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Here are some pictures of our friends that we've made over the years.

Warning!  This page will NEVER be complete, as we are always building new bridges of friendship!
Please don't feel slighted if you don't appear here yet, there are TONS (figuratively and literally) of photos for us to go through.

 

  

Our wonderful friends Lesly (Webber) and David Windle.
Lesly and Russ were both graduated from Carmel High School in 1984.
Technically not graduated together, as the Boys and Girls were separate schools back then.
Below are their children, Patrick (our newest Godson) and Paul.
They recently moved back to Australia, to be close to David's family.
We'll be flying there yearly to see them, as well as our God-Child
(Though we consider them both our God-Children.)
While we miss them, our hearts are ALWAYS with them!

  

Cindy reading to them both!

Cindy's Maid-of-Honor, Kari Oliver (Peterson)
her awesome husband, Nathan, and their 'baby', Ruby!

                             

Cindy's high-school classmate, Sarah Roelofs,                        Sarah's (see left) twin sister,
and her husband Paul Gabel, our friends                                Stacey, and her husband Jon Erickson.
who recently moved to Omaha.
We sure do miss them, being so close!

Cindy with Sarah/Stacy's (see above) Grandmother
who we've sort of adopted <G> and love to go to
lunch with her whenever we are up in the Twin Cities..

Our friends Tim and Monika Granquist,
who live in Tulsa OK, when they visited us in 2004.

  

Russ's old computer friend from the DEC days and his lovely bride,
Shannon with their new baby boy, Ryan!
We just don't get to see them enough.
I just had to add their Christmas photo of Ryan, best photo of the year for us!
It ALWAYS brings a smile to our faces!

  
On the left is the radiant Lisa Billings (Wurthmann) and her husband Thomas.
Russ and Lisa were also graduated from Carmel High School in 1984.
On the right are her 4 children; Samuel (Sammy), Georgianna (Georgie), Jessica (J.J.) and Angela (Pookie).
On Angela's lap is her new baby, Emily. Lisa's first grandbaby!
Living in Alabama, we certainly do not get to see them as often as we would like to!

Here are Joan (Zacharias) and Randy Schaefer. (Russ worked with her at Sears)
We attended their wedding and reception in June.
The reception was at their horse barn and riding arena.
It was a wonderful evening and we're very happy for them!

The lovely Sylvia Calvo, in Barcelona Spain,
when we visited her there in 2004!
We must go back and spend more time there!

My long-time friend Michelle Fling, with her man Robert.
She's absolute proof that wonderful things can come from Texas <G>...

Here is the lovely Céline, whom we met on our first visit to the Boué family for Paul's baptism.
She currently lives in Strassbourg, we're hoping to get there to see her, her man, Frank and her new baby soon!
Check out her BLOG as well!

Absolutely two of my (Russ's) favorite Flight Attendant friends.  My biggest regret with these two crazies is I've never had the opportunity to meet them at a European location for a visit.  On the Left is lovely Candie and on the right is delightful  Trixie.  Yep, they play the 'what was the name of your first pet routine.'  Of course, my 'name' is Mariah!  (Yep, Russ is Mariah).....  It's OK, 'cause when gals this awesome call you Mariah, no one questions it.......<G>
See, my lovely friends even enjoy a PINT now and then <G>......


Above is an amazing friend of ours that we met on a trip to Montréal- Canada, Marjorie Campbell.
She has since gotten married to the love of her life, Darren King.
They currently reside in the U.K. and we hope to see them there next year!
Her 2 BLOG sites are HERE and HERE.