to get our blog started, here are some highlights of the last year

 

our wedding was june 22, 2009. 

(credit to walcott imaging for the picture)

then we took our high school students from Newhall Community Church 

to The Pittsburgh Project for a week in July

 

it's been a huge blessing to be surrounded by great friends 

from Kuyper for our first year of marriage! these are some of my girlfriends and roommates

 

andrew has enjoyed getting an ultimate frisbee club started at Kuyper 

and continues to play through the summer

 

we had a fun time celebrating our graduation with our families and our classmates

in june, we spent a week in jacksonville/st.augustine florida 

celebrating my mom's doctorate graduation. 

we're really proud of her and had a good time 

at a beach house with the siblings and grand parents.

the past year has been such a growing year for us. we're looking forward to seeing what the next year (and years after that) bring! we're preparing to move to chicago-land where i'll start graduate school in Wheaton College's MA in Christian Formation & Ministry with a concentration in Student Development. andrew is in the process of applying for youth ministry jobs in the area. our apartment hunting trip is coming up, so we will have a better picture of our life there in a few weeks!