Blogging for Jennie

So Jennie & Mike moved over Memorial Day weekend and I got to go down there this last weekend. Jennie hasn't been able to put up postings as they do not have internet yet and she actually has had to do work at work! So I thought I would put up a few things. This new house has sat vacant for about 1 year so it is so overgrown you can hardly see the house. The neighbors are so glad that someone is moving in. Mike worked for many hours on Saturday and got a bad sunburn and hardly made a dent in the place. I think they are going to have to bring in some help to get this job done. Some of the roots are the size of small trees.

It's hard to imagine how tall this stuff is but they completly cover the windows on the lower level of the house.

Jennie and I put together Sophie's new bed. She has still been sleeping in a pack and play and Grandma thought she needed a "big girl" bed. It turned out very cute!

Here is a great picture of my happy girls! I had so much fun just holding and hugging my girls.

Sunday at the Olson's

What a beautiful summery Sunday! We had Michael, Rachael, Noah & Hazel over and we had a little bit of food...............A little bit of fun and games

A little bit of jumping around

And a whole lot of fun!

Gotta love COMCAST!

So you know all those ads from Comcast about how the digital conversion was coming but if you have Comcast you don't have to do a thing! Well that is not entirely true. If you don't already have Comcast's digital service then you have to add more to your T.V. If you don't they tell you that you will still get the first 29 channels. Well that pretty much leaves you with ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and a couple of others. All the rest of the channels are some government channels! So even though I didn't want to we have to add Comcast digital boxes to our T.V.'s, as if I don't already have enough stuff added to them. My biggest worry is whether I can get my TIVO to work with these new boxes. But to top it off the lady at Comcast, who could barely speak English, sent me 9 boxes. I do have 9 T.V.'s but only am putting boxes on 6 of them. The main box is supposed to get you extra movies, music and other things. The other 5 boxes will just allow us to get what we already have but of course for an additional cost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We get the first 3 free but have to pay $2 a month each for the other boxes. So Comcast sends me 4 of the main boxes to use. Now I have to drive them back to their offices and return them and I'm sure they will look at me like it's my fault! Do I sound a bit ticked off? If you could feel my typing you would know how irratated I am. So now we hooked up all 6 boxes and got online to "activate" them and we are waiting to see if they will really work. It's supposed to take about 45 minutes. Time will tell I guess.

Trip to Prosser

So finally an update! Yesterday we went to Prosser WA, this is a small town in Eastern Washington but it has some meaning to us. This is where we found Amauri Rivia by the side of the road on slushy Sunday morning in March. Well Amauri is doing much better and his family had a graduation party for him and for his cousin. It was wonderful to see him up and about and doing so well. He still has at least one more surgery to contend with but I'm sure he will make it through.

This is a picture of Amauri and his girlfriend. The family threw a great big party. There was probably over 80 people there when we left and the party was just really starting up.

The food was so good. Chon (Amauri's dad) cooked up really good Mexican food.

We left before the music and dancing started because we had such a long trip home. We drove over there the slow way and stopped and saw a lot of great sites. What a nice day for a trip!

The life of a cat

The life of a cat. Taking naps all day, laying around with good friends that don't bother you with their problems. Leaving your hair on anything you want. Having food & drink available 24/7 or complaining loudly about it even in the middle of the night. Keeping your nails in prime condition on what ever piece of carpet or furniture is handy. Demanding attention when ever you want. Well at least this is our cats' life!

From This to That

Boring to......................

Wow!

While it's still not done yet a lot has been accomplished. The next big wow will be the tile backsplash. I'm going with my friend Jeri to look at tiles on Thursday! Thanks to Kent for all of the hard work.

Easter in the kitchen

Do you like my kitchen island? I wanted to have dinner at home today so we took a piece of plywood and put it on the island with a plastic table cloth. Worked pretty good! The kitchen is so nice I love just sitting in here. The gas is now working on the range so I can cook. Still no sink but that is on it's way.We decided to cook a turkey as the inaugural use of the new stove. We are just having a quiet Easter dinner with Erik & my mom.