Thursday, December 20, 2007

You will have to read the previous post to understand what these are all about!

Here are some other pictures from the party.


Joe what is the temp. out?


Very cute Mistle Toes



I love my new Deer


This was the pantie wreath I got



Here is the Doe that went with the deer.


Can you say Xmas Balls


Since when does Santa come down the Chimney



This one had really hair included


The host of the party made this! It was a house but this is the roof

Barbie had a bad "bulb" job done.

Pornoment Party

Well, by now you should know The Kaufholds are always up to something different!

Last Friday night we where invited to a Pornoment Party. When we got the evite I was thinking what the heck is this all about! Then as I read the evite it stated you must make a dirty ornament or a center pieces that you would not want to display during Christmas. HMMMM, I thought to myself this could be interesting! Some of Tony's friends are very dirty minded. It took my sometime to figure out what I wanted to make and once the "juices" started to flow! I had my idea!

I made a Penis in a box. And yes, it sang Pop goes the Weezel.



and Tony made a snowman and snow women having fun while sledding.






Overall, the party was a huge success!

Monday, December 17, 2007

Oh Christmas Tree - Oh Christmas Tree!

This year we once again had a wonderful opportunity to get a really tree from Edina Realty! I keep telling Tony we are never getting a fake tree so, thanks Traci for keeping us on that list! Well, this year I was not able to go pick up the tree as I needed to make up some hours at work (since I missed a day from Oscar making a mess!). Tony said he would handle it and when I would get home the tree would be all ready to decorate! I thought that was a good deal! He is a big boy "how hard is it to go pick out a tree and bring it home?" Well, when it involves Tony things never seem to go smoothly!

Tony went and picked out the tree around 9am. He called me on his way home to see what time I would be done working. I told him I would be leaving around 12:00 just before the roads would start getting bad. (it was the weekend of our first snow storm! ) Well, around 11:00am my phone rings at work and once again its Tony. As I answered he said "Now, Honey do not be mad!" and I responded with 'Now WHAT did you do!" Then he started to tell me.....Well, you see I stopped and had breakfast at Wampach's on my way home, as I was getting ready to leave there was Knacker (a friend of ours) with a Skill Saw to our tree! I said with what!!!! Well, I guess about 10 years ago the owner of the Pullman Bar in Shakopee played a not so nice joke on Knacker and cut his tree into a bunch of pcs. Knacker was not suppose to be at the bar so he got in lots of trouble! His wife grounded him from the Pullman for 6 months! For some reason he thought it would be funny to play the joke on someone else! He was in the middle of cutting our tree in 1/2 as he got caught!
Tony said it was not that bad. All I was thinking was WHAT THE F***! I told Tony just to put up the tree and I would make due with it! I was not about to go spend $100.00 on a tree! When I got home from work I looked at the tree and thought well, its not that bad. I started to look at the back of it and there was NO branches left!
That is when I lost it! "Why are you and all your guy friends so STUPID! When are you all going to stop acting like your 2! This is not funny at all! I can not even hang lights on it! Oh, I can not let you do anything by yourself!...." As, I was just in the middle of my ranting the doorbell rang. I thought to myself now what could the kids possibly be selling now! As I opened the door there was Knacker with a gorgeous new tree! He said that he was sorry and asked that I not ground Tony from the Pullman. (Like that would ever work!_ Oh, man did I feel stupid! I hope that he did not hear me yelling at Tony!

Anyways, here is the picture of the Edina Realty Tree. See on the right its all GONE!



Here is a closer shot. You can not see the cut in the trunk:(



Its out on our desk now! I am going to have the nephews and nieces make some popcorn strings on Christmas Eve! Then the birds will have a full belly and some shelter!

And this is the new tree





How Lovely are your Branches!

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Magic Eraser

Have you ever heard of a Magic Eraser ? If you haven't you need to try it! I have used this handy eraser on my walls before but never would I have thought to use it on my flat top stove! Last week Casey told me that she use it on her stove to take out all the marks made while cooking! I thought WOW that would be great if I could make our stove shine again! Tony seems to forget to watch things while he is cooking (since I do not do the cooking in our house!) and he always boils something over the pan and all over the place! So, tonight I dug out the trusty Magic Eraser and started to scrub away! Guess what?? My stove is like new again, minus out the scratch marks from our pans!



Then I started to look around at what else in the kitchen could I use this on?? I finally found my next attempt! The fan cover above the stove! For some reason our stove cover is covered in grease! I went to town going through 2 Magic Erasers and ta da like new too!



Thanks Magic Eraser!

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Got to Love my Dogs!

So, on Sunday night after needing some really good sleep in my own bed we where awaken around 2:00am from the sound of Oscar throwing up. He normally doesn't do this so I cleaned it up and we went back to bed. Then about an hour later Tony woke me up asking "did you just fart?" and I said "no, I am trying to sleep!" A few minutes later he said "no, I think Oscar must have shit in the room cause I can smell dog poop!!!" We got out a bed and pull out the bed and to our surprise......YES, there was SHIT everywhere. Sorry, for using that knotty word but it make me mad! You teach the dog to bark and go potty outside but when they are really suppose to do it they seem to forget!!! So, we spent the night cleaning up dog shit under are bed and let me tell you a dog is no different then a human when its coming out both end but just add in white carpet! I knew it was going to be a long night when he decided to throw up a couple more time in the wee hours of the morning! When he finally threw up the last time we found out what his problem was! We had given him and Bailey a medium size rawhide earlier in the day. Well, Oscar has a thing about eating everything WHOLE! So, he must have swallowed his bone in one bite and then stole Bailey and swallowed that whole too! He threw up both of the bones and they where still on one piece!!

As, we woke up Monday morning around 5:30am I thought to myself there is no way I can go to woke on no sleep and what if he keeps doing this all day? We have no where to kennel him up at and his kennel is at my moms house! So, I did the only thing I thought was right! I called in sick to work...well, I said I was not sick but my dog was! What a great way to call in sick for the first time!!

Thanks for the extra hours of catch up sleep but no more BIG boy bones for Oscar!!!

Monday, November 26, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving from Nashville

Well, this year I did not celebrate Thanksgiving the traditional way with family and the big turkey dinner! I went to Nashville, Tennessee to surprise my best friend Casey for her birthday! About 2 months ago Casey decided she wanted to go to Nashville and asked if I wanted to join her mom (Jean) and our other really good friend (Beth). Well, since I had just started my new job at Eaton this past April I did not think that I would be able to get any time off! Then I found out that we were closes Thursday and Friday! I checked with Tony and my family to make sure no one would mind if I missed Thanksgiving! I booked my ticket the next day with the help from Beth and Jean! I turned the trip into a surprise for Casey! I flew out last Wednesday (a few hours after they did!) Oh, and traveling was not BAD at all! I was checked in and was threw the security point in MSP in about 20 minutes, just a minor 15 minute delay as we need to de-ice the plane. Then in about 2 hours I was in Nashville with my luggage an on my way to the Best Western Downtown Convention Center! A few text messages back and forth with Beth, I would be surprising Casey in about 10 minutes! I got to the hotel, took the elevator up to room 306 and knocked on the door! The room suddenly got really quite and the door opened! Casey was sitting on the bed as I yelled SURPRISE! She looked at me with the really confused look and said what the heck are you doing here? I told her I would never miss a long weekend PARTYING in Nashville for her birthday! Then with some hugs and story telling (as I just about blew my own cover a couple times in past weeks) we all got ready for what would be night 1 of the night life in Nashville!
Casey and Jenny

What did we do.......
Night 1:
We went bar hoping on Broadway Street. The first bar we stopped at was Tootsie Bar. It was small and crowed on the first floor so we made our way up to the second level where it was very quite. We had 2 beers and left.
Since, I forgot to eat we stopped at a place called Bailey's for dinner. I had a Black Forest Sandwich and a couple Captain Cokes. My sandwich was a pretzel bun with apple bacon and turkey. It was really good! Oh, and we saw a Justin Bobby from the Hills look a like.
Already the week is starting to become a blur as I am sitting here typing. So instead of trying to remember where we went after dinner I will just say we went Bar Hopping. We made it to quite a few different bars that night! We end up at The Stage where we stayed until 2:30am! We met 2 guys from Missouri that were also in Nashville with family for Thanksgiving! 1 of them got Casey's number! What a good Birthday she was having!

Day 2: Happy Thanksgiving!
Since we did not get going until mid-morning (OK we left our hotel room around 2:00pm) Casey wanted to have a nice dinner so we headed off to the Radisson Hotel Opryland. It’s a HUGE hotel...someone said something like its one of the biggest hotels in the world that does not have a casino. We walked around looking at there Christmas lighting displays and tress made out of real poinsettias! It takes almost 4 months for the hotel to get ready for Christmas. It was a very pretty hotel but I would not recommend staying at the hotel if you plan on going downtown at night. It’s a $25.00 cab ride one-way. We had a very nice dinner (minus are really weird waiter) at the Old Hickory Steakhouse inside the hotel. Casey had scallops, Beth had chicken (organic), Jean had a Filet Mignon and I had Pork Tenderloin with squash. we had a nice glass of Relax Riesling wine with our dinner too. After dinner we walked off our full bellies and called for a cab to head back downtown for another round of beers.
Once again, I am not sure where was started the night off but we ended up running into the 2 guys we met the night before. This time there Mom and Dad came out. Ron (dad) had never staid out past midnight in a very long time! We all had a celebration drink and shot at midnight! Then Ron and Debbie left shortly after that! We ended up at our new home away from home. The Stage! The waitresses there where really nice! One of them even bought us a shot! We danced to the live band and drank again until 2:30AM!

Deer's in the flowers at Hotel

Giant Lighted Tree


Lights outside the hotel

Tree made out of REAL poinsettias

Day 3 - Friday
We did get up around 8:30am - 9:00am to go have some breakfast in our hotel but after that we went back to our room for a nap! For some reason we all had a bit of the shakes going on! Not sure if we could do another 2 nights of this drinking and parting so we took it easy with a few more hours of rest!
When we finally all got up and ready to go do something other then see Nashville at night. We walked down to the visitor center where we ran into a bunch of teeny boppers. Hannah Montana was in town! We quickly got out of that area and went to the Country Music Hall of Fame. After walking around looking at all the old and new country music archives we headed down the road to find something to eat. We ate at a place called The Big River??????? I can not remember the whole name. The food was ok but we really very cold as we took a booth by the door! Every few minutes the doors would open with a draft of cold wind and with moms and daughters getting a bit to eat before they headed to the concert. After that was walked back to the hotel room for another nap before are 3rd night on the town.


No wonder why everyone knows when we is in town. This is her tour bus.

The bars where a bit different Friday night as there where lots a people out! We started out at a Karaoke bar called Buck Wild. WOW can people sing in Nashville! Then we went to a couple different bars, a Bluegrass bar and Tootsie. The dance floor at Tootsie's was about the size of a twin bed but we managed to still cut rug! People in Nashville acted like they have never seen 4 tall blonde's before so it was not hard for us to stick out! We ended the night once again at THE STAGE until 2:30am!



Day 4 - Saturday
Again, we woke up moving a little slower then the days before! We really needed to find something to do other then drinking! We looked through the booklets we got from the visitors center but nothing really popped out at us unless we wanted to go visit some Plantations. So, I opened the book to a random page and picked something. It was a restaurant called Santa Fe Cattle Company. We needed to eat so since this was down by the Opryland Hotel we thought there is got to be more to do then just the hotel. We got ready and took the cab to the Santa Fe Cattle Company for some Southern cooking. We had a really good meal. The buns where so hot they burnt our fingers! I had BBQ ribs and sweet potato. Our waiter seemed very nice so we asked him what there was to do in the area???? Not sure if we looked like we really need to start drinking again or if he did not understand our questions. He told us all about the bars that where downtown and that there was nothing to do in that area unless we wanted to go to the hotel and look around. Since, we had already figured out the bars and went to the hotel his only other idea was to go to the mall. Sounded like a good idea, we called the cab then headed to the mall to walked around. Nothing really excited happened at the mall since no one was up for shopping. We called the cab, went back to the hotel.
Casey had bought tickets to go to the Grand Olde Opry Saturday night. Since, I was a surprise I did not have a ticket but that was ok with me. I really needed a nap! So, the 3 of them got ready and left. They were going to call when the show was over and I would meet up with them. (maybe met up is what was really going threw my head.) After a bit of sitting around I got up and started to get my things all ready since we had to go home tomorrow:( Once, that was all done I got in the shower and got ready. I couldn't leave them hanging on our last night in Nashville! As, I was getting ready I heard this lowed slam. Oh, we must have new neighbors (we had Hannah Montana fans the night before.) then as a started to listen to our new neighbors. They where in a little domestic fight. Sara and Chris where there names. Sara had given up her family and friends to be with Chris and they where going to move to Alabama! I guess from what I heard Sara was not such a good girl. She got caught calling her ex-boyfriend and that was just not ok with him. At that point I just sat on the bed and listen to the 2 of them go back and forth. I was not sure if I should call the front desk and have some one come up or just wait it out! Then about 15 minutes later I got a text message saying the show was over! Minutes later I walked out the door very quietly and was on my way to meet everyone. Since, it was almost 12:00am we decided to go with our trusting bar THE STAGE! Tonight, the bar was really packed. A lot of drunk collage age kids. We made the best of the night taking it slower then we had the past 3 nights. Then, as we listening to the band we had a surprise singer sing for us! John Rich from Big and Rich stopped in and played 3 songs! It was super cool and a great way to end our long weekend hanging out in Nashville!
We ended the night again at bar closing 2:30am.

(I was trying to add a viedo here but its not working right!)

Day 5 - Sunday
Are flights where all departing a little after 11am. Casey, Beth and Jean where on American Airlines and I was on Northwest. So, we headed to the airport around 9:00am, checked our luggage, when through security and had some Burger King for breakfast. It was about 10:20am and I thought I better start heading to my gate as I was in Concourse C and needed to be in Concourse B. We started to walk and stopped at a gift store for a pop and gum, it dawned on me I better check my flight and make sure its still on time. As, I found my flight and it said ON TIME I was so happy. You know that feeling when you are at the airport and you want nothing more then to push a button and be home. (I would get to see the end of the Vikings game!) Then as we looked through the listings we saw the flight the girls where on from Nashville to Chicago (they had a connection) was delayed for about an hour. I told them to go down to the gate and check with the agent and make sure that the connection flight back to MSP was rebooked (as they were not going to make there connection flight). They were rebooked on a 3pm and 5pm something flight out of Chicago. There was a chance that they would make the 3ish flight but as I later found out they got to the gate in Chicago and the plane was pulling away so they would be taking the 5ish flight. Not a way to end a great trip but they were glad when they landed in MSP shortly after 6:00pm.

So to sum up the past 4 days in Nashville! A lot of Drinking on Broadway Street! What a great way to spend Thanksgiving!

Oh - I bet you are wondering what Tony did for Thanksgiving. From what he told me:) He hung out with his Mom and Rich in Richfield for dinner then headed our to our friend Marcus and Rebekah's parents in Chaska. Sounds like he had a really good week! Lots of hanging out with the boys at his second home the Pullman and food!
Before we know it Christmas will be here and I will want to take another trip somewhere warm!

Saturday, November 10, 2007

I got my HAIR cut!

On Tuesday this past week I decided to cut my hair! So, here is the new me! I absolutely love it! It takes about 10 minutes to do. So, that has made Tony happy when we have to get ready to go somewhere! The first night I did tell Tony, if you roll over in bed don't get scared if my back is to you and you think its a boy just remember it ME!

Oh, I found the style on http://www.myhairstyler.com/ Check it out if you would like to see what you would look like in a new style!

Here is the back



Sorry - I am in my robe! I am getting ready for a big Saturday night at the Pullman:)

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Halloween 2007

Last Saturday Casey, Beth, Bucky (Beth boyfriend) and I dressed up as the "3 little pigs and the BIG bad Wolf". Well, needless to say everyone thought that we dressed up as "The Girls next Door". Hello, do we look like Playboy Bunny's!
Huffy (Beth), Puff (Casey) & Blow (Jenny)



Jenny and the BIG Bad Wolf


Bailey and Oscar Hoooolloween Night.
Oscar is a Bat and Bailey is a Spider

Getting with the TIME!

Well, I have been checking out this whole Blog thing latley! Pretty much addicted to check them out daily and after trying to get some of our pictures organized on my computer I figured I really would like to post these somewhere! So WELCOME to The Kaufhold's Kastle!