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 house.  [...]

Posted on January 1st, 2009 by knup
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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 church
my friends
my health
the Internet. Blogging and [...]

Posted on November 22nd, 2007 by knup
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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 [...]

Posted on October 9th, 2007 by knup
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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. [...]

Posted on October 6th, 2007 by knup
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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 [...]

Posted on September 16th, 2007 by knup
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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!
  

Posted on September 11th, 2007 by knup
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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 [...]

Posted on September 8th, 2007 by knup
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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 [...]

Posted on September 8th, 2007 by knup
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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!!! [...]

Posted on September 5th, 2007 by knup
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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 editing [...]

Posted on August 29th, 2007 by knup
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