Halloween Party

Yep, I'm finally getting around to writing about the Halloween party we attended last weekend.

It was a friend of Mitch's (Scott and Casey's house). Me and Mitch went as a pirate couple. Him as a pirate and I went as the pirate wench. We did win the best couples costume!!!

The party started off pretty slow. In the beginning it started with people from all ages. Little kids to grandparent. Pretty tame party. Food was good from what I hear. I didn't actually have any because I wasn't feeling well. The served Chili and hot dogs and some sweet food/ finger snacks. You had to bring your own drink.

Then around 10:00 the party started to pick up. The kids and grand parents left and the only ones staying were people our age:)

They had a fire dancer. She was a close friend to the hostess and has been practicing fire dancing for about 2 years. I didn't get any good pictures but I tryed to clean this one up a little bit.

She basically had to long chains and containers at then end of the chains. She soaked the containers in some type of flammable liquid and lit them. Then she swung them around her body in different ways. It was good entrainment to have at the party.

I really didn't take to many pictures but I did get a few of some interesting costumes that were there. I missed getting Octomom...that one was funny. She had 8 baby's penned to her shirt in front and on the back a box labeled government with money taped to it. Now that was funny. Anyway here are some pictures of a few costumes.

Met the host and hostess (Scott and Casey)

The someone brought out some homemade.....ummm....alcoholic liquid:) One was cherry flavored and one was peach. When the guy opened it I could smell fermentation. It stunk!! Mitch was rather daring and tryed some. He said it was smooth, I just took his word on that one!

Needless to say a lot of people got drunk after that. Around 12:30 people started to use half the barn as a dance floor. It was so much fun. Around 1:30 my feet had enough and I was not feeling well anyway so we headed home.

I did get a chance to snap a picture of people dancing before we headed out.

I hope they have another party next year!

This weekend is all about relaxing! The last month and a half has been busy with the patio, wine party, book club, Halloween party and this nasty cold.

Happy Halloween everyone. Enjoy yourself and be safe:)

Almost well!!!

Let me tell you, getting what ever I got is horrible. It's Wednesday and I'm still coughing up stuff and have a hard time catching my breath. I thought about calling the doc but as the days go on I feel better. I just need a few more days and I can start running again!

I at least had enough energy to make some real food and clean my kitchen....and the kitchen needed to be cleaned!

Really, the only reason I decided to blog today was because, once again, Mitch's princess's bad habits are rubbing off on my precious Chaunzie. I will let the picture talk for it self.

Notice the box of tissue on the table and the trash can and then notice my innocent puppy with tissue under her paws and in her mouth!!!

What the heck...first she destroys her favorite toy, then she starts to bring tree branch's into the house and chews on them and now she steals tissue out of the trash! Tess is so rubbing off on my dog in a bad way.

Oh well at least it gives me a good laugh.

Still Sick

I've been sick since Thursday. The worst of it was Friday and I'm sure I didn't help myself heal because I decided to go into work on both Thursday and Friday and also attend a Halloween party on Saturday. I figured since I suffered through work I could at least enjoy myself with something I really wanted to do.

Which I'm happy I did, I had a great time...runny nose and all:) Down side is I'm still sick....probably shouldn't have gone but what ever!!!!

Pics of the party will come a little later. We used Mitch's camera because I left mine at home. So I have to wait to get the pics from Mitch....then I can blog about the party.

Now it's Monday and I'm still sick! I even called off of work and canceled my personal training because I needed to rest, which was a good choice since I've slept most of the day away. Looks like rest is what my body needed! I'm hoping I will feel better tomorrow because I need to go back to work. I've been sick way to long.....5 day's is not acceptable!

Even though being sick sucks there is one bonus.....Mitch making some kick butt home made chicken noodle soup. Are you kidding me!!! It was the best soup I've had in a long time...outside of gumbo soup:)

So for the rest of the day I'm stuck on the couch, coughing and hacking with every breath. Lets hope I get better soon!

Sickness sucks!!!!

It won't be so back except I know I have a full day of work tomorrow, which includes a packed day full waking up early, presentations and a client calls.

If it's anything like today I will miss lunch because the cafeteria closes at 1:30 and because I had a 2:00pm meeting and there was no where to grab some healthy food. Which just compounded the fact I didn't feel good.

My goal was to get out of work early but no such luck because I had emails to resolve a presentation to fix. I didn't get home until about 6pm tonight. I did manage to stop at CVS to pick up medication and some Sierra Mist.

Came home, fixed some soup and layed down on the couch and have been there ever since. I would take off tomorrow but I can't. I'm hoping the medication will get me through tomorrow and Saturday because I will be darned if I miss the Halloween party me and Mitch were invited to.

Which reminds me I still need and outfit....I guess I could always go as a skier:)

The Day after the Wine Party

The wine party ended around midnight. Everyone had a lot of wine, a lot of food and great conversation. I think there was about 10 bottle of wine. The Wine party started around 7:00 which food was ready for people to grab. Then we started sampling the wine around 8:00. We did go through the wine pretty fast, which was good because people still needed to be sober enough to drive home.

After we were all had plenty of wine we pulled out the game Apples to Apples. And if you have had any experience with this game it can lead to some interesting conversations:) Which it did!! But what goes on at Jenni's stays at Jenni's!

Anyway everyone left around midnight and Mitch and I stayed up a little longer to put some things up and left the rest for Sunday morning. Talk about tired!

So this morning I started to get on my computer and look up a few thing and after a few minutes the most unbelievable thing occurred.

Tess was curled up next to me and was still!!!!!

I keep my camera next to my computer so I grabbed it and snapped a quick shot of this surprising moment.

I only got one shot of her sleeping because the click of the camera woke her up.

So this is proof the a viszla can calm down even if it is just for 15 minutes:)

Dogs...I just don't get them

Let me explain why I don't understand dogs

Because this dog (Tess, a Vizsla, Hungarian pointer, 2 years)

Also known as Mitch's princess:)

Taught this dog (Chaunzie, a black lab mix, 10-12 years)

To do this!!!!

Yeah, and this is after I have spent hours cleaning my house for the party this weekend.

And I thought someone said you can't teach old dogs new tricks. My sweet, loving gentle Chaunzie destroyed her favorite toy. Tore the heart right out of the toy. Which she has never, ever done before. In fact she never showed any interest in stuffed toys until Tess came along.

Now, even though Mitch doesn't want to admit it, Tess is teaching my precious baby girl bad bad habits. But really how can you get mad at either of these faces?

DONE!!!!

It's done!!!! The patio is completed.

Better pictures will come a little later...this was a quick and dirty picture so you can get an idea of what it looks like.

7:30pm on Sunday and the patio is finally done. However with every great project there are always those follow up items that still need to be completed. Such as the dirt still needs to be filled in around the black edging AND the step to the garage and house need to be completed as well. Plus I need to clean up the area between the house and the patio....which means Jenni has ALOT of work left before this coming weekend.

So through all the pain (yes, my arms, back, leggs and other muscles are killing me), money spent and hours begging for volunteers to help now I have a great outdoor living space I can enjoy. Well once I get the little detail finished.

Whooo we are almost done!!!!

Now we really did make progress today. So here are some pics of what we have completed today.

So tomorrow it will take us about 4-6 hours to finish the rest and then I will have a fantastic patio!!!!

OK off to the store and Chinese food:)

Week 475 of Patio project

Really it's not week 475 but it feels like it. My patio will be will be done this weekend!!!!! I can only say that because Mitch said it would be:)

So what is left to do

Rent the compactor
Compact down the gravel and fill in any spots that need to be filled in and compact again
Lay the edging
Add the sand and level (this shouldn't take anytime)
Then comes the task of laying the brick. All 1500 of the bad boys!
Then compact those down and add sand between the brick and compact one more time.

OK, now that I have written this all out I'm wondering if we will be able to actually get this done by the end of the weekend. So it's a little after 9am Saturday and we haven't started yet. We will probably be ready by 10 to run and get the compactor for the rental store.

Of course I've had a lot of special guests who have appeared and helped out:) Mitch has been here most of the way. Then there was Vince, Bob, Mom, Beth and Chris. But wait I'm not done. Who is this weeks special guest? It's Dad and Eva.

OK, off to actually get this started....AKA getting equipment and product out.

Will have pictures tonight of how far we actually got.

Why o Why

Why does it always take longer and more money to do a project than you anticipate? I'm just wondering?


I really thought I would be at least close to finishing my project this weekend. But No!!! I feel like I'm back to square 2 (only because square one was digging out the ground!)

So yesterday, more gravel delivered and Mitch is on his way over today to view the damages I did and is going to help me straighten everything out. Maybe I can get the sand in tomorrow....I can only dream that this will be completed by my Wine Party and bookclub.

Once the gravel is in and the edging is in place it should be smooth sailing from there.

A girl can dream can't she!?