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#Schummer14: Big news! We’re having a …
Big news for some of you I haven’t talked to in awhile … Lee and I are having a … Summer of Schnyder! What’s a Summer of Schnyder? I’m so glad you asked. It’s a month-long adventure with Lee and MeLinda Schnyder traveling by vehicle to new cities in Canada and the U.S. It’s no work for 32 days! It’s six new states we’ve never visited. It’s seeing our baseball buddies Charlie and Kim in Toronto and picking up the last stadium Lee needs to claim he’s watched a baseball game in every current MLB city. It’s getting up for sunrise on a mountaintop. It’s staying in bed until we…
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Lee’s memories from 365 home Wichita State basketball games
Guest post by Lee UNDEFEATED. Who would have thought those would be the last words of the fans at the end of a Wichita State basketball season. I made it to 15 of the 17 home games this year and not many were close. The longtime Wichita State fan in me is used to nail-biters that have previously ended in a bad way. Earlier in the year the WSU athletic department highlighted a man who had been going to Shockers games for more than 50 years, and this got me curious about how many games I’ve been to in my life. I don’t fall into the category of the super…
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A whopper of a proposal: how Lee asked me to marry him
I knew a proposal was coming, I just didn’t know exactly when or how. Lee and I had started dating in 1995, moved in together in 1996 and had shopped for rings in the last few months of 1997. In January 1998, the opportunity to buy a house {the same one we live in today} popped up suddenly and we made the decision to go for it even though we weren’t yet married. Hmmm, maybe we will open the door to our new house for the first time and I’ll see rose petals spread all over the floor surrounding the ring. Or maybe he’ll drop to one knee during one…
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One of my favorite all-time Tigers: Corby Jones
Lee is a really good gift-giver (unlike some of my failures, like this bad move I made last year). He’s very generous when he’s gifting and he really likes the element of surprise. He pulled off a good one in December with a well-timed stop in Kansas City as we were driving to Columbia to see friends and family for Christmas. He told me we had a stop to make but I thought we were just dropping in at a store that had something he couldn’t find in Wichita, instead it was a stop to get an in-person autograph from Corby Jones. Corby was Missouri’s starting quarterback in 1997 and 1998…
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Missouri, football, SEC championship, bowl game — all in the same sentence!
Photo courtesy of Mizzou Alumni Association Guest post by Lee One thing I never thought I would be doing: trying to determine the best way to reach a Mizzou bowl game. This would be quite a crowning achievement at the Schnyder household for our sports teams. Wichita State’s basketball team made it to the Final Four earlier this year and the Shockers are currently ranked No. 10 in the country. Missouri’s football team has jumped from bottom-feeder of the Southeast Conference to being one win away from playing for the national championship (sorry, Florida State you don’t play for a championship when you have had a felon as your starting…