Jenny & Jim

Lady Antebellum

2009-11-06T16:12:00.001-06:00

Last night we traveled down to Prairie's Edge Casino in Granite Falls, MN to see one of our favorite bands, Lady Antebellum. It was a sold out show (1,000 people) and was a great time! They performed all 11 songs of their first CD, plus their lastest song "Need You Now" off their new album comiing out late January 2010.

Since a concert of only 12 songs would be somewhat short, they threw in some excellent covers of AC/DC, John Mellencamp, Eddie Money, Don Henley and Dwight Yoakam. Below are two short video clips of them performing and a few pictures from the show. Enjoy!

Acoustic Set

"Just Lookin For A Good Time"

"That Girl Is Long Gone"

Wyoming Vacation Pictures & More

2009-09-13T18:26:00.008-05:00

It has been quite awhile since we have posted on here, so we figured we should share some pictures of the last two months. The following are a few pictures of our vacation to Wyoming at the end of July and a picture of our garage now that we finished painting the floor in there (Jenny's Dad and Jim spent a 10 day span on this). We were lucky enough to see a fair share of wildlife on the trip, including a moose that walked right through our campground in the Bighorn Mountains.

Speaking of wildlife while camping, we had quite the experience this past weekend while camping here in Minnesota at Itasca State Park. Yesterday afternoon we were out driving around in the park and about 1 mile from our campground we ran into a mother black bear and her cub. A picture below will show this, but unfortunately this was taken from a cell phone camera from a fair distance. Hope you enjoy all the pictures!!

"Old Faithful" at Yellowstone National Park

"Upper Falls - Yellowstone Canyon" at Yellowstone National Park

Grand Teton National Park

A moose in our campground at the Bighorn Mountains

Our newly finished garage floor...its like a showroom!

The mother black bear eating chokecherries at Itasca State Park

Summer 2009

2009-07-21T15:49:00.007-05:00

As our vacation is almost here, we thought we would share some pictures of what we have been up to lately. This past weekend Jim's parents came to visit on Saturday for awhile, and of course Jim won the card game :-). Later that night we decided to go check out Granny's Pantry in Battle Lake with Jenny's parents. If you have never been there we would recommend it to anybody. It's an old fashioned ice cream, candy and fudge shop. The ice cream was top notch!! After that we went to Inspiration Peak and took in some fireworks for Pickle Fest in Hewitt.

The other project that has been keeping us busy all summer long is the landscaping around the house. With the help of Jenny's dad, we think that we are pretty much done now for this year unless landscaping block goes on a huge sale. In the pictures below you can see some of the new landscaping and the old. We now have a mixture of hydrangeas, peonies, azaleas, holly and much more all around the house. Enjoy what is left (or maybe yet to come) of summer. Hopefully, we will have some nice pictures from Yellowstone in two weeks!!

The fireworks at Pickle Fest in Hewitt, MN

Inspiration Peak near Clitherall, MN

Landscaping in front of garage - this was done during spring.

New landscaping in front of the house.

New landscaping on the side and front of the house.

Just Another Quick Update

2009-06-30T21:53:00.006-05:00

Well summer has officially begun and we are still staying busy. Between house work, camping, softball and working there hasn't been much for spare time. That will all change here come the end of July when we are going to take a vacation out to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.

Our yard continues to improve as you can see by the picture below with the grass growing very well and the landscaping going well also. The other picture shows you our new toy - 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 Crew Cab. We have badly needed something with 4WD and it has been great being able to haul things now also. We hope to have some nice pictures from Yellowstone to share with everyone. In the meantime enjoy your summer!

Front of our house

2009 Dodge Ram 1500 Crew Cab - Our New Toy

The Yard Is Improving!!

2009-05-18T18:35:00.005-05:00

Well we have been very busy working on our yard with planting grass and landscaping. A little less than a month ago we planted some grass and it is starting to fill in nicely across our lots. The picture below will show how the grass is coming in.

The Front Of Our House With Grass And Landscaping

We also have been busy doing some landscaping. We have planted some shrubs along the front of the house. Also, along the front of the house we have some flowers and accent rocks. Jenny's dad helped us lay down a bunch of rocks along the front of the house to dress it up nicely. Along with the landscaping on the front of the house, we have planted many trees. We still have our Weeping Willow that survived the winter, but now we have many more trees. We have one big autumn blaze maple, and many smaller red maples. In the back yard we planted 3 honeycrisp apple trees. Along the east side of our lot, Jenny's dad put in about 60 spruce trees so the yard is filling up nicely.

3 HoneyCrisp Apple Trees In Our Backyard

This past Saturday we had our fireplace delivered. The guy that built our custom cabinets for our house, built us a fireplace mantel, surround and hearth. We are very pleased with how it turned out and it looks beautiful in our living room.

Fireplace In Our Living Room

We are enjoying the warm up in weather now so we can get outside and work on some more projects. We hope to be able to build our deck here sometime shortly. Along with that also we hope to find time to go camping and golfing....and maybe sneak in a Twins game :-)

Eagles Concert

2009-03-17T19:55:00.003-05:00

This past Sunday night we were lucky enough to be able to see the Eagles one last time before they call it quits. We took in their 3.5 hour concert at the Fargodome along with almost 10,000 other people. They played about 10 songs from their newest album "Long Road Out Of Eden", and 20 or so songs from their past.

It was a blast to be able to see them in person and to hear them play the songs live. Before the concert we bummed around Fargo for a little while doing some shopping at various places. We also went to Red Lobster to enjoy Lobsterfest. All in all it was a really fun Sunday.

(Photo courtesy Dave Wallis - Fargo Forum)

On Saturday, Jim and Gene started working on the man cave above the garage. They were able to get the subfloor down and insulate/sheetrock one wall. Tonight, we went to Detroit Lakes and were able to pick up the laminate flooring, so we now have everything we need to complete the room besides time.

Oh yeah, and of course this Friday is Jenny's birthday so you can bet there will be a party on Friday night :-) She really is just holding out for chocolate cake though.....and maybe to win some money on Saturday night. That is all for now.

California - Vegas Vacation

2009-03-02T15:56:00.012-06:00

We have officially returned from Jim having training in Las Vegas / Vacation. We were able to find the time to relax a little and have some fun in California and Las Vegas. We started the trip by flying into Las Vegas and then driving out to Pahrump to meet up with Erik, Lori & Peyton. From here we drove out to Laguna Beach and spent Friday night enjoying the ocean and taking in an authentic Mexican Bar & Grill. On Saturday, we went to Disneyland and had a great time there, especially watching Peyton have so much fun during dinner with all the Disney Princesses. Sunday, we drove down to San Diego and got to see the Panda Bears at the San Diego Zoo. After that it was back to Pahrump and Las Vegas as Jim had training on Monday.

The view of the Pacific Ocean at our hotel in Laguna Beach

Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland

Baby Panda Bear trying to wake up Mama Panda Bear. It was their last day together before they were going to be seperated, so we were lucky to see both of them together.

Monday night we were able to get together with a co-worker of ours and his wife, Curt & Ashley. We went to Kahunaville for some good food. After that we went to Treasure Island & Bellagio to try our luck at the slot machines. Jim was able to come away lucky and won back everything we had gambled and a little more. Tuesday night we went to Yolie's Brazilian Steakhouse and lets just say when they bring all the food out on swords its an interesting experience. Later that night we met up with Curt & Ashley again and we went up in the Paris Eiffel Tower for a 500 foot view of Vegas. Wednesday night we met up with Erik, Lori & Peyton again at Margaritaville in the Flamingo. We had fun watching Jenny & Peyton get their balloon animal hats. After that we tried our luck at the slot machines again but that didn't go so well. Thursday night we went to the Steve Wyrick Real Magic show. We had a really fun time at this, and Jim even got to participate in the show. Any time someone can make a learjet plane appear out of nowhere, he is pretty good. Friday before we had to head back to the reality of Minnesota cold & snow, we enjoyed one last 75 degree day and checked out the Hoover Dam again. After that we tried our luck one last time at the Hacienda Casino, and Jim was able to win a little more at the blackjack tables so all and all it was a really fun trip. Sorry this is so long, but we just had a lot to share for once!!! Hope you enjoy the pictures and we will try to post even more in the near future!!

Hoover Dam (anyone see Clark Griswold?)

Jenny, Jim, Lori, Peyton & Erik at Margaritaville

The Las Vegas Strip to the north from the Paris Eiffel Tower

Jenny, Jim, Ashley & Curt at Kahunaville

Enjoying one last day of vacation at the Hoover Dam.

Quick Update

2009-02-16T17:52:00.005-06:00

Go figure...We got busy again and haven't updated this blog for awhile. We mainly have been busy with finishing the basement on our house. The whole basement is fully finished now, so we purchased some new furniture and moved our TV to the family room downstairs and spend some much needed time relaxing down there. Jenny's dad and Jim put a lot of hard work into the basement to make it come together really fast. We also couldn't have done it without Curt (a co-worker of Jim's) helping Jim drywall. You are always welcome to come check it out.

We are getting excited to go on our vacation here on Friday. We are going to Laguna Beach, CA. On Saturday we are going to go to Disneyland and Sunday we will be checking out the San Diego Zoo. We hope to have many pictures to share on here with everyone. Monday through Friday we will spend in Las Vegas as Jim has some traning for work there. We hope to get together with Curt & Ashley as they will be there at the same time.

Once we get back we are eagerly awaiting the Eagles concert in March. Jim is itching for it to warm up so that we can finish off the man cave, and hopefully tackle one or more projects like seeding the yard, landscaping and building a deck. That is everything in the past two months in a nutshell!! :-)

Another Winter Weather Weekend

2008-12-21T11:54:00.006-06:00

Jim snowblowing our long driveway.

Out front on our sidewalk

Well another weekend has almost past, and along with another batch of winter weather. We got about another 4 to 5 inches of snow on Saturday. Luckily the wind didn't pick up as much as they had anticipated and we were able to get our sidewalk and driveway cleaned out this morning.

We had hoped to celebrate Christmas this weekend with Jim's family, but the weather sure didn't want us to do that. Dave & Jodie were able to make it here Friday evening, but were forced to head out early Saturday afternoon due to the weather. We were able to enjoy a big meal, some quality time on the Nintendo Wii, and of course open a few presents. Thanks again for the great presents!!

We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!!! We know its early but we don't know if we will get time to post again before the 25th. Hope everyone stays safe and enjoys their Christmas!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

2008-12-16T19:11:00.006-06:00

Well as you can tell some winter weather has arrived in our area over the past few days. While it really isn't fun ever to get snow, Jim has been happy as he finally has been able to try out our new snowblower!

As you can also see in the picture we did do a little bit of decorating for Christmas on the outside of the house by putting some lighted garland and some bows on the front porch. Hopefully next year we can do a little more, but we mainly focused on getting decorations on the inside of the house this year.

We have been keeping super busy (as you can tell by the lack of posts on here) over the past month or two. We managed to get our holiday baking done this last weekend so we have been loading up on goodies. Jim continues to stay busy doing some work on the side for Superior Auto Auction & Staples Motley Basketball.

We are looking forward to Jim's family coming this weekend to celebrate Christmas here in Wadena. We hope everyone has a safe and joyous holiday season. We can't wait for Christmas to get here, and then we can't wait to go where it is warm in February...hello Vegas and California!!!

We Took Dancing Lessons!!.....

2008-12-09T14:44:00.001-06:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Quick Update

2008-10-16T20:49:00.002-05:00

Just a quick update to share with everyone. We thought we would share a couple photos from our trip to Maplewood State Park a couple weekends ago. The fall colors were starting to come out there, but weren't quite to peak yet. They were still fun to look at though. Last weekend we made it official and we closed on our house. We now have joined the crew that has 30 years of debt to repay :-)

This weekend we are going to the Twin Cities for a quick weekend vacation to relax now that the house work is all done for a little while. We hope to have a few pictures to share with everyone. We are also starting to look forward to the holiday season and our trip to Las Vegas in February.

North Shore Fall Colors Tour

2008-09-29T18:22:00.007-05:00

Polar Bear @ Lake Superior Zoo

Overlook of Canal Park in Duluth

Jay Cooke State Park

Two Step Waterfall @ Tettegouchee State Park

Well as you can see from some of the above pictures, the fall colors were in abundance this past weekend along the North Shore. We camped in Jay Cooke State Park over the weekend with Jenny's parents and were able to vist many different places along the North Shore. On Friday night we made sure to visit the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory to get a good collection of chocolate for the weekend! Saturday we went to Canal Park, Gooseberry State Park, Split Rock Lighthouse, Silver Bay, Tettegouchee State Park and part of the North Shore Scenic Drive. Sunday we went to the Lake Superior Zoo, a drive through Jay Cooke State Park and even tried our luck at the Black Bear Casino. I won't elaborate on the casino part as that didn't go so well. All in all we had a lot of fun over the weekend, but we still enjoy coming back to our house!

On Friday afternoon we had our brand new kitchen table and chairs delivered and we couldn't be happier with the way it looks in the house. This coming weekend Jim's family plans to come visit and we hope to go over to Maplewood State Park and check out the fall colors there. Hope everyone is enjoying their fall!

Our House Is Finished!!!

2008-09-20T10:57:00.006-05:00

Well since it has been about two months since we last posted something, we figured it would be best to bring everyone up to speed. We have officially moved into our house now and we couldn't be happier with the way everything turned out. There are still a few ongoing projects over the course of the next year that we will tackle like the basement, "man cave", landscaping and yard. The other big project we hope we can do next year is put a deck on the back of the house as you can see from the top picture where that will go.

If any of you are ever in the Wadena area be sure to give us a call or swing by and visit. We also have planted our first tree in the front yard about 2 weeks ago. It is a weeping willow tree and Jenny couldn't be happier as she always wanted one.

Hopefully now that we are moved and settled in we can update our blog a little more often than once every two months :-). We do plan to go to Duluth next weekend and check out the fall colors so we should have some pictures from that trip to share. Other than that lets hope the weather stays like it is and the snow stays away :-)

House Update - July 20th

2008-07-20T20:08:00.004-05:00

We just wanted to share a few quick pictures with everyone on how our house is coming along. The were able to begin siding the house on Friday and hopefully they get a nice week of weather to complete it this coming week. Also, you can see that the interior work has been going good. The texture and paint should hopefully begin to go on later this week. We hope to share some more pictures later this week when things continue to progress. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer so far!!

Our "Sandpiper" siding begins to be put on

Looking into the living room from the stairway landing

House Update - July 14th

2008-07-14T21:26:00.002-05:00

Things have been pretty crazy for us the last couple of weeks. We have been busy with the house and trying to find time to still enjoy the summer. We were able to have a nice weekend at Maplewood State Park over the 4th of July weekend camping with Jenny's family. As you can see from the picture above things continue to progress with the house and we still hope to be able to move in by the end of August. Be sure to check beck every now and then for more updates on the house and what we are up to.

Also, Happy Birthday to this fella today!

House Update - June 26th

2008-06-26T15:58:00.003-05:00

We just wanted to post a quick update since it has been a little while. Things have been pretty busy for us as usual. During the last week some inside work has been done by the plumber and electrician. On Tuesday night we went to Menards and picked out most of our interior lighting and we are happy with what were able to pick from. Jim has been in Minneapolis the last couple days for the Minnesota E-Health Summit, so that has kept him out of trouble! :-) This weekend we hope to wire the house with coax, cat3 (telephone) and cat5 (ethernet). Thats all we know for now!

House Update - June 20th

2008-06-20T22:41:00.004-05:00

As you can see from the pictures below, we now have our main front window in. We couldn't be happier with the way this window looks and turned out. The interior walls are now are in place also for all three floors. We put up a few sheets of plywood down in our mechanical room and painted them tonight so they would be ready for all the elec / plumbing / heating & cooling work to be mounted to. Enjoy the pictures!

Front of the house (window is in master bedroom)

Garage view showing window for room above garage

View from the stair landing looking out one of the dormers.

House Update - June 19th

2008-06-19T21:09:00.003-05:00

Here are a couple pictures we took last night of the interior of the house. We should have some more pictures tomorrow hopefully. All of the interior walls are pretty much built now on all three floors so we are getting a good feel for what all the rooms are like. Next week it looks like all the interior work will begin. For now enjoy the couple pictures, and tomorrow we should have some more of the inside and the outside. Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather finally!

"Man Cave" above the garage

Stairway in the basement (looking from the family room)

House Update - June 15th

2008-06-15T22:33:00.006-05:00

There has been quite a bit of activity in the last few days at our house. The shingling of the house and garage is pretty much complete except for venting at the peaks on the house. This coming week a lot of interior work will be done such as the walls and staircase. This will allow our plumber, electrician and heating crews to get in the house next week and begin their tasks. Our garage floor has the in floor heating in place and the cement floor is set to be poured tomorrow morning. Hopefully if all goes well with the weather this week, we might just see some windows get put in by the end of the week. For now enjoy the updated pictures, and Happy Fathers Day!!!

Front Yard

Northeast Side Of House

Back Yard

In Floor Heating For Garage Floor

House Update - June 10th

2008-06-10T21:34:00.003-05:00

So far this week the weather has been on our side, but it appears that is about to change for the rest of the week with rain/thunderstorms coming our way. The building crew has been able to finish sheating the roof over the house, and begin the shingling process. The back of the house is fully shingled, and the front of the house is about half way done. They hope to have enough breaks from the rain to finish the shingles on the house and then move onto the garage by the end of this week. After that we should be able to see the soffits and windows go into place. Enjoy the pictures for now and try to stay dry!

House Update - June 7th

2008-06-07T19:31:00.003-05:00

Even though it wasn't the nicest of weeks weather wise, the building crew did a remarkable job on getting the rafters placed and most of the decking put on the rafters. They were able to finish putting up all the rafters the end of this week, and get the dormers built and into place. Hopefully they can get some reasonable weather this coming week and get the shingles in place so that we can get the windows in and start with all the other projects. Enjoy the pictures and we hope to have some more updates next week for everyone!

House Update - June 4th - House Rafters

2008-06-04T22:07:00.003-05:00

Even though it did rain AGAIN today, the builders braved the elements and were able to place the rafters on the house. They got a little bit of decking onto the rafters on the rear of the house, before starting to work on the rafters over the master bedroom. Hopefully, they can get a little bit more done tomorrow, before it appears that the rain will end their progress for this week. Enjoy the pictures!!!

View from the County Road

View from the driveway

View from the front yard

House Update - June 3rd

2008-06-03T19:07:00.004-05:00

We'll the weather held up just long enough for us on Monday for the builders to be able to set the rafters over the garage area. As you can see in the following pictures it is quite a steep pitch roof we went with on our house. We both really like the look and options this gave us with the house. As you can see when looking at the pictures, due to the steep roof, we were able to put a nice 14' x 26' room with a full 8' ceiling above our garage. The rain held off most of today again and the builders were able to get all of the sheeting/decking on the rafters over the garage and prepare the rest of the house for the rafters to be placed tomorrow morning. Hopefully later tomorrow night or Thursday evening we will have some pictures to share showing all the rafters in place besides the dormers of course. Hope everyone is staying dry during this rainy spell!

View from the front yard.

View from the back yard.

House Update - May 30th - Then There Was A Garage!

2008-05-30T20:48:00.002-05:00

As you can tell by looking at the pictures below, the frame of the garage is now in place. The schedule for next week is for the rafters for the garage to be placed on Monday, and the rafters for the house to be placed on Wednesday. This is of course rain and wind pending, as that can change the schedule drastically. Hopefully at the end of next week we will have a picture that will show the outside of the house for what it will look like in the end. It is exciting to see the house coming along more and more each day.

North side of house & garage

South side of house & garage

Busy Busy Busy / House Update - May 28th

2008-05-28T21:15:00.004-05:00

Well there has been plenty going on for us over the past couple of days. On Sunday we went to Milnor to attend Darci's (cousin of Jim) graduation party in Milnor and visit with Jim's parents. On Monday, along with Jenny's Dad, we backfilled the house. Last night, we broke out our tar skills again and put tar on the garage area. Tonight, we were able to go to Hannah's (our niece) 5th birthday party. On our way over there we swung by the house and got some updated pictures to share with everyone. You can see in the pictures that they have the main walls of our second floor in place so that they can place rafters starting next week if the weather and wind are kind enough to let them do this. The plan for the rest of this week if the weather is nice enough is to build the walls of the garage and the stairway from the basement to the second floor. Hopefully, if all happens to go well, in a couple weeks the outside of the house will look like the finished product, and we can begin the work on the interior. Stay tuned for more!

House Update - May 22nd

2008-05-22T19:16:00.006-05:00

Well we have to hand it to our building crew. Not only have they done a huge amount of work in only 6 working days, but they have worked so fast that they have made the lumber yard run out of material and earned themselves a 5 day weekend. The good part is though, the house won't be sitting still during these days. Today the in floor heating tubing in the basement was to be installed, and the concrete basement floor is set to be poured over it tomorrow. We hope that then on Monday we can backfill around the house and prep the garage area. The plan for next week by the builders is to finish off the second floor, the staircase, and the garage. The rafters are set to be delivered and placed on June 2nd, along with the roof being shingled the rest of the week following that. The windows are also set to be delivered/installed on June 5th so things are coming along nicely. We also gave our custom cabinet maker the go ahead to begin his part of the project today so we are getting further and further along each day. We have included some pictures here to show the builders progress thus far. We are showing the house from each direction starting with the west side, then the south side, east side, and finally the north side. Hope you enjoy!!

House Update - May 17th

2008-05-17T17:00:00.006-05:00

Today we put on the old clothes, and along with Jenny's dad we placed tar all over the treated plywood that was put in place on the basement walls. Let just say that by the time we were done it would seem that one of the buckets of tar was dumped on us. It was quite the experience for both of us, but we didn't mind doing it especially since we know it only saves us money in the long run! :-) Enjoy a few pictures of todays work. In the pictures you can also see that the garage foundation has been put in place, and that the floor joists between the basement and first floor are now set. Here's hoping that mother nature can keep the rain away this coming week so we can get more work done on the house!

Just starting the job on the south side of the house.

North side of the basement full of tar.

South side of the basement full of tar.

Basement Walls! - House Update May 14th

2008-05-14T21:54:00.003-05:00

As you can tell from the above pictures we officially have our basement walls in place on the house. The building crew along with Jenny's dad were able to cut all the boards needed and put them in place today. It is extremely fun to be able to walk in there now and get a feel for the size and dimensions for everything that we had picked out. The plan for tomorrow is to put the supporting wall for the garage and the floor trusses in place between the basement and the first floor. We plan to hopefully be able to tar and waterproof wrap the walls this weekend...nothing like some good sweat equity!! The first picture shown is looking in one of the basement bedrooms (NE corner of the house). The second picture is looking to the east as in all the previous pictures in older posts. Stay tuned for more pictures later this week!

House Update - May 11th / Camping

2008-05-11T20:08:00.006-05:00

On Thursday afternoon our footings were poured for our house. On Friday the forms were removed and you can now really see the basic layout of the house. The goal for this coming week is to get the basement walls created and placed. If things go really well we might be able to see the floor trusses placed on top of the walls, but we will just hope for walls. The picture above is standing at the garage and looking to the east with the master bedroom in the top left corner again.

This weekend we were lucky enough to get away and do some more camping with Jenny's parents. We went to Mantrap Lake Campground and enjoyed the weekend there, except for the snowfall on Saturday night (thankfully it didn't stick around). On Saturday we also went to Itasca park and went to the Mississippi headwaters as the picture shows. We tried our luck at fishing on Saturday and Sunday a little bit and all we had to show as a small Walleye and small Sunfish that Jim caught and gave back to the lake. That is all that is new with us!

House Update - May 7th

2008-05-07T22:08:00.001-05:00

Well today there was some more activity on the house. The concrete guys along with Jenny's dad put down the forms to lay the footings for the house. From looking at the forms you can get a general layout of the house. The very bottom of the picture is where the garage is, and the top left of the picture is the master bedroom kickout. They expect to resume work tomorrow morning and put down the rebar and pour the concerete into the forms. The walls of the basement should begin construction next week, and the in floor heating and basement floor should be in place shortly after that. Not sure what we will get for an update here in the next couple of days as we plan to go on a camping trip for the fishing opener this weekend in Minnesota!!! Stay tuned......

Black Hills / House Update

2008-05-04T20:38:00.004-05:00

We'll I finally got the chance to put an update on here from our trip to the Black Hills. We had excellent weather the whole time we were there as it was around 70 and clear skies always. We were able to go to Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Custer State Park, Wyoming, Deadwood, Spearfish, Needles Highway, Wall Drug, and Badlands National Park just to name a few. I have included a couple pictures to show the good time.

On the house front...the land was excavated on Friday afternoon so things can officially start to happen now. We hope to get the footings, plumbing, basement floor heat, and basement floor done in the next 10-14 days. Be sure to check often over the next 3-4 months as things will move fast I presume. Enjoy the picture of the excavation courtesy of Dave.

New Home

2008-04-16T21:10:00.001-05:00

We'll we got rid of our website at http://www.jennyjim.com/ as it wasn't worth the money to keep it up when we really didn't update it that often. We figured this would be a great solution for keeping a small blog going and a great place to post updates of our house as we build it this summer. The following picture shows our land (3 acres) as it stood last fall after we bought it in October. Right now the snow is finally gone on it and there is a little dirt moved for making the driveway and we have a mailbox and address post. Things should really start to move though in the next couple of weeks. For now though, we are off to the Black Hills for a short 5 day vacation!