No More Wisdom

Josh had all four his wisdom teeth taken out. He was a pretty good patient. He was out of it for the first five hours... he doesn't remember a thing! 

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He was very drugged up still during this picture. I told him to smile for his after picture, he flipped me off, and when he put his hand down I took the shot.

House Update

The house is ALMOST ready for concrete!! As long as it doesn't rain this week, we should have a foundation next weekend!

 

Family Weekend!

Over the weekend we had the whole "Kuklenz" family together.  Karl and Audrey came up and stayed with Mom and Dad. Jackie and Jonathan also came up for the weekend and stayed with us. We owe them a big thank you for watching Andrew while we broke the Guinness World Record!!! We ALL went to Mom and Dad's Saturday afternoon. All the girls gathered for a Mary Kay party, Jackie's newest business endeavor. Andrew was very excited to see Poppa. It had been two months since they saw each other in person. We did get to skype a few times while he is gone, but it's just not the same. Poppa took Andrew to the park while the girls did Mary Kay. For dinner, enjoyed a Hoggie Bar dinner and headed home for the evening.

Jackie and Jonathan left earlier than expected, so we headed to Mom and Dad's after lunch. Andrew enjoyed hanging with Uncle Carbon on the stairs. He has been learning some new games since Christmas. Uncle Garry got him a catch the fish game... which he LOVES!  He also started playing Break the Ice at Mimi and Poppa's house. I introduced him to Gooey Looey too.  I sure hope he gets my competitive spirit!

 

We helped break a guinness world record!

Not many people can say that... cool huh?  We broke the record for most people making a sandwich simultaneously. Mom, G/ma, Josh and I had a lot of fun doing it. It was even cooler knowing these sandwiches were going to those less fortunate.  I think the real reason mom went was to see Terrell Owens (former cowboys player - mom has his jersey)!!!HA HA HA J/K  She didn't get a picture with him, but I did manage to get a picture of him on stage.  There were two other celebrities in attendance, Mike Modano and LaDainian Tomlinson.

Here we are before the festivities begin!

Look Mom, it's TO!

Sandwich making begins!

Official representatives from the Guinness World Record are calculating

Look at all the bread, bologna and cheese as we were leaving! It was all going to be donated to local food bank.

Here is the link for the newspaper article in the Dallas Morning News.

Merry Christmas to Me!

For a Christmas/Anniversary Combo gift from Josh, I received a gift card to customize my license plate. I finally decided what I wanted to do and Josh picked them up today. Does anybody know what it means?

House Update

They put up the forms for the foundation over the past week. :)

A day with my G/ma and G/pa

I had Presidents Day off, so I asked G/ma and G/pa what they wanted to do. I would take them wherever they wanted to go. G/ma says she wanted another banana shake from Steak n Shake and I said I could manage that... anything else?  Well, she needed a haircut.  Alright, I can manage that, too.  Oh, and they wanted to check out the Aldi by our place because they had them in Iowa and wanted to see what it was like down here.  Perfect, I can manage that too!!

So I picked up G/ma at 10:30; we went and got her hair cut and fixed.

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AFTER

We drove back by the house to get G/pa. As it got close to noon, we drove towards Frisco to picked up Josh from work, and then proceeded to Steak n Shake.... where G/ma got her banana shake!!!

After lunch, we stopped by Josh's clinic and did a quick tour. Then, we were off to Aldi, where they picked up a few goodies.

We took the scenic route back to The Colony. We made a stop by our "house" in Little Elm (that's my next update).  Once we got back to Mom's place we played a game of cribbage. In case you were wondering... I WON!!! hee hee hee

My day with G/ma and G/pa soon came to an end... it was nearing the end of the work day and I had to get Andrew from daycare.

Hanging with Nana and Papa Janssen

We have all enjoyed G/ma and G/pa Janssen visiting the past few weeks, especially Andrew.  We have been able to go over and see them every weekend. This weekend it was in the 70s so we spent some time outside. Mimi gave a bucket filled with water and a paintbrush to Andrew, he "painted" the patio.

"High Five"

Andrew loves wearing hats, but he likes it even more because Papa wears one all the time!

House Update

Not much to update on the house. It has been two weeks since we had been out to the lot. They had plowed/leveled the lot where the house will sit and staked the property line. They also dug up grass for the sidewalk and driveway.  We noticed the corner lot directly across from ours was at the exact same stage.  I am going to take pictures in the same spot each visit... I can make one of those cool flip books of the time lapse! ;-)

View 1

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Side View

If you look closely you can see our street address on the 2x4!!!

SNOW!

 We woke up to snow this morning!!! It lightly snowed until 2pm and the high temp for the day was 24 degrees! Luckily it wasn't very icy, so they didn't shut down the whole Metroplex;daycare and the clinic were open all day.  And even though it was cold, I enjoyed my view of the snow fall from my office.