Update!!

The last couple of weeks have been a crazy wild time for us.  We decided on August 10th that we would move to St. Louis for Kristen's job in October instead of March.  We had talked about moving before the twins were born for a long time and thought we had decided against it.  But, as we talked through it again and as the pregnancy progresses we decided that moving with the twins inside instead of out will be much easier.

We had a trip planned for August 16th to19th to meet with three real-estate agents, a nanny, several preschools and the architect for Kristen's lab space.  We quickly re-oriented our trip to focus on finding a house.  We choose from the 3 agents based on our interactions via email and spent the next few days seriously talking about what we wanted in a house and filtering through many listings on http://zillow.com/ and the MLS listings the agents were sending.

Over the course of 3 days we:

1. Saw about 25 houses in person
2. Met with a loan officer at Midwest Bank Center
3. Found 3 houses we liked and 1 we made an offer on
4. Met with the Nanny and decided to HIRE HER NOW! 
5. Visited 2 preschools (we won't use them because of location, but they were great)
6. Explored the neighborhood we are going to live in
7. Met with the architect for Kristen's lab space
8. Met with a nanny placement service

Since we have got back

1. We have accepted the counter offer
2. Have secured the loan (more or less)
3. Have scheduled an inspection
4. Have planned a trip to meet with more preschools / daycares for Davis until the nanny starts
5. Have put together all the paperwork for the loan
6. Worked out out to get our of our lease
7. Have started making a lot of decisions about what we will move and not move
8. Started talking to moving companies

The only thing missing has been sleep.  Kristen and I both had nights in St. Louis where we were so wound up we couldn't sleep and since we got back I have been up late working each night.

Its been a crazy and exciting time!