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I guess it's Katie and I reviving the Okoboji Creaseys blog. I know there are a few graduations coming up and I'd love to see some entries about those. Also Lori went to Haiti and Kay is retiring. There is lots to report.
In case you forgot I'll be giving birth in little over a month. Wahoo! That was a sarcastic wahoo! After watching birth videos on youtube I'm a little freaked. Baby Boy is growing quickly and is measuring a little over 5lbs. I'm nearly 35 weeks; hopefully I have a maxium of five more weeks. Everything has been going smoothly, but lately my ribs and back have been in pain. His rear-end is pushing against my right side ribs and it isn't feelin' good. I've got two more weeks of teaching and then I'm FREE! Maternity leave in Turkey is pretty awesome. They don't let you work past 37 weeks and you get a total of 16 weeks.
The summer has begun! Let the Creasey Community site come back to life!
Two of my friends and I have recently begun kiteboarding lessons. Kiteboarding is basically wakeboarding, but instead of a boat, you have a really big kite. There are some great youtube videos, if you want to see a video. Here is a picture I found online:
The lessons we are taking are broken into three days: Kite Skills, Water 1, and Water 2. In the first lesson, Kite Skills, we learn to fly a 2.5m kite, which is about 1/5th of the size of a real kite. We learn how to control the kite and how to get varying amounts of power from it depending on how we move it. We each bought a "trainer kite" as they are called and we practice with them on land. Here is an extremely photoshopped picture of my friends flying their little kites:
I saw this photo on pinterest today and saved it to my desktop for Oz. I'm sure Steve feels the same way when someone offers him diet pepsi.
A quick update on the baby. He weighs 2 pounds now and is moving around a lot more. After forcing Oz to go furniture shopping twice we've finally ordered things for the baby's room. The furniture arrives in a month and this is when Enzo and Lola will learn their room has become a nursery. This will cause a bit of confusion and stress; Enzo will pee inside at least once in protest. I'm sure they will quickly learn to enjoy other areas of the house.
Lori, my friend Alex, and I went to Steamboat Springs, CO, last week to visit Fred, Ruth, Skyler, Leif, Emmet, and the two goldens, Polo and Boji. The snow wasn't the best, but it was much better than what Alex and I usually ski on. Alex lives in Chicago now and is one of my friends from MIT. I lived with her for a year and she and I were both ChemE. She should not be confused with my other friend Alex who is also ChemE and came to Okoboji last labor day. Below is a picture of Lori, me, Alex, and Ruth.
Our first day of skiing, Fred took us on a little adventure. Surprise, surprise.
He told Lori there was "going to be this place you don't like... but they we are going to get to a beautiful meadow". Along the way, Lori kept asking: "Is this the part I'm not going to like?" And Fred would respond: "No, Lori, were not there yet!" Eventually we did get there. It is pictured below. It was rather steep and mogully.
Thank you to Bill and Steve for making the effort to come to Kingsley to get this much needed business conducted. The team traveled to the Le Mars Plymough County Courthouse to change the ownership of the Boat and Canoe to the Creasey Management Company, LLC, visited with our insurance agent, Jim Harvey, toured the farms, discussed business, ate Pork Vouvray, and went to the Plymouth County FSA office to take care of signing up the farms for the farm program, and meeting with the tax guy on Tuesday morning.
We boarded up the back of the office building in Kingsley as it was discovered that the floor near the back door was rotting and there was a pervasive mold spell which was so bad tthat Bill was forced to stay out. No decision was made on the building's future.
All in all the meeting was successful and the secretary extends his thanks to all participants for their fine work and special thanks and kudos and deep bows to our Manager, Steve.
Respectuflly submitted, March 12, 2012 by Bob, Secretary of the Creasey LLC's
Bob and Bill met for their annual minority member meeting for our four family business to discuss our present Steve and Elaine management team. (This meeting was held in Iowa City concidently near the Hawkeye Flyfishing convention.) Bob was kind enough to treat me to a meal at Bob's Your Uncle Pizza Cafe. The food and company were great.
Here is a picture of Bob to prove the resturaunt exists.
Thanks so much Bob.
Elaine and Steve, we are ready for our next meeting!!
It's been ages since I've done any blogging--currently I'm in Des Moines doing a teaching practicum (a three-week deal in a high school classroom where I get to teach some lessons, but mostly I observe my cooperating teacher. So nothing too crazy.
I wanted to share about my time in Arizona where I got to see BOTH of my brothers at the same time, as well Malee! So here are some pictures!
Our friend Mabel Ates passed away today in Denver at age 92. Our sympathies to Bunny, Fred, and the entire Artes family. Over the next few days, I will post photographs of Mabel. Please add your comments.
Ross Christiansen, our Okoboji friend and neighbor, passed away on Sunday. A nice statement of his philanthropic accomplishments can be found in the WCFCourier.
Our symphonies to Pat and the rest of the Christensen family.
This community site allows member to upload stories, pictures and opinions for everyone to enjoy. Friends are welcome. The idea is to have family news on the community site and use the 
(This meeting was held in Iowa City concidently near the Hawkeye Flyfishing convention.) Bob was kind enough to treat me to a meal at Bob's Your Uncle Pizza Cafe. The food and company were great.
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