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Belated Birthday Posts

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Well, some of you may have figured it out by now, but I set up the website to auto upload birthday wishes for everyone’s birthday.  Sadly, I clicked the wrong button and failed to publish a few.  So happy belated birthday to:
Adam Halverson!
Tanya Baker!
Catie Moran!
Nancy Jackman!
Chris Grassesshi!
Sorry guys, no photos for you this year :(
In other [...]

Happy Birthday John!

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Happy Birthday to my brother-in-law John!  Here he is with my sister Christie at the beach near their home in San Diego.  Aren’t you jealous?  I am!  Especially since we took this photo in DECEMBER!

Happy Birthday, John!

Happy Anniversary Karen and Mark!

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Happy Anniversary to Mary’s sister Karen and her husband Mark!

14 years and counting!  Congrats, guys!

Happy Birthday Scott!

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Happy Birthday to my nephew, Scott!  I seriously can’t believe you are 20.  That is insane.

Here he is with his leading ladies…mom & sis.

Happy Mother’s Day

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Red and I would both like to thank our most wonderful mother’s for their continual love and care.

Happy Mother’s Day, Moms Extraordinaire!
We would also like to extend our condolences to Red’s aunt, Sue, and the entire Kopczynski family for their loss.

Here is Sue with her son, Zeke, who passed away May 7th.  He was 30 [...]

Congratulations Mary, Gabe, Ashley, Elizabeth, TJ, Warren, Karen, Elizabeth, Scott, Jonathan and Lisa!

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Yes, it’s been a banner month in the land of Mary and Red.
We’ll start with my own celebration:

Here I am in my doctoral gown, throwing some of the articles and prior copies all over the living room to celebrate.  I had no idea I was still in for an additional three weeks of solid work at [...]

Happy Birthday Theresa!

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Happy Birthday to my sister Theresa!  She finally moved back to the States with her family and it is so nice to be able to have updated photos of her now!

Happy Birthday Theresa!

Dr. Dr. Princess

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

It is official.  After 5 years at Rutgers and a combined 22 years for formal schooling, Mary is finally ready to graduate!   Yesterday afternoon Mary defended her dissertation at Rutgers and, as expected, she was successful in her defense!  Word on the street is that the examiners were so impressed that they had to debate [...]

Bachelor Bliss

Monday, April 20th, 2009

We had the most awesome bachelor party of all time this weekend in Arizona for Jonathan “Dutch” Van der Veen.  He had absolutely NO IDEA!  He thought he was coming to Arizona to help his brother-in-law drive a car to Seattle, so when we picked him up at the airport, he was really confused.
Needless to [...]

Happy Birthday Red!

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

To my most beautiful husband…I love you!  Happy Birthday!

Here we are sharing a seat in front of the Rockefeller ice-skating rink.