Pie Night!

Growing up Bradshaw has left me with a lot of demons. None greater than the enormous pressure to produce 15-20 pies for Thanksgiving. I remember one Thanksgiving after college and husband number one, I was invited to my friend Jen's house for Thanksgiving. I felt the need to bring something....a pie. Oh...no not one pie, three pies later and plenty of time spent deciding what would give the perfect variety I came only wishing I had brought three more. Because in addition to the fun involved in making the pies also comes the fun of eating the pies. But more fun than making and eating is the games and good times that come with Thanksgiving and PIE! So in trying to think of the perfect Manhattan Connection November post, it hit me! PIE NIGHT is my favorite memory about Thanksgiving and it involves many of the people that are linked on the left!

The History of PIE Night!
Well it all started when my mother, Sally J, came up with the idea of making each of her children there own individual pie. Near the first part of November, she would begin taking orders and researching recipes. Some of the siblings stuck with one type of pie and never deviated while others tried a new pie regularly. Others were left to sneak into the kitchen at night and sampled pies of others siblings (Liz, David, and Matt please fess up...we are adults now, the truth can come out). My mother in addition to the nine pies she was making for siblings also made a few variations of apple even if no one requested then. Then she had her favorites that over the years through her research she discovered and never being able to discard would make as extra for fun. Suddenly, we had pies coming out our ears. Then came the idea of inviting friends over for pie and games and then PIE NIGHT was invented. Which was secretly a way for my mother to continue her research on pleasing pies.

Yummy PIES

Raspberry Cream
Pumpkin
Grasshopper
Strawberry Cheesecake
Coconut Cream
Choc. Candy Bar
Banana Cream
Upside Down Apple Pecan
Frozen Lemon
Dutch Apple
Mince Meat
Choc. Cream
Lemon Ribbon
Pecan
Taffy Dream Pie
Taffy Apple
Custard
Egg Nog Cream
Cherry


Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Pumpkin Kansas Style

PUMPKIN FROM THE FAIR

Fair Website
http://www.kansasstatefair.com/photo-gallery/gallery.php/v/fair/monday/9-10-07PumpkinLookersweb.jpg.html


Haunted Houses in Kansas
http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/ks/




See the website list on the left of fun October websites....


This is one of my favorite pictures of my kids...Max is a cloud and Cache is scared to death of Max

Top Songs.....enjoy the music

Top 5 Songs of

1985
1. We Are the World - U.S.A. for Africa
2. Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston
3. That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick (& Friends)
4. Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
5. Everybody Wants To Rule the World - Tears For Fears

1986
1. Walk This Way - Run DMC
2. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!) - Beastie Boys
3. Kiss - Prince
4. Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
5. Nasty - Janet Jackson

1987
1. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
2. With or Without You - U2
3. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
4. Sign O' the Times - Prince
5. Faith - George Michael

1988
1. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
2. One - Metallica
3. Fuck Tha Police - N.W.A.
4. It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
5. My Prerogative - Bobby Brown

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1989
1. Fight the Power - Public Enemy
2. Like a Prayer - Madonna
3. Rockin' In the Free World - Neil Young
4. Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
5. Love Shack - B-52s

1990
1. Hold On, Wilson Phillips
2. It Must Have Been Love, Roxette
3. Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor
4. Poison, Bell Biv Devoe
5. Vogue, Madonna

1991
1. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Bryan Adams
2. I Wanna Sex You Up, Color Me Badd
3. Gonna Make You Sweat, C+C Music Factory
4. Rush Rush, Paula Abdul
5. One More Try, Timmy T

1992
1. End Of The Road, Boyz II Men
2. Baby Got Back, Sir Mix A-lot
3. Jump, Kris Kross
4. Save The Best For Last, Vanessa Williams
5. Baby-Baby-Baby, TLC

What do you remember?

I have lived away from Manhattan for close to eighteen years after spending my first eighteen years in Manhattan. I enjoyed lots of crazy things about our fine town.... and thinking about things I miss...... Pyramid Pizza, Swan-ies back door, strawberry picking at the church farm (covered in sticky yuck and dirt), also building forts in the corn at the church farm after getting board with picking, I also miss the the millions of frogs that make noise at night and road bumps, watching softball or baseball at Cico park on hot summer nights, the excitement of going to swim at city park or camp at tuttle creek, scaring myself by watching the water at the tubes, the playground behind the church, arts in the park movies/plays/concerts, skinny dipping at timber-creek, racing from seminary to the high school, freezing at football games, the sound of frogs and locus on hot summer nights and catching fireflies and smearing their guts on my siblings. When you remember growing up in Manhattan what were your favorite memories?
Posted by Anderson Party

Class Reunion Information

The 10-year reunion for the Class of 1998 will be held May 24th at 1111 Moro from 7pm to 11pm. Contact mhsalumni1998@hotmail.com for more information.

Members of the Class of 1993 are discussing a possible 15 year reunion in the summer 2008. Contact Aaron Otto (ottomatic@hotmail.com) or check your class website: www2.kumc.edu/graphics/mhs1993/

The Class of 1988 reunion is planned for Sept 12-13. Visit www.mhsclassof1988.com for information and schedule. Or contact Jason Smith (jason@lcyard.kscoxmail.com) or Gretchen (Ekart) Dall (gretchengenevieve@hotmail.com).

The Class of 1983 is planning a reunion for the Fall of 2008. The Class representative is Greg Hoyt (gregh@manhattan.k12.KS.us)

Manhattan Tornado

An F4 Tornado hit Manhattan Wednesday night. According to the Mercury it touched down in the Miller Ranch and Amherst areas, and weakened to an F1 by the time it reached Kansas State University. There were no reports of serious injuries in Manhattan, but the Chapman area reported two fatalities. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who is going through this tragedy.




The Wangsgaard's Home




The path of the Tornado is marked in blue. My parents were on their way to Guatemala so they were not in Manhattan during the storm. It touched down less than a mile from our home.



Here is a view of what's left of Water's True Value on Selth Childs.


I found these pictures on the Manhattan Mercury website, to see more pictures check out these links:

http://news.themercury.com/2008/06/Tornado/reader-photos.aspx
http://news.themercury.com/2008/06/Tornado/photos.aspx

To see video here is a link to YouTube courtesy of my sister Jayne:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=manhattan+kansas+tornado&search_type=&aq=f

Also you can link to Jayne, and Nicole & Ben Coleman's blogs for their posts as well.

New Pictures!

Kristen Wilde








It was really fun to see all of these pictures, thanks for sending them in!

GO CATS!!!

K-State 84 KU 75

We really enjoyed watching (on ESPN) K-State beat KU in Manhattan last week. The Freshman Beasley was quoted saying, "We’re gonna beat KU at home. We’re gonna beat ’em at their house. We’re gonna beat ’em in Africa. Wherever we play we’re gonna beat ’em.” This should set the stage for a great meeting in Phog Allen on March 1st! Go Cats!

Making A Connection

If your interested in linking with past Kansas friends, please post your information (email or blog address) under the comments section. It was fun to see everyone, we will miss Kansas.

Potluck Party Bringing back the past!