Karla's 2008 OT Class

The Walk (May 18, 2008)

Too bad they couldn't pronounce our last name! Hence, the big smile!

OT Graduation (May 18, 2008)

Karla posing with her two degrees! (Master of Occupational Therapy & Bachelor of Science in Health Care Sciences).

Karla and Brendan on the big day.


Karla and Amillio (son of classmate , Alma Martinez).

A Visit

Karla's cousin Donny and his wife Jenny came for a visit all the way from Oregon! Hope they will come back!
Some more of the clan.


The siblings.What an awesome go-kart! The suspension is just right and the speed even more right!

Trip to Denmark

Lorianne was our chauffeur to & from the airport. The only way to go to the airport!Danish humor? This was a statue in Tivoli, which is an amusement park. (What is Tivoli spelled backwards? :) Maybe that explains the expression on his face...
Water bumper boats at Tivoli. We had a hard time getting Bob & Gavin to return to the dock, and yes they got a few whistles from the man-in-charge to return.
Karla posing at the train station (she wasn't hard to miss with her abundance of color!)
Preston being Preston...
Our sleeping arrangements at the Alford's, largest bunk-bed I have ever seen!
Visiting the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde.
Visiting the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. Took them 25 yrs to reconstruct the 5 viking ships you see below. They were found at the bottom of the local fjord.
Visiting the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde.
Visiting the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. I thought about adding a caption to further narrate this picture, but this one is worth a thousand words on its own!
One of our grand dinners at Chef K's restaurant.
Just more happy faces!
All of us at the outdoor ice-skating spot. Bob and Gavin had a snowball fight, still not sure who won...
The queen was in town for bringing the New Year, so we had a chance to see the changing of the guard.
Danish special meeting group.
Visiting the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. Gavin posed with a few other "vikings," and that girl in the back is scary...
There was a sign that said, "Don't Touch," but do believe he had some help in disregarding that sign.... and no it wasn't Bob.. ;)
Standing at the Hellerup station, this is the train stop for the Alfords.
Workers (on the couch) visiting for coffee.
The famous mermaid statue. I am not sure where Ron is looking.
Karla didn't want to be left out.
What a helper!
A medieval clock, not sure how well it kept time, but it was ingenious!
Bob (the tour guide) took us to Sweden and we got to visit a fort.
Bob, Gavin and Ron on the inside of the fort.
Some history on the fort; it has been there a long time.
Hope you enjoyed our journey.

The pictures are a bit out of order, but it was going to be too much work to make it all sequential.

Day 142

The Interior:


Living Room Area


Dining Room Area (with no table, yet). If you haven't noticed, the dining and living room are connected, the couch below faces the two red chairs above:

Master Bedroom Downstairs:


First Bedroom Upstairs:



Second Bedroom Upstairs:



The Third Bedroom Upstairs is for storage, so not much to look at. If you want to see more pictures, you will have to refer back to the Day 12 blog, those are from before we moved in.

Hope you enjoyed the tour!

Day 132

The 2007 updates are complete!


Here is the new roof...

No, it does not snow in Texas! This is the new insulation in the attic areas.


The garage before we did anything...
Tearing out the shelving in the garage...


We had fun doing this...


All to be hauled away...


The walls after removing the paneling...


We were going to tear out all the drywall in the garage, but decided that the current state was satisfactory. So we hired a crew to tape and float. So what you see below is the Kilz layer.

More of the Kilz layer...

Kilz layer complete...

Then we painted and that is what you will see next...


The newly painted garage...



Then we had the garage door installed...


All is complete! Finally!



We will be putting up some interior photos after the holiday.