Our New Home!!!

Here it is...our soon to be English home away from home. After two long days of looking at some very interesting homes in the Peterborough, UK, we found this quaint 4 bedroom two-story home in Glinton. Glinton is a small village on the northern side of Peterborough (it is one of the few villages around that haven't been swallowed up by Peterborough). The town itself has a nice pub called the Blue Bell, a church, a fish store, post office, town hall and primary school. We are very excited about our new place. We got to meet a lot of other Caterpillar people and some very cool British folks that we hope to become friends with. Interesting features about the house are the conservatory and the refridgerator which is seriously the size of my old dorm fridge. We are hoping to buy a washer and dryer - they'll roughly be 1/3 the size of our American sized ones. Also we'll try to buy a fridge/freezer which could be about 2/3 the size of a regular fridge in the US. We'll be buying two cars when we get over there...the Passat we have right now is a large car compared to the average sized vehicle over there. The big question is to try and figure out what stuff we want to bring over and if it will all fit in our new house. The other cool things are that the house is about 15 minutes from Kevin's office, 15 minutes from downtown Peterborough shopping and 3 minutes to the closest McDonald's...also there are some other very nice ISE mom's and kids who live near by as well.

A Week at Grandma & Grandpa Schafbuch's

This week Addison stayed with Grandma Sue and Grandpa Jeff while Mommy and Daddy went to look for the family's new home in England. Not only did Addie enjoy the time with them but I think the Grandparents were just as excited to have our little munchkin invade their space. Addie learned how to do lots of new things that week. Before we left she was just getting comfortable kind of rolling over. After we got back she was rolling over like a champ and now holding up herself on her arms with her head looking all over the place. She also got broadcasted across the internet to see us via web cast through Skype which we have found to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. It is going to be a great way to stay in contact with family and friends. The greatest thing is that it's free and it has video...tough thing is coordinating the conversations for each party during decent times of the day with a 6 hour time difference.

Auntie Crystal's Bridal Shower

We went back to Iowa this weekend to go to Auntie Crystal's bridal shower. She got lots of really cool stuff, but Addie got pretty tired. Only a month until the big day.