Texas de Brazil

On Thursday night, before we left on Friday....we had dinner at Texas de Brazil....a great meat place! I believe it's called a Churrisquia (sp?) meaning a meat type restaurant in Portuguese.....Yummy!

Home of Tomorrow!

Upon arrival, Jimmy went to the convention early Tuesday and signed us up for the 3 hour tour (haha!) of the New American Home , in Henderson, Nv. a city adjoining Vegas.A 5 million dollar home. I loved the cool fireplaces and all the water features.....lots of Infinity edged pools.....definitely a party house, 3 bedrooms and only 4 baths that I could count, but at least 5 bars, a wine tasting room, media room, lots of seating areas....8 I think....pool table, etc. almost everything opened to the outside..I loved the "floating" bed and the "floating" travertine walkway.........it was 3 levels...lots of stairs, and, believe it or not, NO ELEVATOR! I couldn't imagine a 5 mil home, 3 levels..without an elevator!   It's for sale.....if you want!

On the road again.....

Well, last week was the IBS.... International Builder's Show, in Las Vegas. The pictures above are as we're approaching Flagstaff, Az. and as we cross over Hoover Dam, on the new bridge built by a man named Monk (was in the Marathon Coach Club with us). He passed away before it was finished.
Anyway, it was really sad to see how low the lake was ....25-30 feet.

Beautiful day to work outside!

 

Today was so nice outside, that wesat out on the porch of the new house, and Jimmy did some work. We opened up the whole house and enjoyed the weather!

Old Ski Lifts.....

Here's one of the old Gondolas and chair lifts!

Ski Apache Arrow!

Friday was the grand opening of the brand new Gondola at Ski Apache!
It is Awesome!
It is fully automatic and sooooo quiet! Twice as fast and twice as many people.
Nothing like it in the states, that I know of!
I love to ride it in the summer...beautiful scenery!

Changing over from open cell foam to closed cell foam...each has different propertied and R- factors!

change to closed cell foam!

 

Coming home to Alto sunset!

While driving home from town, yesterday, I turned the corner, at my new house and this is what I saw.....beautiful, huh?

Mr. Snead's house

A man, Mr. Snead, asked Jimmy to Spray foam insulate his new house.....a job referred to us by our plumber Josh. (thanks Josh). He has now told his neighbor, who had someone else do his house and it is really poorly done, so he wants Jimmy to come "fix it".....sigh....
I fear it'll be March before I'm in my house.!!!

Sleigh ride!

On a VERY cold night, we went on a sleigh ride, into the Upper Canyon area, many of the houses had really done up their lights, etc. Very pretty! 

Winterpark!

The threesome up above is them!

Texas friends!

Our very sweet friends, from McAllen, Tx. drove all the way here, to spend the New Year with us, and it snowed just for them!
We had a great time.....went to Winterpark, so they could go tubing, saw "Parental Guidance" (a really cute movie) and generally just enjoyed spending time together. Randy, Lynette and Regina.
Regina even made snow angels!

 

Christmas 2012!

Well, my brother, Ty, his girlfriend of many years, her son and wife and Gloria came up around the 21st of December. We had a nice Christmas in the clubhouse, then Jimmy took Mark (Sandie's son) skiing! We got to see the new Gondolas being set up....not in use, yet, and some pretty scenery.

Sheetrock!

 

The drywall is going in!

Elevator shaft

Here is the front, inside looking down then inside looking up, the elevator shaft!

My new bathtub!

I'm so excited.....my new fancy Jetta tub got here today!

Flooring!

Wednesday was Jimmy's day off, so we spent the entire day running around. First was Arizona Tile to look at the granite slabs and get ideas for the bathrooms. Then to Direct Buy to order my bathroom cabinets. We have already received the kitchen cabinets and were very pleased.
Then we went to a place to look at Solar Panels, Jimmy needed to ask them about the conduit requirements, etc. Next was American Clay...a wall treatment alternative to paint...cool stuff! Then back to Direct Buy to finish ordering the cabinets and look at some carpeting and window blinds.
I was pretty tired after all day running, so going back to the bus after picking up dinner at Taco Cabana was fine for me!
Tomorrow is the last day of classes so we plan to be back in Alto by evening.

Road Trip....

We are in Albuquerque all week....Jimmy has classes to get ready for his Contractor's license. Wednesday, he's off, so we have an appointment at Direct Buy, to order my bathroom cabinets. Jay and Donald are taking care of the spray foaming of the house while we are here this week. Hopefully, the sheetrock will start being put up next week. I spent the day recuperating from a bad 24hr. bug, and cleaning the bus....but actually, I have needed to go through and throw out a lot of stuff.