Office Party

We had a lovely holiday luncheon at Bravo with all the employees of the prosecutors office in attendance, except our one new attorney who will start on New Year's Eve. There were Secret Santa gifts as well as a white elephant exchange. I think you will all be able to tell that we all had our eye on the pineapple candle. Stylish!

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Christmas Musical

The kids all participated in a musical put on by the children's ministry at church. Kameron was old enough to audition for a lead role and was cast as seen below as Artie Fisheltree, nerdy school choir director. He gave a command performance and all the other kids did a great job singing in the choir, although, admittedly, they had to wait through a LOT of dialogue in between songs.

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Sorry!

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but we have been BUSY BUSY BUSY. All the usual, plus multiple deals on both houses all of which keep falling through so far. Adrian's been playing on the school's basketball team, the girls have Brownies and Daisies and Kameron was cast in the church's Christmas musical as "Artie Fisheltree" the school's nerdy choir director. See below. It's tonight at 7, at Unity of OP if anyone is interested. (And how could you not be!)

Forgot to Upload This-- Our First Dance

Round Two- The Hensler/Peck/McInery/Ellebracht/Lepp/Blomquist-Peck Celebration!

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Thanksgiving with the Cox Family (a.k.a. "Round One")

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!! We Love You!!!

Music Video:THE THANKSGIVING SONG (by Adam Sandler)

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Congratulations to Greg and Sara!

They got two new puppies, Toby and Breaker on Sunday. There was one brother left unadopted out of the litter and we couldn't resist. Seth named ours Luke.

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Farm Stuff

Hutchinson Trip from Kristy Blomquist-Peck on Vimeo.

Harper Swings in Hutch

Harper Swings from Kristy Blomquist-Peck on Vimeo.

Suzanne Made Me Do It

Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:

— You can leave them exactly as is.

— You can delete any one question.

— You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change “The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is…” to “The best time travel novel in Westerns is…”, or “The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is…”, or “The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is…”.

— You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”.

You must have at least one question in your set, or you’ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you’re not viable.

Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.

Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.

My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Flying Trilobite
My great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock.
My great-great-great-great-great-grandparent is Shakespeare’s Sister.
My great-great-great-great-grandparent is Excuse This Mess…
My great-great-great-grandparent is Saying Yes.
My great-great-grandparent is Really Small Fish
My great-grandparent is A Drinking Song
My grandparent is oklahomeless.com
My parent is Kittenpants
My siblings: thisiswhattheywant

1. The best cult movie in high school drama is: Heathers

2. The best sexy song in rock is: Sweet Jane by Cowboy Junkies

3. The best play in musical form is: Rent

4. The best live comedian in American comedy is: Margaret Cho

5. The worst moment in live television was: Tower Two going down

6. The most versatile of all the salt-cured meats is: Spam

7. Most reviled of all the characters on the Sesame Street: Elmo

Okay, Blomquist Family and Seth Peck, you have been tagged.

New Guinea Pig- God Help Us All

To quote Harper right before Seth arrived with Sugar, "Olivia, this guinea pig is going to turn your life around. Because my guinea pig, it turned my life around. It's just so wonderful and just so special and wonderful....""

Girls' Karate Graduation

School Pictures

Carvin' Punkins!

Heritage United Methodist Church Fall Festival

Thanks SO MUCH to everyone who came out to the fall festival and acted as my cheering section!!! It was awesome of you all to come!! This goes to mom, Sara, Seth and the kids, of course (though we missed Harper), Abby, John, Ryan and Brennan, Garrett and Adam and Andrew, Geeta Toni, and Elizabeth and Patrick and Grandma Dianne! You guys rock!!! Thanks so much!!!!!

Fight Back!

I, for one, was very proud to help with the fightbackkc.org fundraiser tonight. More than $4000.00 was raised for the legal defense fund of the patients bravely fighting medicare to have their HIV drugs covered. Hopefully you will all check them out and contribute!

Lenexa Haunted Forest Last Night

Oh My Gosh

Our Weekend:

Benefit concert for a family we knew from preschool:


Mark Orr Benefit Concert
Saturday, October 20, 7 p.m.
Atonement musicians are giving a benefit concert for Mark Orr
and his family. The concert will take place on Saturday,
October 20 at 7pm, following a dinner at 6pm in Charter
Hall. A free will offering will be taken and all donations will go to
the Orr Family.
In February 2006, Mark Orr was traveling on business when he
was involved in a serious car accident. His injuries have been
extensive and have required twenty months in a rehabilitation
facility in Carbondale, IL. Lori and their two young daughters, Ragen and Isabel have
traveled to see Mark every other week to watch his progress and offer their support.
Mark and Lori's life will never be the same. Mark has had to
relearn how to walk, speak and eat. When he finally comes
home this month, he will have many needs to make his
transition successful to life at home. The greatest of these
are 24 hour nurse care for the rest of his life, a handicapaccessible
van, and a special machine to help him speak. Lori
has already had to purchase a new home that is being made
handicap-accessible.
Atonement musicians are proud to be able to help! The
Contemporary Ensemble (of which Mark was a member), the
Chamber Ensemble, the
Sanctuary Choir, and a Jazz Ensemble will all be there
for an evening of wonderful music. A dinner is being
provided at 6pm, hosted by the Atonement MOPS
group.
We hope you will join us on Saturday, October 20 at
7pm to show your support of this wonderful family and
in welcoming Mark home!



Dinner at Carraba's with Suzanne (and a not real smart server):





Church at Unity with Greg and Sara including fantastic music by Bukeka Shoals:
























Laundry courtesy of Gaga Kathy:



Pumpkin patch hijinks:




Awesome dinner at Toni and Dick's with Abby, Jon, Brennan and Ryan, Mom and Michael and us:

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Fo-toze

We have a contract!!!!

Oh thank heaven for 7-11. And they wanted the swingset, which means perhaps a little family will be able to enjoy this house we called home for so long.

Band Stuff

Upcoming times, dates and places to hear the band play:

FightBackKC.org BBQ Fundraiser $20 per plate, 3801 Wyandotte 6:30 p.m. October 26
Area Patients Forced to Fight Medicare in Court
to Restore their Right to Life Saving Therapies

Medicare has stopped paying for an important treatment for patients with HIV infection...Extensive negotiations and appeals with Medicare representatives have not reversed their position......Now, these patients and their doctor are fighting back in Federal Court.

$25,000 is needed in the next few months to continue the legal battle against Medicare in Federal Court. 100% of all donations will go towards legal expenses.

Heritage United Methodist Church Fall Festival, 128th and Quivira, 2-4 p.m. October 27.

All people from the community are invited to an afternoon of fun and fellowship at the Fall Festival at Heritage United Methodist Church on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 2 to 7 p.m. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets to picnic and enjoy live music from the band Feels Like Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. Other scheduled activities include a Moonwalk, face painting, games and more.

Free hot dogs will be grilled. Other refreshments will be available for sale, including drinks, popcorn, cotton candy and candy apples. Be sure to shop the bake sale and other vendors, which are scheduled to include Longaberger baskets, jewelry, candles, cookbooks, Avon and more.

The "Every Band Jude Simmons Has Ever Been In" Reunion Concert benefiting Solace House, November 17, Racks in Lee's Summit. Time TBA

News Dwarfed by Wedding

I know this is not as big of a deal as the news posted below, however, I would like to share that I got 100% on my paper from last week. So hooray for me. Also, this semester is almost halfway done. YESH!!!!

A few preliminary photos...

Yes, we did too!

Nobody else knew either, so don't feel bad. PLEASE! And you WILL be invited to the big party we are having once the houses sell.

Wedding Scrapbook

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