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Grandma has officially joined the 21st century and was visited by the Geek Squad to help her set up her new laptop! She was also savy enough to create a gmail account and set up her email. In case you haven't heard yet Gram's email address is ljbogenschutz@gmail.com

Start emailing!!!

And the winner is......

Katie Bogenschutz...via Aunt Peg -- for theBEST COOKIE in the 1st Annual Kroger Holiday Cookie Extravaganza Taste-Off!!

I made Aunt Peg's wonderful "Snowball Surprise" Cookies for our office Christmas Cookie Competition and I won for Best cookie!!

In case anyone else wants to spread the goodness of Snowball Surprises, here is the winning recipe :)

Ingredients:
~ 1- package of regular Oreo’s
~ 1- 8 ounce brick of regular Cream Cheese
~ 1- package of Kroger White Chocolate Melting Bark (24 ounces)


Instructions:
1. In a food processor, grind the pack of Oreo’s into a fine dust
2. Add the brick of cream cheese to the Oreo dust and mix together until a dough is formed.
3. Roll the dough into little balls (Size = about the diameter of a quarter) and place on cookie sheet.
4. Refrigerate for at least an hour to let the dough firm up.
5. Melt the white chocolate either in a double boiler or in the microwave.
6. Using a toothpick coat the entire ball in white chocolate and set on wax paper to cool
7. Once the white chocolate has hardened, ENJOY!

*Note: Refrigerate cookies once completed because of the cream cheese in the recipe.

2008 Christmas Exchange

3-Alarm fire on Eastern Ave.

The red apartment building next door to our house caught on fire ;ast night/this morning...Here is a link to an article about it. And below is my encounter --

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081014/NEWS01/310140014

Annie and I are OK, but it has been a long morning to say the least. And the house is OK…thank goodness.

I was woken up at 2:50am by a semi blowing its horn for like a minute so I got up and looked outside and people were running out of the building and yelling to get out. I ran downstairs and saw that the back of the building was a huge fire. So I called 911 (with a bunch of other people) and the proceeded to watch this building turn into the biggest fire I have ever seen…fire was billowing out of all 4 floors windows and people were climbing out of the fire escapes. We had to stay outside from 3am until 6am while they were fighting the fire and then there were fears that the building might collapse. I just feel so bad for the people because they are so poor to begin with and now they are sitting on the street still with red cross and they have nothing.

Our street just opened back up to traffic and it is 10am. It was seriously the biggest fire I have ever seen. I felt like we were in a movie at some points. But I wanted to let everyone know that we are OK and so is the house.

Hurricane Ike vs. Cincinnati...

One Point Ike!!!

So I am sure everyone in Cincy knows what happened but for you out of town-er's, i thought I would give you an update...

It is a beautiful day tailgating for the bengals game, and then we enter the stadium...clouds roll in, but still no rain and then incredible winds start up. Apparently they were clocked at 75 mph. It was crazy windy during the entire game, but nothing to be alarmed about, until we leave the disaster of the game and walk outside for out trip home. Trees down, siding and shingles flying, the Ohio River having white caps like the ocean, and no power! We returned home to find out that we have some siding hanging on by a hair, but no further damage, other than lots of trees down. But get this...Duke is saying that people won't have power for 3-4 days!

Annie and I slept at my dad's last night because he had power because of new development and power lines being underground. Annie was lucky enough like the rest of the city for work to be cancelled. But have no fear, by some act of God my office and the Kroger data centers have backup generators, so I am here at work :( Just doesn't seem fair, no does it.

Hope Ike didn't hit anyone else...it really put a true hurricane in perspective cinsidering we only had partial winds. Imagine double the wind plus the rain...not fun!!

My New Best Friend...

I was out on Frisdat night and ran into the one and only Chad Johnson :) THought everyone would like to see the pic!

New York, New York!!!

I wanted to send an update to everyone about my trip to NYC with Krissy! We had an absolute blast and the weekend flew by, but I wanted to recap some of the highlights for us!! The picture above is Krissy and I waiting in line to go see RENT on broadway! It quite possibly was one of the best days EVER! The show was amazing and I looved it!

Kris and I went to NYC to visit a few friends, ine being Mike Payne. One of my friends from High School and one of Krissy's friends from college. What a small world! Mike was oh so kind to let us stay with him in his brooklyn apartment. Here is a photo from out night out on the town!

On Sunday afternoon, we got in touch with Keith and Amy, who were in the city to go see an exhibit at the MoMA. I was so excited that we got to see them! We went on the tour and lecture on prefabricated houses and then had a nice lunch with them! Krissy, Mike, and I spent the afternoon in the museum since it was a bit rainy outside.

After the museum, we got to meet up with my friend Adam. He went to UC and then moved to the city about 2 years ago. We decided to have a Sunday Funday and hit the bars for a Skee-ball and Darts tournament. Too fun!

Hope everyone enjoys the quick recap! The weekend was a blast!

Countdown to NYC...

There are actually 2 coutdowns to NYC going on at once...

1.) Krissy and I are making a trip out there together to visit our friend Mike Payne. I am so excited for this trip. We will be there July 26-28. Don't worry, we will take lots of pictures!

2.) It was just announced the Xavier will be playing Duke this year in Rutherford N.J., which is apprently only 12 miles outside of the city, or something. The game is scheduled for Dec. 20th, and if we can find good flights, I definitely want to go to the game :)

Hope everyone's summer is off to a good start -- Any other updates out there?

Bling!

In case some of you don't know, Chad and I are engaged, as of Monday at 6:30 AM! I'm sorry that I wasn't able to call everyone personally, but there's just too many of us! :)

If you want the full story and other pics, go to my perrsonal blog: www.jennsutter.blogspot.com

Thanks for all of the kind words and congratulations!

Rascal Flatts = Tears

Now that we've all seen the completely and totally awesome video that Allie made for Grandma's birthday, I'm wondering if I'm the only one having troubles with a certain song. If you aren't aware, the last song on the DVD is Rascal Flatts, My Wish.

Today at work, someone on the other side of my office had their computer playing random songs from their iPod and guess what song came on? I was enjoying it until I realized I was getting misty-eyed and had to explain to my coworkers that I was not an emotional basketcase, but my cousin made this great video for my Grandma's birthday and it just makes me think of that and only that now.

Is it only me?

Just wanted to share that story with everyone to let you know you're not alone if you can't safely listen to certain songs in public anymore.

Flights to Philly!

Hi Everyone!

Just a heads up in case people were looking for flights to Philly for Keith and Amy's wedding in October. Southwest has a great deal on flights out of Columbus non-stop to Philly for $163.00 roundtrip (Total price including all the taxes and other charges). Our flight is landing Thursday afternoon and we are coming home Sunday afternoon.

Me, Annie, Dad, Gram, Bonnie and Aunt Peg just booked out flights!

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

More photos from Grandma's party!

Here are a few more awesome shots.

Grandma after her big "landing".

Grandma and her ladybug cake.

Lovely ladies!

Aww!

Go here/Click here to see and download my full set of photos from the weekend. If you have trouble with the downloading, I can email any photo you'd like!

Pictures from the Party

So here are a couple of my favorite pictures from this weekend. I know that Amy and I had a great time and it was good to see everyone.

Here is everyone waiting for Grandma's exciting arrival.

And here she is.

Finally a candid shot of a couple of upstanding gentlemen watching the prestigious Derby.

Wedding Info

Just wanted to post a quick not e to let everyone in the family know that Amy and I have a website up with all of the relevant info for the wedding, it is www.sutterwedding.com. Let me know if you have any questions.

A Day at the Races...

So I had my first outing to Kenneland Race track last weekend and it was a blast! It was a much different experience from the Derby or Riverdowns. It was packed, but everyone was in spring dresses or sear-sucker pants. The area around the track is so pretty and I actually got to see some horses, unlike Derby. The only bad this about it is that it is only open 2 months of the year. I unfortch didn't win any money, but had fun losing some. My betting expertise is slim to none, so after memorizing one bet...I was set for the day -- " Race X, $2 extaca Box for Horses A and B" Too bad I never won. We took a bus down and made a day out of it...and when I say bus, I really mean school bus :) If anyone has the chance to go to Kenneland, i highly suggest it!!

XU to the Elite 8

Hello Everyone! Sorry I have been missing for a little while, but things have been quite hectic. But on the good news front...Xavier made it to the Elite Eight and Annie, myslef, and my dad all made the trek out to Phoenix to cheer on the Muskies. The weather was fantastic -- 86 and sunny, and X beat good old Huggins in the game on Thursday. We had a fun day trip to Sedona when Xavier had the day off and got a crazy jeep driver that gave me bruises from the seat belt. Overall, the trip was fabulous!! Enjoy the picture with me and the Musketeer! Go X!!

My brand new blog!

Hello all!

I have finally joined the blogging world. If you would like to view my blog, here's the address: http://jennsutter.blogspot.com/

It's definitely not fancy like Kristin and Keith's with pictures, links, and stuff, but it's a start!

Hopefully everyone is doing well! I missed seeing everyone at Easter--hopefully fun was had by all!

Anybody out there?

Unless I am incredibly mistaken, I'm pretty certain stuff must be happening to members of the Bogie family outside of myself and Keith.

Anyone care to share a story, update, question, funny anecdote?

If technology is the barrier, feel free to shoot me an email (kristin.sutter@gmail.com) and I can post anything you'd like.

I only ask because I care.

Ski Trip

Quick photo from the top of the North Face Slope at Seven Springs the first weekend in February.



Go here if you want to see more photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/kristin.sutter/FamilySkiTrip

Super Secret Society Dinners

I know there are some of you who are just DYING to know what goes on at our annual dinners with Gma B the day after Xmas. Well... here's a little taste to let you know exactly how AWESOME a time it really is:

Yes, those are BEERS and WINE (and a Fanta) you see in front of us.

Robbie is a ROCKER!



Learning more about Grams through the question game Allie brought.

In my opinion, Allie and Jenn were taking this battle royale MUCH too lightly.
Ann gets pumped to battle Kate.
My hope is that this becomes next year's Christmas card.

I have many more, but I think I've already said too much.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!