CALI 4 TYSON

Tyson and 3 friends left for California last night at about 9:30pm. They will be gone until Thursday, and based on the picture, are likely having a great deal of fun.

They made pretty good time. They drove to Anaheim, arriving at about 8:30-9:00 Sunday morning. --I probably don't want to know how fast they were going. ;0)

JAMIE'S CHILDREN - FOR THE SUMMER

This is the Brian and Kristen Sorensen children, from Keller, Texas. Jamie is being their nanny for the months of June and July~aren't they cute!?

The oldest of the crew is Dan...

He is probably too old to call Daniel now. :0)

Next is Karly...

And the youngest, is Kamryn...

Here is the group on the stairs... darling children!

Jamie was going to send a few pictures with her in them, but the power has been out and the camera needed charging. They had a tornado, Jamie's first experience with a tornado, the day before. Fortunately, it did not hit them directly, however, it was apparently close enough to knock out the power. ~We hope everyone is okay!

JAMIE, THE TEXAS NANNY

I thought I'd share the first pictures we received from Jamie since she left for Keller, Texas last week. She is being nanny for Kerrie's sister, Kristen, for a couple of months.

Jamie told Kerrie yesterday that she looked at some pictures while she was there last year, and she was really tan. She told Kerrie that her new goal was to get a great tan again this year! By the looks of these pictures, she is working hard. :-0

Jamie and the girls. Aren't they cute!

Jamie's uncle, Brian, built this plane shortly before they moved from Utah to Texas. Pretty cool!

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Also, a quick note on the "building move" at work. There was an awful lot of activity, but I certainly didn't see much accomplished?? You'll have to see if you noticed anything from yesterday.

ALMOST MOVED

Well, I see it has been a month since I updated you on the building being moved across the street from work. Here are some pictures so that you can keep tabs. :0) It is almost in it's final resting place, many millions of tax dollars later... all for the "Odd Fellows".

June 4, 2009 ~ 6:00pm

The brown and tan checkered area to the left of the building are 4 inch steel plates that they have put down to roll the building across. They had problems with it sinking into the ground, and this has prevented it from happening.

June 5, 2009

It appeared as though they were actually going to start moving again, as indicated by one truck backed in and lines tied to the back. I think they stopped at that point because it began to rain??

June 8, 2009 ~ 9:30am

Moving day. The truck's are almost all hooked up and ready to move.

June 8, 2009 ~ 11:30am

Although it is difficult to see in this picture, the trucks have pulled almost to the Federal Court on the left, and the lines are tight and pulling.

June 8, 2009 ~ 1:00pm

It is moving, I promise. ;-)

June 8, 2009 ~ 2:30pm

Almost as far to the left as it can go, before it heads across the street.

June 8, 2009 ~ 4:30pm

Whew! It's a good thing they are finished because I'm exhausted (from work, I promise, not just watching the building move) The chains have been removed and some of the truck's are neatly lined up to the right of the building, ready to pull across the street.

It looks like they could move it across the street tomorrow but I don't know if they will or if they will need to move the big metal plates over the road to move across it. Regardless, as you can see, the big timbers are neatly lined up in the 12-14 foot (?) hole. They are ready for the building to be set down on them and then lowered into place.

I'm sure you can hardly wait to see the rest of the "move". I hope I remember to take pictures. :0)

Take care!

MAY 15-16 2009

On Thursday new windows were installed in our home. A couple of years ago we replaced the windows downstairs, and we needed to have the upstairs replaced. When our home was built, the standard was to use single pane windows with an aluminum frame. Somewhere along the line, one of the owners installed storm windows on most of the windows upstairs, but they were not doing a good job at keeping the cold out and heat in. They were definitely not energy efficient, and were really hard to clean. -We needed new windows. Below are pictures, the are the old windows, and below that the new windows.

The living room.
The 'before' picture was taken 2 years ago when a new roof was installed.

South window of our room on the left, bathroom on the right.


West windows of our room and Jamie's.

This is what's behind the shades.

Kitchen on the left, Kitchen sliding door center, and mud room bathroom on the right.

A closer look at the new sliding glass door off the kitchen.

I don't have a before picture that is close enough to really see anything on these, so I will simply include the new windows. The one on the left is Tyson's room, and on the right is Jamie's window on the North side.

This is the view from the driveway.

I'm sure we will enjoy the new windows for many years! :0)
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Tyson took me up to the shooting range this afternoon (Saturday) so that I could shoot his 9mm pistol. I had never shot a pistol before, and it was kind of fun. Tyson paid quite a bit for the gun, and the ammo is pretty expensive, but we had a good time and I appreciate him taking me. As you can tell by the way I held the gun, it was my first time. ;o) Tyson is pretty good!

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Last fall Kerrie's dad build one of the two gardening boxes below. The other one he built this spring. They are pretty nice for growing quite a bit in a relatively small space. Kerrie's parent's have had some boxes and have really enjoyed. Kerrie's mom is a Master Gardener and helped Kerrie plant several different types of vegetables and tomatoes in the boxes. They also planted potatoes in a planter not in the picture. The veggies will be great come harvest time!

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Here are a couple of picture's that I took today of some flowers /plants in our yard.

Well, I have out done myself with this post . . . so I will stop now. Thank you for stopping by and checking it out!