looks like we could be in the week after Thanksgiving!

Dinosaur teeth

We must be doing something right when Aaron cares about the oral hygeine of his dinosaurs! We've been talking a lot about dinosaurs in preparation for our birthday trip to the Dinoland Exhibit that is here in Austin.

These dinosaurs came in handy today to calm Aaron down after he took quite a tumble getting out of the van. Even though I was holding his hand he still managed to twist around and wack the back of his head on the door. It didn't break the skin, but did leave quite a bump. After finally settling down from that incident, I (stupidly) said "Please, Aaron, no more big falls today!". And, of course, not two seconds later (we were in the mall) he trips on a chair and takes a header to a big planter cutting his lip with his tooth. Thankfully my little hard head recovered and was able to take a nice long nap.

Framing!!!

They started the framing on our house Tuesday, and this picture was taken on Wednesday! It should be ready for drywall in about 3 weeks. We'll go and take a tour before that happens to check out the placement of everything before it's set in...well, drywall.