San Fransisco 2010

Happy new year! Make it a win in twenty-ten!

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!

Our House...Is a Very Very Very Fine House

Pictures from of our new house & moving in:

It's Been an Exciting Week

We finally sold our condo and are moving into a new house in Raintree Lake. We are very excited. The condo will close this Friday, the 21st, and we turn it over to the new buyer Sunday at 10:00 am. Steve's parents have kindly offered to let us, Keller & Marty stay with them for the week are living in home pergatory and move into our new home on November 28th. Our new address will be 4520 Admiral Byrd - Lee's Summit, MO - 64064

Here is a picture of our new place.

House warming party has tentatively been set for December 13th.

Early yesterday morning while Stephanie was on her way to the airport with Alison to visit Michelle in San Fransisco, Steve was walking into the woods at his dads farm for opening day of the 2008 deer season. Steve's brother, Jeff, shot a 10-point buck but was much smaller than the 8-point buck Steve shot. Here are some of the pictures.

Stephanie is in San Fransisco until she takes the red-eye flight home at midnight Monday. She sent me this picture last night of Ali & Michelle.

...and this one of her and Michelle this afternoon.

We went to see Coldplay at the Sprint Center Thursday night. It was a good show with some great production. Here is a picture with more to follow.

Halloween 2008

Steve (Global Warming) & Steph (Lucille Ball)

Suz, Jon, Casey & Jack

Steve & Algore

Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

2008 Phi Sig Bird Hunt Reunion

This past weekend, Steve went bird hunting for the first time with his friends from Northwest. In all there were 9 guys that stayed in a log cabin in Grant City, MO at Timberview Sportsman. Hopefully we can make this an annual event.