Sunday Lunch...

On Sunday, the Haas's had Maria and Dad and Mom over for lunch!

It was wonderful to see Maria and the food was wonderful! (Thanks Mom(Linda-Mom))
The group:

My Mom is leaving for South Africa on March 28th, so it was nice to see her before she leaves.

Here are some pictures of our fun afternoon, the only thing that would have made it better would be to have had Craig be there too.

Picture of Craig that he recently sent through:



Though he called after we finished lunch and we all got to talk to him on Speaker Phone. Please continue to pray for him and e-mail/write to him. (his e-mail is mulders_usa@hotmail.com, if you want his other address feel free to contact me :) )


Here is Maria in the Kitchen, we all longingly want to take a vacation in the Greece, as Maria is showing us in there pictures!

Here are pictures of Maria and myself:


Here is a fun picture of Mom attaching Maria with hugs!

gotcha!


All smiles!

Madison Visit

During the first weekend of our Spring Break, J and I headed up to WI to visit with the Haas's.
Here are some pictures with us out and about with the Haas's. They took us to Trader Joe's(a cool new shop in Madison and the Whole Foods store, where I just wanted to take pictures for painting of the beautiful and colorful fruits and veggies they have. We also went to a delicious Mexican Restaurant(that I would highly recommend!) called 'Abuelos' in Middleton.
I had a scrumptious shrimp and scallop meal with a white wine sauce over avocado stuffed crepes!

Mom and Dad

The group:


We also met up with Adam and Lisa to catch-up and celebrate all the exciting things happening in their lives!

As you are probably wondering what they are celebrating, I will tell you :)

Adam and Lisa are expecting their first baby, who will be due in July(7th I think).
They recently purchased, re-painted and moved in to their first home. Adam has a new job at Epic and Lisa will be graduating with her masters in May! Yea for them!

Here are some cute pictures.

The happy couple with ice cream and pie!

The little group at Hubbard Avenue Diner eating delicious mouth-watering pie!
I had peanut butter silk!

Belated Valentine's day pictures

sorry, this is a little old, but better late than never...

Here are pictures of the wonderful steak and shrimp dinner Jason made and also the cake!

Visiting the Hruby's

This past weekend we got to drive to Waterloo to visit with Eric and Heather Hruby. We had lots of wind and some snow on the way, but thankfully arrived in one piece and had a wonderful relaxing weekend. We got to see the lovely Hruby house and take a frigid walking tour of the neighborhood and thawed in front of one of the cozy fireplaces afterwards.

Here are some fun pictures.

Eric and Heather

Group shot

The guys

The ladies

Yea I passed!

Thanks everyone for all the prayers. On Wednesday I took my US Citizenship test/interview and passed. It was wonderful and now all I have to do is take/attend my Oath Ceremony where I will officially be sworn in as a US Citizen, that will probably happen during the summer.

Thanks again!

Here is Jason and myself celebrating at Red Lobster! Yummy!


Shrimp and Lobster whoo-hoo!