Happy 85th Birthday Grandma Jorgensen this was back in May of this year, my how time gets away from you.

 We realized that we had never posted pictures of the patio cover once we got it up.  It is not completely finished yet, but we look forward to using it this summer for some summer parties

 

 

The full view

The alley side

The inside, we are lining it with cedar, we still have to finish this part

 

The west end is Lynn's tool Shed

We put up the vinyl fence to hide this portion from the street

The inside of the tool shed



New Floor

New vanity and Toilet

Newly remodeled bathroom,  All done, We really like how the arch in the shower turned out.  It took longer that we planned on to get it finished, but we are really enjoying it now.

Our year of 2012 in review

I know it has been almost a year since I have posted anything, so I thought I would give you a quick review of our year.

January Not much happened, But February brought on a whole new challenge

Our Neighbors 80 foot pine tree fell in our backyard during an Idaho windstorm

the branches are taller than our house. It took our our patio cover, two cinderblock walls, fried our microwave, and a TV.

 

Our Patio Cover with the tree on it

After the tree was removed

 

We spent all summer demolishing it and rebuilding it. here are some pictures of the progress

 

 

 

We poured an extra slab of cement to make a tool shop also

I just realized I don't have a picture of the final product.  I will have to get one and post it later

 

 

In April we welcomed Trenton Jacob Jorgensen into the family

 

We are so excited to have atleast one of our grandchildren in town to love on.

 

In May Nathan, Cami, Jayni and Aleks moved to Pheonix Arizona with Nathan's Job for Knight Transportaion.  We miss seeing them more often.

 

Whitney graduated from EITC  from the Dental Assisting Program in June

 

In  July Melissa, Andy, Noah and Clare moved to Boston, Andy is getting his MBA at Harvard Business School.  They will be done in the Spring of 2014.  We miss them also

We had a really quite, Christmas with just Lynn and I, Whitney, Mike, Megan, Trenton, Grandma Jorgensen and Aunt Kerry. 

We started our year of 2013 with a major remodeling project.  Our main floor bathroom.

we took all the tile off the walls

 

Broke out the tub

 

It is now totaly gutted and waiting for plumbing, drywall and new tile.

We are putting in a walking shower where the tub was.

More pictures to come

 

 

 



 





 

Sweetheart Ball

Every year for as long as we have lived in this ward (30 yrs.) we have a Sweetheart Balls in February.  We have helped with the activity most of the 30 years we have lived here, usually on the committee, cooked food etc.  Well this year we were the ones in charge.  We had a great committee. 
We had roast beef that tasted like prime rib, mashed potatoes, green beans, green salad, and either choc. cupcake or lemon cake with ice cream for dessert.  We had a ok turn out, should have been more people there, but everyone seemed to have a good time. 

We usually have couples pictures taken so here are ours.  Mike and Megan came, Grandma Oakey, Grandma Jorgensen, Aunt Elaine, Whitney( helped serve).  Dad and I never did get our picture taken together.  Dad was taking the pictures and I was running around making sure everything was getting done. 
I am trying to get pictures that were taken of the decorations.  I forgot to get any.  So if I do I will add them to the post.

LET THE REMODELING BEGIN

The first remodel job that we had to do in our new house was the storage room. The existing shelves were probably about 60 years old, really deep, I did not dare put my hand clear to the back for fear of what I would find.  They were dirty, and smelly.  When we were tearing them out we found evidence of mice.  It better have been long ago because I hate mice.  We have taken all precautions to prevent any future visitors.  (did you know that if you put dryer sheets around your won't have mice they had the smell)  So here are some pictures of our process.

The old shelves, I left most of the food we moved and that I had bought in the boxes and bags so they weren't on the shelves.

When we got the old shelves torn out, we were left with a concrete and cinder block room.  We put studs on all the walls

                                      Then we put sheet rock up, and boards to rest the shelves on

Up went the new shelves

We have a lot of room, I am so excited.  Tomorrow we will start moving the storage we have in the shop at the old house.  I am very greatful that Lynn is such a handyman.  But I am getting pretty good too.  Next is putting in an atic ladder ( we are hiring that done) so we can use the atic for more storage.

New House

  In October we made the long distance ( one-half of a block) move to a new Home.  We are really enjoying having more living space.  We are renting our other house.  This house has a lot of fun architectural features that we just love.  But it has some updating that we want to do also. 

Our New House 198 E 23rd St.