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Happy New Year!

Have a safe and happy new year!

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Merry Christmas Arconati Family!

It’s the time of year to wish you a Merry Christmas.

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For me personally, I’m hoping that the reason for the season finds a home in your heart this year. Merry Christmas to all of our many friends and family!

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I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas

Just in case you needed to know what to get me…

Baby Hippopotamus

Yeah, I couldn’t really help this one. In case you haven’t heard it, the song is available:

"I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" by Gaylee Peevey

Found via Yahoo! News Photos.

Two weeks old hippopotamus Paula is pictured on the first day of her presentation to the public at the Berlin Zoo December 16, 2008. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele

Merry Christmas everybody.

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Happy Birthday Lois C. Arconati

Happy Birthday mom!

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Happy Birthday Olivia N. Arconati

Happy Birthday to Olivia! We had a fun party at the local civic center indoor pool. The kids had a great time.

Here are some images with Olivia’s name on them from over the last year or so.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

We want to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving! Here is a short history of our holiday that Linda shared with everyone right before we ate that I thought would be good to repost here.

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. Initially it was meant to be a fast day. The settlers at Plymouth Rock mostly recognized the way to give thanks in the form of prayer and abstinence from food. But the Wampanoag Indians, who were invited to join the Pilgrims for the 3-day celebration, contributed their own harvest traditions of dance, games and feasting. (Note the difference one little letter can make in your life!)

In 1777, all 13 colonies celebrated the day at once, after their victory over the British at Saratoga.

In 1789, President George Washington hailed the holiday and asked all Americans to celebrate and be grateful. After that year, it was celebrated sporadically until 1863 when President Abe Lincoln recognized Thanksgiving as an official Union feast day and
national holiday. He declared the day as a time to express thanks for the many blessings, despite the tragedies of our Civil War.

In 1941, Congress made the fourth Thursday a national legal holiday to celebrate Thanskgiving.

I hope your Thanksgiving was a good as ours. God bless!

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Happy Birthday James E. Arconati!

Jim & Jimmy at Creve Coeur Lake - circa 1978
Jim & Jimmy at Creve Coeur Lake – circa 1978
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Poppi & Olivia in California – 2005

We celebrated Dad’s 61st birthday at Dave & Busters and had a great time!

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Happy Halloween!

Haunted House

From the entire Arconati Family, we want to wish you a safe and spooky Halloween!

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Welcome to The Jon Arconati for President WebSite

As a Happy Birthday gift, I wanted to post a video of the latest and greatest news I’ve heard all day.

To view this content you need Macromedia’s Flash player working correctly. Please download at your convenience.

It is kind of a scary idea.

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Happy Birthday Jonathan L. Arconati

DCP_0650.JPG - Float Trip with Jon and Kelly