Emily's Graduation slideshow

Congratulations to Emily who graduated on May 18, 2008 from the University of Minnesota with a double major in English and Spanish! If you missed her grad party here is the a copy of the slideshow.

Jack at Global DI Tournament

Jack competed at the Global Destination Imagination event May 21-24 in Knoxville, Tennessee. His team (Senor Pantelones) competed in the "Obstacles, Of Course" problem. They had to do a skit that involved overcoming obstacles, and also create a vehicle that navigated an obstacle course. His team finished 24th out of about 50 teams at the high school level, but on the "Instant Challenge" (a improvised problem-solving task) his team placed 4th in the world! Kathy, Pete, Emily, and Andrew were there to cheer Jack on. Twas fun!

Welcome to the blog!

I've set up a blog to help keep the family connected. Think of it as an online meeting place. Please feel free to post news, jokes, discussion questions, humorous anecdotes, political cartoons, poetry, movie reviews, quotes, educational articles, movie clips, baby pictures, theatrical scores, entries from the phone book, advertisements, Photoshopped images, suggestions for what to do this weekend, recipes, blueprints for particularly skyscraper-y skyscrapers, doodles, telephone messages, pictures of cute puppies, favorite colors in alphabetical order, academic essays, song lyrics, collages and maps. But nothing else.

Monica's graduation party