NEW POOL at the Lake House...

GRADUATION 2011...

R.J's High school T-Shirt Quilt

My First born baby boy has GRADUATED.  I am a very proud momma!

The boy next door graduated too so we had a combined PARTY!

All my Primghar  Children!

Track 2011...

 R.J running 4x4 something or another.

 Big Brother R.J helping lil Brother Zach out!

Oh LIfe has been BUSY!!!

 Prom 2011

R.J made me this awesome picnic table in Shop class.

and my Lake neighbors got the cutest new camper!!!

Trying something new…Windows Live Writer could be kinda fun if I can learn how it works….

Cancun 2011

We spent February 16th to the 23rd at the Great Parnassus in Cancun, Mexico.  It was an awesome Family and Friend Vacation.  Twenty of us went.

Spent most of the time on the beach.  Did take one day and explored Cancun in Hummers.  The kids really enjoyed that Day.

They had a photographer at this resort so we hired them to take pictures of our families.  You can get this background in IOWA!

My Cedar Chest...

My Mom's Cedar Chest...

Has become MyCedar Chest.  Doesn't it look awesome in it's new home?

This chest sat in my moms bed room for as long as I can remember.   

I just love it...Can't wait to fill it with all my treasures.

"Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a cedar chest."

San Diego Trip Book...

25 Random Things About Me....

1. I like dolls...I have quite a collection.  From homemade to porcelain. Mickey Mouse to Ashton Drakes.  Old (1930's) to Brand new.
2. I'm afraid to paint any room with a color other then beige of some sort.
3. I currently own three camera's...and still forgot to take one to the lake house for Christmas.  Thanks Malissa for letting Mom use yours.
4. I take tons of pictures, but only maybe twice in three years have had them actually printed...till I bought my self one to print at home.
5. I own over 15 pairs of jeans.
6. I take a water bottle to bed so I don't have to get up at night to get a drink.
7. I share the same birthday as my husband's Grandpa Clarence.
8. I have stuff in the attic still from High School.  Example...Tests, reports...I need to pitch these tho.
9. I love to travel.  Whether an hour or across the ocean.
10. I fell out of the top of the garage when I was four.
11. I arrive to work about only one minute early.
12. I like to cook but dislike baking.
13. I can't sing...Took lessons one summer, Didn't help.
14. I graduated with a class of 20...Yup only 20.
15. I never moved as a Child.
16. My Best Friend was killed in a car accident when I was 16.  I miss her so much still 24 years later.
17. I still communicate with #16 Family via Facebook.  Yea!
18. In the Winter I like to go to bed before 9pm.
19. I love boat rides.
20. I own a corvette and have only driven it 8 miles.  My Boys have driven further then I have.
21. I cried during the Movie "Savannah Smiles" when I was 12 and This year when I watched again.
22. I like my money all to face the same direction in my wallet.
23. I'm so glad I met the people who bought Lot 12...They are Amazing.
24. I am looking forward to SUMMER!!
25. I love to Blog...When I Find the time.

Yup...25 Things About ME!

Reminiscing...

My life will never be the same...with out these people in my life...

But they will live in my heart forever.

Love and miss you both Dad and Mom!

Today was just one of those days where things reminded me of you... I hate days like today, because they remind me of the two things I don't have on earth.

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.”

LOVE YOU ALWAYS!

January 1, 2011...What a way to start the New Year...

SUNDOG ay Silver Lake, Ayrshire, Iowa on 1-1-2011

Sundogs may appear as a colored patch of light to the left or right of the sun, 22° distant and at the same distance above the horizon as the sun, and in ice halos. They can be seen anywhere in the world during any season, but they are not always obvious or bright. Sundogs are best seen and are most conspicuous when the sun is low.

Remodeling in P-Gar...

 In June of 2010 after a weekend at the lake we come home to this...

OLD FAMILY ROOM

 YUP...4 or more inches of water in the basement...In years past this had happened a time or two or three or four or more before and we skipped work and sucked the water up and saved the carpet.  This time we said forget it...I had been wanting to redo the basement anyway and so here was my sign. (Oh thank you...Thank You!)   So we immediately called Thrasher Basements and they came out a few weeks later and gave us an estimate.  It really didn't matter what it was going to cost, IT HAD TO BE FIXED.  Correctl,y before we could begin.  So in August Thrasher Basement came and in a day and a half they had the basement fixed. 

So soon my middle child decided he would love to have his bedroom in the basement so with that we deiced to let him move and I then can have his bedroom as a storage room.  Storage room is missing in most older homes.  So Dad promised Zach that we would have his room done my Christmas.  Well that didn't happen but we are getting closer now.

This is the new family. 

The wall is where the couch was in the above picture.  Bar and fireplace are also gone.

 When you got to the bottom of the stairs and looked to the left this was the view.

Now the furnace sits pretty much here.  Where the desk is sitting is the furnace now.  Better air flow to the 3rd floor in this position.  And we can tell. 

 To the left is Zach's room and the right is the living room.  I'm standing in the door way to the bedroom.

Door to the Bedroom got hung this week.

Randy's old closet...Yea it sucked...These pictures are after the flood and the dry was was tore down.  But we lived with it this way for six loooonnnngggg months.

Dry wall and mudding is now complete.

The closet in the corner but that will be storage now with a door accessing under the stair well.  Randy will be getting a custom closet....NICE...

The old laundry room....YUCK!

THE NEW. 

The waterheater and softner will now be hiden as well as all the plumbing for the washer/dryer/sink and shower.

THIS has to be all done my May...We have a graduation to get ready for!!!

I am so excited.......

New Years Eve...Good Bye 2010...

  Gonna start the New Year with Loved ones!

 My nephew and Malissa hanging out!

 Look Justin is come to party with us.

 MY BFF- BEAUTIFUL FABULOUS FRIEND!  LOVE THIS GIRL!

 Shots...Lemon Drop for the adults and non alcohaloc for the kids.

 Lot 11 & 12 Friends!

My Bro and sis-in-law!  Love them both!  They have ALWAYS been there for me!

Christmas 2010...

This Christmas was so different...Normally we celebrate four different times...One with my Brother's family, one with Randy's folks, Christmas Eve in my Dad's Garage and of course our own.

This year I had Christmas Eve at my lake home for anyone who wanted to come.  We ended up having 17...I will continue the Kacmarynski tradition of having oyster soup on Christmas Eve.

 Christmas morning also was a lil different... The kids are growing up.  So we got to sleep in a bit.
The boys knew the majority of their gifts since they ordered them all off the Internet. 

 The kids got me this PINK Harley blanket.  I love it.  And so do they...for they seem to like covering up with it.

 My kiddos!!

 How they heck would I be able to order truck speakers and a stereo?  So that's why he ordered it.

Zach got a stereo for his ipod.  But this is him opening his sock from Santa...

But my baby girl still only gave me ideas and I was able to go shopping for her.  It was so fun.

This is a life size cut out of Justin Bieber for her bedroom. 

Over all the Christmas was very fun and enjoyable...Just different that the past.  but that is life...

So the NEW Traditions will begin.

Merry Christmas to all my love ones out there.

Las Vegas Baby...

My sis-in-law and I took a 6 day trip to Las Vegas...

This is the view from our room.  We stayed at the Flamingo.  It was a nice hotel...Nothing real fancy but it sure was in the day.

 We spent the majority of our time just walking up  and down the "Strip".  This is a view in side the hotel the Venetian.

The Mirage had a "FREE" volcano show nightly every night.  This was one of the neatest things we saw. 

 The Friday before Christmas we drove to the Grand Canyon...Five hours one way to see FOG!  Here is Mary trying to in vision what it would look like had we gotten to see it.  So a few postcards we did buy.

 The Strip at night, all lit up.  So pretty!

 Hoover Dam was the funnest thing we did.  Very well worth the 30 minute drive...AMAZING I do say so myself.

 The Belagio was an awesome hotel with a fountain display that was incredible.  Another highlight of the trip.

 Do you ever watch "PAWN STARS" on the history channel..Well I found it and we took a quick look.  But didn't get to see any one famous.  :(

The main reason for a trip to Vegas right before Christmas...was to watch my nephew wrestle...

Way to go Tyler!!

<<< Go Morningside>>>

Next year maybe Orlando...Only time will tell.