Kevin’s Birthday Puzzle: 30 Memories for 30 Years (and one to grow on)!

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Across
  1. 4. Color of Kevin’s first plaid robe
  2. 5. Place of employment with most valuable yield ever!
  3. 6. ________, it’s raining. ________, it’s snowing. ________, it’s raining.
  4. 10. Best month in 2016
  5. 12. One of Auntie Megan’s favorite quotes, ca. 1984: “____ sure comes in handy!
  6. 13. The ultimate Troy Boy candy bar
  7. 14. Skipped town for The
  8. 16. Kevin’s first attempt at snagging a pet: Jake the ______
  9. 19. Treacherous summer activity offered by Auntie Megan, much to the dismay of Cynthia and Mike
  10. 20. Kevin’s first love (sorry, Mimi)
  11. 22. Launched Grandma and Grandpa’s permanent captivation with basketball
  12. 24. Kevin’s early impressions of Brendan
  13. 25. Memories of Black Cows under slanted ________
  14. 26. One of MANY things that supported Kevin’s remarkable development!
  15. 27. The world turned on its edge by Kevin in the first decade of the millennium
  16. 28. Kevin’s first career
  17. 29. Watched over K&B until far too late in their childhood (actually, adolescence) (actually, young adulthood!)
Down
  1. 1. Big Fun Friday Night Party venue
  2. 2. The place where, with utter joy, you found the “Netter B”
  3. 3. Kevin and ___ Mole conducted the Eagan Living Room Orchestra ca. 1990-1992
  4. 5. Lyndale
  5. 7. Common use for packing tape in S. Minneapolis: Beach towel ________
  6. 8. In 1996, at age 7, Kevin accurately predicted this candidate would not win the election (alerting us that he was 12% behind in the polls and really should not have resigned from Congress).
  7. 9. The year Kevin’s priceless “Theory of Extinction” was published on Bridle Ridge Road and in Troy and Koehler households across the country: Nineteen-Ninety ____
  8. 11. Breakfast site for donuts on Troy Boy weekends
  9. 12. The most lovely family addition we could possibly imagine
  10. 15. My apologies that I never managed to provide this for you!
  11. 17. 2003 is to Domestic as 2005 is to _____
  12. 18. St. Vincent de Paul
  13. 21. Best Man
  14. 23. One of many purposes served by laundry baskets on living room carpet