Well, as the temperature finally reached 40 today, Tony and I spent most of our day looking for somewhere to go on VACATION! We need some hot sun and one last get away before our life changes to Disney World Vacations! We need some ideas! We really want to go back to Mexico (Playa Del Carmen) but we do not want to do the All Inclusive Plan. (We are trying to be adventurous and stay on a budget!)

We want to stay downtown Playa, and I really want to hotel to have a pool! We are looking to go March 8-15th! Does anyone have any recommendations???

Oh - does anyone know if you can book 1 room and have 1 person do All Inclusive and the other person not? Since I can not drink I really do not see paying $40.00-$50.00 extra a day for food!

Or, does anyone know anywhere warm in the States that we can go?? I just want the sun and Tony wants a cold beer! Oh and good FOOD!

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!

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!

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!