new kitchen

the kitchen!

It was worth waiting for!

cost was worth it!

work to get it ( worth it)

Maybe overprice the house and we can just stay here and not worry about building!!! ( U never know)

redoing a kitchen

This is the start to a new adventure for me and my husband! We finally did something that will improve the house value of our home! This is how we tore the old kitchen out ! We even had to use our faith full Bertha the sledge hammer! But we got the kitchen all tore down! We tore it out in one day and had a few beers as we did it! Just to say good bye to over twenty seven years with this kitchen!

We went to Menard's and had bought cabinets that you had to put together and then we order the counter top! Okay I now know why you don't do this as we found a better cabinet at skips Ware house up on the rice lake road! So we brought the cabinets back and tried to cancel the counter tops! They took the cabinets back but we were stuck with the counter! ( So I will make a hobby station downstairs for me!) We then went and bought the other ones! So before you buy pick out what you want first and wait with the counter tops as that is the last thing to go on! It took us three hard working weeks to get the new kitchen in! Hubby almost electrocuted himself on a outlet putting the plate on it! It actually started a fire! We put it out and fix the outlet and its working fine! Hubby is okay! I was scared to death for a least a hour later! But yes I got over it! The sound that outlet made when it was arcking out! the smell from the fire ! I did shack for a while after!

But we are done with this project and we are the proud owners of a great new kitchen! I love my kitchen! And to be honest, my hubby pick out the way we were going to do the new kitchen! I think he might have found a new hobby in life!

Ten things about myself

1. I like to read a good book! Fiction preferably but if non fiction, It has to grab my attention right away.
2. To try a new recipe and it works out! I like to go online and get recipes off recipe.com .
3. Love to go to lake and relax and swim and be lazy and just have a few beers around the fire.
4. Mowing the lake property with the riding lawn mower is actually fun, as there is so much space to mow!
5. Deer hunting as I like how I feel when I sit out there and see the nature and wild life for real.
6. Skiing down hill makes me feel good as it give me a little high when going down some hills as fast as I can go.
7. Being a mom has been a wonderful experience. Realizing how easy it is to give out your heart to another soul.
8. Being married to the most wonderful man in the world and knowing that we will have are ups and downs and always be together for a life time!
9. Being a grandmother is a very special feeling and knowing that the love I have is also shared once again to another little soul!
10. My spirit in just living! I live to enjoy as much live so that when I get older I will have memories to share with the love ones who will be bored out of there minds as I go on and on with my stories.


You notice I didn't put in my temper! I wish I could get rid of it but no matter how I try someone or something will stir my up and pow! I go off and turn into the mad Joan that I can be!
I wish dearly that my children never take over that part of me, but at times I do see it in them!
Hopefully they have there dads patients .But all in all I think my children have done wonderfully in there life's! I do know they have the loving and caring from us as I watch how they live there life's!
So I now tag Jason !

remembering our past!

As we get older we tend to forget a lot of the little things we did with our children as we get older! This picture was taken at the Paul Bunyan up in Bemidji! The place is gone! It was a very small place with a few rides and things for the kids to look at! But I remembered that when I was small and I loved that I got to go there, so we brought our children there! I remembered it as so big and now I think about when we brought our children there it wasn't that big at all!

There was this chicken game were you put in a quarter and the chicken was trained to play baseball and then he would get some feed for doing it! Now I think about it how mean it was to keep a chicken in a cage and it got to eat when it put the show on for us! But back then I thought wow this is so cool!

I really don't know if the kids even remember it! But they had this cool ride were they had to hand pedal the cart around the track! But they seem to enjoy the ride! Even though they had to work at it!

You can see how big Paul Bunyan was as the kids sit on his feet!

I really enjoyed my time of scanning in the pics and making them look good and now I can paste them anywhere I want! This has been so fun for me! I must say when I get the burning to the DVD figured out I will be thinking this will be my second hobby! (first is still scrapbooking) But the quilting is getting harder to find time to do!

Between doing the kitchen and getting over being sick again!

I have had some time to scan in some old pics of my children and play with my photo program! ( now I got to figure why I am having a time getting them burned)

But eveything takes time!

As I made the story book up and got it like I wanted with the right song and motions , I brought my hubby down to watch it! He doesn't even notice the fading ,music or the song! He just notice the pictures and realized how much of his life he has forgotten about! ( me too) but we wouldnt tell him that!

I finally got to use my camera and see my grandbaby online a few weeks ago! That was a such a Joy! I get to see her right now as im doing this post! She hit her head and I wanted to cry with her! but being such a good girl she didnt cry that long! got to see her sing and play peek a boo and watch her eat a banana! I wish I could get down and visit with her! I hope we are done with this kitchen by next weekend!

Well I found out a cousin of mine has lou grehitt disease and I feel really bad about this! I'm not that close to her , but just knowing what this disease does to you, I wouldnt want my worse enemy to get this! Not that I have any enemy's! I went unline last night to look it up and find out what I could about it! I really wanted to know if it could be in the genes and pass into the family! But all I found was more about the disease and what it does to you!

I think back to my years growing up and I would have to gone to the library to look something up ! But now days just turn the puter on and away I go! I think of the tenology that has come during my life span and what more could possibly come! I wonder if time travel is around the cornor! Now that one I might be interested in! I of course would like to go backwards! I would love to live in the victorian days! Or just visit I should say!