Tim & Vanessa Lorentzen Family!

January 5th - Happy New Year!  We had a great (although tiring) trip to Canada and thoroughly enjoyed the time with all the family up there.  Lots of snow and cold and when we got home it was the same!  Winter is here.  Gas prices were not very nice up in Canada but are $1.72 a gallon here which is down a bunch.  Back to work today and of course as busy as ever.

January 10th - Grandpa Ross is 65 and says he is sure glad he is not just retiring now!

We bought a couple of old but fairly nice Arctic Cat snowmobiles from a friend of Hollis's and got them both running with a little work.  Of course old sleds need work all the time so one of them is now having a fuel issue after running great for a day!  This is the nicer of the 2 and is a 1977 el-tigre and goes pretty good!  The other is a 1976 Pantera.  Seem to run well after a bit of work.


January 17th - Well, what a week!  Vanessa turned 43 on Tuesday - Starlit made a nice Triffle for Vanessa which we enjoyed after going to a movie.

Ross & Janice took her out for lunch and then that night around 1:00 Ross had John take him down to the emergency room with chest pains.  Turns out he had a blood clot that had moved over to the heart and was creating some blockage which caused a minor heart attack.  He is supposed to be checked again today and get out tomorrow.  He is feeling much better!  Then Hollis turned 18 on Saturday!  I must be getting old!

January 24th - Rain - rain - more rain - then snow.  Well now that was something!  What little snow we had disappeared pretty quickly!  Then we had ice all over.  Grandpa Lorentz and Grandma Lou came down and arrived Saturday around 4:00 (they hadn't been here yet this year you know) and Sunday we went up to John & Darcy's and spent the afternoon/evening.  Grandpa Ross is feeling a lot better.

January 31st - Strep throat really sucks!  Jasper had it when Grandpa Ross was in the hospital and now we all have it except Jasper and Zion.  I have not felt this rough in a long time.  Grandpa Lorentz and Grandma Lou came down for the week and we really enjoyed having them.  Jazzy thinks that Grandma Lou is her big quilt and loves to lay on her.  The good news is we were all feeling pretty good while they were here.  Hollis came down with this first on Thursday and missed 2 days of school.  I am taking sick leave right now myself.