Change to Facebook Platform: "Sweeney Clan" Group

Instead of using a blog to allow the Sweeney family to stay in touch, we are going to use a Facebook platform because it gives more flexibility and accessibility. Please signup for Facebook (its free and easy) and ask to join the group "Sweeney Clan." To ensure a certain level of confidentiality, an administrator will "accept" you into the group (not everyone can join) and then you can add comments, pictures, start dialogues, etc. 22 family members have joined already and more are joining every day. See you on Facebook! Kevin

Off to Sing in Italy!

After surviving singing over 20 hours of practices and services from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday, Erika and I will leave this Saturday leading a group of 40 choir members, family, and parishioners from Visitation Catholic Parish, 51st and Main in Kansas City, on a 10-day concert and liturgy tour of central Italy.

It has been my pleasure to spearhead the planning for this tour over the last 18 months, and we are excited to be singing masses in the Basillico of San Francesco in Assisi, the Duomo in Siena, the Basillico of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and masses in two of the major churhces (including the one in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons) and a joint concert in Rome. They occasionally let me sing Bass II (Basso Profundo!) in addition to carrying the bags.

If you want to follow us along on the trip, check out our blog at "www.visitaly2009.blogspot.com" (see link to the right side) and our YouTube channel at "KRSweeney2281". There also is a photo website from our friend Keith Gard linked on the blog.

Wish us luck and safe travels and ping us with comments on this or the visitaly2009 blog if you care to.

Kevin and Erika

Welcome to the Sweeney Clan Blog

This blog provides an opportunity for our family members and friends to stay in touch more frequently than our Family Reunions with a more modern version of the "robin" letter packet that used to make the rounds among the Generation 1 (G1) descendants of my maternal grandparents, Harry and Clara Sweeney. I am the fifth of approximately 40 grandchildren. If anyone has a current count of grandchildren (this number should now have stopped moving), great-grandchildren, etc., please provide.

My wife Erika and I live just south of the Plaza area in Kansas City, where I am a corporate attorney focusing on serving companies in the life science industry and Erika is an executive at a biotech company. Caroline just turned 22 and is a year from graduating (she promises) with a degree in mass communications from Kansas State University. Katherine will turn 20 in a few days and is finishing her second year at K-State, studying horticulture architecture (or something like that - I am sure she will correct me).

Please feel free to share all types of family-related information and news by becoming a follower or responding to the blog entries. If that turns out to not to be convenient, we can explore a different hosting arrangement where everyone can log in and add information as host.

I hope that this turns out to be fun and interesting and a tool through which we can continue close ties among our family members. Let me know what you think!

Thanks,

Kevin

P.S. This is named the Sweeney Clan Blog because the Sweeney Family Blog name was not available.