Friday, December 23, 2011

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the Jorgensens!


Just in case you didn't get a card from us, (which, feel lucky if you did. Because they were very limited handmade editions) we want to wish all our friends and family a very Merry Christmas! Thank you for being a part of our lives!

Oh, and just for good measure here are some cute Santa cookies we made for our neighbor gifts:

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

MTC

We were so lucky and got to go to Motab's Christmas Concert last Saturday! It was awesome.

Here were the guests:

First, Yep. That's right. Dr. Quinn. She had a fun accent to listen to. Next, Nathan Gunn. WOW. His voice was incredible and looked effortless!


And here they are: the MTC (as Mr. Gunn referred to them. Little did he know that in this Mormon culture of ours MTC actually stands another little place called the Missionary Training Center :)

Yay for a fun Christmas season!

Friday, December 16, 2011

Photobooth

At my work party we had a photo booth using our holiday printables.   Everyone had a fun time with them. Here is our best shot! We had a delicious dinner and mingled with my co-workers. Yay for holiday parties!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Studio 5

Yestterday the company I work for had the opportunity to do a segment on Studio 5! I got to go with and watch as I helped make a lot of the things we showcased. We talked about some last minute christmas ideas and showcased our holiday printables. We only got 3.5 minutes, and whew you can't really say much in that short of time! But I think it turned out great, and we've gotten a lot of traffic from it!

Here is the lovely Laura who got be our spokesperson:


The table of treasures. I did the bottles and the presents.

I did the mason jar and little boxes. (Look familiar from our wedding?)

And here is the clip of us if you didn't get the chance to see it when it aired!

It was really fun to get out of the grind of the office for a day. Here is a recap:

- I've never been in a studio before. It was cool.
- There are lots of camera guys and sound stuff.
- It takes a lot of people to run a 1 hour show.
- Why would anyone ever do a live show? That is scary.
- People look a lot smaller in real life than on camera. Such as the hosts. Apparently the saying is true, the camera does add 10 lbs. or 10 inches.
- I like dressing rooms. With directors chairs and big shiny lights.
- KSL dressing rooms were built in the 1980's. Lots of shiny gold metal fixtures. :)
- There really is such a thing as "Utah poof hair". Oh my....
- People look ridiculously too animated in real life when they film. But when you watch on tv, it looks completely normal.
- I talk loud. I got shooshed my the camera director man.

All in all.  It was a fun day. Now we are off to my company Christmas party! Later.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Sunday update

We had a fun weekend, but are grateful to be back at our nice warm home.  Friday night we drove up to Lynn's work party at Maddox. It was at the lodge where we had our wedding luncheon.  Lynn didn't know too many people there, considering his crew works down in Utah county and they are kind of far away from the rest of the company. We sat by 2 of his coworkers, and they seemed to have a good time together outside of work. The food was of course DELICIOUS. We both got steak. Lynn claimed that it might even be the best steak he has ever eaten. That is quite a statement if you ask me. Also. There was only mild secret drink mixing going on, on the table right behind us. Also. Lynn got a Honey-baked Ham for his prize. It is also very delicious.

Saturday we woke up to 2 little girls sneaking into our bedroom and pouncing on us to wake up. We had spent the night at my parents, who were also having a sleepover with the grand kids. They are pretty silly girls. We had lots of fun going shopping for Christmas gifts to donate, and playing dress up. Belle was adamant that we act out the nativity story.  So: Let the pictures tell the story. Might I add, Lynn and my dad were very good sports. They wore the costumes and took part in the production.

Joseph and Mary:  ( notice the nice beard, and the "donkey" )

Cute Mary:

The "Star" appearing over the manger:

Pouty "I want to be Mary too":

I didn't get a photo, but I played the angel as well as the wise men. Don't worry. I got to ride in on the "donkey" as well.  Fun times. Can't wait to put on the production again on Christmas Eve!

We went and saw a movie last night. Midnight in Paris. Not bad. I'd recommend it. Especially if you like Paris. Or the Twenties. Or both.


Today we woke up to a little snow on the ground. I kind of have been missing snow. I mean, it is December. And Christmas time. And therefore I need a little snow. Not crazy blizzard, just a nice dust of white. Anyways. It was magical. 

Church was crazy. Even more than usual, if you can believe it. Testimony meeting just brings out all sorts of craziness. If you want the full account, you will have to ask Lynn sometime. He likes to tell stories. :) Ok. This is the end. We are going to watch the First Presidency devotional. It is crazy to think that it has been a whole year since we were sitting there live, in the conference center, listening to the wonderfulness in person! Can't wait to watch this year.  

Tonight for dinner: Ham & augratin potatoes

Friday, December 2, 2011

Ice, Laundry Machines, Lights, Beds, and More...

It's me again.  I believe this is a fair warning for those who would rather just read my beautiful wife's posts, due to the lack of art that I posses.  But for those who continue to read though, let it be known again that I claim nothing remarkable to be said.  I simply embark upon the blog to post a few updates due to the lack of anything else to do.  By this, I do not mean to say that there is not other things to do, I am sure there are a number of things I could do, even might ought to do. I simply am saying that there is nothing else that I would like to do for the time being, other than ramble on to a world that most likely will never read my thoughts.  I was going to start a new paragraph right there, but then I would have had an orphan; now I don't.

Now as for the title of this post, for those who have been wondering, that's my week summed up in a few short words.  Last week we had a wonderful Thanksgiving with both of our families, and even some time with old friends.  Then we came home, that is back here to P.G., with a truck load of things.  The contents of the load were vast enough, and the list long enough, that to sum it up would be difficult other than to to say a load of "things" and therefor that is how I choose to say it.

My mind works in tangents and this may be the one place that I can write like I think. So don't mind the side track, but as I typed that last sentence the question of how to spell therefor came up. Is it therefore or therefor? Spell check likes either.  And if there is a difference in them, what the heck is it?

Back to the title now, sorry for the sidetrack.  Among that load of "things" was a bed, mattress and loft bed frame.  This bed, minus the mattress, I acquired in my college living, and it is actually quite nice. So we decided to use some of the money that we had got at a furniture store for our wedding, (that's another complete story that I could ramble about) for a mattress to go on the loft bed.  Then we set it up in our spare room with our office to have a location for guests to come and stay with us.  I feel like I should maybe type that in bold so it catches the eye, FOR GUESTS TO COME STAY WITH US.   Is that enough of a hint?  Some think that Utah County is on another continent or something, and that it is way too far to come and visit.  Well, now we have even created a place for them to stay, because the journey is SO long.  That last stanza following the paragraph is where it would be super helpful to have a sarcastic font.  To finish the bed story we put it together Wednesday night.




Monday night, and well as some other days, we put the Christmas tree up that we bought Black Friday shopping, and found some additional decor items for it.  I won't lie, Becky did most of it.  Not to mention, due to the fact that she did most of it, the tree looks amazing and wonderful.  By additional items I mean a few decorations and a tree skirt and star and such, I'll post pictures so that you can see that I am not lying.



"Laundry Machines". This deserves a rant.  We own decent set of laundry, and our place has a nice laundry closet with a nice overflow protection system.  Now having worked as an install tech for a appliance company, I would claim that I am fairly competent in installing laundry systems.  To simplify this, lets just say that in order to access the dryer I had to reverse the washer and dryer and run all of the essentials across each other to make it work.

OK Becky is home and we are going to Brigham for my work party.  To close though, "Ice" is from last night at around ten o clock I had to go back to work to drain my truck of the water due to my forgetfulness in doing so earlier.  This prevented Ice from causing me a major headache today.

"Lights" refer to the Christmas Lights we put up one night in the cold, I can't remember which night at the moment.

That's all folks!