Six Things I Love the Most

Six things I love the most:

Ok, I am responding to the tagging thing, but everyone that I would tag has already been tagged so I hope you will forgive me for not tagging anyone else.

1: I am hopelessly, deeply in love with my best friend. The most important love in my life is my husband. Without him there would be nothing else to love.

2: I love my kids and grandkids next in the line. Family is the best. Where would we be without them. My grandkids are the light of my life. They are my reward for not killing my own children as they were growing up and believe me, they are so worth it.

3: My animals is number three on the list. I love them so much because they love me back unconditionally. They never yell at me or give me dirty looks, they just are always glad to have me around.

4: My job is next on the list. I don't know of another job in the world where it is a different job every day. Nothing ever repeats itself when you are a school teacher. Every day is full of new adventures and fun. Kids are the best. They make getting up every morning and going to work a pleasure.

5: Chocolate has to be on this list. Yum Yum!!! What more can I say?

6: Alamo rounds out the list. There just is no better place on earth to live. The people here are so great and down to earth. You don't have to do anything special to impress anyone because people here just like you for who you are. I love not having to keep up with the "Jones'"

All of these things help to make my life a heaven on earth. If you are jealous, I understand because my life is good and I am thankful for it.

Time is flying by!!!

Can you believe that it is February already!! I can't believe how quickly time goes by. It is only a matter of weeks now until we get to add two more sweet special spirits to our family. Angela (I only know this because I see her all the time) is really starting to be miserable. She feels like she is at least 10 months pregnant. I am sure Leslie is feeling the same. We actually have only 4 months of school left, so that is flying by also. Pretty soon it will be warm all the time and spring will be here. Spring is my favorite time of year. Gary went out and cleaned the weeds out of the front yard yesterday. I think he is getting a little premature spring fever. Aaron has been painting for us. He has painted our bedroom and part of the front room. I need to buy more paint so that he can finish in the front room. I went different on the paint because usually everything is a variation of white, but I got taupe this time and it looks really nice. I am so glad that Aaron likes to paint or otherwise it would never get done because I don't like to paint. We are planning a trip to Colorado on the 13th of February to meet with the girls and get to know them a little before things all come through. Hopefully they will not be so nervous to come out here if they get to know us a little first. Well, I am going to go and put my bedroom back together if the paint is dry. Bye, for now

Enjoying the warm weather!!!

I love living in the middle of the desert in the middle of the winter because it is actually warming up into the high 60's to low 70's these days. Not bad weather for the middle of January. When I see all of the cold and snow back east I can really count my blessings. Not much is going on at the Jorgensen household these days. I am out of school today for MLK day and that is a nice break in the middle of January. Gary and I took a little trip last Saturday and went to Vegas (we go for reasons other than most other people, just to get groceries and necessities) It is really nice because we just got on the 215 headed west and skipped all of the Las Vegas area and headed out to the Centennial area and got everything done we needed to.
We got a little reprieve on the CRT testing and now we are not doing it until the first week in March so that buys us a little time in teaching concepts. The stress is reduced a little tiny bit.
We are still waiting for a phone call from the state telling us to go get the girls. We have done all we can do on our part and now it is just red tape and paperwork. Hopefully it won't take too much longer, I am thinking maybe at least a month. I am excited to get them here and get them into a normal routine. Gary and I will be venturing over to St. George on Friday for a couple of monthly dr. appointments for Gary, so we will be visiting Dawnita and Dad. The only other thing I am trying to accomplish these days is getting the taxes filed. I like to get it done early so it isn't something to worry about. If I could just get our W2's I would be in good shape that way. Well, that is all the happening around our house. Everyone keep posting!!!!!

Well, it has been a while since I posted a new blog so here goes. I am not sure I have a lot to say but I will just wing it. We went back to school yesterday. It was really a struggle to make myself get up and go after the nice little break we had, but I was there by 4:45 a.m. I always have plenty to keep me busy as I get ready for the day. Right now we are cramming for the state tests which we will be giving the first week in Feb. I hate that we have to give tests to kids on concepts that we haven't even had time to teach them yet. I so wish that they would let us do the tests in May at the end of the year instead of at midyear before they have had the instruction, hence the cramming. We also have a writing test in the 5th grade which will be all of next week. WE WILL BE TESTED OUT!!! Last Sunday afternoon, we had the social worker from Ely come to do the house check and fill out paperwork. She said that she would place them with us immediately if that were possible but it still has to be approved through the judge. We also have to have Angela and Aaron fingerprinted and background check because they are adults living in the house. Seems crazy to me, but oh well, we have to just jump through the hoops. Gary and I spent all day New Years Day cleaning out the sewing/computer room and turning it back into a bedroom for the girls. We were very tired by the end of that day but mission accomplished. Now the computer is parked in our bedroom and the sewing stuff is in the dining room ( the spare one ). Anyway, all we have to do now is get the call from them and we will go get the girls. I really don't have any cutsie stories to tell like the rest of you do, but I do enjoy reading the other stories that get posted. I hope all of you have a great week.

Happy New Year

Well, another Christmas has come and gone. It was a little strange this year because it was actually just Gary and I for Christmas. That hasn't happened since Dec of 1976, the first year we were married. Anyway, there wasn't nearly as much leftover wrappers and papers and thing to haul out to the trash. We had a good Christmas, as we always do. We got to talk to all of the grandkids and kids for Christmas. I wish that we could see all of them on Christmas but that just isn't going to happen anymore because of where we all live. Gary fixed us a good Christmas dinner. We had prime rib and the fixins'. That was a great christmas present for me because I didn't have to do the cooking. We still have 8 more days until we have to go back to work so I am pretty much useless these days doing nothing and sleeping in and going to bed early. We don't have any big plans for New Years Eve, mostly because my eyes won't stay open past about 9 p.m. so I always usher in the new year by sleeping right through it. I did get my Christmas tree and decorations taken down and put away for another year. I also shampooed my carpets upstairs after taking down the decorations. I wish that it would stay clean forever, but it seems like within about a week it looks icky again. Gary has not had gout for a few weeks which is great, but he has been having a bout with bronchitis. He is working out in the garage today putting up shelves and cabinets to get the garage organized. I need to organize on the inside too, but heck I am on vacation. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and would like to with all a Happy New Year!!!!!

Christmas is soon here

Wow, only 3 more days til Christmas. We really missed our chance at a white christmas this year because it came a week too soon. The snow is almost all gone but the cold lingers. Tomorrow Angela and I are heading over to St. George so she can go to the doctor. Grandpa is going to stay home and tend Ben and Jacob. They should have an interesting day. Grandpa is hoping it will snow because he told the kids if it does they will go out in little whitey and spin doughnuts. Gary and I are on a little winter vacation now. We actually have 17 days off of work and don't go back until January 5th. I hope I can catch up on my sleep but I doubt that will happen because I have an internal clock that makes my eyes pop open at 4 a.m. every morning. We did buy a prime rib roast so we can fix it for Christmas dinner. Gary likes to cook them every year and I like it when he does because then I don't have to cook it. We were planning a little trip to Battle Mountain to help Jason with some electrical wiring on his garage, but the ground is to frozen to dig a trench for the wiring, so I don't know what we will be doing. I think we are having a dfs person (division of family services) come to inspect the house on the 27th for a safety check and if that happens then we will have to be here for that. I talked to some people last week and they said that we are probably going to get the girls at the end of January so we also need to convert my sewing/computer room back into a bedroom for them. I hope they will be happy here and that we can provide for them what they aren't getting at home. I will keep all updated about it later when I find out more info. Changing gears a little, I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas and Santa leaves what everyone wants. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Another week gone.

So I hope everyone had a wonderful week so far. For me it is the weekend, I so love four day work weeks. We just have four more days of school before we are out for the Christmas break. There really won't be a lot of teaching next week though, because we are preparing for our school program and then partying all day Thursday. Gary has had a bit of a rough week. He has been home from work for the last two days because his knee is the size of a soccer ball and really hurts. Gout again. I sure wish they could come up with a remedy for this. We have tried everything at the GNC and home remedies and everything else except for the most drastic which would remove the problem you know just cut off the offending appendage. He doesn't like that idea very much. I started the week out sick and missed Monday at work, but I am fine and back to work. I am sure thinking this is the nicest spring weather we have had in years around here. It was so nice at school today that after we got through with program practice we let the kids play outside for about 45 minutes. They needed it after sitting for 2 1/2 hours for practice. Tyson does a dance with the rest of my 5th grade class that really has turned out fun to watch. Ryan sings and his favorite song is "Here We Come A Caroling" He wants to try and learn to play it on the piano. I hope everyone enjoys the picture of my little dog Nia. She is my baby and usually follows me everywhere I go. She is always waiting for me right by the back door when I come home from work. It feels good to be loved.