Lancaster WI

On Wednesday morning we left for Lancaster Wisconsin. It's a 4 hour drive from here. Well actually we went to Platteville, which is 15 min. from Lancaster. The girls were so good on the drive up. BUT, there's always a butt right? the AC on my car was acting up. Only every once in a great while would it work. And it was H O T on Wednesday. I felt so bad for poor Emily. She's still so young and has a hard time regulating her body temp anyway. So we switched back and forth from windows down and trying to make the AC work. By the time we got to Platteville we were all dying of heat. So we go to check in to our hotel that Ryan had reserved on line a while ago. Well, Ryan went in with Kaitlyn while I fed Em in the car. They were gone a lot longer than I expected so Em's and I came in to see what was going on. Well, our reservation had been cancelled. After a while they figured out what had happened. Our reservations had been for 5 days earlier and when we didn't come they canceled the room. We're still not sure how the reservations got put on that day, oh well. So we went up to our room for a few min before we had to be at our first appointment (to look at an apartment). We got up there and it was burning hot, so we turned on the wall AC unit, and guess what, it didn't work. By this time I've already striped Emily down to her diaper because I'm seriously worried about how hot she feels, and Kaitlyn and I strip down to just our pants too. (Sorry if any boys are reading this) So it's time to go and we get dressed, except for Emily. I was seriously worried about her, and we head to our first appointment. We left the AC on in the hotel, hoping that by the time we got back it would cool down in there. The first apartment we checked out was seriously cool. I loved it. Everything was perfect except, no washer dryer hookups, which is a big deal with a family of 4. I was really bummed becase I really liked that place. Well while we were there Kaitlyn threw up on Ryan and herself, lovely I know. Well I had only brought one change of clothes for Kaitlyn, I know what was I thinking?- Oh yeah I was drugged the day before, I wasn't thinking much. So anyway she had to change outfits and was going to have to wear it for two days strait. We seriously thought about letting her go in just a diaper like Em, because it was still very hot in our room, but she's getting to old for that now. At least in public. We had a few hours between the next set of appointments so we hung out in the hotel. Emily was still burning up so we gave her a cold bath to cool her down. Boy, she did not like that. But it finally worked, she wasn't burning up anymore. Well we saw a few more places but they were terrible, a definite no way for all of them. Then we went to Lancaster to pick up some classifieds. Lancaster is so small that they have like 1 maybe 2 sets of apts. and they are all tiny, like efficiency and 1 bedroom size. We were hoping to find a house for rent there because we wanted to be close to Ryan's work. So back to Platteville for another appointment. This time it was a townhouse. I liked that is was at the end of a dead end street- no traffic. Well the guy was really late to show us the apartment, and apparently we were the last of a group. So there were 3 potential renters there waiting for him. Us with our 2 kids, a mom with her adorable 2 yr old twin boys, and a couple. Well when he got there he showed us all the place at the same time. It was very crowded in there. Ryan liked this place, but I wasn't very impressed. It wasn't bad, I just didn't like it. Well I was in the kitchen and I opened the freezer to check it out and a ton of ice fell on the floor. So everyone came to see what the noise was and I said. There's an insane amount of ice in there. The renter guy thought that was the funniest thing he'd ever herd. He kept saying there's an insane amount of ice in there, like that was an odd choice of words. Lol, oh well. Ryan and I didn't think it was weird. Maybe it's a Texas phrase. I don't know. Well anyways we went back to the hotel (still really hot in there) for the night, hoping the next day would go better. I was getting nervous that we weren't going to find anything to live in. Well getting Kaitlyn to sleep in a hotel room is not an easy task and we were already worn out from the day and she had only had one nap. So I was worried it was going to be a horrible fight to put her to bed. Well we put her in her pack n play and just tried to ignore her. To my surprise she actually didn't scream. She just didn't go to sleep. Well this was Wednesday night which meant So You Think You Can Dance was on. I'm a HUGE fan of this show. Last year I cheered for Benji the whole way. (For those of you who don't know he won last year, and I love him) I don't normally go crazy over reality shows, I like them but I don't usually watch the whole season or vote. Well That's not true with this show. I watch every show and cheer on my favorites. Last year when Benji won I was SOOO excited, if we hadn't had friends over I would have been jumping up and down screaming. Even with visitors over I could barely contain myself. So last year Ryan knew Wednesday nights he can't watch anything else, we are watching my show. Same for this year. So to bad Kaitlyn, I love you but the TVs on. Besides she likes to go to sleep with white noise on, so this was her white noise. It was 2 hours long and I loved it. I just love dance. Plus I'm happy because this year they are being nice to the contestants that suck. I hate it when they are mean. Well half way threw the show I glance quickly over at Kaitlyn (hoping she doesn't see me look because then we have to start over again) and she is watching the show with us. This is crazy and exciting for 2 reasons. First, it is impossible to get her to watch a show. I would love it if she would sit down and watch TV every once in a while, but she has no attention span for TV or movies. And secondly, the most exciting part- she was dancing with the contestants! I had a hard time not looking after I saw that! It was adorable. Every time I looked over there she was dancing. I love my baby. I wish we had the video camera or even just the camera, it was so cute. So for the rest of the show she slowly danced herself to sleep. Even when she was laying down, adorable. Now I love the show even more. I didn't know it was possible. So anyway, sorry about raving about a TV show, but seriously it's really cool.
Thursday we saw 2 places in Platteville, and I set up an appointment for the only place available in Lancaster. Well the first place we went to was falling apart. I felt like I needed to hold on to Kaitlyn to make sure she was ok, and I'm not a germaphobe. But then, taduntada... we went to a great house! It had a wrap around porch that was enclosed, 2 living rooms, a basement, dinning room, and 3 bedrooms. Plus we'd have the whole thing to ourselves, no other renters. I was REALLY excited about this one. An actual house, and it was really cute. Very old, but cute. So we drove to Lancaster for our last appointment, which I thought would probably be a waste of time. It was supposed to have only 2 bedrooms, so it would be smaller, and I loved the house we had just seen. Well we got to Lancaster a little early and looked at the house. I thought, well this is really cute. It's right across the street from the Piggly Wiggly (grocery store) and 2 blocks from Ryan's work. That was an immediate plus. Well we went inside and Ryan and I just fell in love with this house! It was way better than the first one. There is an office, a work room, an actually dinning room with lament wood flooring, 2 living rooms, a cute kitchen, 2 bedrooms, and a garage. Plus this house has been in this Lady's family for 4 generations, so it's an older house. It has the wood working all around the inside that is SO beautiful! There's a fire place and a beautiful china hutch that goes with the house, a built in book shelf that is gorgeous, and in the 2nd bedroom one whole wall is a closet. The closet is a few feet off the ground and underneath along the whole wall are drawers. Every room has great storage. Even the master bedroom has a walk in closet. Ryan and I wanted this house soo bad! This house was $100 less than the first AND rent includes the heating bill, which is crazy! Well the landlady said if your interested, and both Ryan and I at the same time said we are VERY interested, there's a guy who already really wants it-so if he doesn't want it you can have it. And we'd have to wait tell Saturday to find out. Man we were so bummed! So after that we visited Ryan's office and drove home. The whole way home I tried to convince myself that I didn't really want that house, but it didn't work. Well a couple of hours later the landlady called to tell us she changed her mind! We got the house! I'm so excited. It really helps to know that I'm going to like where we are staying. What a huge blessing. So that pretty much was Wednesday and Thursday. I'm just so glad that we know where we're moving to.