The past week has involved Hannah starting school, Evie, Damen and Kaleb starting tech week. Kaleb breaking a finger....seriously, we had no broken bones until we moved to Colorado, now Damen and Kaleb have both broken a finger. I'm thankful it's only fingers, and I'm sure they may be more to come. They both started doing a Ninja warrior class, that's how Kaleb broke his finger, week two. They want to play football this year, if they're breaking things just playing around, football should be fun. 

Evie officially got her license on Thursday, so she has been driving the boys and herself to tech week rehearsals, it's great! I've been able to catch up on some things and get things done around the house. Their show is this weekend and next weekend. 

Well that's it for now. I need to use the last little bit of time before everyone is home to get some other things done, so we'll keep this short. 

 The last four weeks have been a bit crazy. I can't wait for things to settle down into routine, at least in once sense......I don't like the consistent research, fighting, and trying to figure things out that I am still doing from the move. Progress seems so slow. I've fought to try and get Evie in state tuition for her college courses, when talking to the person at the college who has the ability to override the out of state tuition rate I was told by her that they discriminate against homeschoolers.....Thanks, ever so helpful. If Evie went to a public school she would be able to get in state tuition, but since she doesn't they wouldn't give it to us. Since the cost difference is $500 a credit hour, we decided it wasn't worth the $4900 it would cost for her to take her two courses and just wait until next year, which we'll still have to fight for because we didn't buy the house until August..... 🙄 but I did find a charter school that would cover all the costs if we enroll her there, however she can't have enough credits to have graduated high school, so I have to figure that one out, as I haven't actually done a transcript for her and I know she technically does have enough credit to graduate....so which ones I could and which ones I don't will matter. 

I still have been asking around for doctor recommendations, but haven't found one that will take the boys insurance yet, one was recommended, would take their insurance and was taking new patients, until you got to the scheduling, and then he didn't have any appointments available. I did find one that works for Nathan, which is great. 

And we have a car mechanic that has been recommended to us, as we have some issues with one of the cars we bought, hopefully that will all work out and it will be a quick and easy fix.

Then there's the activities for the kids......Evie has work, which since she's not going to be doing college courses, she'll just pick up more hours, which is great, since her goal is to buy her own car. And she was working through an application for a summer camp student leader in training program, which she's planning to do this summer for four weeks. Evie also passed her driving test on Friday for her license! We have an appointment (because you have to schedule those like a month in advance here!) for her to actually get her license on Thursday. It will be super helpful when she can driver herself to work!

We went to an open house for a homeschool program for the boys which is wilderness focused, but they weren't convinced it would be any good....then we tried a ninja warrior class, which Damen didn't really want to do and Kaleb was super excited about, Damen came out of it ready to do it and Kaleb isn't so sure it's what he wants to do. Moving is hard, losing friends and activities you loved is even harder. 

Hannah is starting a full load of courses on Wednesday. It was suggested to us she take the bus into class, so tomorrow I'm going to hopefully try that with her. We'll see, it can be super cold her in the winter, and it's about a mile walk from the bus stop to the school, so I'm not sure if it's going to work out or not. Her not having to drive nearly as much would be nice, but it wouldn't really save her any time since it's a 20 minute walk after the bus ride, but a walk is better than driving as long as it's not sub-zero. 

The crazy is continuing, and I just continue to press on and see what God has in store each day. There has been some crazy weather, like a couple days when we were in a cloud all night and in the morning, after the cloud clears everything was covered in crystals. Here are some pictures:

We also got solar panels installed, they went life on the 9th, we'll see how they work out. Right now they are covered in snow, so they aren't producing much....but we're hopeful they will cover a majority, if not all of our electric bill, which would be nice. The kids is in two weeks, so that means next week is tech week. We had some of the theater group over last weekend for an extra practice and everyone had a blast. The kids have been enjoying the people, but are super not thrilled over the quality of the show and are very much missing what they had in Indiana. Well, I think that's all for now.