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.