Archive for March 26th, 2009

This seems unnecessary.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for all of northeast Kansas. The weather service is predicting heavy snow — perhaps between 8 and 14 inches — along and south of the Kansas Turnpike Friday night through Saturday.

Good company

In celebration of Ava’s birthday weekend, we had a number of family members come down to stay with us. Jess arrived on Thursday afternoon and immediately set to work making favors and decorating cookies.

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Katie, Mom and Dave arrived that afternoon…

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And Doug, Karyl, Gramma and Grampa arrived late in the day.

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Josh and Laura joined us that night, too. We had a full team on deck for Saturday morning party preparations, which included taming the wildlife…

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Mixing bloody marys…

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Entertaining the children…

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Setting the tables…

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And cleaning the kitchen repeatedly.

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It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you have such willing partners!