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Relaxing New Year

I want to wish everyone a very happy new year from the Knuppel’s.   2009 should be both a great and challenging year.  Hope you and your families had a wonderful New Year’s eve.  I know we did. Our’s was pretty uneventful.  Drew and Alyssa went out and spent the night at Grandma and Grandpa Peterson’s [...]

Happy Thanksgiving from Knup

Just wanted to take a minute and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.  Have fun and relax with family today.  Enjoy some great food.  Reflect on everything we have to be thankful for! I’m thankful for (in no order): my wife my kids (and kid to come) my family (parents, brothers, aunts, uncles, etc.) God my [...]

A quick softball league update

This was last week but I forgot to touch on it.  The Peoria Park District league that I played on is now over.  Our team, the DHL team, won our division with only one loss.  We played a team from another league and got beat the first game in the playoffs.  They were just a [...]

Apple Blossom Farm fun

Our community group had an outing planned for Saturday to go to the Apple Blossom Farm in Peoria. What is that you might say? It’s just a small little farm setting with a fun kids playground, monster truck rides, lots of apple food, hayrack rides, pumpkin picking, a corn maze and much more. We met [...]

Friday night out at Cheddar’s

Been a busy weekend so I’ll try to spend tonight catching everyone up on our weekend.  On Friday Sarah and I went out with our church community group to Cheddar’s in Peoria.  That place used to be our favorite place to eat back when we were dating.  Funny, because we never go there now.  I [...]

Congrats Justin and Kim

Cole Carley was born on September 5th, 2007 around 6:30 PM.  We missed Justin at our fantasy draft but I guess he had a good excuse    Everything is good with baby and mommy.  Here are some pictures, congrats!   

Marigold Festival and Birthday

Saturday was an action packed day.  We took off early in the morning to watch the Marigold Festival parade here in Pekin.  It was good as the feature guest this year was the “Refrigerator” Perry from the old-time Chicago Bears.  He is a monster!  There were lots of cool floats and our kids loaded up [...]

Mackinaw Valley Vineyard

Sarah and I went out with a group of friends to the Mackinaw Valley Vineyard last night.  It was a great time.  We met out there around 6:30 PM and stayed til close to 10:00 PM.  Despite the weather looking like rain, it never did.  We really just socialized and hung out, ate some snacks [...]

Fantasy Football Time

So I just got back from spending 5 full hours at Buffalo Wild Wings in East Peoria. We had our “FSDL” fantasy football draft from 6-9 and then hung out and watched a little baseball. I’m pretty pumped about my team this year which includes Reggie Bush, Addai, Larry Johnson and Steve Smith!!! Games start [...]

Our little model

So this past Sunday, friends of ours from Riverside came over and shot pictures of Alyssa while she was playing and ‘posing’.  They turned out so beautiful!  Of course I”m not biased or anything!  So, please check the pictures out at www.attitudesandimagesphotography.com The Norris’s are very talentd!  They worked well with Alyssa and the digital [...]

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