Home for the holidays

Conor is winding up his holiday break before heading back to Minnesotah on Saturday. He spent part of his break working as a winter intern at The Eagle. He wrote a very nice long obit on a 51-year-old firefighter who died, leaving behind eight kids and eight grandchildren (what are the odds? He was Catholic). He also covered the opening of the new Kansas Sports Hall of Fame and the RV and Trailer Show (always a big event). He also helped cover the opening of our new 15,000-seat downtown arena, which drew a sell-out crowd for Brad Paisley (this is Kansas, after all). Conor helped monitor traffic and parking, which was tough duty since it was 8 degrees outside that night. Fortunately he had most of his cold-weather gear from up North.
Alaina's basketball season has resumed. They had a funny week: won by 42 (NW 65, West 23) and then lost by 38 (Heights 81, NW 43). Heights is ranked No. 2 in the state and is ranked nationally in some polls. It also recruits pretty heavily. Alaina played OK (team-high 12 points, 12 rebounds against two Division I players inside) but it was a train wreck. Her team is 6-2 and both losses are to ranked teams.
Laura plays her first club volleyball match this weekend for the Chaos. She is starting to grow some (mostly her legs) and already has improved her game after several weeks of practice. We're not sure how good her team is, but we'll know more after this weekend.

Remembering Mom

Hi all,

We posted an "In Memoriam" in today's Free Press for Mom. You can see it here.
Tom and Peg say I have a future at Hallmark if my day job goes south.

Love you all,

Dan

Bride updates

Hey all-

So Mark and I are less than 90 days out, things are getting crossed off and ADDED to the "to do" list every day.  Planning is starting to be a little more fun, I dare say I'd enjoy it if I had free time :)

We took Mark's mom and step-dad to Vince's for dinner last night, they loved it and we're definitely going to have our rehearsal dinner there.  Yay!

Thanks again to everyone for the beautiful shower and gifts--I'm so lucky to have an awesome family.

Love, Sara

Look at all this loot: