Christmas Shopping

I know that this is probably too last minute but if anyone needs some help I could use some warm Gloves.
-Patrick

It's almost over!

Ireland

Hey everyone!

We just posted some of our pictures from Ireland on the Lippert family Picasa page - check them out if you're interested. Sorry to miss the mini-reunion in St. Louis this coming week. Have fun!

Kathleen and Tom

Team Indiana Dana Photo update

More exciting photos from Team Indiana Dana's trip to Carolina Beach are available for viewing and free download at:

http://homepage.mac.com/thedanas

Dana's on Carolina beach

If I knew how to use this site, I would post more.  Since, I don't, here's the shortest vacation picture album you'll ever see.  We went to Carolina Beach with Bill and Jane last week, stayed in a condo just off the beach with no cable (kill me), and had a great time.   Both Charlie and Claire decided to teach themselves how to swim in the pool and can now "windmill and kick" for about 6-8 feet until they need to take a breath.  I can't wait until they want to surf!

New Photos

Hey all, I just posted some photos to the Picasa Site, Check them out

-Emily

Happy 30th Birthday Chris (on Monday!)

Pat**
You made my day! Especially with the video.
Love
Aunt Marka
P.S. It was also great to "lunch" with you.

I think We may have our biggest Dance off challenge yet.

Congratulations Luke and Sonya!

"Ive been looking far an excuse to post this video for a while"

Michael's Graduation

Hi Everyone,
Here are some pictures from Michael's graduation this weekend.

Okay, Humans. You are outdoing ALL the rest of us. And we are so grateful! Great pics,Kate. I'll have to get my act in gear soon.
Marka

The Minnesota Twins

I just wanted to check in and see how Jane's major league debut went on Saturday. We tried to catch it here in Boston but they didn't show it. Does anyone have any video of it? Or even a photo? I'd love to see it!

Im sure the Sunset Photo was shot in a studio...

Great Photos Mom

The Human Family lost one of its members this last week.  After a full 16 year life, she was laid to rest this weekend.  She went comfortably and was dignified until the end.  

Rest In Peace Lucky.

Just a Refresher for anyone interested in  uploading photos to the Picasa Website

1. Go to this website: picasaweb.google.com (login using the same username and password as for this blog)

2. Click on the "New Album" Button.

3. Add a Title and whatever other information you want then click on the "Create" button.

4. Click on the "Upload Photos" Icon.

5. Now Select all of the Photos you want to upload. This is the same as adding files to an Email, just remember where the files are saved on your computer.

6. If you are a Mac user who puts their photos in iPhoto you may find this Useful.

Food Price Crisis and Haiti

Hey everyone,

Why aren't more people posting on this?
As I'm sure you've seen, the rising prices of food commodities are creating huge problems for people in the poorest countries of the world. Haiti is one of the worst affected and I've been asked to join an Emergency Response team which is leaving for Port au Prince tomorrow. The attached article is one of many published this week on the subject.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/world/americas/18food.html?_r=1&st=cse&sq=haiti&scp=1&oref=slogin

Thanks for the Amazing photos, 

Congratulations Chick!

Human news

1) Helen has been accepted to Stanford's PhD program in Anthroplogy. She was also accepted at Cambridge but has turned them down. She'll be leaving for Stanford in the fall, even though she finds it frighteningly clean.
2) According to Facebook, Patrick Human is "in a relationship". If anyone has additional information, please advise.

Love
Julie

Hi Everyone:

[edit} Lori and I thought you might like to see the first visible and edible evidence that Minnesota is celebrating its 150th anniversary: Our official White House Easter Egg for the upcoming Easter Egg Roll (on display I think at the White House Visitors Center, Julie and Helen, during Eastertime….) and the road signs at every entrance into Minnesota now going up (so watch for those when you enter MN this year!).

And I just spoke with the Minnesota Twins front office today and we will have the May 10 Boston Red Sox/Twins game devoted to the Minnesota Sesquicentennial (May 11 is Statehood Day). I’m lobbying hard to help throw out the First Pitch with my Minnesota Twin sister Karin – we’ll see……and watch for the sesqui patches on the team shirts and for all the “sesqui color” commentary. It’s supposed to be broadcast nationwide, thanks to the Red Sox winning the World Series. So to our Boston & New England crew – thank you!

Love,

--jane

Shouldnt the family blog be more of a Liberal Rag?

I just wanted to see about what people think about this... www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/politics/21mccain.html?hp

Though I feel like this is just sort of target practice.

Happy 21st Birthday Pat!

Celebrity Sightings....from South Africa

Hi everyone,

I'm in South Africa today and wanted to brag about my celebrity sightings on the flight over. I was in business class with Mike Tyson in the row behind me and Kristin Davis (Charlotte from Sex and the City) in the row in front of me. Very exciting!!

Censorship

I thought that we needed to consider some serious issues on this blog, and a friend of mine sent this to me. I think it raises some interesting questions about censorship and its ability to actually create different discourses simply because it exists; is the absence of speech in fact a form of speech? If something is bleeped out, does it make it less or more visible?

(I'm going to try to embed this from youtube. It might work. In case it doesn't, I'll put in a link as well.)



or see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA

Hope this spurs debate. Or at least that it makes you laugh as much as it did me.

Beth

Update on Mini-Marathon in May

Dear Family,

In case some of you are thinking about making travel plans soon... We've made arrangements to have a carb-loading dinner at Rick's Cafe & Boatyard on Friday, May 2 (night before the mini-marathon). The dinner will probably start sometime between 6:30-7:00 pm (eastern time zone). We will also have a post-race bbq at my house on Saturday afternoon/evening. Nothing is planned for Sunday.

Sincerely yours,
The Party Planning Committee

Series on Suspended Drivers

Hi everyone,

For the last several months, these articles have
sometimes been the bane of my existence, but I'm
relatively proud of how they came out. I thought you
might be interested in reading at least some of them.

The main articles are titled "Illegal, and Lethal,"
"Cracks in the Crackdown," and "Putting on the
Brakes."

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/dangerousdrivers.html

Talk to you soon.

Love,
Kevin

irony? or just weird . . .

I had lunch at a hookah bar in Salt Lake City last week. That was peculiar. But a good sandwich!

Beth

Happy Birthday Molly!

Happy Birthday Mom/Marka!

Mary Dana is 65 today! Happy Birthday Mom!

Love
Julie

Hotels for Indy

Hi all,

I just reserved a block of 10 rooms for you at the Radisson Hotel near the Indianapolis airport (http://www.radisson.com/hotels/inindair). The rooms ($99+tax/night) are currently reserved on my credit card. By March 1st the hotel booking service requires me to fax them a list of the primary guest in each room as well as credit card information for each room. If you don't feel comfortable sharing your credit card information with me, I can use my own card to guarantee your reservation and you can use your own card to pay for the room when you get to the hotel. And now seems like the appropriate time to inform you of their cancellation policy:

Cancels after 03/12/2008 will be charged a $25 cancellation fee.
Cancels after 04/21/2008 will be charged a $50 cancellation fee.
Cancels after 04/28/08 may be charged a cancel fee by the hotel.

I will email each of you to confirm your hotel reservation sometime late next month in time to prepare the required guest list.

I'm sure the actual weekend events will be much more fun and exciting than this email message! :-)

Best wishes,
Tonya

Ravioli

Chris Dana had 18 ravioli for dinner last night.

Maybe because it's the lower right hand corner....when you run your cursor over the lower right hand corner of the photos that are there you'll see a weeble-looking yellow thing, and a link to more photos. Click on that, then go to "My Public Galleries"

Julie*
Why can't I see your other photos? Can't find "Photos" in upper right hand corner.
M

Photos

Hi Em! Come down to D.C. and I'll help with your camera! :) I don't have any good pictures of Tom and I yet, but hopefully soon. For anyone's who's still learning how to navigate the website, I posted a lot of pictures from India, and a few more from Christmas, as separate albums in the picasa website, which can be accessed within Gmail (logging in as *** - then hitting the "Photos" button at the top right of the screen). There are two separate albums there that won't appear directly on the website. Em, you should post your pictures to Picasa once you figure it out. Tom, thanks for the recipe - didn't know Brooklyn boys had so much spice! (6 cloves of garlic!!)
- Julie

***Doesnt really matter, but its a password I get the feeling it should be a secret.

Thanks for the new pictures Julie and Marka. Julie, why no picture of Tom? I am still trying to figure out how to download pictures from my camera.

Emily L.

A blog ain't a blog without a shared recipe

Tom's a"tom"ic chili:

1 tbsp of olive oil
6-8 cloves garlic: minced
1 large white or yellow onion: chopped
1 jalapeno: diced (keep seeds in for increased heat)
2 chile peppers: diced (keep seeds in for increased heat)
1 red bell pepper: chopped
1 green bell pepper: chopped
1.5 - 2 lbs of ground beef
chili powder
cracked black pepper
hot sauce
2 tomatoes: diced
1 28 oz can of diced tomatoes
2 cans of black beans
1/2 package of frozen corn (thawed)
1 beer

Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a large stock pot. Mince the garlic and saute for 2 minutes. Add the onions & saute for 2 minutes. Add the jalapeno and chili peppers and saute for 2 minutes. Push all the vegetables to one side of the pot and add the ground beef, slide the half of the pot without the beef off of the burner, break up the beef and cook until browned. Cover the browned meat with chili powder, cracked black pepper, and hot sauce. Mix the beef with the added seasoning, then mix with the rest of the vegetables and return the pot to its normal position. Add the tomato and mix, letting it cook for about a minute. Repeat this process with the can of diced tomatoes and the 2 cans of black beans. Add the corn. Heat the chili thoroughly, then add the beer. Bring the chili to a boil. Let it simmer for at least an hour. Serve with shredded cheese and sour cream. Enjoy.

Tom

New Pictures

Wow, I love the new pictures Julie added. I mean, family photos are nice and all that, but there aren't enough cobras.

Hmmm...

Witty bloggers? Musically-inclined xmas carolers? Physically-fit half-marathoners? It appears that '08 is the breakthrough year officially making us the coolest family ever. I like it...a lot.

Tonya, count Tom and me in for a room at the airport hotel for both nights. Can't wait!

The Wire Season 5

For anyone comfortable illegally acquiring media through bittorrent, the first 7 episodes of The 5th season of The Wire are already available on most websites.

Indy Mini 500 Update

For those of you who are intending on participating in the Indy Mini-marathon in May... I called the hotel hotline and the only hotels left with a big block of rooms are near the airport (rooms with 2 double beds ranging between $99-119 per night). There will probably be public transportation from the airport to downtown for the race - I'll look into it. You could probably book a room at one of the downtown hotels on your own, keeping in mind that you'll pay the premium price.

If you'd like to be included in the block of hotel rooms at one of the hotels near the airport please let me know asap:
1) how many rooms you need, and
2) how many nights you need (I'll assume May 2-4 unless you tell me otherwise).

If you'd rather try your luck at a downtown hotel, you're on your own!

Tonya

p.s. Other events that will likely take place over the weekend include: carbo-loading dinner at a local restaurant the evening of Friday, May 2, and some sort of picnic/bbq after the race at my house on Saturday, May 3. If you have other fantastic ideas I'd be happy to hear them!

-Tonya

Congratulations!

Way to go Jane! That is really exciting news about the Sesquicentennial news story! -Helen

MN Sesquicentennial

Hi all: Great to see everyone at Christmas! We had a wonderful start to
the New Year here in the Lippert-Leonard household -- front page,
top-of-the-fold lead story on the MN Sesquicentennial in the Minneapolis
StarTribune (and included in the paper version a nice summary of key
events).

After the morning hoopla, Lori and I had a beautiful time x-country skiing
in 5 degree air and sunshine -- two hours of that to start to get ready for
the mini-marathon in May!

Here's the link to the story in case you want to see it:
http://www.startribune.com/local/12950676.html

Love,
--jane