Where the Magic Happens

Here is my new work shop.

My New Freind

Me and Sadie are pals.

She liked to fall asleep when I was feeding her, her bottle.

Going for Sushi

One day we went to a Sushi place. It was real good. I like the vegas rolls.

This is Buck and Nadia's house. Nice Place!

Favorite Store in Pheonix

This is always a stop when we go to visit Buck and Nadia and Wesley and Sadie. They have the best strawberry banana smothie drinks. It's a mini super market ( maybe it called just a market ) Anyway we like it.

Amanda's New 8" Craft Cab

I built this for Amanda one week out at the Johnston's

It's in Pottery Barn Green. You can get all Pottery Barn's Colors in Benjamin Moore Paints at Ace Hardware.

I may be a Crapenter but she S"craps".

New Babies

So did I mention that between Justin's Family and mine we had three nephews and one niece born all within three months of each other? Well we are loving all these little babies, they are all so different and so beautiful...so here are the latest additions to the Spurgiesz/Rock Families...



William Grant Spurgiesz (held by big brother Joshie)

























Wesley James and Sadie Rae Cotter










Ezra Jarad Rock

Long Time Gone

So it's been a while since we posted anything. I guess you could say a lot has changed since our last post. We had three nephews and one niece added to our family. I have a new job at Corporate Monday-Friday, nights holidays and weekends off...sweet!

Justin has been busy with many side jobs and getting things ready to launch out ETSY business. Overall we've been traveling, working and staring at each other in our spare time...so here are some pics to share...enjoy.

These are some pictures of Justin's 28th Birthday. Tanya made a sand dune cake with two little campers on it, and we went with some friends out to eat at his favorite Pizza place. Oh, and he also gave himself a "summer buzz".

Court House Job

Here are a couple pics from the court house job I recently got done doing. The one with the boarder blue carpet is the judges chambers. I don't have any pics of the library but it's way cool too. The judge is in the distric court of appeals which means that the only court higher then hers is the supereme court in this district. And one day she made us brownies and brought them down for us. = ) On this job we were told that there were a few cabinets and a little trim. And it ended up being a 100 cabinets, which included a library and 9in crown moulding and 8in base everywhere. I think when the company said "estimates avaliable" they ment "underestimates avalible" Anyway all done now.

Refinshed Table

I used that new poly shade ( stain + polyurathene gloss finish )Turned out sweet + put 5 more inches on both sides.

Recent Side Job

Entertainment Center Finaly Done

New Doors on the front

Goodbye World

If you think that heath care is the beginning of the end. Try the rule of Kane under the influence of Tiberium with a militant command of futuristic machines. Oh, and if you don't hear from me for a while, I'm busy saving the world. Join me. Wha ha ah.

Where is Justn working now?

Another guy and myself have been put on a new office space, and library in a new remodel in the Earl Cabell Federal building and Court house. It's tight security and will be real nice when we are done. I'll post some pics when we get done. Different feeling then most other places we've worked. It's more honorable.

Funny Face

So I said to Jake, "show me your angry face...show me your sad face...show me your happy face..." What a character this kid is...and pretty good lighting by his aunt if I do say so myself.

Spurgiesz Family Reunion

Here are some pictures from the Spurgiesz family reunion. This year we went to San Antonio and stayed in two very nice time-shares. We had a blast with everyone! We missed Nadia and Brandon who had to stay in AZ, but we thought of them often and had a blast with our nieces and nephews.

San Antonio 2010

...more pics from our trip to the Alamo, and more adorable family members.

"There are no dwarf men"

We went to this crazy cave down in San Antonio, while we were down there for Amanda's family reunion. It was the most developed cave I have been in. Probably the oldest too. Sweeet! If you look close you can spot a dwarf ( I think his name is Brian or Gollum I can't remember, he had this backback and kept talking about this ring, oh well )

Snow in Richardson!

This is a pic from our balconey

This is kind of tragic for this neck of the woods. It was last month so we are a little behind on our eye witness news but ya know.

Construction Of New Project

Built-In

New Project Justin just did for some people in the ward.

Christmas 2009!

So if you've ever wondered who gets to decorate stores for the Christmas and how long it takes to make certain displays, let me answer those questions for you...

-it took about 100 hours to transform our store from fall to Christmas in early November.

-after the store got decorated it took an army of 10 people 6 weeks to maintain the Christmas Cheer.

-this army came in at 9pm and stayed until 7am to stock, clean and move freight all over the store so that when the doors opened the store looked perfect.

-our fireplace took about 20 minuets to make and 30 minuets to get up on the cap shelf (we had a lot of fun with that one).

-when Christmas was over on the 26th it took a week to tear down and find all the Christmas decor and merchandise we had displayed all throughout the store.

- So if I haven't been in contact with many of you for several months, now you can have a visual of what Amanda does at work, and why she is never home:)

TAG !!

Got a E-mail from Mom.

1. What is you current Obsession?
Having all systems in my life "WORK THE WAY THEY SHOULD" ( Vehicles, Computers, Spending, Earning, Time Schedules, etc. ) Only having essential files on my computer. Just reformatted both. Put all music and other files onto 10 DVD's and on the shelf. Got rid of all old CD's that are now on the DVD's. They are way fast now. ( nerdo )

2.Chocolate Or Vanilla
Neither - Cookie Dough ( Blue Bell )

3. What are you wearing today?
Cords, T-Shirt, Good Old Trusty "One" Hat, and a Jacket
( because it going to get into the 30's, maybe )

4. Whats for dinner?
"BEEF" of course. But I don't know what we are eating tonight.

5.What is the last thing you bought?
Gas. ( Lame! ) I bought a new double tank air compressor, it's sweet!

6. What are you listening to right now?
"Muse" is my new favorite band. Their popular stuff stinks but the others on their CD's are sweet. Let me know if you want an illegal sample of some of their cool stuff!

7. If you could have a house, fully paid for, and totaly furnished anywhere in the world where would it be?
The Sahara ( not little Sahara the BIG one, I've seen pictures ) But only if my house had a built in gas pump with unlimited gas. Cause I'd have a CR250,among other things, and go ridding at my leisure. And have no fears in the world. All of my friends would be there, and others that can have fun. ( Jarad would be there ( of course ), because he's been my friend from my very beginning ) And it would take a real long time to get bored because we'd know how to stay happy and have the means to do so. At least 10 years.

8. What is one of your hobbies?
Building sweet things out of wood ( furniture and other sweet finish carpentry things ) Ha, that's what I do for a living.

9.What are 4 things that annoy you the most?
1. Talking generally about specific things. ( i.e. We need to fight for our freedom. 1rst what do you mean fight and second freedom is relative, LOL, Maybe it's just the freedom fighters fighting each other. ) Sometimes you need to just follow Oma Desala.

2. Cell Phone and Texting Drivers that can't handle multitasking, and don't see the need to acquire skills, but end up needing new cars, knees and faces, and hold up everyone in the process. ( there is no good in this )

3. So why did gas go from $5 a gallon to $1 a gallon again? No one seems to know.

4. People that think Peanut Butter and Honey Mixed tastes no different then separate. ( it's so apparent )

10. What is your favorite color?
Cars : Black
Cloths: Blue
CR250's: White
Skittles: Red
Furniture: Black
Walls: Neutral matte ( not white )
Trim: Brilliant White semi gloss

11. What is your favorite piece of clothing?
Davis Power Shorts, Or Local Motion Hoodie ( both deceased =[ )

12. What is your dream job?
Building awesome furniture, cabs, etc. in a garage with plenty of room at my own pace with my own tools and that be enough to feed the fam. I enjoy working by myself, but on two person jobs having good, enjoyable help.

13.Describe your personal style.
Kicked this Question

14. What are you doing after this?
Eat, Go to a shop where they can fix my 16ga finish nailer. E-mail the guy we bought the Jetta from a bill, see if I can get some money. Go get groceries. Maybe vacuum.

15.What inspires you?
Hobbit Lifestyle, Oma Desala ( when we can't win, sometimes victory IS dening them battle ) , seeing Dad's eye's start to water when hearing the men's choir of priesthood session, pictures of charactered woodwork ( no carving though, it doesn't do a thing for me ), people who I can tell earned what they have ( rare ), Bill Wheatly when he paid for my lunch because I was a stinge and was complaining that I didn't have any money ( he doesn't have much more, I'm tring to not be a stinge ), Bill Adama when we took the Gallatica through the atmosphere of New Caprica when everyone though he had left them there to die, by the hands of the cylons, So say we all.

16. What are you currently reading?
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring ( Thanks Brian & Tonya )

17. What delighted you most today?
Having the Day Off of work to do what I need to do and that be O.k. ( my definition of freedom )

18. By what criteria do you judge a person?
Honesty, Self Awareness, level of deliberation in their life ( Victim or not ), what they have done with what they have, knowing things about them and seeing how they are. How they look ( believe it or not this is one we all do conscious or not, standard very by the person doing the judging, I am not mean with this power ) I MEAN... I don't judge people = ], just like you right.

19. If you could pic a talent what would it be?
Well in the parable of the talents, talents are defined as money, so I'll pick the Million Dollar Talent. ( I was going to say smart a@# but I'm already good at that, so I didn't ) No, I wish I could beat those 10year old punks at Kane's Wrath. Errrrrrrrrr. And remember stuff, when you can remember things you shouldn't and don't need, and remember the things you are trying to.

20. Best vacation ever?
Hawaii vacation right after my mission with the family. ( I want some home movies of that if we still have them some where ) Best timing of a vacation was Nadia's Wedding when we drove to Phoenix with the bed I built for them, work was intense and it was nice to get away for a while. Knowing what a great vacation is half the battle for the "vacation joe's", right? A great vacation for me would be to go back home and visit the fam again and it wouldn't be like that if I lived right by them. Paradise HAS TO BE on the other side of the fence. Even if it's not "greener" it has to at least look that way, it's the only way you get people to hop over. And makes it easy to know where to go on vacation.

21. What is one thing that you did for someone else that help bring joy to you this month?
It wasn't me but, someone sent me Company of Hero's at random anonymously, very cool! I was happy to see that Santa delivers when he sees the right thing and is not bias to Christmas. Because people can't afford to do nice things for others, but Santa does. And we should keep it that way. Keep away from Santa piracy.

22. If you could do one thing over in your life, what would it be?
Not be so intimidated by people who have no idea what they are doing either, mostly in the single days, I thought I was the only one for some reason.

23. If businesses were taxed less would they hire more people?
No.

Justin

Bye, Bye Saaber

So we always said we would drive the Saab until it bit the dust, well around Christmas time the dust came-a-biting. The car sprung a huge oil leek, which would have taken more time, money and resources to find and fix, than the car was worth, so we said goodbye to the Saab, and hello to the new GLI.

(note the huge puddle of oil under the car)

Hello New Car!

So here's the new car. It's a Jetta GLI, manual 6 speed turbo with 18 in. wheels. That's about the extent of my knowledge:) It's a vey cool car. We've been looking at getting this car ever since we moved to Texas and the timming and deal were just right, so happy 2010!

We're Back!

Hello to all. We finally set up a new blog. We still don't know why we got erased from our original blog, but that's all in the past now. We have some major catching up to do, with Thanksgiving, Christmas and all, so we will try to make this as painless as possible and loaded with lots of pictures!