Santa don't forget us!

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Rocking out to yellow submarine!

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Luke's Christmas Performance 2009

Savannah's Christmas Performance 2009

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Santa

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Posing infront of other peoples house

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Walking Christmas Tree Lane!

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The tree is up it is time for Christmas.

Just finished putting up the tree. It is time for Christmas and now I
can wrap the presents that I got yesterday and put them under my tree.

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All I want for Christmas

Luke can accualy sing the song all I want for Christmas is my two
front teeth.

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He just can not keep still!

He just can not keep still! I wonder were he gets it from?

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Union Square

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A big day for Savannah

Savannah got her ears pierced.

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Installing the cabinets.

Today and tomorrow the cabinets are being installed and on Monday the granite will be installed. Because we have chosen under cabinet lights we had to cut out holes for the plugs, this made the process go a little slower than I would have liked. Some of the major changes to the design are shifting of the stove, microwave and refrigerator.  Saturday I will be working on getting the bottom cabinets in and putting plywood base for the granite.

Finalizing the Clean up!

The kitchen is now completely cleaned out and I now have a pile of trash outside my front yard 40 feet by 6 feet. Luckly The city will pick this up for a minumal cost tomorrow. Now we start the Construction process.

Demo Day!

So the Project has finally started! Thanks to my brother We were able to get all of the demolition done in one day. Tomorrow the electrical, and gas will go in. I will have to assemble all of the cabinets over the next few days. Currently they are all in boxes in my garage. The hardest part of the Demo was getting the 6 inches of extra clearance that we want in our kitchen.  This was done buy pulling down the 2x6 framework that was put in.  This also caused insulation to fall all over the floor and we had to pack it into bags and then shove them into the attic. It looks like this will take forever but we should be up and running in a week to 10 days.

Family day at the Fair.

Last Friday I took half a day off and took the family and my mom to the Big Fresno Fair.  As everyone knows the fair has a lot of fun thing to do including rides and the Sham WOW guy, but I really look forward to getting good greasy food at the fair and this year was no exception.  I picked up the kids around 11:00am and we headed to the fair arriving around 12:00pm and everyone was hungry!  To start the day off Savannah and Luke had tacos this is something that they get every year.  My mom and I went for the Gyros.  This was good enough for my mom but i was still hungry so of to the "Fry everything"  booth.  I got a Deep fried White Castle burger and some fries.    Good stuff!  Since lunch was done we were off to the rides,  as everyone knows when you go on the rides you have to stop but the food booth and get some cotton candy, A very fun but sticky treat.  Right after we finished with the rides we meet up with Janice how had to work until 3:00pm and then it was time to get some healthy snacks,  you know French fries, ribs, kettle corn, corn and a corn dog.  Although the ribs were good I was a little disappointed that they were very fatty.  Now that dinner is done it is time for desert, this is one of best parts of the fair while Janice and my mom love the Cinnamon rolls I love the chocolate dipped cheesecake. Then it was off to the exhibit halls and a new tradition for the family is to get beef jerky while we are walking around, good stuff and cheaper if you buy the 3 pack. Luke was able to swindle out a bubble gun and Savannah was able to get a few little trinkets to have in her room, it was now getting dark and time to head home but on the way out I could not help it I just loved the smell of the chicken skewer so I got one on the way out although I was not the only one that ate it. I can't wait for next year!

Picking out the appliances!

So the other weekend Janice and I went to Sears to pick out the new appliances for the kitchen. It looks like we will be getting a Dishwasher, Stove, Micro hood, and we will be getting a slightly used refrigerator from my parents. This is one time that Janice did not take long in picking things out. One of the features that I wanted was a gas oven that had five burners, Janice was looking for some thing that will not show fingerprints and is easy to clean, I think we were able to get both. After we got the appliances picked out we moved on to the kitchen sink.  I was very worried because our current sink has chipped and I was afraid that a new one would do the same.  While I was a Costco I saw a black composite sink that will not chip, I think this is a win win.  Currently our kitchen has chrome hinges and handles so we will need to pick out new ones as well as a new faucet for the sink.  We are both excited to get some new appliances and I am looking forward to putting them in.
Demolition day is coming soon so so I will be needing help if anyone would like to get some frustration out on my cabinets or ceiling that would be a big help.

Big Fresno Fair

Luke and his balloon animals.

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Big Fresno Fair

Savannah is really enjoying the fair.

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Artists rendering of our cabinets.

This morning I meet with the Cabinet and Granite Company and they gave me some pictures of our cabinets and the layout. One of the problems with our current kitchen currently is that we do not have enough drawers and have some wasted space. 

With our new layout this will eliminate most of the wasted space.  This was done by putting in a Lazy-Susan and some drawers and pullouts in. The drawing does not have our windows in it but I think you can tell where they will be. I have included a picture of the granite and cabinet color/ style that we have picked out. It was easy for us to pick out the Granite but picking the cabinet (color and style)  was almost overwhelming.

 One of the changes to the cabinets from the current ones is the face that we are having drawer banks on either side of the stove.  In order to make this even we will have to move the stove 5 or 6 inches away from the sink and dishwasher.

This picture shows the sink and dishwasher.  To the right of the sink we will have a built in 2 basket trash can.  I am really looking forward to this.

This is the pantry and refrigerator currently we have a cabinet depth cabinet over the refrigerator so having one that is deeper will help in keeping things clean.  I look forward to any comments or questions that you might have about our project.

Starting a road to a new kitchen

As some of you may know my dish washer leaked and caused some damage to my kitchen. This was reported to my insurance company in July.


Over the next month I had my floor torn up, mold removed from under my kitchen sink, and a dishwasher taken. After talking to the appliance repair guy he found the problem to be a small crack in the bottom left side of the tube, because it was small the leak has probably been there for a few months. Not knowing the amount of money that I would get from the insurance company I had to come up with a plan A, B, C.
Plan A
This is the conservative plan were the flooring is just replaced. Cost $2000
Plan B
This plan has the floor being replaced and the cabinets painted and fixed. Cost $3000
Plan C
Plan C is the one that I am hoping for this will include replacing the flooring, cabinets, and counters. Cost $14,000

Last weekend we went to Sears to pick out a new oven and microwave hood. This was a hard choose but we have chosen them out, later I will buy them once the insurance has been settled with. I have also got quotes for cabinets and counters for the kitchen and will finalize that next week. I hope to post more as we choose different parts of our new kitchen.

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My Big Mistake!

During my trip to the desert last April, I had my Motorcycle fall off of the back of my Trailer and be dragged down the highway until I could stop.
This is the Bike on the back of the trailer, I was able to get my brothers help in the removing and replacing the front fork.

From Desert 2009

The only other damage done to the bike.

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A close up of the front fork damage.

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What the fork should look like.

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The removed front fork.

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We had to empty the fork fluid so we could repair the fork.

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We repaired the fork with JB weld it was easy and you can see the results. I only used one coat.

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The finished product back on the bike.

From Desert 2009

Mark and I both looked at way the bike was being secured and with a few adjustment the problem should be solved.