Christmas at the Klein's 2009

Sweet gun, Josh

Rock on Emma

Stephanie shovelling away KC's first white Christmans in almost 50 years.

More shovelling

Christmas Card 2009

Merry Christmas to everyone. Bought Photoshop this year. Christmas cards will be in the mail tonight. Here is a sneak preview of this year's installment. It is a take on the Cover of the John Denver Christmas album from 1979.

Preparation

We are now in full preparation mode for our upcoming party. Thankfully, having beautiful new home, there aren't any odds and ends "fixer" type things we need to do. When we bought our house, in the back of our mind we wanted to have something that would allow us to throw some kicking parties for our friends. So it will definitely be a work in progress over the next several years. But for now, we are throwing all our extra money into furniture, paint, rugs, landscaping, accessories, etc, etc, etc....

We still are taking time out to have fun and live a little. We went to see The Killers on Saturday night. It was OK, I think I had higher expectations, but still was a good show.

HOUSE * WARMING

DIRECTIONS:

* From Lee’s Summit, Take 50 Hwy to the 3rd Street Exit.

* Turn Right on 3rd Street (west), then make an immediate Left (south) on Ward Rd.

* Drive 4.5 miles South on Ward Rd. and turn Left (east) on 150 HWY (DETOUR - Ward Rd is closed for construction.)

* At the first stoplight turn Right (south) on Regatta Dr.

* Drive to the stop sign at the end of Regatta Dr. and turn Right (west) onto Raintree Dr.

* Follow Raintree Dr. as it curves to the Left over the lake. You will drive approx 1 mile to County Line Rd. Turn Left (east) on County Line Rd. The first street on will be Admiral Byrd Dr.

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* Turn Right (south) on Admiral Byrd Dr. to 4520.

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Congratulations, You are here!

RADON!

Hello, it's Steve. Here is the one and only public service annoucement you probably ever hear from me. Get your house checked for Radon. When we moved in two months ago, our inspector recommended to us to get our house checked for Radon since the Kansas City area was considered a Hot Spot for Radon gas. Radon is a bi-product of Uranium and can also be exerted if you have a lot of Granite in your house. We don't have a whole lot of Granite, but decided it would be a good idea to buy the $10 testing kit from Home Depot and mail it off to some testing lab in New Jersey. The test reults came back and we are off the charts for Radon in our basement. It is kind of scary since that is where we have been spending most of our time the past 2 months and since Radon poisoning is the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers. We hired our inspector to come out and do a more scientific test and the results were the same. So now we have to pay to have a company drill a 4" pipe in the concrete slab and run it through the walls to the roof. The pipe has a fan on the top of it to draw the gas to atmosphere. So…go to Lowes and get your house tested for Radon!

In other news, we were treated with 4 inches of snow last Saturday. So naturally, we went sleding down the backside of Raintree Lake dam. Good times then....not so good times for the body the next few days to follow. Oh to be 18 again.

And here is a picture of the ACDC concert in Omaha, Nebraska. Thanks Murphy for the killer tickets!