Hi everyone, we have officially launched our new website….A Jenerek Life is now located at the following web address: www.jenerek.com.
Make sure you update your bookmarks to www.jenerek.com. Now come on over to the new location and let me know what you think of our new home!
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I’ve been playing around with some free digital art I found on some of my favorite blogs to create some new blog art for the site. Lots of these sites call this digital art…digital scrapbooking, but I haven’t been making digital scrapbooks from it (yet) so I am calling it Digital Art.
It’s amazing what’s out there for free! All you need is a photo editing software (I use Photoshop CS4) to create your very own custom artwork.
Here are a few of my favorite sites…
http://www.kevinandamanda.com/
http://shabbyblogsblog.blogspot.com/
http://paigeandbrooke.blogspot.com/
http://paigeandbrooke.blogspot.com/
http://www.blogdesignsbysheila.com/
This flower categories button is a little sneak peak of what I have created. Give it a try. Be warned…you can loose track of time and waste away hours and hours just looking around.
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In the spirit of St. Patty’s Day I wanted to share the cutest story about a little girl named Bresa, her dad, and a leprechaun. I stumbled across this sweet story earlier today on a Bresa’s mom’s blog called ‘The Taylor Family’…
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Last night Bresa and Daddy set up a trap to catch a leprechaun. They used a shoebox and put a dollar in as bait because Bresa said they like money. She really wanted to catch one because she said they would give us a pot of gold if we did. Well, this morning Bresa saw that the trap had been triggered and ran over to check the inside. Unfortunately the leprechaun had escaped through a hole and tried to take the dollar too but it got stuck on the way out.
Inside the box the leprechaun had made quite a mess and left green footprints all over and shamrocks on the floor. He also managed to paint the entire inside green and sprayed it all with green glitter too. He got green all over the dollar and the pencil that held the trap open. He didn’t leave any gold but he did leave a couple green heart stickers for both the girls.
Also, when Daddy went to get milk for breakfast we found that the leprechaun had made the milk green! This leprechaun sure made a mess of things, I am sure glad St. Patrick’s Day only comes once a year. We went to Grandma’s and Bresa brought the trap to show her and left it there, otherwise I would have posted pictures of it to show you the mess the leprechaun made.
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I’m gonna try to catch a leprechaun for myself next St. Patty’s Day. I want me some gold!
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When Derek and I were on our honeymoon in St. Martin we found a local treasure call lolos. For a downright cheap but delicious dinner, nothing can beat St. Martin’s famous lolos. ”Lolo” is a local word for an outdoor barbecue business, where the cooking is done before your eyes and seating is at picnic tables. Grand Case, St. Martin’s restaurant capital, features several lolos clustered on the waterside of the main street. This glorious street of tasty delights was just a 3-minute walk away from our resort in St. Martin.
If you have the opportunity to visit St. Martin…run, don’t walk to Grand Case (Case is pronounced Cass) and indulge in a fat kids delight! Oh, by the way…as you walk down “restaurant row” you will often times be passionately greeted & invited by the owners to come “sit”, “eat”, “relax” at that particular lolo.
I found the most interesting part of the competition between the lolos is that what may look like one or two establishments, you can find up to four lolos in operation. The lolo we had lunch at was nestled on the side of an indoor restaurant, and shared an awning with another lolo that was positioned directly behind ours. 
Directly next to our lolo were two more following the same set-up as ours. It seems that the front of the two lolos has the “right at the street” advantage. People don’t know to walk 5 ft further to eat at a completely different restaurant. However, if you love the sea and take every advantage you eat seaside while in St. Martin you will obviously see out the lolo hidden behind the street side lolo, because you will get a wonderful view of the beach as you eat.
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Well Memphis finally got its big snow of the year! We were surprised with around 4-5 inches in our part of town. The part of town Derek’s parents live in received around 8.5 inches. Now I know many people are thinking 4-8 inches is nothing, but you must understand for a city that generally has snow on the ground a maximum of 2-3 days per year…4-8 inches is like a blizzard.
Since the snow fell over the weekend we were able to go outside with the dogs and let them play in snow. By the way, our dogs….l-o-v-e…snow! Cohen generally only sees going outside as simply going to the bathroom. Not often does he stay out there on by his own free will…especially to play. Well when it snows, that’s a whole different story. Cohen will stay out there until his toes freeze. This kid loves eating snow & playing chase with Wrigley. For a dog that spends most of his day napping he sure has some speed when it comes to playing chase. Derek and I went out today & got some pictures & video of these two.
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Today is a good day, my sinus headache is gone, Derek and I re-financed our house yesterday, we are going to see Keller Williams @ the New Daisy on Saturday, and…..we bought a gorgeous new vehicle yesterday.
We decided on the Volvo S40 (T5)…it has a 5 cylinder turbo charged engine. I drives like a dream and it is easy on the eyes. We just happened to luck out with the package. We were only in the market for a quality vehicle, but the sweet sound system, racing pedals (yes I know…), and black leather interior sure make that 20 minute drive to work each morning a pleasant experience.
One of the best features of this vehicle is the backless center console. Typically the area behind the radio, A/C, and other miscellaneous things is completely closed in. Well not in this car….all of those things are on a flat curved panel that has an opening behind it from the driver’s side to the passenger’s side. Behind the panel in the open area is where your change tray is, or for the ladies with bags small enough….you can put your purse back there. Imagine that ladies…not having to have one hand on the wheel, one eye on the road, and the other hand and eye searching around on the floorboard for your purse! I love it!!!
Did I mention that the key is plastic? Well it is. I still resembles the old styling of Volvo keys, but to keep your key from being replicated, and your car stolen they actual key portion is plastic with a chip inside of the device. In case the remote’s battery dies you can remove what looks like a metal key ring attachment piece from the top of the remote and use it to unlock your door. It will not start the engine though.
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The other night Derek and I sat down to watch a Matthew McConaughey classic named ‘Surfer, Dude‘. The title pretty much sums the movie’s plot up…it’s about a surfer. Need I say more? I can pretty much guarantee that the entire cast was baked during the entire making of this cinema classic. Although this movie may never win any major awards; it did a sufficient job of entertaining us for the evening. I did not mind drooling looking at the man for 80+ minutes. I mean would you?
(Side Note: Derek and I have a strange obsession with Matthew McCohaughey’s laugh…we can’t get enough of it, and this movie offered plenty of his giggles)
As a tasty treat to eat during the movie Derek suggested that we make chocolate milkshakes. So we whipped out the new blender for the first time (it’s a beehive Oster…looks so sweet) and mixed us up some frosty delights. Derek felt the need to taunt Cohen with some of the ice cream on a spoon. It wasn’t very nice of him, but Cohen’s facial expressions were worth the puppy taunting.
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Recently I have been getting into researching my family tree. My husband introduced me to a website called Geni that is part family tree, part social network. Geni is free! My dad, grandfather, cousins, etc. are all using it.
Users can build their family tree through the simple colorful interface. Relatives who are added to the tree can join Geni and add other relatives. Everyone in the tree has a profile which shows more about them and enables other family members to stay in touch with them. Families can work together to build profiles for common ancestors. Family members can also share photos, videos, events, discussions, and more. A family timeline shows the history of everyone in the family. What’s kind of cool is that Geni was founded by former executives and employees of PayPal, eGroups, eBay, and Tribe…so these people really know how to manage large amounts of data & keep it safe.
Just last week my grandpa emailed me (yes…my grandpa emails) to tell me that he mailed me a copy of the direct decedents of the DAEMS family which is his great grandmother’s branch.
My Grandpa
My grandpa said that two of his cousins, in the Netherlands, researched this some years back. The information he sent me goes all the way back to the 1670′s. I was astounded at how far back they were able to go. I really lucked out with this, because my father and grandparents immigrated to the US back in 1950 from the Netherlands (Holland). The furthest back I would have been able to find, with US records, would be the immigration of my grandparents & father in 1950. So to have relatives in Europe to do some of the digging for me was wonderful…I would not have had a clue where to start looking over there.
Since I have been hunting down info about my ancestors I decided to also do some research on Ancestry.com. This site is great for researching vital records, as long as you don’t mind shelling out a few clams. I decided to sign-up for just one month and to see what I can find, and to my surprise I located the manifest to the ship my father and grandparents came over from Holland on. How awesome it that!?! They even had a picture of the ship and a brief history of it. Check it out…
S.S. Volendam
S.S. Volendam Manifest
If you have ever thought about looking into your ancestry, give Geni or Ancestry.com a try. Invite some family members to join your tree, and watch it grow!
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