Sue's Raisins..

So what do you think about the size of these Chocolate covered raisins? HUGE. Most of them are an inch long. This first one looks to be 1 and 1/8th long. The girl scouts do it big these days. I have to admit I have never seen any this size. These are one of the great gifts we got at Sue's Christmas bingo.. Better than a foam picture frame..lol

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Just found this site. I think it is Seattle. Haven't read the hate mail yet but Oh it must be nasty. TackyChristmasYards

Snow and the new room

I see I have been terrible about posting. It takes , or it seems, forever to get the pictures downloaded and saved. These are of the snow, Molly in the snow, and snow from our new room. And..... new room pictures. I can hardly wait. It is going to be so nice to have it done.

Christmas 2007

It snowed on and off all Christmas day. It was the first one , at the moment , that I can remember... Aunt Sue had us Christmas eve for dinner. We had Chinese food this year. We ordered enouph for 2 dinners. Sue had her normal giveaways. It always makes us laugh. Just watching her watch us open our "stuff" is worth it. Christmas morning was at the Deans and breakfast was great as always. JJ called this morning and made all the Burgess family cry. We miss him. Then we are off again to Aunt Sue's for dinner. Which by the way was extremly good. mmmm.

Well our first Christmas with out one of our kids. JJ as you all know is in Texas. A very different day for us. But more for him. Our thoughts were with him every minute. But we had a fine Christmas anyway. Saga and Kate are here. I have picture of her with Grandma Dean. And then of Jeri opening her presents. We leave for Texas on Wednesday at the crack of dawn. We are excited. Mom and Dad are going too. We will all have lots of fun...

Jeri's got her license...

Jeri's got her license. Here she is coming in the front door from showing off it off at Grandma Deans house. Yes it is snowing in the background.. We called her and told her to come home ...it was snowing.... The bottom picture is her and her license. She is so proud. It was snowing while she took her test in Morton . Now I can send her to the store. How long will that last? We haven't heard from JJ yet and Jeff says we may not for another week. We sure think of him all the time. 31 days to San Antonio. ..

What JJ's doing.

There is J's antlers mounted. They look really nice even though they are on my front room wall. His deer he got this year and picture with Jeri and one with his dad. We sure miss him... Click on the site below and see what J is doing..

http://www.airforce.com/training/enlisted/index.php

Here is an Air Force site that will show you what JJ is doing each week.. He just called us, and of course Jeff and I bawled. JJ wasn't much better. Poor kid... I feel so bad... It's got to get better for him.. Doesn't it??

Guitar Hero..

This is totally hilarious. The kids just bought "Guitar Hero lll". This first picture here is what you see on TV. And that Mohawk dude is Jeff's caricature. lol. OMG. Right now they are playing "Black magic woman". It's Jeri and Jeff at the moment. JJ is playing a game online. Killing people I think. lol.. Well the guitar players are working up a sweat. So funny.

The addition

Here are a few pictures of the roof being put on the addition. And an old stamped piece of lumber from Eatonville lumber . We now have a finished roof, windows and sliding glass door. This week we will be getting ... Plumbing.... and wired for electricity. For all who don't know. Our first bid on plumbing for the new bathroom (which was a shower, toilet and sink, to be plumbed into the existing bathroom 15 feet away.. ) Was over $9000. OUCH!. We finally found someone to do it for under $2000. What a rip off ... It is all very exciting.. I will take pictures this week and post. I try not to stay awake at night thinking of it. It's hard.. We

loads of work to do.. We'll get there eventually.

Jeri's first day of school

Here is Jeri on the first day of school. And now it is October. Oh well. I went crazy today with all the posts I got home before 11. Usually on Mondays I have tons to do in town. So instead of cleaning the house I am posting old pictures.. Be sure and scroll down I did three posts today. I am listening to the contractor put up siding on the addition. He is almost through with it. (the siding that is). We asked him to put in Jeri's window since we are unable. We put in the first one and the second one is trouble and we know it.. It's better this way believe me..

I know these are some older pictures, but.... These are finishing our retaining wall on the side of the house.. It gave Maude quite a bit of room and parking for the rest of our rigs.. It took tons of gravel. Thank goodness we know where to get it.. I haven't found our pictures that I took of the remodel. Darn it. But I will keep looking.

Lobster

Here are pictures of lobster night at the Burgess house. Actually 4 lobster legs don't go very far. They are Jeri's favorite.. She was quite good at shelling them. They are her favorite. Now JJ really didn't care either way. He could take them or leave them.. Jeff had to fight Jeri for his share.. Me.... I left them. lol.....

Addition news.

Sorry, couldn't resist the snow picture. (It will be here before we know it though) I will put up new ones soon.

Well... It's fall. Seems like it got here just too quickly. My pictures of the addition are on Jeri's camera so I don't have any show and tell today. So far we have windows, sliding glass door and a beautiful roof.. I am very excited to get it livable. (I can't use the word 'done' because you all know us.lol lol lol.) Anyway today Jeff and I went to Home Depot and checked out a shower, toilet, doors and some bathroom flooring. Tomorrow we'll drive in the pickup and purchase them. So all we have to do is find a plumber. Eegads.. Today is chilly and rainy so getting our roof on is so very cool. Next week we are going to get siding. Then if we get any nice weather we will paint it....... quickly. I

This is my new sweatshirt I won from Mountain Dew. It is very thick. I can hardly believe I won it. Got it in the mail today I had no idea I won anything..It was a site online. Pepsi.. I have been entering for quite a while on and off.. And today I think I won a hat. So that is probably the last of my good luck.... Cool huh.... lol Guess I should have went and bought a lottery ticket. Until next time.. win win win..

This is JJ by the Air Force academy in Colorado Springs..

Here are some pictures of Jeff and JJ's hunting trip. They went to Bijou Springs, near Colorado Springs in Colorado. They left Tuesday the 4th of September and came home early Friday morning on the 13th. JJ and Jeff took turns driving. On the way home they said it was a 22 hour trip. The boys had the best time of their lives. Something to really experience.

Back roof slide show..

http://slideroll.com/?s=4gshpb5j So here is another slide show. It's of us taking down half of the back roof. At one point we were running from the bees and then JJ sprayed them. I was very thankful I had the camera because me and running don't go together.. J doesn't have enough 'lead' in his butt he is hanging off part of the roof he thought it would come off with him.. Jeri enjoyed a break sitting on the trailer that we loaded with wood and shingles.. Next the rest of that room will come off. But thats another day... NICE....

Is it snow? Or is it hail? ...........................

Freaky hail storm. Especially for this time of year...

Here are pictures of the ugly tin shed being tore down. Jeri was quite handy with the drill and JJ mostly muscled down thing down. They threw it in the truck and hauled it away. Made the back yard look ginormous...

Graduation Day

http://www.slideroll.com/slideshows/members/allaboutus/ Here is an attempt with a slide show. These were the only pic's on my camera.. Of course this is my favorite. We are very proud of him. It is always so wonderful to have the family here. Nanci, Kate and Saga, Dan and his friend Joe.. We love you all....