Family

Introducing Lacey

After a few months of searching, Emily decided this cute puppy would be her new companion.

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Christmas 2013

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Every Christmas we have the same routine; we start the day celebrating our own Christmas, head to lunch with the Jurenka side of the family, and dinner with the Emhardt side of the family.  For some reason, unbeknownst to the family, Chris decided to get into the spirit and dressed as one of Santa’s elves […]

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A Year Later

It has been a year since Aggie and Butter joined our family, and what a year it has been.  Butter developed an eye infection which Dory being a wonderful caretaker tried to help but instead ended up with a bad throat infection and it took two weeks of being tube feed of healing.  Shortly after […]

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Emily's First Apartment

After three years of trying to get a teaching job in California, Emily started attending job fairs in Arizona and things began to move quickly.  Emily had several interviews, two job offers and after careful consideration excepted a job in Avondale.  Emily first teaching position would be a first grade ELD teacher  Next she started […]

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Remembering John

John Jurenka, born in Chicago Illinois in 1929, passed away January 14, 2003.  John was the beloved husband of Joan Jurenka; loving father of Jeff (Gaby), Jana (Chris) Emhardt and Jill Jurenka; grandfather of four.  John grew up in Cicero Illinois, built a house in Lemont Illinois, served in the Air Force during the Korean conflict […]

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Kittens

We are cat people, have been for 30 plus years, and we have two new additions to our family, Agnes and Buttercup bring in so much love and entertainment that we can’t imagine life without them.

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