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a belated birthday post

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On July 7, we celebrated Aundrea's first birthday! We can hardly believe our baby is a year old! We celebrated with lots of family and cake! Kevin's parents stayed at our place for a few days, and Aundrea's great-grandparents on the Anderson side stopped by to visit on her birthday. I (Stephanie) made a mini cake and cupcakes for Aundrea's actual birthday. The big cake was yet to come.... Aundrea couldn't blow the candle out, but she enjoyed looking at it. After a brief contemplation, Aundrea decided to attack her cake face-first. An unfortunate side-effect of this method was frosting up the nose! She thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless When she'd had enough of eating cake, Aundrea took to painting with it and sharing it with Otto. Licking the beaters 2 days later, while Mommy made the big cake. Aundrea thinks it's fun to share and "feed" us. We'll see how long that lasts. On Sunday, July 10 we hosted a joint birthday party for Aundrea and...

Murder Mystery Dinner

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It's July 20, 1969 and a group of groovy cats have been invited to hang out with hippie superstar Hedda Leiss as she prepares to go on a cross-country psychedelic bus trip to the long awaited Beefstock concert... But then, as Neil Armstrong prepares to step on the moon, a blast rips through Hedda's tour bus. Hedda has been murdered! So which one of the psychedelic hipsters chillin' and lovin' at Hedda's pad was responsible for the dastardly deed? Meet the suspects: Juan Stepford Mann (A.K.A. Kyle Rosander): An 'astronaut and supposedly one of NASA's golden boys. A decorated Air Force major, he's bound for the moon on one of the next Apollo missions because he's got the right stuff...or so he'd like us to believe. He's been Burnette DeBrah's escort for several months. He doesn't really get the whole hippie movement, but he is 'largely' welcome when it comes to love-ins, and is known on the circuit as Apollo 13 and Rocket Man. B...