waxing nostalgic of nye's

 Given the culinary revival that has taken place in town over the last fifteen years it's hard getting too sentimental about Nye's Polonaise. With its track record as a hard knock place (given you could never get any service and when you did it wasn't good)...and when the food did show up it was never anything to write home about; I still have a special place in my heart for this place. Our first date took place here and because of that we have our wonderful family and we feel blessed that we could bring our kids here one time before it met the wrecking ball. As far as nostalgia goes; we hope the girls look back on their youth and remember the fabulous Twins ballpark, Patisserie 46 and whatever else is actually fantastic about living in this wonderful city right now because the time we are living in now, truly is a time to remember.   

 ...and yes, we never did get any service at Nye's today so after we took our pictures we headed down the road to Santana Foods, across the street from where mom and pop had their first kiss and got some true comfort food (steak sandwiches and gyros).

cookie time!

It's that time of year again!

We took advantage of a February temperature of 40° (4°C) yesterday and set up our cookie stand on the corner. 

We sold 37 boxes! Not bad for less than two hours of work. 

nourishing the soul

 The best things in life are free and today we were treated to a majestic concert from the Minnesota Sinfonia at the Basilica.

 All the years we have lived here this was our first visit to this magnificent church. 

 The girls enjoyed the performance and seemed to be meditating through it with their winter caps pulled low.

#hashtag holidays

 Hashtags have taken hold this holiday season. I don't know why or how the girls come across this stuff. I recently came across an online article with the most popular viral videos of the year and I asked the girls if they wanted to watch them. Not only had they seen them, they were describing them in great detail to me. 

st. lucia sunday

This morning was the second appearance in the Santa Lucia pageant for Sophia and Anna.  

 It was a wonderful program and everyone enjoyed it very much.

 We also celebrated Lisa's fortieth birthday this weekend with a monster twelve hour party which included a concert with our friends band performing, not to mention a lovely dinner down the road at the new Harriet's Inn.

Like so many weekends we have, it was perfect in every way.

class pictures: third grade

revolution no. 9

 There is no revolution, only evolution and over the last week we had two little girls who have evolved into nine year olds. 

These are a couple pictures from our trip.