The Peterson Christmas was our last of like 4 get togethers. The day after Christmas, we went over to Petersons at 9:00 am for the immediate family gift exchange. The kids had a blast and the adults enjoyed watching the kids. Special gifts: Drew’s Mcdonalds register, Ryan’s Cardinal penants, The Peterson Boys got a new [...]
Archive for December, 2005
Christmas Day
December 26th, 2005
knup This Christmas day was quite a long day. But not quite as long as some Christmas days. Usually we are running from family to family on Christmas day, but this year we got lucky and had Christmas on separate days. So we woke up Christmas morning and did the “Santa” thing at our house for [...]
Christmas Eve
December 24th, 2005
knup Our Christmas Eve was pretty uneventful. We all got to sleep in so that was a bonus! We spent the morning playing with Drew’s new toys that he got a Friedrich Christmas the night before. Then I got to spend the afternoon watching NFL and holding Alyssa. The others took naps. Then in the evening [...]
Friedrich Christmas 2005
December 23rd, 2005
knup We had the first of our 4 Christmas get togethers tonight. It was quite a good time. We had the Friedrich Christmas at Steve and Darla’s house. Everyone made it except Dusty (who was in Green Bay getting ready to watch the Packers/Bears game on Christmas day!). Our family had a great time. Alyssa was [...]
Elmhurst/NFL Extravaganza
December 19th, 2005
knup The 2nd Annual Elmhurst/NFL Extravaganza is in the books. Justin Carley and I spent the entire weekend watching football and basketball up in Elmhurst area. Here was our agenda: Drove up Saturday morning and watching the 12:30 NFL game at Bufallo Wild Wings in Elmhurst. Met up with college buddies, Brad Shelton, Scott Bailey and [...]
Christmas Letter 2005
December 19th, 2005
knup This year has been an eventful one for the Knuppel household. We started the year off with news of a new baby. In the spring, we took our first big vacation with Drew to Orlando and Tampa Florida, along with his first plane ride (would not recommend plane rides with children under 3J). The summer [...]
Crossroads Shootout
December 3rd, 2005
knup Yesterday was the last day of the “Crossroads Shootout”. This was a basketball tournament I played in, held in Bloomington at Calvary Baptist. I played with Jeremy Stanton, Nate Conklin, Jason Conklin, Laban Cross, John Obrien, BJ, and Nick Anderson. We were very undersized and shot a lot of 3′s. I think we ended up [...]
Happy Birthday Ryan
December 2nd, 2005
knup Happy birthday to me. 27 years old. Wow, I’m getting old. My big birthday gift was MONEY for finishing the basement!






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