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  • Hong Kong

    In February, Mike and I went to the city where I was born (New York), and in April we went to the city where he was born.  Hong Kong was full of family, food and fun!  Pictures following:




     
       


  • mike and i went to new york for the first time together. we'd both been separately, but it's so different going together as husband and wife. we had a great time and got to hang out with great friends and family! i couldn't ever live there, but it sure is a great place to visit!

     
     


     
         
     

  • My First Christmas as a Pastoral Resident and a Wife

    Christmas & the holidays really snuck up on me this year, and it's not b/c I somehow forgot or b/c it didn't feel like Christmas; rather, it was because there was just TOO much preparation to do beforehand!  3 Midweek Advent Services, 4 Christmas Eve Services, 1 Christmas Day Service and Dinner, prayers to write, presents to wrap, hoods to borrow, snow to trample through ... the list goes on and on!  And all of a sudden, just like that, it was here.  Christmas is such a busy season for pastors, and I never fully appreciated that til now! 
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    All in all, it was a great first Christmas w/ the hubbs and as a pastoral resident.  No complaints, just in need of some r&r now!

      
     

    Pictures are of:
    Me & Mike at the Huron Christmas Party; Christmas Pageant; Me in the Chancel; Me in Robe/Tabs/Collar/Hood; Me about to process in; the Residents
    Angel Banner; Fourth Church on Christmas Day; Residents all robed up; Me & Mike at Christmas Dinner; Our Christmas Dinner Table Picture; Christmas Presents

    Happy 2009!!

  • Happy Advent!  Here's the surprise tree mike got for our new family while I was away:
     

  • our professional wedding pictures:
    http://www.pictage.com/418718

    enjoy!

  • Honeymooners!

    We honeymooned in Hawaii for 10 days: 7 in O'ahu and 3 in Maui. 
    It was beautiful, wonderful, peaceful, exciting and just absolutely, absolutely lovely! We are giddy honeymooners!!!









      

    and now, "real" married life has begun...

  • We're Married!!

     

       

  • meeting up with old friends in our old stompin' grounds:
    ATX: July 2008

    eating lunch @ plucker's:


    university co-op:


    water ice? or some sort of delicious snowcone:


    swimming @ barton springs:



    dinner @ salt lick(yummy!!), followed by a beautiful texas sunset:


    being silly at judy's:


    flipping for flip happy crepes:


    city-wide garage sale:


    trudy's tex mex:


    our last morning:


    i had a great time with my freshman bible study girls! 8 years later, we still know how to have a good time.
     what a great idea to have a reunion!

  • ~ The LATE Ride: riding our bikes from midnight to sunrise all around Chicago, 26 miles total ~
    It was really fun... as well as exhausting! 

    the group before we began riding:

    me riding along:

     mike riding along:


    we did a lot of this:

    but when dawn began to break, we stopped to enjoy the sunrise:

    beautiful:

    we also took a bunch of pictures:




    riding in to get our breakfast:

    a picture of the thousands from LATE Ride's promo material:

  • i was in the bay area last week for the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s General Assembly & for my bachelorette party.  good times, good times. i'll let the pictures do the talking:

    218th GA: 
     


    Bachelorette Party: