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Our Trip to Capitola California

We had a really terrific 4 days with Tyler, Tanya, Taylor, Andy & Ashlyn.

We met up at Casa De Fruta...the kids (as well as the adults) had fun riding the Carosel and the train. The kids went on the playground, we put a couple of guys in the stocks, and we had dinner. Oh yeah, we also bought fruit and vegetables for the vacation!
Are they cute, or what??
We let them go, when they promised to always be so fun!
The next day we went to the beach and in the afternoon we went o the Santa Cruz Boardwalk! We had a really fun time, the twins are old enough to ride the rdes without Mommy & Daddy, is that a good thing?

Friday we took off to see some Redwoods on a really fun ride on a train. The scenery was beautiful and we all enjoyed ourselves.

Some of the pics are out of order...but you can see how big Andy & Ashlyn look as they driver their own dune buggy!

These next 2 pictures are really the main reason for the trip. Jerry's Dad will be 93 in October, and has been struggling with some cancer issues. He had never met Ashlyn & Andy. Andy is the only Jorgenson Great-Grandson, to carry out the Floyd Jorgenson name. Grandpa has 45 Great-Grandchildren, but he only has 2 sons, and the other Jorgenson grandson had a girl...so Andy is it, (for now).

It was important that we get a 4-Generation pictures for posterity.

Jerry, Tyler and Andy all have the middle name of Dale, which originated with Jerry's Uncle.





It seems we always manage to toss some of the kids around. As you can see, the 'Dads' are farther apart for Andy and he goes much higher. They both enjoyed it and laughed and laughed!

The kitchen?

Can you still call it a kitchen if there is no stove or oven?

Jerry spent the past couple of days re-configuring the cabinets for the new appliances. He worked really hard getting everything exact and I know that it will really look good.

This evening we had the missionaries to dinner, and we bar b qed steaks, baked the potatoes at the Red House and cooked the corn on the burner on the bar b que.

Who needs a kitchen??

Summer time joys!

Well, today my blog frustration level is very high. I haven't posted for awhile, and can't even seem to remember how to change the pictures! Goodness, now I guess I'll create another post about our last vacation trip...if I can!

We spent 10 glorious day is Hawaii, this time we went to Maui for 4 of the days.We stayed in an old Inn in the heart of lanai and enjoyed the local flavor there. We went for a day - long drive and experienced more local flavor, the best smoothie ever, made in an old special-needs school bus and the best banana bread on the planet, from a small family-owned stand.

The bread was delicious, and the hospitality was amazing.

While in Maui, we went on an all day excursion. We rode the Trinity catamaran to a small, privately owned island. We saw amazing scenery, including a pod of spinner dolfins just diving and jumping and spinning all the time! It was amazing, But we didn't take our camera, dumb!

We went snorkeling there, and that was another adventure. We saw a sea turtle and followed him for awhile...way cool! That was probably our favorite day of vacation..and we have no pictures to show!

Back on Oahu, we ended our vacation in a BIG way. We stayed at the Outrigger Reef, and our room was right over-looking the beach, It was a corner room, so one balcony looked over Diamond Head, and the other; the ocean.

When we picked up our rental, we 'up-graded', for very little $, and had a BLAST in this car!

Come on, how could we NOT have fun?

We drove around a LOT and took an extra loop through town before we turned the car over to the valet!

We really had a great time, and are looking forward to the next trip...it was quiet, and a little lonely without any family, but it was a great way to celebrate our 34th anniversary!

Back to the Remodel

Well, today was Jerry's birthday, and we talked about ways to spend it yesterday. My main goal was to clean the back porch. Jerry talked about cleaning the shed and garage. When we got up this morning, he said 'I think we should go and get a Penske truck and get the french door for the kitchen.' So after opening presents, and going out for breakfast, that was exactly what we did

1st..take out the old window, carefully, it is an antique.

2nd: take out the rest of the wall:

3rd: Put the new door in:

And finally: you have a new passage-way from the kitchen to the porch...AND a very tired birthday boy!

Memorial Day 2008

We are having an amazing holiday weekend. We woke to snow falling on Friday...yep! LOTS of snow falling! So we bundled up and walked into town for breakfast, then came home and built a roaring fire and enjoyed the day.

Saturday we needed to go down the hill to get some lumber for the kitchen remodel...(yep, still on-going) so we called Tanya and took her and the kids to Tom's Farms to ride the train and carosel...Tyler met us later. We had a lot of fun.

Today Jerry is working on finishing up the dividing wall between the living room and dining area, then he'll begin arranging the kitchen cabinets for an additional part of the kitchen remodel!

May is the month for Weddings

We have had a busy month of weddings. 1st was Andy Zellmanns's, Tyler's BF since 6th grade...he and Jackie were married May 10th and it was a wonderful day.

Then my nephew, Dustin Boylin, was married in a beautiful mountain setting to Torrey Jones. They were so happy and ot was great to be a part of these 2 happy days.