Here is a picture of Laurie and her girls (and some of the plants they bought for her) from Mother’s Day. We celebrated the traditional way, with a trip to the Minnesota Zoo.

Here is a picture of Katie at her spring band concert last night (she’s the smiley one on the right). She had to perform three songs, then dash off stage for a quick trip to a nearby soccer field, where Jesse’s team, The Pineapples, were playing a scrimmage. Katie is assistant coach of Jesse’s team. The head coach passed us on our way to the field — his daughter’s band was performing at the same concert Katie had just left. Crazy schedules. Jesse’s team won the scrimmage 1-0, thanks to wonderful coaching.

Jesse was (appropriately) a court jester for the medieval festival at her school last week. Here is the photographic evidence.

First update in months (we’ve been busy with the home business, swamped with both design and writing jobs — that’s a good thing). Here are some pictures of Jesse playing soccer for her rec league team the other day.