Acceptance

If you haven't heard the news, Tiffany made it into the University of Minnesota! We just found out about it this afternoon - the formal acceptance is on its way. Now, to find out all of the details and decide what the best way to proceed is...

Blogging Backlog: PAINT

Back in August (I think), we went to a local arts thing up at a studio in the arts district, where we painted peace-themed paintings. PAINT is a collaborative arts thing among artists in the Twin Cities and artists in the Middle east, and the goal is to promote peace and harmony through the arts. Unfortunately, I don't recall what the acronym stands for, and I can't find the site that talks about it, so that's about the best I can do at the moment.

Anyway, here are our paintings that we did:

 Tyler's

Willow's

Mine

Connor's

Tiffany's

All the news that's fit to print

Tiffany recently auditioned for a new choral group named Hymnos, and found out a couple days ago that she made it in! Congratulations are in order. :)

Happy Holidays

Here we are, at the end of the year... It was great to visit with everyone when we were in Spokane earlier this month. I have pictures to post, but have to actually get them off my phone/camera for posting, so they'll be up hopefully soon.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas, and that New Year will be good, as well. We're heading up to the company cabin for our annual New Year's short trip, and it should be a good time.

Does anybody have any particular traditions or resolutions they're planning on making?

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

To everyone out there, I hope you had a good, safe, and happy Thanksgiving. There's lots of good stuff coming up, so stay tuned...

Salon Z

At a building downtown, once a month, they have a monthly composers' salon called Salon Z at Studio Z. Last night, Connor performed his latest composition there, entitled Minnesota Project VII. Here's the grainy and short video I shot with my camera:

Sometime soon, I'll post photos of Connor's birthday dinner and party... Until then, cheers!

Central Library

I'm not sure if I've posted about this before, but there's a really nice library here in Saint Paul called the Central Library. It's big, has four floors (three of which are usable to the public), two intra-floor mezzanines, an underground tie-in to the skybridge (yes, it's called a skybridge here, not a skywalk) system, and it's made of marble and granite throughout, with some wrought iron thrown in for good measure. It was made in the early 1900s by J. J. Hill (of Great Northern Railway and Hillyard fame).

Without further ado, here are some pictures (sorry about the quality - they were mostly low-light cell phone pictures):