Happy Easter!

I hope everyone had a blessed and relaxing weekend :) Austin and I enjoyed the nice weather this weekend as we enjoyed some quality time in Gainesville this holiday weekend. I went biking on Saturday and we also went to a friend's birthday party that evening. Sunday we celebrated at church and then spent the afternoon drinking coffee, going to the art museum, enjoying flowers in the nature center, and then had a fabulous lamb dinner!

We are thankful for such a wonderful weekend and for such a wonderful world that we live in!

The sunshine and warm weather has returned!

Found some of my favorite candy at the Indian store :P

We bought an espresso press last month and are enjoying our new milk whipper as well! But Austin still needs some practice with making designs in the foam...

Our lovely lamb dinner!

Below is a link to one of my favorite church songs; we did this one last week for Palm Sunday but it's a great Easter song as well. Enjoy and have a great rest of your Easter weekend!

Weekend in Tampa

We spent 2 weekends ago in Tampa with my parents. They were able to stop by after a meeting in Fort Lauderdale. We had lots of sunshine and some slightly cooler temps. It was a nice weekend and always a great chance to catch up with the folks :) Sorry for the lack of photos!

We sampled some rum that Austin brought from Costa Rica. YUM!

I met a friend while souvenir shopping :P

Sunset at the pier

Watching boats come under the draw bridge-cool!

Austin's trip to Costa Rica

Hello! Sorry for the delay with the blog posts. It has been a busy month at Chateau Brockmeier :)

Here are a few photos from Austin's mission trip to Costa Rica:

One of the churches where they did daily worship

The view from the mission

Pura Vida!

Some post-mission zip lining

Amazing flowers! He has tons of gorgeous flower photos

All around thumbs up for this trip!

Hopefully I can get Austin to write a little something about his trip. And his parents' visit. Fingers crossed but don't hold your breath :P

Update from Austin

I had a couple of minutes to chat online with Austin this evening while he was at an internet cafe in Costa Rica :) He said he is having a wonderful time so far, that it has been colder than he thought it would be and he has been doing a lot of painting (I assume on buildings and not on canvases). He sends his regards and I'm sure will be sharing his stories with you all when he gets back home on Friday!